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Dice'n Goblins launched today! It's a Paper Mario-like turn-based Indie-RPG
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33683604
Disclaimer: I am not the dev! Just a fan who follows them on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and watched them develop this :>
A Short Hike is a beautiful game that you will not want to miss! 👾 THE GAME DEVS Adam Robinson-Yu https://twitter.com/adamgryu https://adamgryu.itch.io/ Mark Sparling https://marksparling.bandcamp....
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Spaceship
Retro arcade 2d side-scroller bullet-hell shmup: Spaceship
Medium update since my last post: Bugfixes, new weapon, new GFX: aura, transparency, damage. Please destroy my shmup game !
ADACA is incredibly good.
ADACA is a half-like. I'm seven hours into it and everything about it is just perfect. I love the low poly art style, the story and the world are pretty interesting, the guns are all great, combat is very satisfying, you have a gravity arm with a crazy amount of range, it's just an incredible game.
If you are a fan of 2000s first person shooter games you have got to play ADACA. I used to think boomer shooters were better but I get it now, we need more shooters like this.
Wanderstop
From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4078757
Soundtrack made by C418 (who made the Minecraft soundtrack): https://c418.bandcamp.com/track/wanderstop
Sheris Dungeon: Tower Defense With Top-Down
Sheris Dungeon is a top-down action that played a cat that are kill the monsters & Aliens and protect the crystals power balls
Visit my https://x.com/sketBR for devlogs/updates
Just released my game, Amata, into early access! The whole campaign is ready to play and there is a free demo! <33
Rage across the mad realms of a dead god as Charlet, the immortal artificer. Explore a vast, arcane desolation wrought by hatred. Cleanse the twisted inhabitants of ancient, forgotten worlds. Help Charlet find a way home using her powerful and varied suite of combat and platforming abilities.
Demo released for Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved, a visual novel inspired by classic detective games
cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/Berin/statuses/112879808020498505
Demo released for Detective Instinct: Farewell My Beloved, a ADV/VN inspired by classic detective games
Synopsis:
A woman vanishes without a trace on a cross-country train. The catch? Nobody on board remembers her ever existing in the first place - nobody, except for you. Uncover the story in this detective ADV/visual novel!The game is to be released in 2024 (no date yet)
Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/Detective/_Instinct/_Farewell/_My/_Beloved/
The Kitsune Tails Demo is out on Steam! It's a colorful platformer inspired by Mario 3
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
Dominion of Darkness - simulator of the dark Lord/Lady
(I am an author of this game. I am not a shill, game is 100% free, there is no premium content, full game is avalaible without paying - this is work of passion and feedback is my main motivation).
"Dominion of Darkness” is a strateg/RPG text game in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world. He will carry out his plans by making various decisions. He will build his army and send it into battles, weave intrigues and deceptions, create secret spy networks and sectarian cults, recruit agents and commanders, corrupt representatives of Free Peoples and sow discord among them, collect magical artifacts and perform sinister plots. Note – one game takes about 1 hour, but the premise is that the game can be approached several times, each time making different decisions, getting different results and discovering something new.
Game is avalaible for free, online: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion
I am constantly improving the ga
Dredge
DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for secrets.
Anybody playing this game? I got it a while back on Steam and can't believe I've been sleeping on it. It's oddly relaxing and fast paced at times; requires thought but also is mentally relaxing. 9/10 great fun game that allows exploring without hand holding
Stardew Valley 1.6 is here. Patch notes ahoy
Stardew Valley was released on 26 February 2016 for Windows PC after almost four years of closed development. Linux and macOS compatibility was released in a free update on 29 July 2016.
A great game, and a massive patch list. Could be good fun for a returning player, or new players.
For those that haven't tried this game, it's very addictive and very fun. I've got 150+ hours on it, and I'm not done yet. Good fun as multiplayer too!
Cat Box Paradox is currently in the Steam Spring Sale (£3) it's a colour swapping precision platformer. It's good....honest
In this fast paced retro platform game, you must think fast as you run, jump and swap colour, making your way through 8 floors of challenging and amusing colour changing mayhem.
Give it a try if you like challenging, but fair platform games with a fairly unique mechanic.
RimWorld is a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Inspired by Dwar
The game probably needs no introduction, but hey, a story generator sim colony type game.
Bizarre and lots of fun. Whether it's getting attacked by pirates, or angry rats, fighting infections or drug addictions to save your colonists. I feel a little part of me dies every time I lose a colonist. Intense.
I'm 83 hours in, and barely getting started. It's wonderful.
Have you played RimWorld? How long for? Any interesting stories? (the steam reviews are a gold mine for this)
Save 50% on Valheim on Steam
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Absolute bargain price if you ask me. Played over 250 hours of Valheim. A great immersive game, and at this price, a bit too good to say no to if you haven't tried it.
Highly recommend.
Project Hospital
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
I absolutely love this game, and the music always makes me smile. The main tune is one of the best game songs I know :).
To oversimplify, it's Theme Hospital for adults. Complex, serious, and some times stressful when you have a collapsed patient. I end up favouriting my collapsed patients as I really need to know they get better and make it out ok.
I have 70+ hours play time from this. Really well made game. Needs more love.
Have you played it? What did you think?
Travellers Rest - Fishing - Update 0.6.4
Greetings, innkeepers! The new Travellers Rest update is now available! This new update adds the fishing system, new fish dishes to cook, a lot of new decorations, many fish species to collect, new characters and unlocks a new area of the map. New fishing system With the new fishing system you'll be...
Sharing this because it's a game I've played and enjoyed. Multiplayer isn't there and local co-op is buggy, but pretty fun for single player.
Stardewesque, but all about managing your own tavern.
Cassette Beasts - A great indie monster catcher
Collect awesome monsters to use during turn-based battles in this open-world RPG, now with online multiplayer mode. Combine any two monster forms using Cassette Beasts’ Fusion System to create unique and powerful new ones!
I mean, we've all seen some hype around recently about games in the genre, and I wanted to share this because it's awesome. Been playing it recently, and it definitely scratches that Pokemon itch, while being unique in its own right. Made with a lot of love, and also on Godot. What's not to like?!
Have you played it? What do you think?
Check out the Veridian Expanse dev build!
So I've been working part time for a few years on a sci-fi themed game called Veridian Expanse. It's a bit of a mashup of exploration, metroidvania, and crafting games where you are trapped inside of an asteroid. You can download the latest dev build from itch.io for Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi 4:
https://howlingmoonsoftware.itch.io/veridian-expanse
I've been making dev builds for a while, but I'm starting to get more serious about getting feedback. Also... as a solo dev I have no idea how to tell people about my game, so I'm starting in cozy places like Lemmy and Mastodon. :) Anyway, if people want to give it a go and let me know what you think I'd be super grateful. :D
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Fun Fact: The game's source is GPLed! I'm guessing 99% of people don't care, but I don't see any downsides of doing this when I don't plan to use DRM anyway. I can't imagine it will hurt sales. On the o