Slasher's Keep20205 factsGame page →Slasher's Keep is by Damian Schloter, creator of the notorious Newgrounds satire Double Hitler — a QWOP-style physics comedy about two kids in a trenchcoat impersonating Hitler.pcgamer.comIts signature mechanic is the 'sack smack': you swing your bulging inventory sack as a weapon to knock enemies into spike walls and chasms for instant kills.pcgamer.comThe art style mixes cel-shaded 3D, hand-drawn sprites and procedural animation — a look press called 'rather unique' back at its 2015 Greenlight reveal.indieretronews.comIt offers procedural dungeons, drag-and-drop crafting, six playable races and optional permadeath — a roguelite twist on the classic first-person dungeon crawler.indieretronews.comIt took a very long road to 1.0 for a solo dev: Greenlight in January 2015, Early Access in February 2018, and full release in November 2020 — over five years.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
The Invisible Hand20215 factsGame page →The title is an ironic jab at Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' — the classic metaphor for self-regulating free markets — deployed by a developer collective that describes itself as 'cheekily intent on dismantling Capitalism from the inside, through games'.powerstruggle.gamesWhen press tied the game to the GameStop short squeeze, the devs pushed back: 'The Invisible Hand has been in development since 2016. We were talking about short-selling before it was cool!'steamcommunity.comThe satire is mechanical: hitting your daily profit quota at the firm FERIOS practically requires shorting stocks, lobbying regulators, buying majority control and trading on insider information — the crimes ARE the message. A post-launch 'Family Office Update' added an endless mode about controlling a share of the global economy.store.steampowered.comThe writing comes from Will O'Neill, the narrative author behind Actual Sunlight and Little Red Lie — unusually heavyweight indie-writing pedigree for a small stock-market sim.fellowtravellerpresskit.comPlayers and critics split sharply: 82% positive from Steam users versus a 'Mixed' 69 on Metacritic — with some critics finding the anti-capitalist message too blunt while users embraced it.opencritic.comRead 3 more facts
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners20205 factsGame page →Set in a flooded, post-outbreak New Orleans, players scavenge the ruins and chase the legend of 'The Reserve,' a supply-filled military bunker.blog.playstation.comCombat is fully physics-based — you must physically drive a blade into a walker's skull and use real force to pull it back out, and weapons degrade, a deliberate design to push smarter decisions.gamedeveloper.comIt became one of the best-selling VR titles ever, passing $29M revenue in its first year and later $50M+ and $60M+, with the franchise nearing $100M by 2024.roadtovr.comThe free 'Aftershocks' update (September 2021) added end-game content that hinted at the villain of the sequel, Chapter 2: Retribution.en.wikipedia.orgMade in partnership with Skybound Entertainment, the game is canon to Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic universe rather than the TV show.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
Thrive20215 factsGame page →Thrive is a free, open-source evolution simulation developed by Revolutionary Games Studio, a team of volunteers, and is often described as a scientifically-grounded spiritual successor to Spore's cell stage.thrive.fandom.comThe game plans nine stages — Microbe, Multicellular, Macroscopic, Aware, Awakening, Society, Industrial, Space and Ascension — taking a species from a single cell to cosmic dominance; only the earliest stages are currently playable.revolutionarygamesstudio.comThe project grew out of the Spore community in 2009 and was renamed 'Thrive' in 2010; its first playable gameplay release, v0.2.3, arrived in mid-2014, and Steam/itch.io Early Access followed in 2021.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comThrive migrated engines twice — from a custom engine to the in-house 'Leviathan' engine, then to the open-source Godot engine (with C#) around 2020.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comVersion 1.0.0, marking a feature-complete Microbe Stage, released on 17 December 2025.wiki.revolutionarygamesstudio.comRead 3 more facts
Trader Life Simulator20215 factsGame page →The game was delisted from Steam by its own developer (owners keep library access), and its 2022 sequel's removal was likewise announced in December 2024 — a recurring pattern that drew community criticism about abandoned titles.steamcommunity.comThe mobile port shipped under a completely different brand: 'Goldfinch Games' on Google Play and the App Store — the same developer's separate publishing identity from PC label DNA ARMY GAMING.play.google.comUnusually for a shop-management game, your character has survival needs — hunger and hygiene meters, with illness if you don't eat or shower — layered on top of running the supermarket.filecr.comIt predates Supermarket Simulator (2024) by three years, making it an early entrant in the supermarket-sim wave rather than a follower.store.steampowered.comFor a tiny solo-dev indie it shipped with a 10-language interface — including Turkish and Arabic — and spawned a whole series: Trader Life Simulator 2 (2022), Traders Life Simulator and the co-op Traders Life Together.gg.dealsRead 3 more facts
Unfortunate Spacemen20205 factsGame page →It went free-to-play on 12 June 2020 (revealed at the PC Gaming Show 2020), leaving more than four years of Early Access.pcgamesn.comThe 2020 free-to-play relaunch was published by New Blood Interactive (of Dusk and Amid Evil fame); founder Geoff 'Zag' Keene later continued the game under Deep Field Games, self-publishing since 2021.thegamer.comIts monetization is cosmetics-only — the developers pledged no loot boxes, no in-game currencies and no battle passes.mmobomb.comThe arctic map 'Outpost 13' is a direct homage to John Carpenter's The Thing (Outpost 31), complete with a kennel.tvtropes.orgBuilt on Unreal Engine 4, the game was featured by Epic in an official 'Revving the Engine' developer interview.unrealengine.comRead 3 more facts
Until Last Breath20205 factsGame page →Until Last Breath is solo-developed by Hungarian creator Mario Murkl, who is also active on YouTube and TikTok.mario-murkl.itch.ioIt began as a free, pay-what-you-want itch.io alpha built in Unreal Engine 4 before its paid Steam release in October 2020.mario-murkl.itch.ioTwo different Hungarian metal bands supplied the music: HangmanJack recorded the in-game and trailer music, while metalcore band HOLdT (drummer Zsolt 'Fachyga' Braun, guitarists Gergely 'Bruce' Benczik and Dániel 'Keke' Kelemen, bassist Zoltán 'Surek' Surányi, vocalist Martin Molnár) recorded the separate 4-track soundtrack DLC.store.steampowered.comThe developer describes the wave-survival gameplay as inspired by Killing Floor, built around a single map that is reworked as the in-game seasons change.store.steampowered.comThe project was migrated from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 after launch — the May 2023 gameplay trailer showcases the reworked UE5 build in 4K60.youtube.comRead 3 more facts
Until the End20225 factsGame page →Until The End was co-written with the support of a real palliative-care nurse to keep the medical and emotional situations authentic.store.steampowered.comIt deliberately avoids being a dark game: the developer frames palliative care as often joyful, mixing drama and mystery with humour and absurd, 'esoteric fantasy' moments.thegdwc.comThe game was made by a roughly two-person French indie studio, Red Sorel Games, founded by Davy Normand.moddb.comDeveloper Davy Normand discussed the project on the Indie Game International podcast, covering how he tried to 'gamify a visual novel' and the consequences of uploading a demo too early.indiegameinternational.libsyn.comYou play Zoe, a newly graduated nurse in a palliative-care unit, accompanying eight named patients each with a full case file, with multiple endings driven by your choices.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Until The Last Bullet20235 factsGame page →Until The Last Bullet is one of very few modern full-motion-video (FMV) on-rails light-gun games: real Polish live-action actors are layered under gyro-aimed shooting, a deliberate throwback to 1990s FMV light-gun games like Mad Dog McCree.waytoomany.gamesPublisher and co-developer Forever Entertainment is a Polish studio built on remakes and ports of arcade and cult classics, including The House of the Dead: Remake (2022), the Panzer Dragoon remakes and the Front Mission 1st & 2 remakes.nintendolife.comOn Nintendo Switch the game leans on Joy-Con gyro aiming, which reviewers singled out as its strongest, most functional element.gamingdeputy.comIt launched Switch-first on 16 November 2023, with the Steam/PC version following about two months later on 19 January 2024.nintendolife.comThe game supports two-player local/split-screen co-op and has a roughly 2.5 GB download on Switch, reflecting all the full-motion-video footage.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Until the Last Plane20215 factsGame page →You manage the airfield rather than fly: you recruit and manage pilots, craft spare parts, refuel and rearm aircraft, then dispatch squadrons on turn-based missions across three nations (USA, USSR, Germany) and about nine week-long operations.store.steampowered.comIt was made by a tiny Italian indie team led by 'CarloC' using GameMaker Studio 2, with development starting around 2019; the developer is an avid War Thunder player who wanted to merge that aviation atmosphere with a management sim.ilvideogioco.comSelf-published on PC (4 March 2021), it was later ported to PS4/PS5, Switch and Xbox by budget indie publisher Eastasiasoft (30 November 2022).eastasiasoft.comA free playable demo covering the first three missions of the USA campaign is available on itch.io, and development was documented in a 'dev's diary' video series.carloc.itch.ioThe developer later reused the brand for a separate 2024 arcade shoot-'em-up, 'Until the Last Plane 1942', released on GameMaker's GX.games platform.gx.gamesRead 3 more facts
Arma 320134 factsGame page →Two Bohemia developers, Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, were ARRESTED in Greece in 2012 on espionage charges while gathering reference material on Lemnos — they spent ~128 days in prison facing potential 20-year sentences before release on bail in January 2013.forbes.comThe fallout renamed the game world: the island originally called Lemnos became the fictional 'Altis' after the arrests — though it's still modeled on the real Lemnos, with Stratis based on Agios Efstratios.engadget.comReal Virtuality 4 made it the first Arma with DirectX 11 and PhysX — and the mod ecosystem it hosts spawned entire genres (DayZ battle royale lineage included).arma3.comProject lead Joris-Jan van 't Land steered the game from 2012 through 2015 — an era in which Bohemia turned a rocky launch into a decade-long platform.arma3.comRead 2 more facts
Bank Roll 200020164 factsGame page →Bank Roll 2000 is a fan-made remake of E3L2 "Bank Roll" from Duke Nukem 3D's Shrapnel City episode, created by Finnish mapper Aaro "Arzca" Ruohonen and released on July 31, 2016.msdn.duke4.netWhile staying loyal to the original layout, the remake adds several brand-new areas that weren't in the 1996 level, including a grocery store and a nudie bar, alongside modernized, more ambitious architecture.msdn.duke4.netMSDN (Mikko Sandt's Duke Nukem map review site) rated the map 92/100, calling it "a well-made, worthy remake" of the classic bank heist level.msdn.duke4.netThe map hides a chaingun so well that MSDN's reviewer admitted they couldn't locate it even after two full playthroughs.msdn.duke4.netRead 2 more facts
Barbie: Horse Ride & Rescue20264 factsGame page →Barbie: Horse Ride & Rescue is developed by PikPok (the New Zealand studio behind Rival Stars Horse Racing) in partnership with Mattel, and is pitched as an authentic equestrian experience for older teens and adults.pikpok.comPlayers create an avatar and join Barbie "Brooklyn" and Barbie "Malibu" Roberts as volunteers at the Roaming Hearts Rescue Ranch in Moonrise Valley, rescuing and rehabilitating horses, barrel racing and solving a mystery.pikpok.comIt launched on iOS and Android on June 16, 2026, with Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 versions planned for 2027.pikpok.comThe mobile version is free-to-play with a "Barbie Riding Club" subscription and in-app purchases, while the PC and console versions are planned as premium pay-once releases without microtransactions.apps.apple.comRead 2 more facts
Besiege20204 factsGame page →Besiege spent roughly five years in Steam Early Access (from 28 January 2015) before its 1.0 full release on 18 February 2020.en.wikipedia.orgA December 2017 update added multiplayer and a level editor, inspiring the community to run BattleBots-style siege-machine tournaments.en.wikipedia.orgThe 2024 expansion 'The Splintered Sea' added water physics that touched every system in Besiege; the studio chose a paid-DLC model over another Early Access cycle.gamedeveloper.comBuilt in Unity, the game holds an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam rating across more than 50,000 reviews.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
BoneCraft20124 factsGame page →Captain Fort Worth is voiced by Neil Kaplan — the actual voice of Tychus Findlay in StarCraft II, making the StarCraft parody weirdly authentic.animationxpress.comIts June 2019 Steam release was a deliberate test of Valve's newly relaxed adult-content policy — D-Dub issued a press release billing it as a 'controversial' milestone for the platform.businesswire.comD-Dub shipped 'BoneCrafter', billed as 'the first ever mod kit to combine sex and fighting' — official mod tools for an adult parody game.d-dub.comDespite parodying Blizzard's two biggest franchises by name, no Blizzard lawsuit or cease-and-desist against BoneCraft was ever recorded.kotaku.comRead 2 more facts
Cat Goes Fishing20154 factsGame page →The game's core fishing mechanic and some original art trace back to Fishing Girl, a 2008 prototype Daniel Cook posted on his Lost Garden blog as a design challenge.jayisgames.comThere is no set plot — progression is a pure upgrade loop: catch fish, earn money, buy better rods, boats and radar to reach bigger, tougher fish.store.steampowered.comAll in-game music is royalty-free work by composer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech), used under Creative Commons Attribution.incompetech.comA relaxing physics-based indie hit largely popularized through YouTube Let's Plays, with 'Very Positive' Steam reviews.steamspy.comRead 2 more facts
Cat's Kiss20214 factsGame page →The Chinese title 貓研社 roughly means 'Cat Research Society' — a pun the English title 'Cat's Kiss' drops entirely.vndb.orgThe premise is a fairy-tale curse in reverse: heroine XiangLi is a woman trapped as a black cat who must be kissed every morning to regain her human form — by a down-on-his-luck noble turned delivery driver.store.steampowered.comIt comes from Taiwanese studio Narrator & STORIA, whose catalog spans from the acclaimed all-ages A Light in the Dark (2018) to adult titles published under the imprint 'Lewd Formosa' — 'Formosa' being the historical name for Taiwan.store.steampowered.comCharacter art is by EJAMI, a well-known Taiwanese illustrator — the only individually credited staff member on the project.vndb.orgRead 2 more facts
Cortex Command20124 factsGame page →Cortex Command spent ELEVEN YEARS in development — Daniel Tabár started it in 2001 and version 1.0 finally shipped on Steam in September 2012.en.wikipedia.orgIt won two IGF awards in 2009 — the Audience Award and Technical Excellence — three full years before it was actually finished.en.wikipedia.orgEvery pixel of terrain is simulated as a material — gold can be mined, dirt tunneled, and bodies buried — in Tabár's own 'Retro Terrain Engine'; Data Realms open-sourced the game's code in 2019 and a community fork (Cortex Command Community Project) continues development.en.wikipedia.orgThe game was part of the second Humble Indie Bundle in 2010, which introduced it to hundreds of thousands of players pre-release.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Cry of Fear20134 factsGame page →The city is secretly Stockholm: in-game areas are renamed real locations — Sankt Eriksplan became 'Saxon Avenue', Humlegården 'Waspet Gardens' — and the apartments replicate the building where Rönnberg's father lived.en.wikipedia.orgAndreas Rönnberg filmed himself at a shooting range to get the gun animations right — for a free mod running on the 1998 Half-Life engine.en.wikipedia.orgRönnberg made his first horror mod, Afraid of Monsters, at age 13 — Cry of Fear is its spiritual successor.en.wikipedia.orgA full remake was started and then abandoned — its production time and cost surpassed the original's — and Rönnberg considers the story complete, with no sequel planned.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Distraint20154 factsGame page →DISTRAINT was created almost entirely by one person — Finnish developer Jesse Makkonen — who handled the graphics, animation, coding, story and music himself.jessemakkonen.comThe game was built with Clickteam Fusion (originally Multimedia Fusion); Clickteam has repeatedly featured it as a flagship #MadeWithFusion horror title.pcgamingwiki.comA short, roughly two-hour experience, DISTRAINT follows Price, an ambitious young man who seizes an elderly woman's property to make partner at a firm — and confronts the price of his own humanity.en.wikipedia.orgMakkonen released the enhanced DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition — with improved art, animation and audio — as a free upgrade to existing owners, and later followed it with a sequel, DISTRAINT 2 (2018).store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Evoland Classic20124 factsGame page →Nicolas Cannasse built it in about 30 hours for Ludum Dare 24 — and won 1st place overall out of roughly 1,400 entries.gameconnect.netIt's written in Haxe — fitting, because Cannasse is the creator of the Haxe programming language itself.en.wikipedia.orgThe free jam version drew 300,000+ players within a couple of months — momentum that led Cannasse to co-found Shiro Games with Sébastien Vidal and expand it into the commercial Evoland (2013) and Evoland 2 (2015).en.wikipedia.orgIt's one of the very few Ludum Dare jam winners ever to grow into a commercially successful multi-game franchise.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Field of Glory II: Medieval20214 factsGame page →Field of Glory II: Medieval was designed by Richard Bodley Scott, the author of the original Field of Glory tabletop miniatures rules — his research showed armoured-knight combat needed different combat and manoeuvre systems than the ancients game, motivating a distinct medieval title.wargamer.comThe base game covers a tight 1040-1270 AD window with 29 nations and 57 army lists, which the publisher describes as offering 'tens of thousands of permutations'.slitherine.comFive DLC expansions extend the era and map well beyond the base window: Reconquista, Swords and Scimitars (Crusades), Storm of Arrows (14th-century longbows), Rise of the Swiss and Sublime Porte (the rising Ottomans).store.steampowered.comIts asynchronous multiplayer scene runs on Slitherine's PBEM++ server — the play-by-email tradition that is a signature of the wargaming community.slitherine.comRead 2 more facts
Fractured Space20164 factsGame page →On October 25, 2018, Edge Case Games announced it was ceasing development of Fractured Space — and within weeks the studio was acquired by Wargaming, with reporting suggesting the game was retired to clear the way for the acquisition.delistedgames.comThe servers went dark at the end of February 2019 and the game was removed from Steam on February 28, 2019, making this free-to-play space MOBA permanently unplayable.steamcommunity.comEdge Case Games grew out of Born Ready Games, the UK studio behind Strike Suit Zero — Fractured Space swapped that series' fighter dogfights for lumbering five-kilometer capital ships.gamegrin.comIts writing team included James Swallow, the bestselling author known for Deus Ex: Human Revolution and numerous Star Trek and Warhammer 40,000 novels.delistedgames.comRead 2 more facts
Hero Zero20164 factsGame page →Hero Zero launched in January 2012 as a free browser game from Hamburg-based Playata (published with European Games Group) and only arrived on Steam four and a half years later, on July 5, 2016.mmorpg.comAccording to Playata, more than 35 million players have created heroes in the game since its 2012 launch, making it one of Germany's most successful humorous browser MMOs.playata.comThe game supports cross-platform multiplayer: browser, mobile (iOS/Android) and Steam players share the same game worlds and can duel each other.store.steampowered.comPlayers start literally as a "zero" in pajamas and level up by doing mundane neighborhood chores, fighting villains with deliberately absurd everyday gadgets — the tongue-in-cheek premise the whole game is named after.herozerogame.comRead 2 more facts
Hot Brass20214 factsGame page →Shooting is actively discouraged: the core loop is shouting commands ('Police! Freeze!') to make suspects surrender, and shooting a non-hostile target fails the mission instantly — a perfect mission requires zero infractions and zero casualties.hotbrassgame.comHot Brass was made by a two-person team in Victoria, Australia — Adam Scoble and Jacques Mulder of Walk With Kings, previously part of the Western Press team.yogomi.comThe abstract, symbol-based top-down art style deliberately replaces realistic violence with minimalist iconography — while missions span hostage rescues, bomb threats, biker-gang busts and casino heists.hotbrassgame.comIt supports 1-4 players in both online and local co-op, published via Treasure Hunters FanClub — a funding collective run under license by indie label Fellow Traveller.treasurehuntersfanclub.comRead 2 more facts
Monopoly Poker20214 factsGame page →Mr. Monopoly himself deals every hand — and the classic board runs as a live progression layer over the poker: winning hands moves you around the board collecting property cards, building houses and hotels for bonus chips.azerion.comIt's a fully Hasbro-licensed product — the Monopoly name, board, corner squares, Mr. Monopoly and the game pieces all carry Hasbro trademarks dating back to 1935.azerion.comThe game changed hands mid-life: Azerion sold developer Youda Games' entire portfolio — including MONOPOLY Poker — to Playtika in August 2023, which is why stores now credit Playtika.globenewswire.comDespite the gambling theme there is no real-money play: chips have no cash-out value, and the publisher explicitly labels it 'for amusement only', intended for players 21 and older.apps.apple.comRead 2 more facts
Mount Your Friends20134 factsGame page →The whole game exists because of a bug: Steger says adding the 'dong physics' at TOJam produced a glitch so funny he laughed for five straight minutes — and decided the game had to ship.gamedeveloper.comThe grandiose classical score is Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free library music — MacLeod featured the game on his own site after streamers like PewDiePie and Sips gave the music shout-outs.incompetech.comA decade later Steger thanked players who enjoyed it 'online with strangers, or even just watching Streamers goof around with it' — the Twitch/Let's Play wave is what made an XBLIG oddity a cult hit.x.comIt got a sequel with one of gaming's best subtitles: 'Mount Your Friends 3D: A Hard Man Is Good to Climb' (2018).store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Pico Park: Classic Edition20164 factsGame page →TECOPARK is essentially a one-man studio: Teco designs, programs and draws everything, with Tadosule contributing the soundtrack as composer.pico-park.fandom.comDevelopment began around 2013, and the 2016 Steam original supported local co-op only — online play arrived with the 2021 remake, whose bilibili and streamer-fueled explosion (Sykkuno, Valkyrae, then PewDiePie) turned PICO PARK into a worldwide hit and got this original renamed "Classic Edition".automaton-media.comIn 2026 the Classic Edition was accidentally given away for free on Steam; unable to restore its pricing, TECOPARK declared it "free forever" — and then removed it from the Steam store entirely on June 14, 2026.gamesradar.comA 2025 visual refresh quietly upgraded the Classic Edition with online support and up to 10-player co-op — far beyond the original's local-only multiplayer.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Pressure20214 factsGame page →Pressure was built in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 48 (April 2021), whose theme 'Deeper and deeper' is the game's literal structure — an infinite basement you descend floor by floor for high scores.smt.itch.ioIt runs on Unreal Engine 4 (4.26.2) — an unusually heavyweight engine choice for a 48-hour jam game, where most entries use Unity, Godot or GameMaker.smt.itch.ioHealing is entirely skill-based: no health pickups — you regain health by chaining combo kills, landing long-range shots, banking projectiles off walls into enemies, or reaching the green zone to drop a floor.smt.itch.ioThe anonymous solo developer 'smt' (itch.io bio: 'the guy') is a Ludum Dare regular — Pressure is one of six-plus jam entries including Quickdraw (LD41) and Meals On Rails (LD46).smt.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Redmatch 220214 factsGame page →It's the sequel to the 2019 itch.io original Redmatch — solo dev Rugbug Redfern shifted all focus to the sequel, iterating it through itch.io devlogs before the June 2021 Steam launch.rugbugredfern.itch.ioDespite being one person's free game, it ships localized into ~25 languages and runs a custom 'Enforcer' anti-cheat.store.steampowered.comDeveloper Rugbug Redfern is also known in Landfall's Content Warning community as the author of the 'Mycelium Networking' modding library — multiplayer networking is his specialty.github.comThe early menu music was royalty-free Kevin MacLeod ('Werq') before being replaced with custom tracks — the whole game was built with Unity, Blender, Paint.net and Audacity.rugbugredfern.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 Multiplayer20134 factsGame page →The mod team that co-developed Rising Storm became Antimatter Games — which went on to make the full sequel, Rising Storm 2: Vietnam (2017).en.wikipedia.orgTripwire president John Gibson summed up the experiment: 'something started and created by a mod team, but polished to perfection by a group of professional developers'.gamewatcher.comComposer Lennie Moore deliberately channeled Aaron Copland and Charles Ives for the American side's music — at Tripwire's own request.yourclassical.orgIt beat the year's giants to PC Gamer's Multiplayer Game of the Year 2013 on the strength of its brutally asymmetric banzai-vs-firepower Pacific battles.pcgamer.comRead 2 more facts
SimCasino20204 factsGame page →SimCasino is scored by Jerry Martin — Maxis' former audio director and the lead composer of SimCity 3000, SimCity 4 and The Sims — who returned to sim games after roughly 15 years to write its jazz-flavoured soundtrack.en.wikipedia.orgThe simulation goes deep: you set the house odds yourself, manage chip floats and card-deck tracking, and run security with cameras and interrogation rooms against thieves and cheaters — plus a first-person mode to walk your own casino floor.store.steampowered.comIt spent almost exactly a year in Early Access, launching 22 November 2020 and reaching 1.0 on 16 November 2021.steambase.ioDeveloper LVGameDev is literally a Las Vegas studio — the 'LV' is the city — and SimCasino is its second management sim after SimAirport.workwithindies.comRead 2 more facts
Soulstice: A Tale of Two Souls20164 factsGame page →Soulstice was created for GBJAM 5 (October 2016), a jam requiring games to follow original Game Boy limitations. Submitted about 15 hours before the deadline, it ranked #20 Overall and #13 in Graphics among roughly 400 entries.itch.ioThe game is an adaptation of "The Academies of Siam", a short story by the celebrated 19th-century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, retold as a co-op tale of the magical couple Kinn and Kala swapping souls and abilities.midipixel.itch.ioKotaku featured Soulstice in its GBJAM 5 roundup "Game Boy Jam Shows Everything That Made The Handheld Special" (October 2016).kotaku.comIts local co-op mimics a Game Boy link-cable session: the two players' views run in side-by-side windows with dueling Game Boy color palettes, and the sound was composed to sound authentic to the original handheld hardware.midipixel.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
The Henry Stickmin Collection20204 factsGame page →The first five chapters began as free Adobe Flash 'choose-your-own-path' games on Newgrounds and Stickpage (2008-2015); the Collection remasters them in HD and adds the exclusive finale 'Completing the Mission.'henrystickmin.fandom.comIt is published by Innersloth, the same studio behind Among Us (co-founded by creator Marcus 'PuffballsUnited' Bromander and Forest 'ForteBass' Willard); Among Us characters even appear as collectible items in 'Completing the Mission.'simple.wikipedia.orgFor the 2020 release, the entire series was rebuilt from dying Adobe Flash into the Unity engine.connect.unity.comIt holds 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam user reviews, around 98% positive from 39,000+ reviews.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
The Showdown Effect20134 factsGame page →This is the game Arrowhead made right before Helldivers — director Johan Pilestedt went on to lead Helldivers (2015) and the blockbuster Helldivers 2 (2024).en.wikipedia.orgIts 2018 delisting was reportedly a mistake of sorts: Paradox pulled it after shutting down the microtransaction store server, apparently believing that made the game unplayable.delistedgames.comFans brought it back from the dead: 'The Showdown Effect: Reloaded' launched free on Steam on 5 March 2024 — the original's 11th anniversary — under a non-commercial license Paradox granted to GIII Holdings.pcgamer.comIt runs on Bitsquid — the Swedish engine that later became Autodesk Stingray.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
The Tenants20214 factsGame page →The premise is deliberately ethically gray: you're a landlord dealing with problematic tenants, deciding how to react to annoyed neighbours or police interventions — with edgier events like drunk tenants and criminal background checks.ancientforgestudio.comIt shares its publisher with House Flipper: Frozen District (majority-owned by PlayWay) publishes both, making The Tenants part of a direct property-sim lineage.gfn.co.krThe game ships with Steam Workshop mod support, 86 achievements and 18 languages, plus a Pets DLC.store.steampowered.comIts console launch came late (June 2025) — and the PlayStation version was pulled from sale within about a week, landing it on delisted-games trackers.delistedgames.comRead 2 more facts
The Witcher Battle Arena20154 factsGame page →A 3v3 MOBA featuring eight playable heroes drawn from the Witcher series, each with three skills, built for touchscreen play — CD Projekt RED's first mobile game.en.wikipedia.orgIts gameplay was heavily inspired by League of Legends and Dota 2, though the developers added their own solutions rather than shipping a straight clone.gamepressure.comIt was co-developed by CD Projekt RED and Warsaw studio Fuero Games on the Unity engine, released free-to-play on 22 January 2015 for Android, iOS and later Windows Phone.en.wikipedia.orgThe servers were closed on 31 December 2015, giving the game a lifespan of under a year and rendering it unplayable ever since.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Until It's Undone20204 factsGame page →All of the game's graphics are edited photos, stock images, doodles or pre-rendered 3D models — the developer explicitly states no part of it is AI-generated.apehardware.itch.ioIt was the developer's first project made in the Godot engine.apehardware.itch.ioThe game has been reissued three times under punning subtitles — Undone, then Ungraded, then Unmastered (the Steam remake) — each a graphical/content overhaul rather than a sequel.store.steampowered.comIt's an 'anti-point-and-click': you unmake surreal, Lovecraftian puzzles by typing commands to escape a strange rural town.apehardware.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Until Lights Out20224 factsGame page →Until Lights Out was first released free (name-your-own-price) on itch.io around 29 July 2022, before its paid $1.99 Steam launch on 16 September 2022.samukagomes.itch.ioIt's a Christmas-set horror game — a family Christmas night broken by a curse, an unusual seasonal framing for the genre.store.steampowered.comThe environments were modelled in SketchUp (an architectural modelling tool) and assembled in Unity, per the solo developer.samukagomes.itch.ioThe developer says the game was inspired by a horror movie, though he has never publicly named which one.samukagomes.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Until None Remain VR20174 factsGame page →The game shipped as two separate Steam products by the same studio: a VR edition (app 697020) and a non-VR 'Battle Royale PC Edition' (app 697010) of the same last-man-standing concept.store.steampowered.comIt was marketed in October 2017 as bringing the battle-royale format to virtual reality, riding that year's battle-royale genre boom.prweb.comMatch design uses a poison-gas ring that closes in every five minutes, hard-capping each match at 15 minutes or until one survivor remains.store.steampowered.comBoth the VR and PC editions have since been delisted from Steam and are no longer available.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Warhammer Underworlds: Online20204 factsGame page →It is the official digital adaptation of Games Workshop's tabletop Warhammer Underworlds; Tin Man Games signed the license in 2019 and spun up a dedicated label, Steel Sky Productions, to build and publish it.tinmangames.com.auIt launched into Steam Early Access on 28 January 2020 and left Early Access into full 1.0 on 21 April 2020.store.steampowered.comIn May 2023, during Warhammer Skulls 2023, it was overhauled and retitled 'Warhammer Underworlds – Shadespire Edition,' with the original build preserved as a separate 'Classic' app.store.steampowered.comIn February 2021 its base price was cut to $9.99 from the $29.99 launch price, alongside a DLC and warband restructuring.gamespress.comRead 2 more facts
Alien Hallway20103 factsGame page →Alien Hallway was made by Sigma Team — the studio behind the Alien Shooter and Zombie Shooter series — and is set in their shared alien-invasion universe.store.steampowered.comRather than a top-down shooter, it is a single-lane 'send your soldiers' action-strategy game: the player continuously deploys and upgrades troops to push down a corridor and destroy the enemy base.store.steampowered.comIt was built on Microsoft's XNA framework and later received a sequel, Alien Hallway 2.sigma-team.comRead 1 more fact
ArcheAge20133 factsGame page →Jake Song is Korean MMO royalty: he created The Kingdom of the Winds and Lineage, co-founded Nexon's legacy — then spent nearly a decade on ArcheAge after founding XLGames in 2003. He finally left the company in March 2025 'to recharge'.massivelyop.comIts western life ended after a decade of publisher churn (Trion → Gamigo → Kakao): NA/EU servers for both ArcheAge and Unchained closed on 27 June 2024 — while the sequel ArcheAge Chronicles was announced just months later.en.wikipedia.orgThe soundtrack had a rock-star casualty: legendary Korean musician Shin Hae-chul started on the BGM but dropped out mid-development, leaving music direction to Yoon Sang.archeage.comRead 1 more fact
Arma 220093 factsGame page →Arma 2's (June 2009) fictional post-Soviet state Chernarus was modeled on real Czech landscape — and became one of gaming's most consequential maps when the DayZ mod turned it into the survival genre's birthplace.armedassault.fandom.comIn 2012 — three years after release — Dean Hall's DayZ mod sent Arma 2 back to the top of Steam's sellers for months: the mod required the base game, sold over a million copies of it, and seeded both standalone DayZ and the battle-royale lineage (PUBG's Brendan Greene started in Arma modding).armedassault.fandom.comThe 2010 standalone expansion Operation Arrowhead (and the Combined Operations bundle) is what most players actually ran — it remained Bohemia's community platform until Arma 3 arrived in 2013.armedassault.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Arma: Cold War Assault20113 factsGame page →Arma: Cold War Assault IS Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (2001) — Bohemia renamed its own classic in 2011 after the split with Codemasters, who kept the 'Operation Flashpoint' trademark.en.wikipedia.orgThe 2001 original won Computer Gaming World's Game of the Year and sold over 2 million copies by 2010.en.wikipedia.orgIts engine technology became VBS1 — a military training simulator adopted by real armed forces including the US Marine Corps.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
City Car Driving20163 factsGame page →City Car Driving is a driving-school simulator, not a racer: it drills real traffic rules with "smart" AI traffic that misbehaves like real drivers, plus full weather and time-of-day systems — and it supports VR headsets.store.steampowered.comThe simulator is the international home edition of Forward Development's Russian driving-instruction software line known as 3D Instructor, which is used for actual driver training.citycardriving.comA full sequel, City Car Driving 2.0, arrived in 2024 and is sold in a bundle together with this original.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Contagion20133 factsGame page →The zombies are deliberately old-school 'Romero Zombies' — modeled on Night of the Living Dead's slow shamblers, with no special-ability variants except a riot-gear cop whose armor must be shot off.en.wikipedia.orgIt runs on what the team calls 'MonoEngine' — a modified Left 4 Dead 2 branch of Valve's Source engine.developer.valvesoftware.comCrowdfunding saved it: the October 2013 Kickstarter blew past its $50,000 goal to $87,384 from 3,632 backers — pitched openly as the spiritual successor to Zombie Panic! Source.pcgamer.comRead 1 more fact
Deadlock20163 factsGame page →DEADLOCK is a room-scale HTC Vive shooter that requires at least a 2m × 1.5m physical play space — dodging enemy fire means actually moving your body, not pressing a button.store.steampowered.comThe game entered Steam Early Access on August 15, 2016 and never left: its last developer update was more than nine years ago, making it a time capsule of the first SteamVR wave-shooter boom.store.steampowered.comThe premise casts you as a system's last defense against "a crazed hacker and his digital army", fought with switchable bullet, laser, plasma and heavy-beam fire modes plus an energy shield.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
