
The Big Con
Mighty Yell
A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

Sephonie
Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka
Sephonie is a gorgeous, emotionally ambitious platformer that trusts you to feel your way through both its caves and its characters — but its slippery...

Athenian Rhapsody
Nico Papalia
A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

Bopl Battle
Johan Grönvall
Bopl Battle is the rare party brawler where the joke and the mechanics are the same thing — a physics sandbox disguised as a fighter, held back only b...

Rift of the NecroDancer
Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Studios Inc.
Brace Yourself Games traded the roguelike dungeon for three vertical lanes and, against the odds, landed a rhythm game that rewards reading over rote....

HyperRogue
Zeno Rogue
HyperRogue is the rare indie that earns the word "original"—a roguelike built on hyperbolic geometry that will melt your spatial intuition before it t...

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
DO MY BEST
A genuinely inventive premise — a cursed novelist who burgles legendary loot from inside books — carried by gorgeous ink-and-charcoal art and sharp wr...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Warhorse Studios
Warhorse Studios took a cult-classic RPG with brilliant ideas and rough edges, sanded the edges, and kept the brilliance. This is one of the most conf...

Two Point Museum
Two Point Studios
Two Point Studios has built its most confident, layered game yet—a management sim that turns curation into a genuine creative act. It borrows heavily ...

Coral Island
Stairway Games
Coral Island takes the Stardew Valley blueprint, drenches it in tropical sunlight, and adds a genuinely fresh underwater layer—but performance gremlin...

R.E.P.O.
semiwork
R.E.P.O. takes the co-op horror formula that Lethal Company perfected and bolts on a physics engine that turns every valuable vase into a heart-attack...

Overland
Finji
Finji's post-apocalyptic road roguelike is a masterclass in tension and restraint — a game that makes you grieve over a dog you met four turns ago — b...

Necrobarista
Route 59
Necrobarista is one of the most visually daring visual novels ever made — a cel-shaded, camera-drunk meditation on death and coffee that hits like a g...

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
The Chinese Room
A staggeringly beautiful, emotionally rich ghost story trapped inside one of the slowest walks in gaming — a meditation on the apocalypse that asks fo...

Haven
The Game Bakers
Haven is a rare thing—a game that treats an already-in-love couple as the story, not the reward. It's gorgeous, tender, and beautifully scored, but th...

Eastward
Pixpil
Pixpil's debut is a gorgeous, big-hearted love letter to 16-bit adventure games that occasionally forgets when to end a sentence — but the sentence is...
Escape Simulator
Pine Studio
Escape Simulator nails the one thing every digital escape room has botched for two decades — the physical act of *rummaging* — and then hands you the ...

Skin Deep
Blendo Games
Blendo Games spent the better part of a decade building the most tactile stealth sandbox since *Thief*, then wrapped it in a cat-obsessed slapstick co...

Iris and the Giant
Louis Rigaud
Louis Rigaud's card-battler about fighting your own depression is one of the sharpest, most emotionally honest roguelikes of its generation — but the ...

One Step From Eden
Thomas Moon Kang
A brilliant, merciless collision of Slay the Spire and Mega Man Battle Network that asks you to build a deck and dodge a bullet hell at the same time ...