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This City Builder Asks You to Rebuild the World After Climate Devastation
'Lichenia' is an alternative to SimCity that challenges you to experiment in the post-apocalyptic unknown.
I'm Just a Demon Girl Who's (Really) Behind on Her Rent
Click your way through the trials of making rent on time.
How This Game Mirrored My Own Reconciliation With Trauma
'Home Is Where The Hearth Is' is about finding a home in the wreckage of crisis.
Becalm's Kaleidoscopic Reality Helped Me Find Peace in My Own
Take some time today to embark on a colorful voyage to nowhere.
'Hot Pot Panic' Is a Charming Fake Friendship Simulator
Reflect on the horrors of socializing while cooking up some delicious video game food.
This Game Asks the Important Questions, Like What If Trump Met a Ghost
‘The White House at Night’ is a wonderfully off-the-rails adventure about Trump’s encounters with the dead.
Celebrating Five Years of Indie Games on Itch.io
A few of my favorite games from Itch.io, the five-year-old indie platform.
'Yume Nikki' is an Intensely Freaky, Mysterious Horror Game
Yume Nikki is a game that’s about wandering around spaces and seeing what’s there to see. And it’s a nightmare, through and through.
The World Needs This Frog Friendship Sim from the Makers of ‘Neko Atsume’
Have fun storming the castle!
In This Cold, Your Only Hope Is Staying Close to the Fire
'A Very Warm Fire' speaks directly to the real-life survival instincts during the bomb cyclone.
A Horror Game That Rejects The Usual Zombie Tropes
'These Four Walls Called Reality' is a rare game set in an apocalypse that rejects the idea that the social world was hunky-dory before.