Created by two former Sims developers, Petunia’s Purgatory is a cozy horror idle farming sim that sits at the bottom of your desktop. Grow crops, sacrifice critters, summon helpers to your cursed farm, and keep Petunia’s sanity in check before the game begins invading your desktop. The game will launch for PC in July. (Too bad it’s not for Mac;…
The Mado Monogatari series of dungeon crawlers has been around since the ’80s but people often only know of its spin-off franchise, Puyo Puyo. Regardless, Mado Monogatari remains popular because of its characters and gameplay. The latest game in the series, Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy, launched in…
Read MorePaul Raschid is an FMV game icon, working on some of my favourite games in the genre. He directed The Complex (2020) before writing and directing Five Dates (2020), The Gallery (2022), and Ten Dates (2023). A horror-thriller FMV game, The Run, is supposed to launch later this year. But…
Read MoreI have lost count of how many times Level-5 has delayed Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. I’ll believe in its release date when I see it launch. And that’s fair: the social slow-life RPG has been pushed back again. Its most recent launch window was April until…
Read MoreWelcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
Read MoreDeveloper inkle found success with 2021’s Overboard!, a highly replayable detective game where the player is the one whodunnit that won an Apple Design Award. Now, the next-gen visual novel is getting a sequel with Expelled! This time, a School Prefect has been shoved out a window, and everyone says…
Read MoreRemember the childhood game of trying to keep a balloon in the air without it hitting something and popping? Bubble Ghost Remake is like that, but it hopefully involves fewer children screaming gleefully. Remaking a classic platformer from 1990, the game has been remade from the ground up. It adds…
Read MoreWelcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. I will bring you the best news you may have missed with each issue. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…
Read MoreSugardew Island is a cozy farm shop sim, plus all the good stuff that comes with farming sims: care for animals, grow crops, gather resources, and restore balance for the Forest Folk population by completing Harmony Tree quests. (Okay, maybe that last one is unique.) The game was shown off…
Read MoreEcoGnomix is such a great idea for a game. It is a quirky hybrid of roguelite turn-based mining and city building that revolves around a village of — you guessed it! — gnomes. The indie game first launched for PC last September and for Nintendo Switch last November, and today…
Read MoreThe Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II is the second game in a trilogy; the trilogy is part of a long-running RPG series, The Legend of Heroes. The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II follows a great game, so anticipation is building over its launch next Friday, February…
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