Crash Bandicoot: Warped19987 factsNaughty Dog · Universal Interactive StudiosGame page →By 2002 Warped had sold over 5.7 million units worldwide, making it the thirteenth best-selling PlayStation game of all time.en.wikipedia.orgIt was the first non-Japanese PlayStation title to sell more than a million copies in Japan, and the first to be given a "Platinum Prize" there for doing so.en.wikipedia.orgAndy Gavin, Stephen White and Greg Omi wrote three entirely new gameplay engines for this game: two 3D ones for the airplane and jet-ski levels, and a third built like a driving simulator for the motorcycle levels.en.wikipedia.orgThose three new engines account for only about a third of the game. The other two-thirds still run on the engine carried over from the first two Crash games.en.wikipedia.orgJason Rubin directed and wrote it, Josh Mancell returned to score it, and the art was led by Bob Rafei and Charles Zembillas — the same core that had shaped the first two games.en.wikipedia.orgIt released in North America on 3 November 1998, almost exactly a year after Cortex Strikes Back, and reached Europe that December.en.wikipedia.orgMetacritic records "universal acclaim" for it — the strongest critical reception of Naughty Dog's original PlayStation Crash trilogy.en.wikipedia.orgRead 5 more facts
Gray Zone Warfare20247 factsMADFINGER GamesGame page →MADFINGER Games spent fourteen years making mobile shooters — Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, Unkilled, over 300 million downloads combined — before Gray Zone Warfare became their first PC premium title.grayzonewarfare.comThe studio has said it entered 2024 with "limited resources and almost no money left to cover salaries." The Early Access launch reversed that completely — they hired 31 new people over the rest of the year.grayzonewarfare.comCreative director Marek Rabas was lead programmer on Hidden & Dangerous 2 — a tactical SAS game from 2003 — before founding MADFINGER.gamerant.comThe team consulted Dr. Sean McFate, an academic specialist in private military companies, to ground the game's PMC premise.gamerant.comRabas picked the fictional Southeast Asian island of Lamang specifically to avoid the crowd: "everyone is doing Western or Eastern urban and forests."insider-gaming.comOver 2024 the Steam review score climbed from 68% to 75% positive across 14 hotfixes, three major patches and 2,163 bug fixes — including a public apology in June after one patch made performance worse.grayzonewarfare.comIt crossed 1.5 million copies sold by June 2026, still in Early Access.insider-gaming.comRead 5 more facts
I Am Your Beast20247 factsStrange ScaffoldGame page →Xalavier Nelson Jr. directed and wrote the game and also voices its protagonist, Alphonse Harding.imdb.comAn earlier version was scrapped entirely after the project stalled through team turnover. The shipped game was rebuilt from scratch in about nine months on a deliberately capped budget — "We said exactly how much space this project will be allowed to consume."gamedeveloper.comNelson's design pitch was "comic book Doom guy in a Tom Clancy setting" — a speedrun-first shooter built to reject the slow tactical conventions of the genre it borrows from.insider-gaming.comThe free Support Group expansion in November 2024 added nine challenge levels narrated by surviving COI operatives, each telling an increasingly absurd story about the protagonist.en.wikipedia.orgEnglish is the only supported language in the entire game — audio, subtitles and interface alike.store.steampowered.comThe main story is about two and a half hours long; going for full completion takes roughly eleven, because the game is built around beating your own times.howlongtobeat.comIt reached Metacritic 79 and 88% recommending on OpenCritic, with The Guardian calling it "a masterwork of briskness and efficiency."en.wikipedia.orgRead 5 more facts
Lust Theory 220237 factsInceton gamesGame page →It is one of the very few adult Ren'Py visual novels with real voice acting: the store page advertises a full voice-over for all female characters, and a December 2022 update added narrator voice on top, with a later 'Full Voice Over Update' completing it.store.steampowered.comAn October 2024 translations update took the game from English-only to twelve languages — German, Spanish, Greek, Indonesian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Latin American Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian — though only English carries the audio.api.steampowered.comThe studio ran two engines in parallel rather than migrating: the mainline seasons stayed on Ren'Py all the way through Season 3 in December 2025 — their minimum specs still cite 'Windows XP or higher' and OpenGL 2.0 — while Unreal Lust Theory ran alongside them on Unreal Engine from March 2024.store.steampowered.comSteam builds deliberately trail Patreon builds: the studio states that updates arrive on Steam roughly one week after they reach Patreon backers.api.steampowered.comInceton Games claims on its own site to run 35+ full-time staff and 35+ GPUs continuously, producing 1,500 to 3,000 renders per update — a self-reported figure that sits oddly against a sister-project announcement describing a team of five.incetongames.comSeason 2 is priced at $29.99 while the newer Season 3 launched at $14.99 — half the price of its predecessor.store.steampowered.comSteam lists no Recommended system requirements for the game at all, and its stated Minimum asks for less RAM than Season 1 did — 1 GB against a 23 GB install.store.steampowered.comRead 5 more facts
Lust Theory 320257 factsInceton gamesGame page →Season 3 launched at $14.99 — half the price of Season 2's $29.99, despite arriving nearly three years later.store.steampowered.comThe series shrank rather than grew: Season 1 holds around 3,700 Steam reviews at 'Very Positive', Season 2 1,011 at 'Mostly Positive', and Season 3 just 163 at 'Mixed', with an all-time concurrent peak of 172 players.steamcharts.comThe voice-over was scaled back rather than expanded. Season 2 advertised a full voice-over for all female characters plus a voiced narrator; Season 3's store page promises only a partial one — female characters in the intro, with voiced narration for the rest of the game.store.steampowered.comLocalisation was rolled back too: Season 2 supports twelve languages after a 2024 translations update, while Season 3 shipped in English only.store.steampowered.comThe mainline series never left Ren'Py. Season 3's minimum requirements still cite 'Windows XP or higher' and OpenGL 2.0 in December 2025, while the studio's Unreal Engine spin-off, Unreal Lust Theory, ran in parallel from March 2024 rather than replacing it.store.steampowered.comIts Steam 'Recommended' block exists but is effectively empty — the only line is 'Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system', with no CPU, RAM, GPU or storage figures at all.store.steampowered.comIt is the only entry in the series without Steam Trading Cards, and its genre tags read Action, Adventure and Casual — 'Action' being an odd label for a visual novel and almost certainly a mis-tag by the developer.store.steampowered.comRead 5 more facts
Muck20217 factsDaniGame page →Muck was made solo by Norwegian YouTuber Dani (Daniel William Sooman) in a little over a month, after a viewer named "sjacek" challenged him in a YouTube comment to make a multiplayer survival game.whatifgaming.comReleased free on Steam on June 5, 2021, it rode the popularity of Dani's YouTube channel to peak at 15,685 concurrent players and surpass 12 million installs.mein-mmo.deIt is an open-ended survival roguelike — a run is measured in in-game days rather than real hours — with an optional ending (defeat the final boss) added in a later update; full clears are speedrun in under 27 minutes.speedrun.comIt was built in Unity (C#) — Dani chose Unity because C# resembled Java, which he already knew.en.namu.wikiDuring Unity's 2023 Runtime-Fee backlash, Dani calculated he'd hypothetically owe $5.6 million in per-install fees across his free games — though he wouldn't actually, since they're free and never hit Unity's revenue threshold.dualshockers.comDespite common belief, Muck was never officially open-sourced by Dani — GitHub only hosts community decompilations and a fan remake ("Muck Reborn").github.comMost of the soundtrack is by fellow creator Context Sensitive (Evan King), released as an official EP; Dani himself made the first two tracks.open.spotify.comRead 5 more facts
Ova Magica20267 factsClaudiaTheDev · Top Hat StudiosGame page →Ova Magica is the work of solo German developer ClaudiaTheDev (studio Skinny Frog), who taught herself Unity starting in late 2017.gretuskigames.comIts 2021 Kickstarter funded in under three hours and finished at about 258,000 euros from 4,281 backers, roughly 1,290% of its 20,000-euro goal.kicktraq.comThe game blends farming life-sim gameplay with creature collecting, where you tame, breed and battle blobs — pitched as "Stardew Valley meets Pokemon" or "Slime Rancher plus Harvest Moon."nintendolife.comYou can pet every blob, and petting strengthens the bond so blobs level up faster and fight harder.gamingonlinux.comSolo dev ClaudiaTheDev partnered with Top Hat Studios for publishing and the console ports.gematsu.comAfter more than four years in development the game entered Steam Early Access on July 23, 2024, and reached its full 1.0 PC release on May 28, 2026.store.steampowered.comThe console versions were delayed past September 2026 so the PS5, Xbox and Switch / Switch 2 releases could all launch together.gonintendo.comRead 5 more facts
Petit Island20247 factsXelo Games · SOEDESCO PublishingGame page →Xelo Games is a three-person studio founded in Bali, Indonesia in 2020, staffed by developers who previously worked on Monster Hunter, Tekken, Formula One, Dirt Rally and Grid.thegeekiary.comYou play as Lily, a young cat exploring an island and photographing it to recover her grandmother's memories.ladiesgamers.comThere is no voice acting — all of its considerable dialogue is delivered as text.ladiesgamers.comThe studio's only previous game was the unrelated action title Escape from Naraka, making this a sharp genre pivot into cozy exploration.tombolstart.comThe rollout was staggered over sixteen months — Steam in November 2024, consoles in January 2025, and a physical retail edition in March 2025.soedesco.comIt drew unusually thin critical coverage — Metacritic logged only three or four reviews, ranging from Shacknews at 80 down to Adventure Game Hotspot at 50.metacritic.comIt is rated ESRB E with no content descriptors at all.esrb.orgRead 5 more facts
Pummel Party20187 factsRebuilt GamesGame page →Rebuilt Games describes itself on its own site as "a two person independent game developer based in New South Wales, Australia" — Pummel Party is their first and so far only game.rebuiltgames.comIt is widely treated as the PC answer to Mario Party: a competitive digital board game where players roll for movement and buy Golden Goblets between minigames.partycrashers.miraheze.orgThe game grew almost entirely through streamers rather than marketing — VanossGaming, with a channel of over 26 million subscribers, posted a run of Pummel Party videos that pulled in much of its audience.youtube.comThe community wiki catalogues 48 distinct named minigames, from Cannon Circle and Elemental Escalation to Sorcerers Sprint and Tunneling Tanks.pummel-party.fandom.comIts popularity peaked long after launch: SteamCharts records an all-time high of 20,334 concurrent players in December 2022, more than four years after the September 2018 release, and it still averages around 1,900 concurrent players.steamcharts.comThere is no bespoke score — the music comes from Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free catalogue, with single compositions shared across several minigames including Crown Capture, Elemental Escalation, Explosive Exchange and Word Wars.youtube.comDespite a "Very Positive" rating across more than 45,000 Steam reviews, the game still has no English Wikipedia article — only Chinese and Spanish ones — an unusually thin paper trail for a title this widely played.store.steampowered.comRead 5 more facts
Songs of Glimmerwick20267 factsEastshade StudiosGame page →It comes from Eastshade Studios, best known for the 2019 first-person "painter adventure" Eastshade, a game with no combat — a peaceful ethos Glimmerwick continues.en.wikipedia.orgSpellcasting is literally music: you play melodies on a flute from a songbook, and different songs cast different spells, from talking to trees to automating garden tools.store.steampowered.comThe score by Phoenix Glendinning reacts to the player's own musical inputs, making the act of casting a spell feel like a genuine performance.indiegame.comThe game uses a distinctive hand-painted "projected 2D" pipeline, with hand-drawn illustrations projected onto low-poly geometry — a major visual departure from Eastshade.gamedeveloper.comIt was made by a very small (~3-person) self-funded team, financed by sales of the studio's previous game rather than outside investors.indiegame.comA free demo has been available since April 2026, and the game gathered more than 170,000 Steam wishlists before launch.monstervine.comSongs of Glimmerwick launches September 30, 2026 on PC, with console versions (PS5, Switch, Xbox) to follow.gematsu.comRead 5 more facts
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty20107 factsBlizzard EntertainmentGame page →It was released July 27, 2010 — 12 years after the original StarCraft (1998), the longest gap Blizzard had ever left between a game and its sequel.en.wikipedia.orgIt sold over 1 million copies on its first day and about 1.5 million within 48 hours, reaching 3 million worldwide in its first month — the fastest-selling strategy game of all time at launch.en.wikipedia.orgIt is the first chapter of a planned trilogy, each focused on one race: Wings of Liberty (Terran), Heart of the Swarm (Zerg, 2013) and Legacy of the Void (Protoss, 2015).en.wikipedia.orgThe single-player campaign follows Jim Raynor and is non-linear: players earn credits from missions to buy units and upgrades aboard the battlecruiser Hyperion.en.wikipedia.orgIt became free-to-play in November 2017 (announced at BlizzCon 2017), unlocking the full Wings of Liberty campaign and multiplayer.en.wikipedia.orgIt powered one of the largest esports scenes of its era, especially in South Korea; Blizzard launched the World Championship Series (WCS) in 2012.en.wikipedia.orgIt launched fully localized in 11 languages, including lip-synced voiceover for its cinematics and a localized Map Editor.gamedeveloper.comRead 5 more facts
The Crimson Diamond20247 factsJulia MinamataGame page →Julia Minamata spent roughly a decade as a freelance illustrator — with clients including The New Yorker — before founding her studio in November 2018 to make this game essentially single-handed.en.wikipedia.orgIt is a genuine period reconstruction, not a stylisation: an authentic 16-colour EGA palette, a text parser, and a score written for the Roland MT-32 sound module, all recreating a late-1980s Sierra adventure.store.steampowered.comRoberta Williams — co-founder of Sierra On-Line and creator of the Laura Bow mysteries the game is constantly compared to — publicly endorsed it.store.steampowered.comComposer Dan Policar is a Grammy-nominated, internationally touring musician who wrote much of the score live on Twitch, and had previously worked on Empire of Sin and the Colossal Cave Adventure trailer.thecrimsondiamond.comA free prologue, The Crimson Diamond: Chapter 1, went out in February 2020 and was delisted from Steam in May 2024 once the full game replaced it.thecrimsondiamond.comIt won Best Gameplay at the 2024 AGS Awards, the community awards of the Adventure Game Studio engine it was built in, from five nominations.adventuregamestudio.co.ukCritics responded strongly for such a deliberately archaic design — Metacritic 88 and 89% recommending on OpenCritic, with Steam users at Overwhelmingly Positive.en.wikipedia.orgRead 5 more facts
The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War20217 factsNetEase GamesGame page →It was announced in June 2020, soft-launched that July, and released worldwide on iOS and Android on 22 September 2021.en.wikipedia.orgIt is a seasonal 4X strategy game rather than a story game — players compete over a shared Middle-earth world map across recurring seasons, so there is no ending to reach.metacritic.comSenior designer Nicolas Perrin framed it as the deliberate opposite of the rest of the licence: "While most of the other Lord of the Rings games are about roleplay, our game is about strategy."gamespot.comCritics and players split sharply. Metacritic's critic score sits at 76 — AppAdvice called it "surprisingly deep, well-presented" and faithful to the source — while the user score collapsed to 3.8, with players calling it pay-to-win after a version 2 update.metacritic.comEven the positive reviews flagged the monetisation. Multiplayer.it scored it 69 and described it as "engineered on mobile market and with micro-transactions in mind."metacritic.comThe game is gone. NetEase announced the shutdown on 15 October 2025, disabled new purchases the same day, and closed the servers permanently on 31 December 2025 at 07:00 UTC — just over four years after launch.lotr-risetowar.comThe closure notice was published in at least seven languages — English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Turkish — and players mounted a Change.org petition trying to stop it.lotr-risetowar.comRead 5 more facts
The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival20267 factsOdaclick Game Studio · Trailmark GamesGame page →It is a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up in the Streets of Rage mold, not the survival or adventure style of most Walking Dead games.gameinformer.comDeveloper Odaclick Game Studio previously made the 2024 pixel-art brawler The Karate Kid: Street Rumble, reusing that beat 'em up formula for a zombie license.gematsu.comIt is an officially AMC-licensed game (AMC Film Holdings), branded as "AMC's The Walking Dead," with a campaign based on the All Out War arc across the Sanctuary, Hilltop and Alexandria.trailmarkgames.comNegan, wielding Lucille, is an unlockable playable character alongside the default trio of Rick, Daryl and Michonne.store.steampowered.comBoss fights mix human antagonists like Negan and Simon with "celebrity" walkers such as Winslow and the Well Walker.store.steampowered.comIt is a premium single-player game, not a mobile gacha, releasing digitally and with physical editions at Target, Amazon and Best Buy.trailmarkgames.comThe game was announced in June 2026 with a playable Steam demo, and launches September 18, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, both Switch models and PC.gematsu.comRead 5 more facts
Toem 220267 factsSomething We MadeGame page →TOEM 2 was announced in December 2024 with a teaser, and the first gameplay look followed in June 2025.gematsu.comThe original TOEM was Something We Made's debut game and won Best Debut at the 2022 BAFTA Games Awards, so the studio is now billed as "BAFTA-winning."en.wikipedia.orgThe series' signature look is a hand-drawn black-and-white, paper-cutout storybook style, and the sequel keeps the monochrome aesthetic rather than adding color.rpgfan.comThe biggest change from the first game is the camera perspective: the original used a distant isometric view, while the sequel is more up-close and lets you run, jump and climb for better photo angles.store.steampowered.comTOEM 2 runs at 60 frames per second even on the original Nintendo Switch, per co-founder Niklas Mikkelsen, and also targets Switch 2 and PlayStation 5.nintendoeverything.comA playable demo appeared at Steam Next Fest in June 2026, set in a European-inspired city called Deltburg, and drew positive previews.smashpad.comTOEM 2 launches September 29, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch / Switch 2, co-published by Something We Made and popagenda.gematsu.comRead 5 more facts
Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree20257 factsBrownies · Bandai Namco EntertainmentGame page →Developer Brownies Inc. was founded in Tokyo in November 2012 by Shinichi Kameoka, a former Square character designer on the Mana series and founder of Brownie Brown — the studio that later became 1-Up Studio. Kameoka produced Fantasy Life for the 3DS the same year he founded Brownies.brownie-games.co.jpCombat pairs a melee "Tsurugi" swordfighter with a support "Kagura" spellcaster, chosen two at a time from a roster of eight Guardians and sharing a dual-blade durability and swap system.destructoid.comA distinctive sacrifice mechanic permanently retires Guardian characters after certain runs, with narrative consequences for how the survivors behave afterwards.androidpolice.comThe score comes from Hitoshi Sakimoto — the composer behind Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story and Odin Sphere — and was repeatedly named a highlight in reviews.hardcoregamer.comCritical reception was sharply split: Metacritic 73 on PS5, 71 on PC and 66 on Switch, with only 54% of critics recommending it on OpenCritic.en.wikipedia.orgThat split shows in the reviews themselves — Destructoid called it "the best art direction of any game launched in 2025," while Nintendo World Report compared the Switch presentation to "a game I would've played on the PlayStation Vita."destructoid.comIt launched simultaneously on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S and PC on September 19, 2025.bandainamcoent.comRead 5 more facts
Wrestling Empire20217 factsMDickieGame page →Wrestling Empire is entirely solo-developed by English developer Mat Dickie, who self-deprecatingly calls himself 'single-handedly responsible for the worst games to ever be enjoyed by millions'.en.wikipedia.orgDickie retired from game development twice — becoming an educator in 2009 and quitting again in July 2018 — before returning in 2019 specifically to build Wrestling Empire.en.wikipedia.orgCOVID forced an unfinished launch: he aimed to release for WWF No Mercy's 20th anniversary but completed only about a third of what he had planned, shipping anyway and patching features in via regular updates.en.wikipedia.orgThe deliberately janky 'freestyle animation system' lets anything happen at any moment — Nintendo Life compared the chaos to Goat Simulator, and it's part of the appeal.en.wikipedia.orgThe roster of ~350 wrestlers uses legally-distinct parodies of WWE/AEW talent under fictional promotions like 'Federation Online' and 'All American Wrestling' to dodge trademark issues.en.wikipedia.orgA full booking mode — running your own promotion 'with a territorial twist' to maximize TV ratings — ships in the box at no extra cost, alongside the backstage-decision career sim.store.steampowered.comIt was the first MDickie game on a Nintendo console; Dickie said he felt 'vindicated to have taken my work that far when nobody ever believed I would'. His prior mobile wrestling games had passed 50 million downloads.smarkoutmoment.comRead 5 more facts
Akimbot20246 factsEvil Raptor · PLAIONGame page →Evil Raptor is a Lyon-based French studio founded around 2020 by the developers behind Pumpkin Jack; Akimbot is their first full team-scale production.evilraptor.comThe name comes from the two robot leads' original dual-wielding "akimbo" gun design. Director Nicolas Meyssonnier has said there is a second, narrative reason for the name that players discover in-game.monstervine.comMeyssonnier says "Akimbot" was simply the first name the team came up with, and it never got replaced — there is no earlier working title.monstervine.comIn the English dub, Reece Bridger voices both robot protagonists — Exe and his companion Shipset — opposite each other, a detail the developers confirmed in the Steam community forums.steamcommunity.comIt shipped with full voice acting in 13 languages, an unusually broad dub for a studio of this size.store.steampowered.comCritics and players diverged sharply: Metacritic sits at 65 on PC and 71 on PS5 with only 29% recommending on OpenCritic, while Steam user reviews settled at Very Positive.metacritic.comRead 4 more facts
APB: All Points Bulletin20106 factsRealtime WorldsGame page →APB was conceived and led by David Jones, creator of the original Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown; it was described as the game he'd 'always wanted to make'.en.wikipedia.orgDevelopment reportedly cost over $100 million (Realtime Worlds raised ~$101M total), making APB one of the most expensive video games ever produced.en.wikipedia.orgIt was a commercial disaster: Realtime Worlds entered administration in August 2010, about six weeks after launch, and the servers were shut down that September — under three months on the market.venturebeat.comAPB let players import their own music: matching songs played on in-game car radios, and Last.fm integration substituted similar tracks; players could even set a short custom music sting to play when they killed an opponent.en.wikipedia.orgRealtime Worlds' technology enabled unusually deep character and vehicle customization — paint, decals and attachments — a signature selling point.mobygames.comAfter the shutdown, online-gaming company K2 Network bought APB for £1.5 million and its subsidiary Reloaded Productions relaunched it as free-to-play 'APB: Reloaded' in 2011.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure20246 factsFurniture & MattressGame page →The core idea is that the world itself is a sliding puzzle — whenever Jemma moves, the entire row and column she occupies shifts with her, so every step rearranges the level.store.steampowered.comFurniture & Mattress is a small team with an unusually heavy CV — collectively credited on Celeste, Carto and Guacamelee! 2, with co-founder Nick Suttner having been Director of Publishing at Panic, the publisher behind Untitled Goose Game and Firewatch.furnimat.gamesArt direction is by David Hellman, who previously defined the look of Braid.furnimat.gamesIt launched on six platforms the same day — Windows, macOS, Switch, PS5, iOS and Android — an unusually wide simultaneous rollout for a team this size, with the mobile versions distributed through Netflix Games.en.wikipedia.orgTouchArcade named it their favourite puzzle game of 2024 and scored it 5/5.en.wikipedia.orgReviews were consistent across platforms — Metacritic 82 on PC and 81 on both PS5 and Switch, with Eurogamer, Nintendo Life and Push Square all landing around 8/10.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
As Dusk Falls20226 factsINTERIOR/NIGHT · Xbox Game StudiosGame page →As Dusk Falls is the debut game of INT./NIGHT (Interior Night), a studio founded in 2017 by Caroline Marchal — formerly lead game designer on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls at Quantic Dream.en.wikipedia.orgIt uses a distinctive motion-comic art style — hand-painted still images rendered over motion-captured performances — rather than continuous 3D animation.en.wikipedia.orgThe branching story follows the Walker and Holt families across two "books" (six chapters), beginning in 1998 Arizona and continuing into 2012.en.wikipedia.orgUp to eight players can make group story decisions by voting with their phones through the free As Dusk Falls Companion App, in local or online co-op.store.steampowered.comIt won Games for Impact at The Game Awards 2022 and launched day one on Xbox Game Pass.en.wikipedia.orgIts acclaimed score is by Matthew Barnes (Forest Swords); Rolling Stone called it "one of the best musical scores we've ever heard."rollingstone.comRead 4 more facts
Astrolander20266 factsLost Cartridge CreationsGame page →Astrolander was started by developer Max Trest when he was 13 years old (16 by the time of its PS5/PC reveal).gamerant.comMax Trest began coding at age 9 in Scratch, then moved to Blender and Unity (HDRP), with textures made in Adobe Substance Painter.superjumpmagazine.comThe game was originally conceived as a modern take on Atari's 1979 Lunar Lander before expanding into a full platformer.superjumpmagazine.comA prototype was exhibited at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) and the Seattle Indies Expo, where Max Trest met PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida — a meeting that led to the PS5 deal.gameravenreview.comA solo player controls both robots (Feedback and Haptic); in local co-op the two are split between two players.insider-gaming.comPlayers collect CDs to unlock 10 abilities such as CDjector, Wazer, Vizray and Wavo.store.steampowered.comRead 4 more facts
Beastro20266 factsTimberline Studio Inc.Game page →Timberline's founders Lindsey Rostal and Nathan Fulton previously worked at The Odd Gentlemen on the 2015 episodic King's Quest.unrealengine.comCard battles use trick-taking rules inspired by Spades and Hearts instead of the energy-management model common to digital deckbuilders — and are staged as puppet-theatre sequences.store.steampowered.comCooking literally builds your deck: the meals chef Panko prepares for the village's monster-fighting "Caretakers" become the cards used in combat.beastro.gameThe game was built in Unreal Engine 5 by a team of just 13 people, and Epic featured the studio in its own developer-interview series.unrealengine.comIt is co-published by Kepler Ghost, the non-equity indie publishing label Kepler Interactive launched in 2023.kepler-interactive.comFirst revealed at Xbox @ gamescom 2025 (August 20, 2025), it later ran a Steam Next Fest demo that was updated mid-festival and kept live afterward.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Bus Simulator 2720266 factsSimteract · astragon EntertainmentGame page →The fleet tops 45 officially licensed buses from 13 real manufacturers, including Solaris, Mercedes-Benz, MAN, IVECO Bus, Scania and Volvo.store.steampowered.comFor the first time in the series, players can drive licensed long-distance coach buses.store.steampowered.comIt is set in Felicia Bay, a fictional sunny Southern-European region inspired by Spain and Portugal, with the twin cities of Alcaztelar and Mequina.store.steampowered.comBuilt on Unreal Engine 5, it features dynamic weather, a full day-night cycle and crowded, bustling streets.store.steampowered.comIt supports four-player cooperative crossplay multiplayer and mod.io modding on PC.store.steampowered.comIt is developed by Simteract and published by long-time simulation label astragon Entertainment.bussimulator.comRead 4 more facts
Demeo20216 factsResolution GamesGame page →All five post-launch dungeon campaigns — Realm of the Rat King, Roots of Evil, Curse of the Serpent Lord and Reign of Madness after the launch adventure — were released as completely free updates.roadtovr.comThe Reign of Madness score (~30 minutes of orchestration) was recorded with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague, then fed into a dynamic in-game music system.resolutiongames.comDOOM and Commander Keen co-creator Tom Hall works at Resolution Games as Senior Creative Director and is credited as a designer on Demeo.en.wikipedia.orgCEO Tommy Palm was King's 'Games Guru' and public face of Candy Crush Saga before founding Resolution Games — his prior studio Fabrication Games was acquired by King in 2012, ahead of King's ~$7B IPO.crunchbase.comThe 'Mixed Reality 2.0' update added controller-free hand tracking on Quest — letting players physically pick up miniatures, cards and dice from the virtual tabletop.roadtovr.comDemeo grew into a series: the PvP spin-off Demeo Battles (Nov 9, 2023) and the official D&D crossover Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (Nov 20, 2025, with Wizards of the Coast) both build on its 'Demeo Action RPG System'.resolutiongames.comRead 4 more facts
Dyson Sphere Program20216 factsYouthcat Studio · Gamirror GamesGame page →Dyson Sphere Program was built by a five-person team in Chongqing, China — Youthcat Studio, founded by technical lead Mao Mao and industry veteran Zhou Xun.pandayoo.comIt was crowdfunded on Kickstarter, raising ¥1,434,062 (about 135% of its goal) from just 319 backers in late 2020.kickstarter.comIt sold 200,000 copies in about four days and topped Steam's global sales chart in its launch week, reaching 1.7 million copies by September 2021.techraptor.netThe dev-stated inspirations are Stellaris and the Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth — development began in April 2019 after the film's release, and publisher Gamera Games even hired the film's voice actors for the game.en.wikipedia.orgYou play as Icarus, a silent, paintable tree-height mecha that progresses from walking a single planet to interplanetary and finally interstellar flight.dsp-wiki.comIt launched as a completely peaceful factory builder — combat only arrived three years later with the free 'Rise of the Dark Fog' update in December 2023, adding the game's first hostile faction.news.xbox.comRead 4 more facts
EA Sports College Football 2720266 factsEA Orlando · EA SportsGame page →The franchise was revived in July 2024 as "EA Sports College Football" after the NCAA Football series ended with NCAA Football 14 (2013) — an ~11-year hiatus tied to name-image-likeness (NIL) litigation.on3.comCollege athletes are now compensated for their name, image and likeness in-game (NIL) — the legal shift that enabled the revival; Dynasty Mode adds "playable NIL features."businesswire.comIt is the first game in the series on PC and mobile, and the PC build adds ray tracing (Frostbite engine) and cross-play.techtimes.comIt features all 138 FBS teams, over 1,500 new plays, thousands of current athletes and more than 300 real coaches.ea.comCommentary is led by Chris Fowler and new analyst Joel Klatt, with Holly Rowe debuting as sideline reporter.on3.comThe game drew a #CFBPlayDontPay backlash over real-money "College Football Points" that can buy skill-point levels in career modes.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Gallipoli20266 factsBlackmill GamesGame page →Gallipoli is the fourth standalone entry in BlackMill Games' WW1 Game Series, following Verdun (Western Front), Tannenberg (Eastern Front) and Isonzo (Alpine Front) — and it is the first game in the series to be set in a desert theatre.gamereactor.euAhead of launch, BlackMill Games partnered with Turkey's Directorate of Gallipoli Historical Site, which supplied LIDAR scans, 3D spatial data and historical maps used to digitally reconstruct real locations including Seddülbahir Fortress, Kumkale, Ariburnu and Anzac Cove. The collaboration protocol was formally signed on August 10, 2026 at Seddülbahir Fortress.prnewswire.comThe game was originally scheduled to launch on May 21, 2026, but BlackMill Games delayed it to August 20, 2026 after a critical issue surfaced late in development that the team wanted to fix before launch day.psu.comThe soundtrack, composed by Bart Delissen (who also scored Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo), includes period-specific anthems arranged for the setting, such as the Ottoman march 'Plevne Marşı', the British anthem 'Rule, Britannia!' and 'Waltzing Matilda' representing the Anzac forces.store.steampowered.comThe WW1 Game Series has sold over 4 million copies across Verdun, Tannenberg and Isonzo since Verdun launched into Steam Early Access in 2013 — the first Dutch game ever Greenlit on Steam — and has been supported with 24 free content expansions across the series prior to Gallipoli's release.gamespress.comGallipoli includes historically accurate improvised 'jam tin grenades' — homemade explosives that WWI soldiers crafted from empty jam tins — among its period-authentic weapons and equipment.gamereactor.euRead 4 more facts
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder20246 factsMetamorphosis Games · Fireshine GamesGame page →The design brief was a single question from creative director Tom Maher: "What if late-90s Squaresoft made a Castlevania game?"goombastomp.comMetamorphosis Games' founders conceived the studio while working at a corporate law office — Maher's own background is lawyer-turned-developer.metamorphosisgames.comYouTube and streaming personalities Jesse Cox and Dodger are credited as executive producers, an unusual line on an indie game's credits.miketendo64.comDeveloper Tom Knight says he was drawn to the project after seeing a single GIF of handcrafted pixel art — a character slamming a drink — posted on Twitter.miketendo64.comIt was first shown publicly at PAX East in 2020, more than four years before it shipped, under the same title it launched with.nintendoworldreport.comReviews landed mixed — GameSpot called it "a great start for a potential franchise" while flagging heavy exposition, and several critics singled out unskippable cutscenes and combat balance as the weak points.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Hatred20156 factsDestructive CreationsGame page →Hatred is the debut title of Destructive Creations, a Polish studio based in Gliwice, built on Unreal Engine 4 with Nvidia PhysX.en.wikipedia.orgIt is one of only a few games given an ESRB 'Adults Only' (AO) rating for extreme violence rather than sexual content, alongside the cancelled Thrill Kill and the original cut of Manhunt 2.esrb.orgThe game was pulled from Steam Greenlight in December 2014, then reinstated days later after Valve co-founder Gabe Newell personally apologised to the developers.en.wikipedia.orgIts art direction is almost entirely monochromatic, reserving colour mainly for fire and blood.en.wikipedia.orgThe antagonist's dialogue was written by 'Herr Warcrimer', vocalist of the Polish black-metal band Infernal War.en.wikipedia.orgShortly before release, Twitch announced a ban on streaming ESRB 'Adults Only' games, which applied to Hatred.en.wikipedia.orgRead 4 more facts
Hollow Knight Silksong20256 factsTeam Cherry · ElviesGame page →The six-year wait (announced Feb 2019, released Sept 4, 2025) spawned an entire meme culture: fans wore 'clown makeup' after every newsless showcase, and 'we got X before Silksong' became a running genre of its own.knowyourmeme.comSilksong began as a $56,000 Kickstarter stretch goal — a playable-Hornet DLC — that grew 'too large and too unique' to remain DLC and became a full sequel set in the new kingdom of Pharloom.svg.comLaunch demand simultaneously crashed Steam, the Nintendo eShop and the PlayStation Store — with a Steam concurrent peak around 587,000 players.gamespot.comAt $19.99, it sold 7M+ copies in three months (not counting Game Pass) and swept year-end honors: TGA Best Action/Adventure, the Steam Awards GOTY and the Golden Joystick for Best Indie.gamedeveloper.comTeam Cherry cited Zelda II's sense of secrets and mystery as a guiding star — they wanted a world explorable 'divorced from the internet', where discovery still feels personal.gonintendo.comComposer Christopher Larkin returned with a 53-track score expanded with live strings and woodwinds — released the same day as the game and nominated for Best Score & Music at TGA 2025.christopherlarkin.bandcamp.comRead 4 more facts
Little Nightmares II20216 factsTarsier Studios · Bandai Namco EntertainmentGame page →The ending twist reveals Mono, corrupted by the Signal Tower and betrayed by Six, grows up to become the Thin Man — the game's own antagonist, trapped in a time loop.en.wikipedia.orgIt was Tarsier Studios' last Little Nightmares game: Embracer bought the studio in December 2019 but Bandai Namco kept the IP, later handing Little Nightmares III to Supermassive Games.playstationlifestyle.netThe Pale City is warped by a humming broadcast from the distant Signal Tower, with TV-obsessed 'Viewer' enemies — a media-transmission corruption theme running through the whole game.tobiaslilja.comThe next-gen Enhanced Edition (August 2021) was ported by Supermassive Games — foreshadowing their later takeover of the franchise.en.wikipedia.orgDespite the 'II', the story is generally read as a prequel to the original game, switching the playable protagonist from Six to Mono — and neither child ever speaks; the game has no dialogue at all.en.wikipedia.orgTarsier's dev-stated influences are Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke) and the 1995 film The City of Lost Children — not Tim Burton, despite frequent reviewer comparisons.hollywoodreporter.comRead 4 more facts
Minecraft Tower Defence 220126 factsAdam Carmichael (Microwave Games) · NewgroundsGame page →The sequel expanded enormously on the original: over 16 varied maps and 18 items, against the first game's three similar maps and eight items.kongregate.comIts Adventure Mode casts the player as Steve rebuilding his village after a griefer destroys it — an actual narrative framing, unusual for a Flash tower-defense game.flashmuseum.netIt added quality-of-life controls the original lacked: R to reset your dug path and U to undo a placement.kongregate.comProgress is saved to browser cookies rather than an account, so clearing your cookies wipes the campaign.flashmuseum.netThe archived build is an 11.5 MB SWF file, roughly three times the size of the original game's 3.6 MB.archive.orgIt was frontpaged on Newgrounds and holds a 3.8-out-of-5 rating on Kongregate.kongregate.comRead 4 more facts
Population: One20206 factsBigBox VRGame page →The signature Vertical Combat System lets players climb any surface with the grip buttons and glide by holding a T-pose — the developers deliberately simplified Fortnite-style building to a single brick type to keep the focus on verticality.venturebeat.comBigBox VR rewrote large parts of Unity — building their own multithreaded physics, particle, rendering and networking layers — because off-the-shelf engines didn't parallelize well enough for an 18-player VR battle royale.venturebeat.comFacebook acquired BigBox VR on 11 June 2021 as its fifth VR studio purchase, driven by Population: One's status as one of the Quest platform's top earners.techcrunch.comAfter about 2.5 years as a paid title, the game went free-to-play on 9 March 2023, with legacy perks for players who had bought it.gamespot.comMatches put 18 players in six teams of three inside a vertical arena where you can drop onto enemies from above or ambush mid-glide.populationonevr.comIts biggest update ever, 'Phoenix Royale', arrived in June 2024 — roughly 3.5 years after launch — and the game has remained live since.mixed-news.comRead 4 more facts
Super Mario and the Sacred Bells20106 factsFirestyle · Mario Fan Games GalaxyGame page →The kindly Toadsworth who sends Mario on his quest is a disguise — the true villain is Dimentio, the jester antagonist of Super Paper Mario (2007), tying the fan game's story directly to that Nintendo game.wiki.mfgg.netThe game lets players switch between three playable heroes — Mario, Luigi and Peach — which reviewers singled out as a rarity for a Mario platformer.wiki.mfgg.netSeven of the game's nine bosses are the Koopalings, and each is fought with its own unique mechanic instead of a shared pattern.wiki.mfgg.netIt was downloaded more than 28,500 times on Mario Fan Games Galaxy and holds an average community rating of about 8/10.mfgg.netThe whole game — 8 worlds and 27 levels — was built by a single creator, Firestyle, in GameMaker and distributed free as a 7.84 MB download.mfgg.netIt is included on MFGG's curated '30 Games on MFGG Worth Playing' list highlighting standout community fan games.wiki.mfgg.netRead 4 more facts
Tekken 720156 factsBandai Namco Studios · Bandai Namco EntertainmentGame page →Tekken 7 is the first entry in the series built on Unreal Engine 4.en.wikipedia.orgIts story mode concludes the decades-long Mishima family blood feud between Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima.en.wikipedia.orgIt debuted in Japanese arcades on 18 March 2015, more than two years before its PS4, Xbox One and PC console release on 2 June 2017 — the first Tekken on PC.en.wikipedia.orgThe roster features guest fighters from other franchises: Akuma (Street Fighter), Geese Howard (Fatal Fury), Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV) and Negan (The Walking Dead).en.wikipedia.orgIt introduced the comeback 'Rage Art' super-move mechanic to the series.en.wikipedia.orgTekken 7 passed 10 million copies sold by December 2022, becoming the best-selling game in the franchise.gameworldobserver.comRead 4 more facts
The Witcher IV6 factsCD Projekt REDGame page →The Witcher IV was revealed with the 'No Gods, Only Monsters' cinematic trailer at The Game Awards on 12 December 2024, recasting Ciri as the protagonist — a professional witcher on a monster hunt.press.cdprojektred.comIt is the first Witcher game built on Unreal Engine 5 instead of CDPR's in-house REDengine, under a multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games announced in 2022.cdprojektred.comOn 3 June 2025 CDPR and Epic showed a Witcher IV UE5 tech demo running on a PlayStation 5 at 60fps — following Ciri and her horse Kelpie into the new region of Kovir and the port town of Valdrest, showcasing Nanite Foliage and MetaHuman crowds.cdprojekt.comCiri's English voice was recast: Ciara Berkeley voices her in The Witcher IV, replacing The Witcher 3's Jo Wyatt.redanianintelligence.comThe Witcher IV opens a planned new trilogy — CDPR aims to ship all three entries of the new saga within roughly six years, a cadence it says Unreal Engine 5 makes possible.en.wikipedia.orgAn analyst estimate puts its combined development and marketing budget near $779 million — which would make it one of the most expensive games ever made, roughly ten times The Witcher 3's ~$81M cost.80.lvRead 4 more facts
Train Sim World 720266 factsDovetail GamesGame page →The base game adds three new routes: Florida Tri-Rail (Miami/Fort Lauderdale), Airedale & Wharfedale (Yorkshire) and Nurnberg-Wurzburg (Bavaria).store.steampowered.comTwo headline new features are Freight Hauler, a schedule-free freight-marshalling mode, and Live Weather powered by real-time, location-specific data.store.steampowered.comA major PC-tech pass adds DirectX 12, DLSS 4.5 (with DLAA) and FSR 4, plus an all-new 'Epic' graphics tier that extends draw distances and shadow quality.store.steampowered.comA free Starter Edition lets newcomers try the game through the Training Center, and older 'TSW Compatible' add-ons carry forward into TSW7.store.steampowered.comThe Steam store page lists 'AI-generated voices' among the game's tags, indicating AI-generated voice content.store.steampowered.comDeveloped and published by Dovetail Games on Unreal Engine 4, it launches September 15, 2026, with five-day early access on the Deluxe and Ultimate editions.store.steampowered.comRead 4 more facts
Transport Fever 320266 factsUrban Games · Paradox InteractiveGame page →Transport Fever 3 is the first game in the series to launch on consoles (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S); every prior entry was PC/Mac/Linux only.paradoxinteractive.comThe game was revealed in May 2025 as a self-published title, then in May 2026 Urban Games signed Paradox Interactive as publisher — while keeping 100% of the Transport Fever IP.transportfever3.comIt adds the day/night cycle that fans had requested since Transport Fever 2, but the developers made it purely cosmetic (a slider) rather than gameplay-affecting.en.wikipedia.orgHelicopters appear in the Transport Fever series for the first time in Transport Fever 3.paradoxinteractive.comThe fully-simulated world runs on Urban Games' own bespoke in-house engine, built up over roughly 15 years rather than a commercial engine like Unreal or Unity.gamesmarket.globalUrban Games' CEO said the project has a budget of nearly US$25 million and is largely self-financed by reinvesting earnings from the studio's earlier games.gamesmarket.globalRead 4 more facts
Wildermyth20216 factsWorldwalker GamesGame page →Heroes are permanent people, not builds: they age across multi-generational campaigns, retire or die for good — and 'legacy' heroes can be recruited into future campaigns, keeping their scars, maimings and transformations.wildermyth.comStory events play out as illustrated comic-strip panels — the game keeps a 'Library of Plays' of every tale your party generated.en.wikipedia.orgCharacters can permanently transform — gaining a crow's head, crystalline gem limbs, wings or a fire arm — and those mutations carry into their legacy versions forever.fanbyte.comIt runs on a custom Java engine — Nate Austin: 'We did build our own engine, and it was a pretty questionable decision, but it made me a much better game programmer.'thousandscarsblog.wordpress.comThe tiny ~6-person studio beat the year's big RPGs to PC Gamer's Best RPG 2021 — 'I don't think any videogame has ever more successfully evoked the feel of a tabletop RPG.'pcgamer.comThe papercraft look is literal: 2D cut-out 'paper doll' characters posed inside 3D dioramas — even the ESRB rating text describes combat between 'paper-like figures'.esrb.orgRead 4 more facts
Witch It20206 factsBarrel Roll Games · Daedalic EntertainmentGame page →Witch It was developed under the working title 'Witch Hunt' from September 2016 and renamed on 25 February 2017 to avoid confusion with other titles on the market.de.wikipedia.orgThe game spent about 3.5 years in Steam Early Access (May 2017 to October 2020), with its 1.0 launch timed to Halloween and adding remastered stages, new maps, music and cosmetics.savingcontent.comUnlike mod-based prop hunt, Witch It was built from scratch around the concept, with account progression, unlockable skills, 500+ props and over 1,000 cosmetics.keengamer.comA roughly 7-person indie team from Eilenstedt, Germany beat AAA competition to win Best German Game at the 2018 German Computer Game Awards — taking three awards and about EUR 185,000 in prize money that night.heise.deAfter Among Us blew up, the developers added an 'Imposturous' mode inspired by it, plus a Creative level-editor mode with Steam Workshop support.de.wikipedia.orgWitch It sold about 100,000 copies while still self-published in Early Access, which led Daedalic Entertainment to sign it in February 2018 as the publisher's first multiplayer games-as-a-service title.daedalic.prezly.comRead 4 more facts
Yet Another Zombie Defense20106 factsAwesome Games StudioGame page →Built with Microsoft's XNA framework; after Microsoft abandoned XNA, the studio later rebuilt the game from scratch in Unity for its HD remaster.pcgamingwiki.comIt was the breakout hit for Poland's Awesome Games Studio (founded 2009 by Marcin Draszczuk) and its success helped fund the studio for years.awesomegamesstudio.comIt debuted on Xbox Live Indie Games in 2010, was later ported to iOS and the Kongregate browser platform in 2013, then arrived on Steam in 2014 as a free-to-play title.store.steampowered.comThe game blends two genres at once — a twin-stick zombie shooter with tower-defense base-building, where players fortify by day and survive undead waves by night, with up to 4-player co-op.store.steampowered.comThe soundtrack is by Kevin MacLeod, the royalty-free composer whose music appears in thousands of games and videos — the menu uses his 'Darkness Is Coming' and the wave theme is 'What You Want'.mobygames.comOn Xbox Live Indie Games the title was also known as 'Amazing Zombie Defense'; the original Steam version became permanently free around the 2017 launch of the paid HD remaster.mobygames.comRead 4 more facts
A-Train 9 Evolution20265 factsArtdinkGame page →It is the 40th-anniversary title of the A-Train series, which began on Japanese PCs in December 1985.gematsu.comArtdink calls it "not a mere port" of 2010's A-Train 9 — the Switch 2 exclusive got a complete UI and rendering overhaul, with enhanced lighting, reflections and water.automaton-media.comA returning quarter-view mode with camera angles adjustable in 15° increments deliberately recreates the look of classic entries A-Train 3, 4 and 7.nintendoeverything.comThe 40th Anniversary Memorial Box includes a 56-page LOGiN & Weekly Famitsu commemorative magazine reprinting period coverage, a pin badge and two themed train tickets.famitsu.comThe series reached the West when Maxis published Take the A-Train III in the US simply as "A-Train" in 1992.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
ABZU20165 factsGiant Squid · 505 GamesGame page →ABZÛ was created by Matt Nava, the art director of Journey and Flower, who began pitching it before leaving thatgamecompany to found developer Giant Squid; development took three years with a team of thirteen.en.wikipedia.orgThe wordless underwater score was composed by Austin Wintory, the Grammy-nominated composer of Journey, and won the 2017 G.A.N.G. Best Original Soundtrack Album.en.wikipedia.orgTo render huge schools of fish, the team invented a procedural animation technique driven from the tail — far cheaper than skeletal rigs — letting thousands of fish swim on screen where earlier games managed only about a hundred.en.wikipedia.orgThe title comes from Sumerian myth — 'ab' (water) + 'zu' (to know) — meaning the primordial ocean of wisdom.en.wikipedia.orgBuilt in Unreal Engine 4, ABZÛ is a serene, dialogue-free diving experience widely seen as a spiritual kin to thatgamecompany's work.en.wikipedia.orgRead 3 more facts
Across the Obelisk20215 factsDreamsite Games · Paradox ArcGame page →Across the Obelisk is a rarity in the deckbuilder genre: full 4-player online co-op, born from the Madrid team's 2019 wish for 'a deckbuilding-roguelite game where you could play co-op with your friends'.paradoxinteractive.comIt launched Paradox's entire 'Paradox Arc' indie-publishing initiative as its very first title (August 2022), and Paradox liked it enough to fully acquire the game a year later.venturebeat.comEach hero can equip a pet that auto-casts a card most turns — and obtaining the same pet twice upgrades it into a stronger 'Corrupted' version.ato.fandom.comRuns traverse a branching node map across four acts with distinct bosses, with towns hosting shops like the armory and pet shop between fights.store.steampowered.comThe content scale is unusually large for the genre: over 500 cards, 300+ items and 16 unlockable heroes across four classes.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Being a DIK20205 factsDr PinkCakeGame page →Although called a 'visual novel,' all characters and environments are 3D-rendered in DAZ Studio rather than hand-drawn, then assembled in the Ren'Py engine.beingadik.miraheze.orgIt is released episodically across 3 seasons / 12 episodes (2019–2026); on Steam and GOG it is sold as per-season DLC packs.being-a-dik.netIt is Dr PinkCake's second visual novel after Acting Lessons; the two share a loose universe through the Delta Iota Kappa fraternity.steamcommunity.comThe stylized title 'Being a ΔΙΚ' uses the Greek letters Delta-Iota-Kappa, naming the in-game fraternity.tvtropes.orgA fully Patreon-funded solo project, it became one of the platform's top adult creators, reportedly peaking around 19,900 patrons in March 2025.graphtreon.comRead 3 more facts
Car Dealership Simulator 220255 factsQuadfix GamesGame page →Direct sequel to Car Dealership Simulator (2023) by the same Turkey-based indie studio, Quadfix Games.indiedb.comLaunched into Steam Early Access on September 26, 2025, after being featured as a demo in Steam Next Fest in June 2025.store.steampowered.comReached a concurrent-player peak of 627 players on November 11, 2025 — well above the original game's numbers.steambase.ioHolds a 'Mostly Positive' Steam rating with roughly 380+ reviews and a ~72/100 player score.steambase.ioThe Early Access roadmap promises more vehicles, shop upgrades, additional stores, side missions, new customer types and performance optimization ahead of the full release.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
Devour20215 factsJoe Fender · Straight Back GamesGame page →DEVOUR was built by just two developers — Joe Fender and Luke Fanning of British studio Straight Back Games (founded 2019) — as the studio's second game.en.wikipedia.orgIt's set in the same universe as the studio's earlier 2020 game The Watchers: the cult players fight is 'The Watchers of Azazel', and some databases even index it as 'The Watchers: DEVOUR'.en.wikipedia.orgThe premise: in June 2006 California, cult leader Anna Puerta performs a forbidden ritual to control the goat-demon Azazel but is possessed — her four trusted cultists must burn sacrificial goats to stop her.devour.fandom.comAll post-launch maps have been free: The Asylum, The Inn, The Town, The Slaughterhouse, The Manor and The Carnival joined the launch map The Farmhouse, each a ~30-60 minute co-op run.devour.fandom.comFor a ~$5 game it ships unusually deep features: full VR support, positional voice chat, randomized layouts, Nightmare mode, a Cult Rank progression system and 131 Steam achievements — and it became a streamer staple.store.steampowered.comRead 3 more facts
