Take flight in this remastered 'stick control era' aerial combat RPG. Explore haunting landscapes, engage in epic dogfights, and uncover ancient secrets in a visually enhanced, rebalanced edition of the BAFTA-nominated, award-winning original.
Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from fragile beginner to a hardened skater. ...
Don’t Stop, Girlypop!, in the best way possible, feels like a scrappy indie hyperpop zine lovingly made in Unreal Engine. From the moment you turn the game on, the bright, bubbly buttons on the menu evoke early-2000s maximalist web design. You press New Game, and suddenly you’re a fairy warrior named Imber being aided by an ...
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry. ...
An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.
Haiku published their January 2026 status report to highlight the improvements they made to their open-source OS over the past month. Some of the January highlights for Haiku include: ...
A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF? ...
A dystopian, cyberpunk setting where you play as an AI trapped in a scientist's body? Lots of intricate story threads to discover? A combat system mimicking the Batman: Arkham series? Not to mention, all of that stuffed into a 2.5D side-scroller with a pixel-ish art style? It sounded too good to be true back at its initial ...
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum. ...
Video games have long been wrapped up in some pretty exploitative things (to put it mildly). The military entertainment complex of America’s Army and Call of Duty; the perpetual casinoification of games monetisation; whatever horrible thing is happening on Roblox right now. That’s not even mentioning the many, many ...
Midwest 90: Rapid City is an ambitious Malaysian-developed indie game that marries the restaurant tycoon genre with tower defence, tying it all up with a strong narrative.
THRASHER is an award-winning arcade odyssey and audiovisual experience. Guide a magnificent space eel, swooping and thrashing it through mesmerizing alien worlds in the ultimate race for survival. Dive into the circle-based combo system, and play any way you like on PC, VR and Steam Deck.
Inspired by classic fighting games from the 90's such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters, 'Pocket Bravery' channels the 'Neo Geo Pocket' aesthetic for a modern fighting game with a retro twist!
Albin tries MIO: Memories in Orbit. A classic Metroidvania focused on exploration, precision platforming, and a calm, atmospheric world. With no objective markers, satisfying movement, and a cozy soundtrack, MIO encourages you to get lost and discover its secrets at your own pace. ...
One day, Jimmy looked inside. And today, he looks again. Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass was a 2018 hit RPG Maker game that I really loved. It really deserves as much love as LISA, OMORI, and the Fear and Hunger games when it comes to commercial RPG Maker games. Like, especially from OMORI fans, given…
The retirement home isn’t for you, and your pigeon friends agree! Explore the world going bench to bench, solve puzzles, and keep your mischievous pigeon crew in line in this charming interactive adventure. Enjoy colorful, stylized levels, customize your pigeons, and live your best pensioner life!
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals. ...
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away! ...
Set foot on a magical island and explore a whimsical small open world as ILA, a spirited young witch-in-training searching for her lost kitty, Coco. With your trusty skatebroom, find secret places, collectables, and improve your magic and flying abilities as you reach the summit. ...
Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.
A Germany-based indie studio comprising 7 people spent the last 6 years making this game. Unlike most of its competition, it focuses on trade and resource management, making it a refreshing, if somewhat limited, take on the genre.
In friendslop, live social interaction is much more important than gameplay or game art, which is sometimes deliberately minimalist. The games are often played for laughs and offer a chaotic or wacky experience with unpredictable shared moments. This makes them unsatisfying to play alone even if it's possible.
Build a cozy cabin that feels like home. Travel to peaceful Retreats in changing seasons and weather, decorate at your own pace, and collect Keepsakes with gentle backstories. No grind. No pressure. Just nature, animals, and time to breathe.
A modern-day horror RPG with tactical combat and survival horror roots. Customize your loadout, manage limited resources, and exploit enemy weaknesses in tense, strategic encounters.
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD ...
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Take flight in this remastered 'stick control era' aerial combat RPG. Explore haunting landscapes, engage in epic dogfights, and uncover ancient secrets in a visually enhanced, rebalanced edition of the BAFTA-nominated, award-winning original.
Skate Story on Steam and consoles ( store.steampowered.com )
Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey from fragile beginner to a hardened skater. ...
Don’t Stop, Girlypop! Review – A new way to slay ( www.thesixthaxis.com )
Don’t Stop, Girlypop!, in the best way possible, feels like a scrappy indie hyperpop zine lovingly made in Unreal Engine. From the moment you turn the game on, the bright, bubbly buttons on the menu evoke early-2000s maximalist web design. You press New Game, and suddenly you’re a fairy warrior named Imber being aided by an ...
DOSee Release v1.90 ( github.com )
DOSee is a DOSBox based, MS-DOS emulator for the web. ...
Death's Door on Steam and consoles ( store.steampowered.com )
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry. ...
Dream Garden on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.
Haiku OS Lands Improved Touchpad Support, Still Working Toward Beta 6 - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )
Haiku published their January 2026 status report to highlight the improvements they made to their open-source OS over the past month. Some of the January highlights for Haiku include: ...
Massive emulation take down
From https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page ...
WHAT THE GOLF? on Steam and Playstation ( store.steampowered.com )
A silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF? ...
rpcn Release 1.8.5 ( github.com )
Matchmaking server for RPCS3. ...
REPLACED ( gamingtrend.com )
A dystopian, cyberpunk setting where you play as an AI trapped in a scientist's body? Lots of intricate story threads to discover? A combat system mimicking the Batman: Arkham series? Not to mention, all of that stuffed into a 2.5D side-scroller with a pixel-ish art style? It sounded too good to be true back at its initial ...
This Snake-meets-Tron indie game is making me dizzy already ( www.creativebloq.com )
Slake has a couple of surprising twists.
Microsoft issues DMCA takedown on indie Minecraft-like, forcing it off Steam (Later revoked) ( www.pcgamer.com )
Microsoft claimed the indie game uses "Minecraft content."
CLK Release 2026-02-10 ( github.com )
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sega Master System, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum. ...
Relooted Review – A Correcting Caper ( checkpointgaming.net )
Video games have long been wrapped up in some pretty exploitative things (to put it mildly). The military entertainment complex of America’s Army and Call of Duty; the perpetual casinoification of games monetisation; whatever horrible thing is happening on Roblox right now. That’s not even mentioning the many, many ...
Cooking up monsters: Inside Malaysia's indie game 'Midwest 90: Rapid City' ( www.thestar.com.my )
Midwest 90: Rapid City is an ambitious Malaysian-developed indie game that marries the restaurant tycoon genre with tower defence, tying it all up with a strong narrative.
NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )
The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing. ...
SkullPirates Review - LadiesGamers ( ladiesgamers.com )
SkullPirates is a simple arcade brawler that shines in local co-op but feels less pirate life excitement when played solo.
THRASHER on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
THRASHER is an award-winning arcade odyssey and audiovisual experience. Guide a magnificent space eel, swooping and thrashing it through mesmerizing alien worlds in the ultimate race for survival. Dive into the circle-based combo system, and play any way you like on PC, VR and Steam Deck.
Pocket Bravery on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Inspired by classic fighting games from the 90's such as Street Fighter, Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters, 'Pocket Bravery' channels the 'Neo Geo Pocket' aesthetic for a modern fighting game with a retro twist!
Jackal on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Execute ultra-violent raids in 1970s casino hotels. Take down the Las Vegas mob as a drug super-powered hitman in physics-fueled top-down close combat
Release hypseus-singe v2.11.7 ( github.com )
Hypseus is a SDL2 version of Daphne and Singe. Laserdisc game emulation. ...
Release shadPS4 v0.14.0 ( github.com )
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++ ...
MIO: Memories in Orbit - A review of a beautiful Metroidvania ( www.youtube.com )
Albin tries MIO: Memories in Orbit. A classic Metroidvania focused on exploration, precision platforming, and a calm, atmospheric world. With no objective markers, satisfying movement, and a cozy soundtrack, MIO encourages you to get lost and discover its secrets at your own pace. ...
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass – Definitive Edition ( indiehellzone.com )
One day, Jimmy looked inside. And today, he looks again. Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass was a 2018 hit RPG Maker game that I really loved. It really deserves as much love as LISA, OMORI, and the Fear and Hunger games when it comes to commercial RPG Maker games. Like, especially from OMORI fans, given…
The Bench on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
The retirement home isn’t for you, and your pigeon friends agree! Explore the world going bench to bench, solve puzzles, and keep your mischievous pigeon crew in line in this charming interactive adventure. Enjoy colorful, stylized levels, customize your pigeons, and live your best pensioner life!
Winter Burrow on Steam and Nintendo ( store.steampowered.com )
Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals. ...
Release Yokoi G&W Emulator - v2.2.1 ( github.com )
Emulator Game & Watch for 3DS ...
Release ScePSX v0.1.8.0 ( github.com )
Lightweight PS1 emulator in C# for retro gaming. ...
1,000,000 shrimp by Jon Topielski ( jontopielski.itch.io )
incremental shrimp boating
Angeline Era on Steam and itch.io ( store.steampowered.com )
Explore a secret-filled land in this 3D Action-Adventure, where every level is hidden in plain sight! Travel and fight through a vast, unmarked overworld. The next surprise is only a single search away! ...
ILA: A Frosty Glide on Steam and other stores ( store.steampowered.com )
Set foot on a magical island and explore a whimsical small open world as ILA, a spirited young witch-in-training searching for her lost kitty, Coco. With your trusty skatebroom, find secret places, collectables, and improve your magic and flying abilities as you reach the summit. ...
Everything on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.
MAME 285 - What's new ( www.youtube.com )
00:00:00 MAME Testers bugs fixed ...
This indie city builder game with deep resource management is 50% off on Steam this week [Let them Trade] ( www.notebookcheck.net )
A Germany-based indie studio comprising 7 people spent the last 6 years making this game. Unlike most of its competition, it focuses on trade and resource management, making it a refreshing, if somewhat limited, take on the genre.
What is 'friendslop' and why is it taking over gaming in 2026? ( www.creativebloq.com )
In friendslop, live social interaction is much more important than gameplay or game art, which is sometimes deliberately minimalist. The games are often played for laughs and offer a chaotic or wacky experience with unpredictable shared moments. This makes them unsatisfying to play alone even if it's possible.
Zelda: Wind Waker Meets No Man’s Sky In Survival RPG You Can Try Free Now [Nova Antarctica] ( screenrant.com )
The cuteness of Zelda: Wind Waker's art style and the rich survival experience of No Man's Sky combine in this story-driven survival game. ...
Release Yokoi G&W Emulator - v2.2 ( github.com )
Emulator Game & Watch for 3DS ...
Log Away on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Build a cozy cabin that feels like home. Travel to peaceful Retreats in changing seasons and weather, decorate at your own pace, and collect Keepsakes with gentle backstories. No grind. No pressure. Just nature, animals, and time to breathe.
Wicked Seed on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
A modern-day horror RPG with tactical combat and survival horror roots. Customize your loadout, manage limited resources, and exploit enemy weaknesses in tense, strategic encounters.
Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD ...
Our Adventurer Guild on Steam ( store.steampowered.com )
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
Avalan (C64) by Psytronik Software [Commodore 64] ( psytronik.itch.io )
Explore a huge 256 screen map on a quest to defeat the unholy monk! ...
A list of ROM hacks that convert regular Game Boy games to Super Game Boy games.
Probotector ...
B-side gaming zine #10 (news, rom-hacking, horror, humor)
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