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MONDAY: Thematic Monday

WEDNESDAY: Suggest Me A Game

FRIDAY: Free Talk Friday

Hey r/Games,

I'm a solo indie dev creating a survival RTS (same genre as They are Billions, Diplomacy Is Not An Option etc). In it you build a colony with the support of a spaceship in orbit and hold back hordes of aliens.

For replayability the player can unlock a wide variety of captains, each of which have different gameplay mechanics, unique units and skills. There are also many biome specific exploration incentives like native aliens you can ally with or destroy, lost colonists and more. Plus plans for multiple factions and a campaign.

The game is now out in Early Access and I have left the demo up as well (it's a little out of date)! A few days ago I also released its first significant update which addressed lots of feedback from players and it's also now on discount. The game's been covered by some popular indie Youtubers like Splattercat, Wanderbot and Orbital Potato.

Steam Page (Now with a Demo!)

Discord

Hello coffee (and tea) lovers!

Me and my wife are developing a game called Coffee Caravan and we are very excited that the game is coming out tomorrow!

What is it about?

As a cafe manager, brew, experiment with delicious recipes, and build your dream coffee business on wheels. Serve customers, unlock new flavors, purchase appliances, and explore the roguelite map.

If you like games like PlateUp and Overcooked, Coffee Caravan is for you.

Interested?

Steam (demo available): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2649080/Coffee_Caravan/

Gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayPc8SxceM

More info:

The game features a cute and charming 3D environment with a pastel-colored aesthetic. Throughout your adventure, you'll discover and unlock new coffee recipes, purchase cutting-edge coffee-making appliances, and focus on providing an efficient and enjoyable experience for your customers.

• Strategically choose the coffee recipes you want to serve each day, catering to customer preferences and experimenting with new flavors.
• Manage your finances wisely, allocating earnings to buy new recipes and upgrade equipment.
• Explore an extensive tree of coffee recipes, each with its own unique combination of ingredients and brewing techniques.
• Master the art of efficient brewing, balancing speed, and quality to serve a growing line of customers and maximize your profits.
• Encounter special events and challenges along the way, from rewards to unexpected circumstances, to add excitement to your road trip adventure (not included in the demo).

Currently singleplayer only

Genre: management, roguelite, strategy, cozy

Planned release: May 20th (tomorrow)

Thank you for your attention! If you like what you've seen, please consider adding it to your wishlist on Steam and checking out the demo!

Howdy, lovers of survival and westerns!

We're thrilled to introduce our debut title, Forty-Niner, and share more about our developing game!

Genre: Survival, Sandbox, RPG, Action Adventure
Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox

Step into the Gold Rush era, where pioneers sought fortune in a procedurally generated world with terrain destruction, mining, building, crafting, and combat. Enjoy side quests, poker in saloons, horse races, campfire interactions, and much more. Play solo or in co-op mode!

Steam:  Forty-Niner on Steam

Trailer: Watch the Trailer

Discord: Join Our Discord

What Awaits You:

- Dynamic World: Explore a procedurally generated world of vibrant biomes, engaging NPCs, and changing weather conditions.
- Survival at Its Core: Excel in mining, crafting, and territory defense.
- Build Your Home: Customize your base to your heart's content.
- Rich Interactions: From side quests to chilling in a saloon, the world is alive.
- Gold Rush Together: Join friends in co-op, LAN, or multiplayer modes.
- Live the Legend: Customize a unique character, and choose your way as a pioneer, farmer, sheriff, chief, and more.

We're targeting a demo release this fall and would love to hear your thoughts! What features or experiences are you most looking for in a Western survival game? Let us know in the comments or join our Discord community.

If the setting or survival genre excites you as much as it does us, please consider adding Forty-Niner to your wishlist on Steam!

Hey r/Games!

For this week's Indie Sunday, I want to share the PVP auto-battler game we have been working for a while for the first time.

Steam Page Link (DEMO AVAILABLE)

Twitter

Gameplay Trailer

TL;DR: It's a monster trainer themed inventory battler, async PvP, Demo available.

Long Version:

NEODUEL is a PvP inventory auto-battler with a monster-trainer twist! Collect, combine, manage your backpack, and create powerful combos. Fight other players with your team of monsters strategically placed on a grid. Rise through leagues in the competitive ladder!

Choose your monsters, place and combine them, create synergies and beat your opponents! After every battle, choose new monsters for your team and try to create the ultimate combo.

Use unique modifications and upgrades to alter your play-style and maximize the potential of your team, explore different tactics to discover strong synergies.

We plan to participate in the coming NextFest and release our game in early Q3.

Play the Demo on Steam!

We’re a small team that has passion for auto-battling and strategy games, and just surpassed 8,000 wishlists! We hope you’ll enjoy our take on the genre, make sure to wishlist the game so you won't miss updates & get to meet our new monsters, play-tests and news!

Please give NEODUEL Demo a try if you find it intriguing!

Cheers, everyone and good luck on the Duels!

Video link: https://youtu.be/UnGpz_W9pDA?si=ym-fRr2c2quRfFTh

[Story]

Thrust into the shoes of a wanted villainess from a novel, you find yourself stripped bare of your possessions - even your hair! Thankfully, your loyal nanny whisked you away to a hidden haven. Now, disguise is key! Hunt for clothes and a wig to outwit your relentless pursuers, especially the Duke of the North... 

Can you gather all you can, charm the Duke, and rewrite your deadly fate?

[Description]

This is a cozy dress up game with villainess (otome isekai) themes. In short, a joseimuke xD also an otome heheheh

[Plans]

The game is still only a very short prototype. I'm currently trying to see if there would be enough interest in the game before I continue developing it.

[More Info]

• Game's newsletter sign up form: https://inunekonanita.com/#villainessdress-newsletter
• Game's Itch io page: https://inuneko-nanita.itch.io/the-villainess-wants-a-dress-cozy-otome-isekai

Thank you very much for letting us indies post via Indie Sunday. It's a very big help!

Edit: for grammar

Hello again r/Games,

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1387640/

Short Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vweo8K41mSg

We are a married couple making Where Birds Go to Sleep, a narrative adventure RPG many dub an "intrusive thought simulator" in which you do not directly control the main character.

In line with our tagline "Become what you hate", the character you “possess” is a vile and horrible smuggler, and you inhabit part of his consciousness. You influence his psyche via your choices with a unique twist: he can disagree with your choices or vice-versa, which makes the player/main character dynamic unique. You can try making him a decent man or watch how low he will sink.

The story and game focus on themes of paranoia, entrapment, cruelty and manipulation, where the player is manipulating the main character, the main character is manipulating Dunlin, a major secondary character... and then it goes all wrong!

Thank you for hosting Indie Sunday!

Hello everyone,

Fair and square is a rts where you have to defend your base from waves of enemies that grow stronger and stronger. Luckily you too get stronger and stronger. You will need to expand to get resources and keep your base alive!

Here is the trailer : https://youtu.be/PtWp_jYPcUk

Every run you get to chose a unique starting unit. After each wave cleared or specific building placed, you get to choose some bonuses to increase your chance of surviving the 12 waves coming at you.

 I have been working for 18 months on this project. It was a long and wild ride as the technical difficulties to build an RTS are big! Not even talking about a multiplayer RTS! My brain was so close to explode on so many occasions and even as of today I have so many things that could be done better.

But for now I am very happy to share this demo with you, you can check it out here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2546350/Fair_and_Square/

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2085080/Princess_Hunter/

Hi ! What do you get when you mix Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time with Stephen King's Dark Tower? Probably, a lawsuit or even two. But hopefully, I managed to adapt these two sources of inspiration with enough originality to make the resulting story my own.

Trailer (Caution! Predatory dryads!): https://youtu.be/Q4HWsqDoTz0 

Also, making funny comics about the game!

Genre: cRPG, Card Battles, Story Rich

Hello and happy Sunday!

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2596940/Isometria/

Itch: https://bigwhoopgames.itch.io/isometria-demo

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC914MvCzOtmlkA1yl02tZcQ

Trailer: https://youtu.be/-0D0IeoxTZg

Discord: https://discord.gg/fq3z2ENQAD
Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/BigWhoopGames

Isometria is an open world survival crafting game I've been developing using Python and Pygame-CE.

The game features multiple biomes and areas to explore as well as bosses to fight and multiplayer with up to 8 players.

The demo includes support for multiplayer and features an above ground biome with caves to explore and a single boss to defeat with a few hours play time.

Inspired by Terraria, Necesse, and Core Keeper, Isometria features many of the same mechanics and will continue to add new features into the future.

Isometria will only be available on PC on release.

I am a solo dev and have been developing Isometria for over two years. I hope you like it and I look forward to making the best game that I can!

Be sure to wishlist the game today and play the demo!

🎥 Official Release trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJf_vhR1Uw
🎮 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1984190/Genopanic/
🐦 Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/genopanic
💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/s8JxbUZCFD

Genre: Platformer, Metroidvania, Exploration, Adventure
Setting: Sci-fi, 2D, Pixelart
Features: Singleplayer, Steam Achievements, Full controller support
SteamDeck: Running great on SteamDeck, green tick "SteamDeck verified" soon

Hi all! Genopanic dev here.

3 long years of development, and now our game is finally released on Steam!

First of all, I want to note that Genopaniс is not quite a metroidvania in the usual sense, but rather an exploratory platformer with metroidvania elements.

Our game has a low entry threshold, so even people who are far from platformers can play it comfortably.

We've put a lot of effort into creating an enjoyable, soulful game with juicy pixel-art and atmospheric music. Our composer wrote more than 20 ambient tracks for the game (by the way, they are now also available for purchase on Steam, including as part of a bundle with the game)

We were inspired by Metroid Fusion, and also kept in mind such atmospheric references as Prey and Half-Life, but did not forget about humor and cuteness to convey a slightly scary atmosphere combined with funny goofy animations, characters and sounds.

Fans of hardcore Metroidvanias may find it too linear, but still, I hope some of you might like the game

A short space adventure for a few hours (usually 4-5 hours)

The game has just been released on May 17th, and is now available on Steam with a 10% discount

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1984190/Genopanic/

Hello everyone.

We're super excited to share our game, Seer’s Gambit! It's a fun, single-player roguelike auto-battler that lets you get creative with party composition, strategy, and decision-making.

We currently have a free demo live for Steams Endless Replayability Fest. Give it a whirl and let us know what you think. If you've played a bunch of TFT, we're especially interested in hearing what you think about the hero upgrade system and skill trees.

Information and links:

• Steam Page If you like what you see, please consider adding it to your wishlist. Every single wishlist means the world to us!
• Trailer
• PLATFORM: PC 
• RELEASE DATE: Q4 2024
• Discord

Choose your adventurers: Assemble a quirky band of adventurers, with 13 unique heroes to choose from.”

Create the perfect team composition: Unlock powerful combos and synergies through unique and creative hero combinations

Unleash powerful ultimates: Turn the tide of battle with your heroes' ultimates. They can either be manually cast or set to auto-trigger.

The world is your skill tree: Gather gold and materials through your battles to rebuild the world and unlock new heroes, items or party-wide buffs.

Quirky and whimsical enemies: Battle against mildly dangerous foes like mushroom people and tiny forest bandits that test your strategic abilities to their limit.

Discover the world of Seer’s Gambit: Explore a sprawling overworld that’s been overrun by enemies - kill them all and save the world!

Set your own pace: Battles can be played at several different speeds and can even be paused.

Can't wait to hear what you think!

Hello, r/Games

We have updated the demo of our game called Underquest on Steam. Feel free to try it out.

🎮 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2265420/Underquest/

▶️ Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ytpya9gxo

👾 Genres: roguelite, inventory management, autobattler.

📄 Features: - Varied combinations of items and skills in the inventory - 3 bosses with unique strategies, various enemies, and game events - 5 characters in the tavern with their own stories and perks to upgrade - Adventure story of underground clans and the mystery of the sealed surface

Hi folks, first Indie Sunday post, really excited!

I'm an ex-AAA (7 years) solo-indie developer making AETHUS - a sci-fi survival/base building game set on (and beneath) an alien planet in the far future, where ultracapitalist megacorporations control the galaxy.

AETHUS is my love-letter to survival games, and tries to address one of the biggest shortcomings I feel about the genre - a lack of high quality narrative/story to drive the game forward.

In AETHUS, you'll unravel an dystopian conspiracy as you explore deeper within the planet, mining for riches with physics-driven gameplay as you harvest and craft hundreds of items while building up your mining outpost on the surface.

TRAILER

STEAM PAGE

I'm planning to release the full game (no early access!) next year, 2025, on Windows PC via Steam.

Finally, there will be a demo available next week, Friday 24th May, where you can try the game for yourself! Make sure to Follow the Steam page to find out what time this will be available!

Can't wait to have you join us in exploring AETHUS.

Preserve is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game in which you flourish a vibrant ecosystem by cleverly placing plants and animals to create an ecosystem to your liking. Take a look at Announcement Trailer and Play our free Demo on Steam! Preserve will also be part of Steam next Fest in June, where we will bring a new and improved demo.

Key Features of Preserve:

Vertical map expansion
In Preserve, you can expand the map not only horizontally, but you also posses an ability to stack layers of nature, forming a vertical network of interconnected habitats.

Diverse biome habitats
From alpine forests and savannas to carribean reefs, each biome will have its own unique set of plants, animals, and environmental challenges to discover and overcome.

Multiple Game Modes
Besides regular harmony and puzzle game modes, creative mode lets you build the land without limitations and photo mode allows you to capture and share your creations at the end of each session.

Natural Wonders
Nothing can beautify your map more than natural wonders like the snowy Alps, lavender fields or redwood forests, which you can acquire thanks to a unique card upcycle system

If you like the game, play our demo, leave us feedback and Wishlist Preserve on Steam. This will help us a lot! Have a nice Sunday everyone!

Check out our Steam page : HERE

You start with 4 elements, and from there you must manipulate those to craft the legendary blocks : Did you know you can make a wormhole with just some fire, air, earth and water ?

Unlocking new blocks can happen in various ways, for example let's see how to get filthy rich by making Oil :

• You can create Smoke, by combining air and fire. Smoke being.. well smoke, it doesn't fall, it goes upwards.
• As you all know, every matter that goes up for 10 seconds morphs into Ether
• Letting an Ether block stay still for 10 seconds turns it into Time
• You can then combine one block of time, with one block of wood and one block of earth to get Oil.

Because what is oil if not wood that spent a lot of time in the earth ? That's simple logic !

There is no enemies, no timer, nothing to make you sweat. You do your thing, create your factory how you want, when you want : nobody will ever know if it's a mess :)

Our Steam page and trailer are up here -> https://store.steampowered.com/app/1459800/Fakutori

Come take a look and wishlist if you like what you see !

If you don't want to go to Steam, here is our Youtube trailer.

Thanks for reading !

Mighty Marbles is a cute physics based game where you control the level to guide the marble to victory. Inspired by the desire to see real life physics toys as a video game! Roll, solve and triumph in the fast paced bite sized levels.

I have just added full steam deck and controller support. Have a look at it running on steam deck here.

I have also been working on hard on also improving the sound to feel like the classic toys which you can check out here.

I made this little game because there was really nothing like it which I found surprising. I hoping it is very nostalgic and cross generational. Hopefully there is place for this kind of game :)

It you want to find out more visit the official site or the steam page for it.

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