All posts tagged in indie game
Apr 18, 2024
Moving Through Life by developer Challenging Games is a relaxing 3D game about nostalgia, creativity, and identity. Play as a young girl living in 1990, who moves from her beloved childhood home to new places at different stages of her life. Discover the story as you make choices and arrange furniture and other items in each room.
Every choice you make in Moving Through Life, and where you place each item determines the direction of your story. Will you become a writer or an artist? Will you be career-driven or pursue a relationship? All of this is determined through your choices. Plus, you unlock new items and features as your progress that affect the game’s ending.
Celebrate the joys of exploring life’s different stages with this lovely game!
Release Date
You can find Moving Through Life on Steam now!
If you enjoy relaxing decorating and management, check out Minami Lane!
- Apr 17, 2024
Neko Odyssey by developer SECRET CHARACTER is for the cat lovers out there. Set out on a casual adventure in this beautifully atmospheric pixel art game where you take pictures of cats. Upload each of your photos to your social media in order to earn likes from your followers. As your popularity increases, your followers will even share tips on where to find more cats!
It’s not as easy as pointing and shooting, though. Each cat in Neko Odyssey is different and may require you to establish a friendship first. That’s not all you get to do in this charming game, though. As you explore the town and find different cats, you’ll unravel a storyline full of mysteries about the town. The pictures you capture will help you unwind those mysteries as they contain necessary information about what’s going on!
Release Date
Neko Odyssey is set to release on Steam sometime this year!
Cat Cafe Manager is another cat-centric cozy game to try!
- Apr 17, 2024
Leave behind your old life and settle into a charming town by the sea to run your tiny bookshop in Tiny Bookshop by developer neoludic games. The picturesque town of Bookstonbury-by-the-sea is ideal for your little endeavor. Explore the tiny town to get to know it and its inhabitants. Discover the stories of the quirky cast of characters as you become a beloved member of the community. All while running your mobile bookshop!
Tiny Bookshop is a cozy narrative management game, so the focus is running your cute bookshop. Keep a stock of different genres of books that suit the different tastes of the community. Even collect second-hand books and decorations to make your shop inviting. Your decorations and collected items do affect your sales and new mechanics to the game, so pay attention and experiment! You also get to travel around the town with your bookshop instead of being stuck in a single location. This makes getting to know the town and the people easy. Where you go each day, how you interact with people, and what items you bring along all affect how the story unfolds. Choose wisely!
Release Date
Tiny Bookshop is listed on Steam, where you can add it to your Wishlist. There is currently no release date, though.
Book of Hours has you playing as librarian in a mysterious bastion of knowledge.
- Apr 17, 2024
Play as a rancher by day and a vampire by night in this upcoming new farming sim called Vampire Rancher by solo developer borispixel. In this charming new game, you must balance your life as a rancher and vampire. You require blood, which you can take from the town’s visitors, but you need to make them happy by restoring the town or they won’t come visit! That blood essence you get can be used to upgrade different skills like turning into a bat, resisting garlic, and being immune to sunlight.
Run your ranch and care for chickens, pigs, and cows in Vampire Rancher. Pet them, feed them, and generally tend to their well-being, and they’ll take care of you, too. You can also farm a variety of different crops, which you can use in recipes to attract visitors. But more importantly are your responsibilities to the town! It’s up to you to restore the town so you can have more tasty meals of blood, er, visitors! Plus, you can get to know a unique cast of neighbors who will task you with different quests. Or go explore the vampiric ruins to find rare resources.
This game promises a uniquely cozy experience with a vampiric twist!
Release Date
Vampire Rancher is currently listed on Steam, where you can add it to your Wishlist. There is no release date available, but remember the developer is solo!
For more vampire fun, check out Brocula, Voltaire: the Vegan Vampire, and Moonlight Peaks!
- Apr 11, 2024
Cornucopia by developer Subconscious Games is a 2.5D pixel graphic farming sim with a lot of personality. You inherit tools and a farm, and are left to make it a thriving operation. What makes this game stand out from other farm sims, though? Well, quite a few things, actually. There is an in-depth soil and compost system and pets help you with interactions and you can enter them into races. There are different minigames to engage with, as well as over 200 recipes to cook. This delightful farm sim has taken a step beyond just simple farming, and now it’s added a great new update!
The Big Farm Expansion
Now your lovely farm has been beautifully revamped to feature a pond, bridge, and relocated the storage shed. Cornucopia has also expanded the farm’s area so you have more space to realize your farming dreams. There’s also a new quest for you and Rufus to explore that will double your soil areas to allow you more crop growing space! The update even lets you discover new shortcuts and layouts around your farm that helps streamline your farming experience.
Even the NPCs in Cornucopia get a fresh new interaction update! They now have overhead displays when you approach them that give you information on your relationship with them. This lets you better plan those special moments! Even better than that, though, is the added ability to remap keys on the keyboard or remap your controller binds. So, now you can play in the best way that suits you! And of course there has been polishing and bug fixing going on as well.
Release Date
You can get Cornucopia now on Steam, and the Big Farm Expansion Update went live a few days ago!
- Apr 11, 2024
Ready for a quirky life sim where you run a summer camp where absolutely nothing strange happens ever? Then give Camp Canyonwood a try! You are the newest camp counselor and you’re in charge of running and maintaining this cozy campsite. It’s a little bit neglected, so you’ll need to fix it up some while managing your campers. Restore the beautiful campground to its former glory and teach your young campers valuable skills they can take home with them. Just keep an eye out for some weird activity!
Camp Canyonwood is beautifully hand-drawn with a look reminiscent of old Cartoon Network cartoons. Take part in fun camp activities like fishing, archery, stargazing, and more. Be careful on your adventures as you need to carefully monitor the health and well-being of your campers, as well as keep an eye out for grumpy bears and chubby raccoons! If the campers are unhappy, their parents won’t pay at the end of summer, and you need that money to upgrade the campground. There are tons of decor items you can collect. Choose different tent and cabin styles to spruce up the place, too.
And remember, nothing strange ever happens at camp. There’s totally never any ghosts or UFO sightings.
Release Date
Camp Canyonwood is currently available on Steam!
- Apr 11, 2024
Mudborne by developer ellraiser is pretty much APICO, but frogs instead of bees! And I couldn’t be more excited about it, because I loved APICO. So I’m sure this game will be lovely. This time, you were visited in your dreams one night by a mysterious frog deity who wants her children to return. Your job in this laid-back nature sim is to collect and breed frogs in order to restore her children to her.
Explore the beautiful world of Mudborne as you search for and capture different types of frogs. There’s even one with a tiny hat! Then, play around with different genetic possibilities as you breed them together to discover even more different kinds. The roadmap explores even more fun options like house upgrades and new decorations. There’s supposed to even be a way to display your favorite frogs in little displays. Not to mention dreaming mechanics, more frog traits, a change to the breeding process, and much more!
Ready to collect some frogs?
Release Date
Unfortunately, Mudborne does not currently have a release date. You can download a demo and add the game to your Wishlist on Steam though!
- Apr 10, 2024
If you’re looking for a cozy walking simulator with very short gameplay, look no further! Cozy Trip is a beautifully crafted indie game by developer Morning Shift Studios where you simply enjoy the exploration. Relax as you wander around a small town bordered by a forest. Take in the sites of the quaint little town and the charming forest. Uncover hidden treasures in a low-stakes scavenger hunt. And enjoy the lovely soundtrack that compliments the cozy gameplay as you get to know your surroundings.
Release Date
Cozy Trip is available now on Steam.
There are plenty of walking sims or other exploration games out there, so if that’s what you enjoy, here’s a short list of more: Lake, Submerged: Hidden Depths, Wilderless.
