May 29, 2026Indie Highlight
Clean Up Earth is a relaxing game where you clean up the Earth. Vacuum up trash to restore beautiful beaches and lush grasslands. Carefully rebuild destroyed ecosystems and watch wildlife return to their homes in real time as you restore everything. You can play solo, of course, or with friends. You can even join an online multiplayer session with up to 24 other players, where your community gameplay helps support real-life restoration initiatives.
So, grab your handy Terra Cleaner and get to work cleaning up. Clean Up Earth is full of polluted biomes that need your help to get them cleaned. The Terra Cleaner vacuums up the piles of trash that sit on the land and in the water. It also recycles the trash and rebuilds damaged structures. As you get the trash cleared away, plants will pop back to life, and the local critters will move back home. There’s even a story to uncover as you restore places like Area 51 and the Bermuda Triangle. And if you’re feeling extra helpful, join a massive online instance, pick an organization to represent, and clean your heart out to help that organization in the real world. Relaxing and cozy, but so very helpful!



You can find Clean Up Earth on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox now. Try out the demo on Steam before you buy!
Mar 30, 2026Indie Highlight
Get ready for a spooky and cute co-op horror game where you play as little puppies! Haunted Paws is a cozy game where your human has disappeared and needs rescuing from a haunted mansion. Of course, you’ll need to find clues to your human’s whereabouts first. Then, traverse the city to find them. Explore, search, examine, and solve your way through this adorable horror game.
Choose from many different dog breeds and coat colors to customize your Haunted Paws pup. Breeds like bull terrier, corgi, Boston terrier, husky, and boxer are available. There is even a fun variety of hats to purchase and wear. Then, team up with your partner to explore eerie environments. Dig, sniff, and bark your way to success as you solve environmental puzzles and engaging mysteries. Defeat enemies to learn their secrets. Anything to save your best friend, right?



Haunted Paws is listed on Steam, where you can add it to your Wishlist. There is no listed release date, but hopefully sometime this year. I got to playtest it last year and absolutely loved it. It’s the perfect mix of cute and spooky!
Feb 8, 2024Indie Highlight
I once wrote about Unrailed by developer Indoor Astronaut, and have enjoyed my time playing it with friends. It’s a frenetic track-building game where you and your friends team up to build a train track ahead of a moving train to get it safely across the map. Now, there’s an Unrailed 2 coming!
Unrailed 2: Back on Track is another co-op multiplayer track-building game with even more train chaos. Now, the game features a story mode that will take you down different paths so no two games are alike. Spread across different biomes, you’ll get to experience side quests, boss fights, and random encounters each level. Unlock fun new cosmetics for your characters, as well as upgrade them and your train. There’s even a Train Conductor mode where you can create your own custom maps to share with the community!
Unrailed 2 is going to be packed with so many cool new features!



This fun train game is coming to Steam sometime this year. You can add the game to your Wishlist, though!
Jul 19, 2023Indie Highlight
ALOFT is an open-world sandbox game where you must survive living on islands set around a giant, eternal hurricane. You’ll build your base, set sail through the skies to discover new islands, and fight to eliminate the fungi corruption threatening to take over. Uncover the secrets of the past civilization, and learn about their demise by reaching new heights.
Build your base however it suits you. Block the harsh winds or allow them to pass through your structures, lay down some ziplines to get across the island faster, farm crops, and raise animals. Craft useful machinery like the windmill to automate your farm and free up your time. And when you tire of that, take to the skies of ALOFT with your handy glider to explore other islands.
Otherwise, craft a bunch of sails and oars to use your own island as a vehicle! You’ll have absolute freedom when it comes to making your sails. Control the height and width of the masts, as well as the sails, and rotate or expand them as needed. ALOFT allows you to create a host of sails suited for your gameplay, and even for decorative purposes.
Now, I know combat isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, or their idea of cozy, but I think ALOFT gets a pass. You will need to fight off corrupt fungi, but that leaves you in a place to revitalize the surrounding world. The fungi will grow on top of corrupted flora and affect the animals in the vicinity. As you fight back the corruption, you’ll unlock new animal companions, livestock, crops, and resources. There’s something wholesome and cozy about saving ecosystems, I think.
Unfortunately, there’s no specific date listed for the release of ALOFT, but it will be here next year! You can find it on Steam where you can add it to your Wishlist, as well as try out a demo!



Steam recommends this game for those who like Ark Survival Evolved and Terraria. It also reminds me of I Am Future.
Jul 13, 2023Snack Size News
Welcome to Sugar Shack, located at the center of a world that’s stuck in an eternal spring. There, you’ve become the owner of a cute little restaurant where you’ll sell some sweet treats to the townspeople. Tap trees to collect maple syrup, harvest berries, and even grow some crops to use as ingredients in your goods.
As you play, you’ll receive hex tiles to place in order to expand the town. Place each tile how you want to create a fully customized town layout. Each tile interacts with the ones around it with positive or negative effects, so place them wisely. Play Sugar Shack solo or with up to 4 players to collaborate and split the chores. Each player even gets their own room they can decorate to their personal tastes.
You can find Sugar Shack on Steam, though it has no release date yet.



Give Puff Pals a look, too, for a cute village sim experience.
Jul 12, 2023Indie Highlight
Grab some friends and hop into a chaotic multiplayer co-op game of gathering resources and crafting railroad tracks to travel across the world in Unrailed! Encounter different inhabitants as you journey across more than five biomes in an endless procedurally generated world. Master challenges as you encounter them to keep your train moving.
Unrailed! is a co-op game, so working together is of course important, but make sure to polish your communication skills! There’s only one of each tool necessary for gathering resources, so you and your friends will need to coordinate in order to succeed. You’ll also need to upgrade your train to prepare for the challenges you’ll face. Get an atomic engine, upgrade your crafting car, or upgrade one of the many other options.
You can find Unrailed! on Steam, Epic Games, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch.



Want more chaotic co-ops? Checkout Overcooked, Moving Out, Farm Your Friends, and Witchtastic.
Dec 23, 2022News
The last Nintendo Direct May have been a while ago but it brought a lot of exciting new game announcements. From a new Zelda game, to Pikmin, Kirby, and so much more, there’s a ton of games for players to get excited about.
What I’m personally extremely excited about is the upcoming game Fae Farm a Nintendo Switch exclusive farming and life sim game. There isn’t a ton of information out about it yet, but the little we do know looks great!
Located on the island of Azoria, gather 3 of your friends to play in local wireless or online play to start a magical fae farm together! Customize each of your characters with different physical characteristics and fun clothes. Tend your crops, craft items, or explore the beautiful island of Azoria.
Learn magic and use it in everything you do –fighting enemies, exploring, or tending your farm. Enter dungeons and ruins to uncover the secrets of Azoria’s past. Meet and befriend the variety of townsfolk to learn their stories and complete quests. You can even decorate your Fae Farm homestead with many different decor items!
This fun title has no specific release date yet, but will be on the Nintendo Switch in the Spring of 2023.
In case you missed it, here is the Nintendo Direct video so you can catch up on all the other game announcements.
For more even more farm sim fun, check out Harvestella an absolutely stunning take on the farming genre with a sprinkle of Final Fantasy.
Jun 11, 2022Indie Highlight
Like Coral Island, Summer of Gaming 2022 is still in full and with it came an announcement of an Early Access date for yet another one of our highly anticipated games, Dinkum. Explore tropical eucalyptus forests, scorching deserts and cool billabongs on an Island inspired by the wild Australian outback. Take care of giant wombats, but watch out for those crocs and other predators!
You’ll not only have your farm to worry about, but the entire town with businesses and attractions! To bring in more visitors, you will need to build fences, flower beds, street lamps, beehives, windmills, hedges, fountains, and more. There will even be insects, fish, and minerals to add to your museum’s collection.
Dinkum will have online co-op where your friends can help you construct buildings, shop at your stores, go fishing, race Emus, fight crocodiles much more!
Right now you can Wishlist Dinkum on Steam here. Other platforms are still TBA. You can watch the official announcement trailer below and stay tuned for more!

