This year’s Women-Led Games is hosted by Briana White (Final Fantasy VII Remake & Rebirth) and co-hosted by Rebecca Ford (Warframe Creative Director) and Megan Everett (Community Director). Women either lead the titles, or they have majority-women teams. Major announcements are imminent: Soulframe, We Were Here Tomorrow, Come to My Party, and more. The showcase will feature five world premieres…
Minami Lane developer Doot and publisher Seaven Studio have announced that their cozy bug-collecting adventure game, Kabuto Park, will launch for consoles next week. This release celebrates the game’s one-year anniversary on PC. Nintendo Switch players will even be able to use the Joy-Con’s gyroscope, waving it like a net…
Thrifty Business is the latest title from Spellgarden Games, the developer of…
Brisbane developer Chunky Quail has announced that its cozy mushroom-planting exploration adventure…
Developer 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…
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Today, indie studio Lunar Games revealed its first-person mystery point-and-click adventure game My Father Lied. In the game, you’ll play as Huda; her father disappeared 20 years earlier and she is desperately seeking answers. The narrative-driven puzzle game is inspired by 7,000 years of Mesopotamian history (the area is now…
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EcoGnomix 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…
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During my countless hours spent riding public transit, I’ve rarely cared who is next to me — and I’m quite a picky person! (I don’t drive and I’ve often commuted across the city for months at a time, so bus time was my quiet time.) But in Is This Seat…
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The Rabbit Haul began garnering attention when its developer, Canadian studio Caldera Interactive, won the GDC Pitch competition in 2024. Today, the Edmonton-based team officially announced the game, described as a farming sim meets tower defence game, for PC and Nintendo Switch. Play as a cute cottontail rabbit living in…
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It’s your first day at [the company]. Your pay is decent and your coworkers are fine. But you’re always so tired and feel like something sinister might be at play. This is the beginning of REPOSE, a horror dungeon-crawler that puts you into an unsettling, unnerving, and unbegotten world. Each…
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Welcome 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)!…
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Grizzly Man is the fourth title in LCB Game Studio’s Pixel Pulps series, beginning a second trilogy titled “Pixel Pulps DTV Collection.” (DTV is short for direct-to-video.) It is a psychedelic slasher game about a former MIB agent who was severely injured in a mysterious attack, waking up with full…
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When it comes to showing off unique games, no showcase can top Day of the Devs. There are three showcases annually, with this being the last of the year. (See you next June!) As always, this edition of Day of the Devs features world premieres, first looks, and deep dives…
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Burnout is too common in the games industry, and I fear it may get worse as developers cling to any job they can find. Wanderstop is a narrative-driven tea shop management game inspired by one developer’s tale of burnout and healing. It follows Alta, a fallen fighter, as she manages…
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