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Obey the Insect God brings live-action digitized sprite weirdness to action platformers

Liam Dawe — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:27:18 +0000

Remember how the original Mortal Kombat used live-action sprites for characters? Now imagine if someone stuck that style into a modernised action platformer.

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Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo

Liam Dawe — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:14:50 +0000

Give me some of that sweet mech combat action - RIG Riot looks pretty fantastic, and now there's a demo available for you to try.

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Check out the demo for CiniCross if you enjoy roguelikes and nonogram styled puzzles

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:27:31 +0000

Is it a roguelike? Is it a puzzle game? CiniCross is both, taking place in a retro-styled dark fantasy universe it looks rather interesting.

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Eat creatures and grind them into pieces or use them as weapons in autobattler Dunderbeck

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:05:21 +0000

I quite enjoy inventory management and autobattlers and Dunderbeck definitely takes the cake as one of the absolute weirdest I've played.

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Bingo Betty is basically a crazy Balatro-fied version of Bingo

Liam Dawe — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:58:12 +0000

This is not your grannie's Bingo, this is underground Bingo that clearly takes some fun elements of Balatro to make things a bit nuts.

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Luxman Moonlit Market brings 'Balatro-inspired power-up management' to strategic tile-placement roguelikes

Liam Dawe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:14:30 +0000

Luxman Moonlit Market is a strategic tile-placement roguelike with Balatro-inspired power-up management according to the developer, and it looks quite fun!

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Become the piece you capture in the chess-inspired Mate'Morphosis on January 9 2026

Liam Dawe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:17:44 +0000

Twisting the classic chess into a strategy game where you become the piece you capture, as you try to outsmart the board on January 9, 2026.

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Horror incremental dungeon crawler Horripilant gets a new demo and release date

Liam Dawe — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 11:09:33 +0000

The creepy incremental dungeon crawler has just released an updated trailer, demo and an official release date for February 13th 2026.

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Kitten Space Agency is the spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:26:31 +0000

Kitten Space Agency is an in-development spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program from RocketWerkz that you can try right now for free.

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FIXKIN: A Long Way Home is a cozy, rhythmic, narrative road trip in a suddenly upside down world

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:34:45 +0000

Sonderland Games (Bella Wants Blood, Landnama) announced FIXKIN: A Long Way Home - a new cozy rhythm-based adventure and there's a demo available.

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Check out the demo for Chipmatic an upcoming mining and automation game

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:42:35 +0000

A mining incremental inspired by Motherload, Dome Keeper and Super Mining Mechs with some added automation - Chipmatic looks like one to keep an eye on.

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Piece by Piece is a sweet looking puzzle platformer where you literally connect pieces to progress

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:19:29 +0000

This looks absolutely wonderful! A puzzle platformer that takes things quite literally with you running, jumping and building your path from puzzle pieces.

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Chaotic climbing game ChimpUP! looks hilarious

Liam Dawe — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:14:29 +0000

ChimpUP! is an upcoming chaotic multiplayer climbing game about monkeys trying to collect bananas, where each player has independent grapple hooks for arms.

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Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is an adorable looking puzzle game

Liam Dawe — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:02:46 +0000

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a puzzle game with a cat that can be in two places at once, and that will no doubt confuse my brain.

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Try the demo for Kinsfolk, a casual emotional adventure about fatherhood

Liam Dawe — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:43:53 +0000

Made in the spirit of the likes of Journey, Firewatch, What Remains of Edith Finch - Kinsfolk is a casual adventure about fatherhood.

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NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression

Liam Dawe — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:32:10 +0000

Taking inspiration from incremental games with a long progress tree to unlock, NodalBastion is a tower defense game that just keeps on going.

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Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:28:04 +0000

Discover exotic landmarks, meet whimsical townsfolk, fish in tranquil waters, collect rare artifacts, and uncover secrets in a wondrous hand-drawn world.

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Timing is everything in the fast-paced arcade racer Wild Horse Racing - try the demo now

Liam Dawe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:45:00 +0000

If you love arcade-styled retro racing games, Wild Horse Racing looks like it could be good fun and there's a demo available with Linux support.

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Check out the demo for top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood now on Steam

Liam Dawe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:21:32 +0000

A fresh demo for you to try this week, as the top-down 2D action roguelike Shroomwood has a Linux build available for you to shoot your way through.

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The wonderful roguelite farming deckbuilder Cropdeck has a proper demo out now

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:32:28 +0000

Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck, with a demo out now that you definitely need to put on your list to try.

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Tabulo is an upcoming Balatro-inspired chess roguelike

Liam Dawe — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:37:07 +0000

Another Balatro-inspired game and this time it's a chess roguelike, and one that actually looks like it could be pretty fun.

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Replicat is basically the classic card game snap meets Balatro - check out the demo

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:59:42 +0000

Balatro, much like Vampire Survivors, has created a bit of an indie trend and now the classic card game snap has been given the Balatro treatment in Replicat.

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The new survival game VEIN looks awesome with intelligent AI and interactions with nearly everything

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:40:50 +0000

Just released into Early Access with Native Linux support, VEIN could be the next big survival game with a whole lot of features that just look and sound great.

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Check out the demo for Turnbound, a clever haunted boardgame inventory battler

Liam Dawe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:19:16 +0000

Turnbound looks like it could be a really good one, a PvP inventory management auto-battler that does things quite differently to others in the genre.

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Cronos: The New Dawn now has a demo available on Steam

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:14:59 +0000

If you were interested in Cronos: The New Dawn but weren't sold on picking it up yet, you can now try the demo that's recently released.

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Heroes of Magic & Cards will give poker the roguelike deck-builder treatment

Liam Dawe — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:24:31 +0000

With a demo coming on November 5th, Heroes of Magic & Cards is another interesting spin on deck-builders that blends in poker mechanics for something different.

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Tingus Goose is one of the weirdest games I've ever seen

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:02:02 +0000

I really don't have a clue what's going on in Tingus Goose, an upcoming idle / clicker game in the spirit of stuff like Cookie Clicker. It's supremely weird.

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New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:07:14 +0000

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown showed promise from the demo with some rough edges, but the new trailer has me excited about the journey.

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A famous meme comes to life in This Is Fine: Maximum Cope with a demo out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:09:31 +0000

Memes, you gotta love 'em right? Question Hound from This Is Fine is getting a metroidvania platformer video game with This Is Fine: Maximum Cope.

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Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:14:48 +0000

Uncle Lee's Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster was recently announced that will bring five interesting point and click adventures to Linux / Steam Deck.

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Grab the new demo for Tiny Auto Knights, a pretty chill and fun looking PvP auto battler

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:40:40 +0000

Tiny Auto Knights is an upcoming release from Mumpitz Games with a demo now available that now has Native Linux support for it.

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Supernatural adventure Shadows of the Afterland gets a fully voiced demo upgrade

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:22:02 +0000

If you love your adventure games be sure to check out Shadows of the Afterland, with a new fully voiced demo available to try in Steam Next Fest.

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Steam Next Fest - October 2025 is now live with a great many demos

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:49:05 +0000

Here we go again, you've got a week to check out a bunch of games having their first or updated demos now in Steam Next Fest - October 2025.

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One of the most promising deck-building roguelikes ever, Moonsigil Atlas gets a big demo upgrade

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:34:00 +0000

Moonsigil Atlas is by far one of the most interesting and promising upcoming games I've played in a while, taking deck-building roguelikes in a fun direction.

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Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first demo

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:22:06 +0000

Clearly still a work in progress but a taste of things to come, Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown now has a public demo available.

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From the creator of Sally Face, horror deckbuilding roguelike The House of Hamelin has a demo up

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:21:46 +0000

Enter the frightful world of The House of Hamelin and take control of Perdita, a young woman tasked with finding her missing cat, Paige.

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A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad is certainly an appropriate name for this game

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:22:42 +0000

A Pinball Game That Makes You Mad is an upcoming release from Azimuth Studios, and you don't really need to guess what the game is about with that name.

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Take on the role of a curious baby boar in the demo for Adorable Adventures

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:18:40 +0000

Adorable Adventures is a cozy third-person exploration adventure where you're Boris, a curious baby boar on a mission to find their family.

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Effulgence RPG has some of the slickest animated 3D ASCII art I've ever seen

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:37:17 +0000

This is a very fun surprise, Effulgence RPG is an upcoming party-based sci-fi role-playing game rendered entirely from text symbols arranged in 3D space.

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Retro Brazilian RTS game Outlive returns with Outlive 25

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:02:28 +0000

Outlive 25 is a remaster of the classic 2000 RTS game rebuilt by the original developers, and a demo is just about to drop too.

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Physics-based delivery adventure Truckful gets a first demo

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:13:52 +0000

From developer MythicOwl and Pocketpair Publishing (Palworld), Truckful is a wacky and mysterious physics-based delivery adventure.

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Culinary roguelite deckbuilder Hungry Horrors gets a big demo upgrade

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:23:44 +0000

Hungry Horrors is a deckbuilder where you strategically cook and serve authentic traditional dishes to legendary monsters.

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Check out the demo for the physics-driven co-op action-RPG Cloudheim

Liam Dawe — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:56:12 +0000

Coming from Noodle Cat Games, Cloudheim is shaping up to be an impressive physics-driven co-op action-RPG.

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Jump back into Winnie’s Hole with a fresh and expanded demo for this unique genre-blending roguelite

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:18:36 +0000

Oh bother! The virus has returned in the refreshed and expanded demo for the roguelite Winnie’s Hole the viral dungeon crawling roguelite.

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Zelda fused with GTA vibes? Vice: Magic City Mayhem certainly sounds unique

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:20:19 +0000

Vice: Magic City Mayhem is a supremely odd blend but it looks like it works. A Zelda-like with some GTA elements thrown in because why not.

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Story-driven action-adventure Bittersweet Birthday launches November with a new demo live

Liam Dawe — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:20:59 +0000

Every battle is a boss fight in the mysterious action-adventure game Bittersweet Birthday, which has a new demo and trailer along with a release date.

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PowerWash Simulator 2 release date confirmed for October

Liam Dawe — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:43:02 +0000

Time to get your rubber gloves on again, as PowerWash Simulator 2 is going to officially arrive later this month with a discount if you have the original.

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Tears of Metal is pretty much a co-op Scottish Dynasty Warriors with fun upgrades and a demo worth trying

Liam Dawe — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:34:14 +0000

A roguelike Scottish Dynasty Warriors? Sort of. Tears of Metal has a demo out now on Steam and if you love a good hack and slash, this is one to try out.

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Dino society is about to fall apart in the pre-apocalyptic action adventure GNAW

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:06:29 +0000

Dinosaurs were able to suppress their cannibalistic urges and build a society, where of course it all goes to hell in GNAW.

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Merge dogs to make bigger dogs in the delightfully silly roguelike deckbuilder Dogpile

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:39:34 +0000

I love how delightfully silly Dogpile is as you drop various types of dogs into a vertical yard where they merge into bigger dogs.

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