Distraint20154 factsJesse MakkonenGame 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
Dungeon Devotion20254 factsPink TeaGame page →Developer Pink Tea is a prolific adult-game studio with around six titles on Steam, including Realms Of Bondage and Slave Lords Of The Galaxy.steambase.ioBefore its Steam release, the game circulated on itch.io in versioned community builds (from v1.2c up to roughly v1.8c).itch.ioThe solo developer announced the game's Steam approval on Patreon, describing it as 'my short pixel clicker game.'patreon.comYou play as 'the Dark One,' a fallen demi-god rebuilding a harem of worshippers by clicking to generate 'Devotion'; later updates added a fishing minigame.steambase.ioRead 2 more facts
Evoland Classic20124 factsShiro GamesGame 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 factsByzantine Games · The Slitherine GroupGame 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 factsEdge Case Games Ltd.Game 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 factsPlayata GmbHGame 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 factsWalk with Kings · Fellow TravellerGame 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
Industeria4 factsArcane LabsGame page →Industeria is taking part in Steam Next Fest (October 19–26, 2026) with a demo the developer says is designed to offer roughly 6–10 hours of gameplay, depending on how thoroughly players optimize their production lines.store.steampowered.comThe game casts the player as the "Overseer" of a colony run by a Corporation, receiving orders from "Central Command" — the developer's devlogs sign off with the motto "The Factory builds the Future."store.steampowered.comAccording to the first devlog, internal demo build 0.1.0-demo.35 was the version that confirmed the colony's core loop — extraction, transport, production, research and defense — was working end to end.store.steampowered.comAlthough it is built around a single-player colony, Industeria also lists online co-op on its Steam page.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Mini Settlers20254 factsKnight Owl Games · Goblinz Publishing, IndieArkGame page →Mini Settlers spent nine months in Early Access, launching on 8 August 2024 and graduating to its 1.0 full release on 6 May 2025.store.steampowered.comThe game carries two publishers — Goblinz Publishing and IndieArk.store.steampowered.comDespite the name, Mini Settlers has no connection to Dinosaur Polo Club's Mini Metro and Mini Motorways — the confusion is common enough that Steam forum threads ask outright whether it comes from the same studio.steamcommunity.comMini Settlers ships an unusually deep accessibility feature set for a small indie builder, including adjustable text size, camera comfort options, adjustable difficulty, a mouse-only control option and playability without timed input.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Monopoly Poker20214 factsYouda Games · Playtika (Azerion at launch)Game 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 factsStegersaurus Software Inc.Game 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 factsTECOPARKGame 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
PowerWash Simulator20254 factsFuturLabGame page →The Apple Arcade version launched on December 4, 2025 with the full Career campaign and the SpongeBob SquarePants Special Pack included, plus touch controls, gyroscope support and an exclusive new Scratch Mode.futurlab.co.ukPowerWash Simulator originally hit 1.0 in July 2022 under Square Enix Collective; developer FuturLab later took publishing duties in-house for subsequent releases like this one.en.wikipedia.orgThe game became a research instrument: an Oxford Internet Institute study on video games and wellbeing used a special research build of PowerWash Simulator to collect real-time mood data from players.en.wikipedia.orgIts post-launch Special Packs turned into a crossover parade — Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy VII, SpongeBob SquarePants, Warhammer 40,000, Back to the Future, Shrek and Alice's Adventures have all had washable content.en.wikipedia.orgRead 2 more facts
Pressure20214 factssmt · smt (self-published)Game 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 factsRugbug Redfern · RedlabsGame 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 factsTripwire InteractiveGame 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 factsLVGameDev LLCGame 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 factsMidipixel · Midipixel & Estúdio Vaca Roxa (self-published)Game 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
Texas Hold'em Poker: Pokerist20104 factsKamaGames · KamaGames Ltd.Game page →Pokerist launched in 2010 (originally titled 'Texas Poker') as KamaGames' founding title; the company celebrated a 'decade of Pokerist' in 2020 and the game's 16th birthday in 2026.casinobeats.comThe game surpassed 150 million registered players worldwide by 2020, powering a group that generated $125.1 million in revenue that year — its sixth consecutive year of growth.venturebeat.comChips are a non-cashable social currency: a VIP-points system rewards chip purchases and tournament play with luxury gifts, dedicated support and bonuses, and promo events have given away pots as large as 200 million free chips.kamagames.comKamaGames says Pokerist has reached #1 Top Grossing on the App Store and Google Play in 101 countries; founder/CEO Andrey Kuznetsov built the Dublin-based company after relocating from Russia to Ireland.kamagames.comRead 2 more facts
The Henry Stickmin Collection20204 factsPuffballsUnited · InnerslothGame 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 factsArrowhead Game Studios · Paradox InteractiveGame 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 factsAncient Forge Studio · Frozen DistrictGame 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 factsFuero Games · CD Projekt REDGame 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 factsApeHardwareGame 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 factsSamuka GomesGame 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 factsD.W.S.Game 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
Valorant Mobile20254 factsRiot Games, LightSpeed Studios · Tencent Games, Riot GamesGame page →Valorant Mobile amassed more than 60 million pre-registrations before its China-only launch on August 19, 2025.sheepesports.comDespite being available only in China, the game reached roughly 10 million daily players within months — with no global release date announced.respawn.outlookindia.comTencent declared it the biggest mobile game launch of 2025 in China by both daily active users and first-month gross revenue.ainvest.comThe launch build shipped with 7 maps, 10 game modes, 120 FPS support, replays and an exclusive "Warrior Academy" training mode not found in the PC version.prismnews.comRead 2 more facts
Warhammer Underworlds: Online20204 factsSteel Sky ProductionsGame 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
Agreeee20253 factsVestmanGame page →Developer Vestman built the entire game to make a point: nobody reads terms of service — so Agreeee forces you to fight through all 12 articles before the "real" game unlocks.en.wikipedia.orgThe agreement screens are deliberately designed to defeat automated inputs, with over 100 distinct minigames standing between the player and the Agree button.en.wikipedia.orgAfter its December 5, 2025 Steam launch the joke found an audience: the game peaked at around 500 concurrent players in late December with a "Mostly Positive" review rating.steambase.ioRead 1 more fact
Alien Hallway20103 factsSigma Team Inc.Game 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 factsXLGAMES · Tencent GamesGame 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 factsBohemia Interactive Studio · 505 GamesGame 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 factsBohemia Interactive StudioGame 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 factsForward Development, Ltd. · Forward Global Group, Ltd.Game 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 factsMonochrome LLCGame 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 factsSkunkape InteractiveGame 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
Doctor Simulator20253 factsMedic Labs, President Studio S.A. · ASIMCORPORATION S.R.L.Game page →The Steam version has been listed as 'coming soon' since 2020 and still has no release date, so the April 2025 PlayStation 5 edition is currently the only shipped version of the game.store.steampowered.comThe PS5 release was published by the third-party label ASIMCORPORATION S.R.L. rather than by the Warsaw-based developer President Studio itself.psdeals.netThe game holds roughly 1.2 out of 5 stars from about 61 PlayStation Store ratings, making it one of the lowest-rated simulator listings on the PS5 storefront.store.playstation.comRead 1 more fact
Dungeonland20133 factsCritical Studios · Paradox InteractiveGame page →The fourth player IS the boss fight: 'Dungeon Maestro' mode hands one player a tabletop DM's toolkit — spawning monsters and springing traps against the three-player co-op party.en.wikipedia.orgIt was one of Paradox Interactive's rare forays into publishing Brazilian development — Critical Studio was based in Brazil, with designers Mark Venturelli and Gabriel Ribeiro Teixeira.en.wikipedia.orgAfter launching paid in January 2013, it went free-to-play that November — but never found its audience: Paradox shut the servers down for good on 18 April 2018.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
East India Company20093 factsNitro GamesGame page →East India Company (July 31, 2009 NA / August 14 EU) was Finnish studio Nitro Games' breakout — published by Paradox Interactive, blending trade-empire management with real-time broadside naval battles.en.wikipedia.orgThe game grew a small fleet of add-ons: Pirate Bay, Privateer and Battle of Trafalgar expansions plus a Designer's Cut, all later bundled as the East India Company Collection.en.wikipedia.orgIts subject made it a rarity: few strategy games have centered the mercantile-colonial company era itself — warfare press praised the premise even where reviews split on the execution.warfarehistorynetwork.comRead 1 more fact
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion20123 factsDreamRift · Disney Interactive StudiosGame page →It was one of the first third-party retail 3DS games outside Japan to launch on the eShop day-and-date with the physical release.en.wikipedia.orgFans voted on the box art — the winning cover shows Mickey surrounded by Disney villains like Jafar and Ursula.en.wikipedia.orgIt launched the exact same day as Epic Mickey 2 (18 November 2012) — a hand-drawn 2D companion to the console game and a love letter to 1990's Castle of Illusion.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Evolve Stage 220163 factsTurtle Rock Studios · 2K GamesGame page →Stage 2 was Evolve's second life: after the 2015 original's playerbase collapsed under DLC backlash, Turtle Rock relaunched it free-to-play on PC on July 7, 2016 — and concurrent players briefly exploded past the original's peak.en.wikipedia.orgJust three months into the relaunch, 2K ended Turtle Rock's involvement (October 2016); dedicated servers went dark in September 2018, and the last peer-to-peer legacy servers were finally switched off in July 2022.en.wikipedia.orgThe hunter cast features Matthew Mercer — Critical Role's DM — as Abe, alongside veteran VAs JB Blanc and William Salyers, with a score whose headline composer is Dead Space's Jason Graves.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi20253 factsKygua Tech · IndieArkGame page →The game is designed as a desktop companion — it can dock at the bottom or corner of your screen so you can fish idly while working.store.steampowered.comIt features an official Dave the Diver collaboration: Dave periodically dives into the Blue Hole and hauls fish back to your boat automatically, diving deeper as his gear improves.incrementaldb.comThe $3.59 idle game sits at a 96% positive Steam rating, and completionists report needing roughly 265 hours to unlock every achievement.note.comRead 1 more fact
Force of Nature20163 factsA.Y.stdGame page →Force of Nature was built by the tiny indie outfit A.Y.std, which went on to release the sequel Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper in May 2021.steamcommunity.comThe original's resource grind was such a defining trait that "How is the grind? As bad as the first one?" became a top community question on the sequel's Steam forums.steamcommunity.comDespite launching at under $10, the game accumulated over 4,200 Steam reviews (roughly 75% positive) and got its own official soundtrack DLC.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Game of Hearts20253 factsSparkHG · TinyHat StudiosGame page →Game of Hearts is SparkHG's first commercial title and the 45th project published by adult-VN label TinyHat Studios, arriving on Steam in December 2025 after a multi-year episodic Patreon development (Chapters 1–5).gamefaqs.gamespot.comSteam's detailed description positions it as the first entry in a planned multi-game series, mixing still renders with animated scenes.store.steampowered.comIt launched to roughly 94% positive Steam reviews (~97 reviews near launch).store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Gloria Victis20163 factsBlack Eye GamesGame page →Gloria Victis' storyline was co-written by bestselling Polish historical novelist Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz, a writer known for his work on The Witcher.g2a.comAfter roughly a decade online (Steam Early Access from June 2016) the game finally hit 1.0 in early 2023 — only to shut down on Halloween, October 31, 2023, with developer Black Eye Games closing alongside it, citing financial pressure and burnout.massivelyop.comWhile the MMO's servers are gone, its siege-oriented survival spinoff remains playable on Steam — the last surviving piece of the Gloria Victis world.mmos.comRead 1 more fact
Guild Wars 220123 factsArenaNet · NCSOFTGame page →Guild Wars 2 launched without the genre's holy trinity — no dedicated healer class — and replaced static quests entirely with dynamic world events.en.wikipedia.orgTime magazine named it the #1 video game of 2012 — ahead of Journey, Dishonored and The Walking Dead.en.wikipedia.orgIt sold 2 million copies in two weeks and 3.5M in year one on a no-subscription buy-to-play model — heresy in the 2012 MMO market that later became the industry norm.gamespot.comRead 1 more fact
Hardware Engineers20163 factsGreen127Game page →Hardware Engineers entered Steam Early Access on August 22, 2016 and spent almost three years there before its full 1.0 release on April 22, 2019.store.steampowered.comThe game holds a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, with about 84% of its user reviews recommending it.steamspy.comIts component roster — processors, graphics cards and RAM — uses realistic, balanced specs, letting players build custom rigs for different customer profiles from office workstations to gaming PCs.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Hero Tale20213 factsWeird Johnny StudioGame page →The Gńansk-based studio markets Hero Tale on an anti-mobile-game manifesto: single-player, no pay-to-win, no difficulty scaling and 'zero notifications' — unusual for an idle RPG.weirdjohnnystudio.comThe endgame turns an idle game into a de-facto speedrun ladder: beating the final boss faster yields better rerun rewards, with brackets spanning roughly 600 hours down to under 9.steamcommunity.comIt began as a free itch.io demo and mobile early-access build before the March 2024 Steam release — and its pricing differs by platform: paid on Steam, free-to-play with IAP on mobile.weirdjohnnystudio.itch.ioRead 1 more fact
