In this era of uncertainty, I wanna share some Indie Games I played over the last year and can recommend. Share yours in the comments!

Little Misfortune — a narrative horror with simple puzzles and exceptional voice acting.

The Hong Kong Massacre (80% off) — extremely hard shooter with slow motion. One bullet kills you and there are dozens of enemies on each map.

A Short Hike — you are a bird, climbing up. Will you reach the top?

Blacktail — on a magical forest a young witch is looking for her sister. But the evil spreads its roots and even stones are going for a war.

En Garde! — action-platformer with a bit of souls-like in it. Humor and rare swashbuckler era make it memorable.

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The Godot Shaders Bible (from the creator of the same Unity book) is gonna be released soon. You can get a free sample now! (Available in English and Spanish)

Get it here (the subscription is optional): https://jettelly.com/store/the-godot-shaders-bible

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After a decade of research, a new Nintendo Wii build of Star Wars Battlefront III has been FOUND by the Free Radical Archive!

Made in the final week of development, the build is full of content never seen before by fans.

🔗 Lost Media Busters

🔥 Hurry up: Vampire Survivors is free on Epic Store! (only for 24 hours)

https://epic.gm/free-2

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Steam Winter Sale has begun, good luck with accessing the store when other 40m people are doing the same!

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Tencent removes directors from Epic Games after Justice Dept. inspection. The Justice Department voiced concerns that Tencent was being anti-competitive by appointing its own directors to Epic, which it only has a minority stake in.

VIA

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Steam should buy more servers 😬

Their Servers Official Stats: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/ — they peaked at 38.9 Tbps.

Modern people have no idea what a 45° rotation is...

Only 5% in my case — all of them were demo projects and "Find 100 cats in". This year I bought 0 new AAA games.

The new loading screen for Steam Deck and Big Picture!

https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/c/startupmovie/reward/352137

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Blender founder complained that certain Google questions are polluted with AI hallucinations.

Google silently replaced the reply when the topic went viral.

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A free prologue to Pathologic 3 has been announced:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3389330/Pathologic_3_Quarantine/

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Think twice before launching a multiplayer game. There's a very limited market for them. Same with Helldivers II (thanks to PlayStation locking 180+ regions), same with Deadlock from Valve.

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Twitter Strikes Back (episode 999): the popular website tried to shift narrative around Sweet Baby Inc, but it backfired.

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A nice Diegetic UI for the game M.I.N.S.K.

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A playable Godot 4.3 demo project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8WQfMlnsw

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Brilliant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ycSvC0ZM0k

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