Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
In Map Map – A Game About Maps, you’re tasked with making maps! Indeed, you’re a cartographer whose job requires you to explore the world and create accurate maps. You’ll need to use your sense of direction to explore the different islands. Use your skills and an array of tools to expertly create maps that mark the interesting landmarks on each island. But there’s more to this grand adventure than just marking landmarks on paper!
There’s treasure to be found on the islands in Map Map. Explore ancient ruins and beautiful environments as you search for exciting pieces of treasure. Of course, you’re not alone, either. In fact, you have a whole crew with you! Each one is unique and you’ll have the chance to get to know them as you explore the beautifully handcrafted world before you. Each one has their own story for you to get to know, after all.
Map Map is set to come to Steam some time. There is no release date available, but you can add it to your Wishlist to keep an eye on it!
Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
If you love the plethora of room design games that have hit the gaming market lately, but are truly craving one that lets you design fantasy themed rooms instead of modern ones, look no further! Fairytale Furnishing by developer Challenging Games is exactly what you’re looking for. You’re furnishing and customizing homes for fairytale heroes like princesses, the hero of the story, and even the wicked witch the hero fights. You’ll even uncover the story that connects each character together as you progress through different homes!
You’ll start each home, like the princess’s tower or witch’s den, completely empty. That means you have the freedom to decorate everything as you see fit. Carefully place furniture and decor items and reveal the personalities and stories of the owner. There’s no rush in Fairytale Furnishing, though, so take your time! There aren’t any challenges to overcome, either. As you decorate each home, you’ll unlock new items and furniture to use in each home. You can even hop back to previous levels and redesign them once you have new stuff. It’s a relaxing sandbox game without constraints, after all.
So, kick back and relax with some fairytale decorating!
You can find Fairytale Furnishing on Steam now!
Oct 3, 2024Indie Highlight
Hell’s Gate Cafe is an adorable little restaurant management game that you can play for free right in your browser. You play as Baabette, the cute little Baphomet-like character as she’s stuck in Hell. It’s not a fun place to be, at all, and your options are limited. To leave, your only choice is to open up a cafe, earn soul shards, and open the portal out of Hell!
So, you do just that! Run your surprisingly cozy little cafe every day in order to earn soul shards. Purchase items like coffee beans and dragons to roast those beans. An octopus who makes cookie and donut dough will help you serve even more fun treats. Then, interact with the cast of fun characters in Hell’s Gate Cafe as they show up in your cafe. Serve them freshly brewed coffee and fresh baked cookies. Even talk to some of them to learn their stories. Satisfy them, and they’ll pay you in money that you can use to buy more upgrades, but they’ll also leave you precious soul shards! Can you make it out of Hell?
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You can find Hell’s Gate Cafe on itch.io right now and play for free!
Oct 2, 2024Indie Highlight
Wie Anders Games presents Equiverse, a cozy casual ecosystem building game! Create an ecosystem and carefully care for it to help animals thrive. Fill it with fuzzy little rabbits and sleek foxes and watch as they grow and develop over time. Earn leafpoints to buy new animals and upgrades for an even livelier ecosystem. Even unlock special chests with leafpoints to earn a special animal companion. These companions possess special skills that will help you further improve your ecosystem. Deploy up to three different companions to maximize efficiency!
Not everything is safe and cuddly in Equiverse, though. Sometimes invading monsters will travel through portals to threaten your ecosystem. Each type of enemy presents a unique challenge for you to defeat. The swamp golem has a one track mind and targets a single thing, but the Granite Guardian uses distance laser attacks to cause chaos. Defeat each enemy quickly to receive useful rewards!
Equiverse is coming soon to Steam. Add it to your Wishlist to receive notification of its release!
Oct 2, 2024Indie Highlight
From the developers of Parkitect comes Croakwood, a relaxing town building sim about frogs! Create and design a town settled into the heart of the beautiful Croakwood Forest. There lies a unique community of frogs who you get to help flourish. Help them build and grow their cozy home by designing and setting up structures using a piece-based building design system. Decorate the town to make it even more inviting with tons of customization options and style choices.
Utilize the Frog Market to manage your new amphibian citizens. Gently guide them as they settle into their new homes and learn how to thrive in the forest. Watch each of the Croakwood townsfolk for a bit of entertainment as they go about their day, too. Each one lives and expresses themselves in a unique way. Even guide the economy as your frog folk create items, and meet goals to unlock new areas and buildable. Then, go explore the ancient and wild forest around you. There’s secrets to uncover and new creatures to meet in the wilds!
You can find Croakwood listed on Steam now where you can add it to your Wishlist. There is no release date available, yet.
If you haven’t played Kamaeru yet, you really should!
Oct 2, 2024Indie Highlight
Your Uncle Lou has disappeared, leaving behind his seaplane and successful delivery service. Naturally, it’s your job to not only run the business, but figure out what happened to him in Tiny Roar’s Lou’s Lagoon! Embark on a vibrant journey across the diverse islands of Limbo Archipelago as you collect resources and craft goods to deliver to customers. And your seaplane is the key to it all. Upgrade and expand it as your delivery service grows more successful, because without it, you couldn’t make deliveries at all!
There’s more to the archipelago than meets the eye, too. Explore the lush forests and sandy beaches of each island to not only find quests to complete, but uncover secrets. Unearth hidden treasures tucked away in the corners of the islands. Even discover clues as to what happened to your uncle. So, take your time and leave no stone unturned while searching!
Add Lou’s Lagoon to your Steam Wishlist to be notified of when it releases as it currently has no release date!
Oct 1, 2024Indie Highlight
The developers over at Sunny Lab have recently launched their Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming game The Witch’s Bakery. In this charming 2D adventure RPG, you play as an adorably joyful witch named Lunne. She has just opened her very own bakery in Paris. Lunne also possesses a very special, very specific talent, too. She can see into people’s hearts and heal emotions using her magic. So, get ready for a magical adventure full of baked goods, magic, and a heartfelt story!
Your days in The Witch’s Bakery are split into three phases. You’ll start each day managing your bakery and serving customers. In the evening, explore the beautiful city of Paris. Discover what secrets The City of Light (and Love!) has to offer, but also get to know other characters. Delve into their troubled hearts to help them out. To do this, Lunne enters their Heart Palace to guide the locked away emotions back to the heart. Inside each Heart Palace, you’ll uncover each person’s deepest personal struggles. You’ll even collect the necessary ingredients to make tasty breads to heal them!
At night, once your bakery is closed and you’ve explored the alluring city, take time to practice your magic. There’s always room for improvement. You also can spend time decorating your bakery to make it the coziest, most welcoming shop around. Or just take time to hang out in your atelier. Each day brings you the chance to earn money, solve deep, emotional problems, and get to know a varied cast of characters. So, what will you accomplish in The Witch’s Bakery?
You can find The Witch’s Bakery listed on Steam now, but you can also head over to their Kickstarter campaign to help support this gorgeous cozy game. There are a ton of fun stretch goals for backing the project like expanded romance storylines, new recipes, expanded maps, and more bakery decor. Plus, you can unlock fun rewards depending on the backer tier you support. There are things like beta access, digital artbooks, stickers, the chance to have your loved one’s name placed on a monument in game, and more!
It’s expected to release on Steam and Nintendo Switch next year!
Sep 28, 2024Indie Highlight
Step into the vibrant world of Bloomtown: A Different Story, where you set out on an exciting adventure through a 1960s Americana world. Play as siblings Emily and Chester as they’re sent to a quiet town to visit their grandfather for the summer. It’s perhaps a little TOO quiet of a town, though. The town of Bloomtown is a quaint little slice of Americana with its movie theater, grocery store, library, and parks. It’s an idyllic little town, but it hides some deep, dark secrets.
In fact, there’s something very weird afoot in Bloomtown. Children have been disappearing and nightmares have gone from figments of your imagination to real-life events. There’s actually a demon world growing on the underside of this peaceful town, and despite being only a 12 year-old girl (and her younger brother), it’s up to you to save Bloomtown!
Explore the town and get to know the people who inhabit it. Make friends with other kids. Go to the gym to get physically stronger. Work at the grocery store so you can earn some pocket money. Even take some time to relax and garden or fish. You’re in charge of how your journey unfolds. And while the town relies on you to save them, you can’t go in unprepared!
Embark on a mysterious journey in this narrative JRPG that expertly mixes turn-based combat, monster taming, and social RPG elements. Befriend other kids in Bloomtown and team up with them to take on the monstrous demons. Each character possesses unique abilities and strengths, Take advantage of those to come out on top during combat. Summon the demons you’ve captured on your adventure to also help you fight. Utilize level-ups, skills, and a fuse system to come out victorious in your fights and investigations. The town is counting on you, after all!
Bloomtown: A Different Story is now available on Steam, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation! There’s also a demo on Steam you can try out before you buy!
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