Nate Hermanson
Early Access Check-in: Havendock gives a playful spin to survival and base building games
Havendock is doing Early Access right, building on its strong foundation as a cheeky survival game and colony sim.
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Julie Cooper
- May 21
- 7 min
REVIEW: Mail Time - Snail mail has never been more enchanting
Mail Time is a delightful 2-3 hour package about your first big kid mail delivery job and the friends you meet along the way.
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Nate Hermanson
- May 10
- 5 min
REVIEW: Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka is a dream DLC
Instead of resting on their laurels, the Case of the Golden Idol team went straight into producing an absolute smash of a DLC project.
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Nate Hermanson
- May 7
- 10 min
REVIEW: Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly is a warm cup of comfort
We all need a visit to Coffee Talk, the fantastical and friendly café that provides a sip of comfort to Seattle's sleepless.
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Nate Hermanson
- May 1
- 6 min
VGG Indie Game Spotlight: 8 indie releases to get hype for in 2023
From roleplaying musicals to broke-vampire sims to peaceful river-floating adventures, here are eight 2023 indies you can't miss.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 24
- 8 min
REVIEW: Innchanted's co-op magical management chaos is layered... literally
A game of magic potions, enchanting inns, and serving steaks... and mis-steaks.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 20
- 8 min
REVIEW: 2D cinematic platformer Lunark's old-school-cool can't be beat
A loving homage and modern take on classic cinematic platformers, Lunark stretches your gaming muscles in new ways.
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Nate Hermanson
- Apr 16
- 8 min
Early Access Check-in: Creepy meets cozy in Voltaire the Vegan Vampire
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire — the game where your dad is Dracula and, no, he does NOT respect your plant-based lifestyle.
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Nate Hermanson
- Mar 27
- 9 min
REVIEW: 9 Years of Shadows is a back-to-basics Metroidvania about healing with art
Europa and one immensely cuddly teddy bear, Apino, fight back against shadows that have engulfed the world for nearly a decade.
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Nate Hermanson
- Mar 3
- 8 min
REVIEW: Tails: The Backbone Preludes is the missing piece to the Backbone saga
We're happy to report that Backbone has found its missing vertebrae.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 25
- 7 min
REVIEW: Dreams in the Witch House wows with inventive point-and-click mysteries
A game of math, magic, and point-and-click mysteries.
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Julie Cooper
- Feb 10
- 5 min
Steam Next Fest February 2023: Seedlings and IDEA offer a new angle on FMV games
See the world from a new perspective with game worlds built on a unique blend of photos and video.
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Nate Hermanson
- Feb 7
- 6 min
Steam Next Fest February 2023: Amarantus is a "next-gen" visual novel
From art to dialogue to characters' messy affections and tensions, Amarantus is more alive than most visual novels we've played.
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Julie Cooper
- Jan 8
- 6 min
REVIEW: Unwind with ToastieLabs' cozy new release WooLoop
Cozy gamers take note and add some color to your world.
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Nate Hermanson
- Oct 13, 2022
- 7 min
REVIEW: Witch Strandings is a one-of-a-kind healing adventure
The only thing Witch Strandings has in common with Strange Scaffold's previous works is that it's like nothing you've ever played before.
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Nate Hermanson
- Oct 9, 2022
- 4 min
Steam Next Fest 2022: Decarnation serves up literal and metaphorical body horror
Decarnation is the stuff dreams (well, nightmares) are made of.
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Nate Hermanson
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
Super Rare Games brings the demo disc vibes to the indie space with Super Rare Mixtape Vol. 4
With over 40 playable experiences, the Super Rare Mixtape Vol.4 brings a variety of indies into the spotlight!
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Green
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
BitSummit 10 Developer Q&A: Escape an adorable underworld with friends in co-op Hell Hell
When they made the phrase "cute as hell" they were definitely talking about Monoryllis' rainbow-hued rendition.
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Green
- Sep 30, 2022
- 4 min
BitSummit 10 Developer Q&A: Mecha farming is the hot new thing in Lightyear Frontier
Co-op farming: Robot style. Lightyear Frontier is all peace, survival, and adventure, coming in spring 2023.
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Green
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
BitSummit 10 Developer Q&A: Kingblade Games instructs Do Not Buy This Game... but we say go for it
The developer says Do Not Buy This Game. But between you and me, I won't tell anybody if you do.
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