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Songs of Glimmerwick by @eastshade is out now!
- Witch academy RPG where every spell is a song
- Classes, clubs, a magic garden, a full year of festivals
- Band kids, your time has finally come
Nivalis Nights by @505_Games is out now!
- Cyberpunk life sim in which you run a noodle stand.
- Then grow it into restaurants and nightclubs.
- Of course, sabotaging rivals after curfew is a valid business strategy.
The Merlies by @arte_interactif is out now!
- A metroidvania with zero combat
- You lead a squad of tiny birds with different abilities
- Birds of a feather scavenge human junk together I guess
TOEM 2 by @SWMGames is out now!
- Cozy photo adventure, now fully 3D.
- Snap TOEMs, fill your critter compendium, and help the locals.
- Your camera roll is about to be 90% crabs.
This week's indie releases cost less than GTA 6's collector's edition. And you'd actually get a GAME.
🪓 Camp Whittlewood, September 28
📸 TOEM 2, September 29
🍜 Nivalis Nights, September 29
🐦 The Merlies, September 29
🎶 Songs of Glimmerwick, September 30
Camp Whittlewood by @nickschemes is out now!
- Old-school horror RPG at a scout camp.
- The campfire story about a woodcarver is coming true.
- The bullies were supposed to be the scary part.
Otterly Lost by @SoulworksInt is out now!
- Cozy open-world.
- You play as a sea otter finding his way home.
- They launched on Sea Otter Awareness Week. Otterly intentional.
Nocturne by @PracyStudios is out now!
- Rhythm combat RPG. Humanity ended and you're in a digital afterlife.
- Boss themes recorded by a live orchestra
- Nostalgia meets Guitar Hero... I haven't recovered.
Graveyard Keeper 2 by @LazyBearGames is out now!
- You're the Grand Inquisitor now. Yep, you got a promotion.
- Zombie workers on conveyor belts.
- The urge to mismanage graves for profit is back, baby!
Delverium by @SagestoneGames is out now in Early Access!
- Pixel-art farming sim and dungeon crawler. At the same time.
- Up to 8-player co-op.
- Matthew Mercer, Ben Starr, and Doug Cockle. For a passion project.
Tokyo Game Show just wrapped its 30th anniversary. Here's 5 games out this week:
🧵 Dressmaker, September 21, PC (out now)
⚔️ Delverium, September 22, PC (Early Access)
⚰️ Graveyard Keeper 2, September 22, PC
🎵 Nocturne, September 22, PC
🦦 Otterly Lost, September 23, PC
Dressmaker by @freelives is out now!
- Cozy sewing sim: design outfits from scratch, picking fabrics and stitching hems
- The fabric selection alone has the energy of a real costume design session
- Made by the Broforce studio. Yes, that one.
lily's world XD is out now!
- Psychological horror investigating a stranger's early 2000s laptop
- Solo developed by content creator SonderingEmily, demo sits at 99% positive
- The messages know your name, and that's the whole problem
Woodo by @daedalic is out now!
- Cozy diorama puzzle game from Tiny Monks Tales, out on PC, Switch, PS5, Xbox
- Narrated by Olivier winner Miriam-Teak Lee
- You will 100% tear up over a wooden fox, no shame
Dimraeth by @MudtekStudios is out now!
- Co-op action RPG entering Early Access, 8 races, 6 classes
- Solo or up to 8 players, full crafting and base-building loop
- The stronghold might forgive your terrible spell choices, but your friends won't
Cloudscrapers by @curvegames is out now!
- Cozy tower-building strategy from developer Nementic Games
- Build up, manage resources, uncover secrets in the clouds
- You will lose actual hours to placing one perfect brick
Shroom and Gloom by @devolverdigital is out now!
- First-person roguelike double-deckbuilder, now in Early Access
- Two decks, hundreds of cards, hand-drawn dungeons full of fungus
- One deck fights, one deck cooks, and the game trusts you to know which mid-panic