Indie Gaming

Wanted to let others know of this new weekly custom Steam Sale that is benefitting Whales & Dolphins worldwide via a charity group. There will be a Steam Daily Deal happening tomorrow (June 6th, 2025) to help support. Every sale in the group will donate a portion to the charity group.

I have 2 games in the sale myself, Rocket (a roguelite space game) and Drop It: Block Paradise (a physics puzzle game) that every sale I'll be donating 50% to the cause myself.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/3637775

The list, if you don't want to watch the (whole) video:

• Popucom
• Zefyr: A Thief's Melody
• Deltarune: Chapter 3 & 4
• Dragon is Dead
• Forgotlings
• Vilde
• The Alters
• Date Everything!
• Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
• Warton
• Dragonloop
• Crown Gambit
• Rematch
• Star Overdrive
• Outrider Mako
• Shuffle Tactics
• Ruffy and the Riverside

Hello, fellow playdaters,

I'm Morgan, from Random Encounter Studios and my brother and I just finished developing our first playdate game. Fell in love with the device a year ago and decided to make a full fledged game on it.

It's a modern twist on arcade classics shmups, lots of actions, level ups, perks and coins! The game is about 6-8 hours length, hope you'll love it.

I'm happy to announce that ARMADA is now out on playdate, available on https://random-encounter-games.itch.io/armada (not sure if I can link something in the post but hey, i'll try)

Feel free to ask me anything about the game/studio/playdate, will be more than happy to answer!

Super fun cozy fish game I discovered. Breed fish, sell em and create a fish tank for them to live in. Figured I would share with Lemmy as it just got released from beta and is current on sale.

Hope: A Sky Full of Ghosts is a sci-fi point-and-click adventure where you, as Agatha Hope, captain a disjointed crew on a stolen spaceship.

Your goal? Escaping the corporate tyranny on Earth.

Your decisions and wits will decide the course of the mission, your relationship with the crew and whether you survive or not.

It blends the spirit of old-school point-and-click games with a deep narrative full of character and secrets.

Dialogue choices, puzzles and minigames will help you unravel the ship’s secrets and reveal your crew’s motives.

Hey all, I made a lovecraftian game centered on text and symbols, exploring the disintegrating mind a la HP Lovecraft . The result is the short, minimalistic puzzler called The Stamp.

It’s centered around a cursed childhood symbol game and involves mirroring sentences using esoteric or mundane symbols. As it's a text-based game, there’s no combat or jump scares, just a slow descent into dissonance and seeking patterns in vain.

I really wanted the some of feel of stories like The Whisperer in Darkness and The Haunter of the Dark, where perception and language begin to slip.

If this sounds interesting, you can find it on Steam: 🔗 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3079840/The_Stamp/

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34809899

This was originally developed in three days for the Cozy Fall Jam 2023, and the update has been in the works for over a year 😅

I finally took the time and added the finishing touches over the easter weekend!

It's a short and simple mini-statraiser/resource-management game about helping a wizard train for a magic competition. We worked on it as a team of eight and it has adorable chibi 2D art (by @[email protected]) and a completely original soundtrack!

The update added more CGs, more random events, a reworked minigame and a revised script + lots of bug fixes and quality of life stuff. It's overall a more complete experience now^^

Playing it from beginning to end should take no longer than half an hour, please give it a try :D

Disclaimer: I am not the dev! Just a fan who follows them on Mastodon (@[email protected]) and watched them develop this :>

There's a free demo, so please give it a try!

Major Update Highlights

• 64-Bit Support: Enhance your gaming performance and stability with our transition to 64-bit architecture.

• New Boss Units:

  • Double the Challenge: Confront two powerful new boss units, each offering unique gameplay experiences.

• Station Unit:

  • Introducing the New Station Unit: Expand your strategic options with this innovative addition.

• Shield Upgrade:

  • Fortified Defense Mechanism: Upgrade your shields to improve defense capabilities against formidable foes.

• Background Graphics:

  • Infinite Cosmic Space String: Enjoy a stunning visual experience with our newly designed infinite cosmic space continuous string in the backdrop.

Prepare for an upgraded adventure that combines enhanced visuals and intense challenges. Dive into the action and explore all these exciting new features!

Been playing Celeste Classic on Pico-8 for a few months off and on. Kept getting stuck at 2300m and giving up. Even though I hate looking up walkthroughs or guides, I swallowed my pride and went online for a hint on Reddit then was able to get through 2300m. Feels good to finally beat it after all these months. I have to say though, 2300m was still the hardest of all the levels. Such a tricky level to get through right after obtaining the double jump! I might go through and get all the strawberries eventually, but for now I am going to take a breather. Definitely going to start playing through the PC version of Celeste now.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/606579

The 5 discussed here, as gleaned from their video chapters, if you don't want to click [blindly]:

00:00 Intro
0:54 Yooka-Replaylee
4:24 Demon Tides
8:48 Kero Quest 64
11:48 Skylark 64
14:32 The Knightling
18:46 GearGrit Update
20:18 New Releases
21:16 Outro and Big News!

I guess that still leaves some clickbait for those interested.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/330384

If you are just interested in the list itself:

• Corn Kidz 64
• Bakeru
• Yooka-Laylee
• Psilosybil
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
• Raccoo Venture
• Cavern of Dreams