If You’re on Twitter, and You Like Games, You Should Follow @TodayOnSteam

Above: 'Super Cat Herding: Totally Awesome Edition' screenshot courtesy of ZoopTek.

The sole beams of light in the stream of shite that is my Twitter feed in 2017 is a painfully unfunny joke account—so bad that the bad becomes good, obviously—and another highlighting brand-new games that the vast majority of us will never play. I don't know what that says about who or what I follow. Probably nothing at all, beyond the fact that I should spend less time on Twitter.

That funnies account is @kidswritejokes, and you almost certainly need it in your life. It is, quite brilliantly nothing more than what it claims to be: "jokes", straight out of the mouths of babes. Recent highlights: "Q: who is the disgusting boyband? A: the beatles", and "gess how many snakes there are… 13". Look, it's better when you see them pop up amid that aforementioned shite. I have been in fits before now.

The other account is the equally what-it-says-on-the-tin @TodayOnSteam that, yep, serves exclusively to announce new arrivals on Valve's digital store.

It's great for two reasons. One, it's impossible to realistically keep up with every new release added to Steam using your brain alone, so having a one-stop source for everything that's landed on the platform is a genuine blessing. Secondly, it can be hilarious, because some of these games, oh man, some of these games.

Without @TodayOnSteam, I would never have heard of the following potential gems, as their promotion simply can not exist in regular games media channels, suffocated as it'd be by For Honor, and that one with all the blood.

Super Cat Herding: Totally Awesome Edition. A little sample from its Steam description: "It's a game about destructive cats. So it's totally awesome by definition! There is no 'regular edition' when invulnerable cats are involved." It's made by ZoopTek, in Chicago.

Adventures on the Polluted Islands. "You will play a small crab, armed with a boomerang. Help the survivors (other crabs, it seems) and go in search of salvation." It's the work of a company called Uncle Frost Team, and I've no idea where they're based.

NakedMan VS The Clothes. "One day, the clothes rebelled, and preyed upon us…" Brought to you, whether you wanted it or not, by Spanish studio 4FreaksFiction.

Guts and Glory. "A game about father and son riding their bicycle through obstacle courses of death…" Sounds like every school holiday as a parent, ever, courtesy of HakJak Productions, of Somewhere In The World.

Of course, I've selected four of the more singularly appealing titles given a @TodayOnSteam post over the past few days. There are the usual big guns in there, too—For Honor, just recently, and that one with all the blood. And there are definitely games I've clicked through to having not known much or anything about before, and been interested to learn more about—and maybe even play, at some point.

PaperSeven Ltd's cutesy yet creepy Blackwood Crossing definitely falls into that category, "a tale exploring the fragile relationship between orphaned siblings" that I'm sure I saw a trailer for a while ago, but how and why I can't remember. It's listed on Steam now, anyway—a fact I can relay to you without any doubt thanks to @TodayOnSteam. (Further research turns up that the developers are based just down the road from me, in Brighton. I should probably say hi or something.)

@TodayOnSteam is run by an Australian, Syama Mishra, a 3D/VFX engineer who's worked on games including 2015's Android Assault Cactus—itself absolutely something I'd have clicked on for its name alone, had it popped up on the Steam-centric account. So shout out to them for keeping my chin up whenever I drift into social media's increasingly rank dankness. And if it works for me, it could well you, too.