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(ad) He hated eye exams so much he made a horror game about one arsight — a first-person psychological horror game set inside the image from an eye-exam machine. Wishlist it on Steam. Made by @gamesbynoori — Studio Noori, a self-funded team of four, led by Anchit Sharma, previously lead developer on episodes four and five of Fears to Fathom. I'm Luke — let's support indie games. #indiegames #horrorgames #indiehorror #atmospheric #PsychologicalHorror

(ad) Hollywood invited him out at 22, now he makes a game about fish... Drawquarium is a cozy aquarium game where you draw your own fish, and the guy who made it used to be a sci-fi filmmaker. In 2013 Kaleb made a short film almost entirely on his own, got invited to Hollywood off the back of it, and dropped out of film school to spend three unpaid years on a feature that never got made. He works as a 3D artist in film now. He says his heart kept pulling him toward a small, very personal game idea, because he wanted to bring his kids' drawings to life. So you draw anything, even badly, and it swims around your tank. Forget to feed them and they don't die. They just get sad. What would you draw first? @drawquarium_game #drawquarium #cozygames #indiegames #aquarium #drawinggames

(ad) She drew for the company behind BTS. Then she made this. Come to my party! is a hand-drawn dark-comedy visual novel by SIMSANG YOON, a one-person developer with over a decade in commercial illustration, published by LINE Games. Set in a South Korean elementary school in 1999, it follows ten-year-old Jimin, who has to win a class-president election before her mother will let her have her first birthday party — through friendships, playground politics and real 1999 schoolyard games. 3–4 hours · 12 endings. Demo 2.0 is free on Steam during Steam Next Fest (19–26 October). Full release Q1 2027. #indiegames #cozygames #cutegames #storygames #solodev

(ad) Three years of nights and weekends and $11K for one horror game Dreadline Express is a psychological horror game set on the last human train on Earth, and it cost one Czech developer about eleven thousand dollars of his own money over nearly three years of nights and weekends. It still isn't his full-time job. He started it alone and got help with the art and sound a year in, and his family, in his own words, has had the patience of a saint. The game won Best Game at Game Access out of more than eighty, and it's sitting at 97% positive on Steam. Instead of picking dialogue options, you collect cards for things you've worked out and show them to passengers to say what you can't otherwise say. No jump scares. Just dread. Would you have kept going after giving up on several games? Under ten dollars on Steam until October 30th. #dreadlineexpress #indiegames #horrorgames #indiedev

(ad) The actress behind Lady Dimitrescu is the villain in this one Remothered: Red Nun's Legacy is a third-person survival horror set in a decaying villa on the slopes of Mount Etna. You play Susan, a mother searching for the daughter who vanished in Sicily over a year ago. You can't win a fight - you read memories trapped in objects and find paths through mirrors instead. Final chapter of the trilogy, out now on PC and console. Who would you send into that house instead of Susan? #ad #remothered #rednunslegacy #survivalhorror #indiehorror

(ad) Either you all pass or you all fail Finals Week is a co-op cheating simulator where you and up to three friends have to survive a week of exams without having studied a single page. You pass together or you fail together, so you cheat. Walkie-talkies, binoculars, stolen textbooks, answers written on the wall and on your friends' faces. Get caught and you end up in restraints, and the teacher throws erasers with genuinely unfair accuracy. The studio that made it spent years on strategy games. Their last one was a mech RPG and the one before that was a city builder where the citizens are dice. Which one of your friends is getting you both caught? @finalsweekgame @finalsweekgame #finalsweek #coopgames #indiegames #indiedev

(ad) Only serve human customers or else... Night Plane is a horror game where you work as a flight attendant in 1999 and the staff handbook has exactly one rule. Only serve human customers. The studio that made it is three friends in New Zealand and a cat. The cat's name is Acerola and their website lists the creative director as her butler. Their last game was about driving a bus on the night shift in 1999, so this is twice now. The handbook also says the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them. Would you check the tickets, or just serve everyone and hope? #nightplane #indiegames #horrorgames #indiedev

(ad) She asked me not to look through her phone... Don't Pick Up is a horror game where you run a government-licensed phone repair shop. People hand you their phone, and the whole thing is unlocked while you work. Jeffery wants his camera fixed. Candy wants her case fixed and specifically asks you not to look through it. So you look, and there she is with a senator. Then a man from the government turns up to make sure you're installing tracking software on everyone's phone before you hand it back. You don't have to. Then you're the only one who still gets to snoop. Would you look through it? Free demo out now on Steam. #dontpickup #indiegames #horrorgames #choicesmatter

(ad) Everything in this game is made of balls... Ecstatica is a 1994 survival horror game where every single thing in the world is built out of eggs instead of triangles. Andrew Spencer spent five years on that engine, mostly on his own, because he noticed Disney's animators liked circles. His words: triangles make hard, robotic-looking figures. He also cut the health bar and the menus, in 1994, because he wanted people to forget they were playing a game. The industry went all in on triangles anyway and his last game never came out. Now it's back on Steam, and it still runs with no graphics card at all. Were you playing games that looked like this? #ecstatica #retrogaming #indiegames #horrorgames

(ad) He lived out his co-op game IRL Explore, navigate, and uncover the vast wilderness of over the hill, the newest installation from the creator of art of rally. Ramble your way through varied biomes inspired by real-world locations, from valleys to mountains and everything in between. Game media Take to the trails solo or with up to three friends. Cruise through scenic landscapes, tackle challenging off-road routes, and work together to overcome the obstacles standing between you and your destination. Different situations call for different solutions. Use planks to cross gaps, deploy winches to recover vehicles and navigate difficult terrain, and bring the right equipment to help you overcome the challenges ahead. Whether you're carefully planning your route or improvising your way through a tricky situation, the journey is always in your hands. #indiegames #devstories #whattoplay #coopgames