Visual Novel & Dating

A man shapes as if to throw a rock at you in Blood On The Thames.

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Supporters only | Ponder a quietly charming meta-mystery in Blood On The Thames

Away if idol

April 10, 2025Sin Vega

4 comments

A cheery looking man whose outfit is themed around a Dungeons and Dragons-esque tabletop game in Date Everything!

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Of course Date Everything! got Matthew Mercer to voice a hot, anthropomorphic D20

Critical roll

March 29, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

2 comments

Disney villains in casual outfits all posed together in key art for Disney Villains Cursed Café.

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All of a sudden, here's a game where you mix potions for Disney villains

Yeah, alright

March 27, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

47 comments

A bleary image of a judge pronouncing you guilty in yellow text as you sit inside a car in InCARceration

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InCARceration is a free minigame "carlike experience" for parole breakers everywhere

"Drive your life back"

March 26, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

11 comments

A statue of a nun explains the need to be evil to the protagonist of Expelled!

Review

Expelled! review

Tell tales out of school (in school)

March 12, 2025Graham Smith

15 comments

A trendy young man looks at the camera in Dates & Wires. A text bubble reads: "You can tell me about your travels and miserable hookups. I'll send you my harsh noise MP3s and 3am depressive rants."

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Supporters only | Cyberdude dating story Dates & Wires was not for me, until it very was

Circuit icebreaker

March 6, 2025Sin Vega

6 comments

A snowglobe view of a single-room apartment with somebody having dinner with their mother at a table on the right handside

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Vendrán Las Aves is a short free game about burnout from Red String Club developers Deconstructeam

Guitar hero

Feb. 5, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

A group of young people sit in a coffee shop, chatting, in Afterlove EP.

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Afterlove EP, the final game from the creator of Coffee Talk, launches next month

A slice-of-life adventure about forming a band in Jakarta

Jan. 16, 2025Graham Smith

3 comments

A wind-up dancer toy in Toy Box begging you for mercy

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I can't bear to play much of free horror game Toy Box, but I love the concept of pulling talking toys apart

Festively grim

Dec. 17, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments

Godrick the Grafted attacks with a hammer.

News

Sony is in talks to buy Dark Souls and Elden Ring parent company Kadokawa

Hungry for games

Nov. 19, 2024Brendan Caldwell

25 comments

A guy with a horrible face and grin and tentacles wearing a yellow raincoat in Static Dread

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Static Dread is Papers, Please but you're a lighthouse keeper besieged by Lovecraftian monsters

"Gosh..."

Oct. 28, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

A conversation with a house named Mint in Building Relationships.

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I am happy to report that Building Relationships has more than one joke, and most of them are pretty good

Solid foundations

Oct. 16, 2024Nic Reuben

1 comment

A scene from sci-fi climate fable Known Mysteries, showing a pixellated and oddly coloured image of a mountain town with areas marked in bold yellow text

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Known Mysteries is a lo-fi climate fable that runs off a solar-powered server on its developer's balcony

Praise the sun

Sept. 26, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments

A scene in Slay The Princess showing a great hall in a castle filled with giant globs of flesh, and a drain filled with blood running down the centre of the floor

News

Slay The Princess gets three new chapters and more when The Pristine Cut releases 24th October

I keep wanting to call it a regicide-em-up because the accurate Latin is too awkward

Sept. 26, 2024Nic Reuben

14 comments

An illustration of a Warhammer 40,000 Forge World with a huge robotic entity pouring molten metal in the distance and a priest with biomechanical arms in the foreground

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Would you play a Warhammer 40K factory game? Because Zachtronics almost made one

How the creators of SpaceChem and Eliza flirted with the grim darkness of the far future

Sept. 25, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

53 comments

A mocked-up OS desktop with a folder full of games about saying goodbye

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Some Goodbyes We Made is a collection of sorrowfully sweet games about saying goodbye

Skip to the end

Sept. 17, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

5 comments

A penguin blushes at a robot on a cinema screen, as two ghosties lean in for a kiss in their seats in Love, Ghostie.

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Supporters only | Love, Ghostie is a sweet and silly shipper's treat

Ghost match analysis

Sept. 13, 2024Sin Vega

2 comments

An emperor clutching a dead woman with scary demon ladies behind him in My Lovely Empress

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In dark kingdom sim My Lovely Empress you run an empire with the help of summoned demon ladies

Faust never had a therapist

Aug. 8, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

Mark and a friend cycle uphill by the seaside in Until Then.

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Until Then is the only visual novel game I've truly enjoyed

A wonderful thing

July 18, 2024Ed Thorn

18 comments

An alien whale calf emerges in South Scrimshaw.

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Supporters only | Oh, hey, a touching free game about an alien whale

South Scrimshaw part one is lovely

July 12, 2024Nic Reuben

5 comments

A talking house with two wings being a bit of a dom in Building Relationships

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Building Relationships is A Short Hike, but you are trying to chat up toy houses

Get a Bungaload of this

June 20, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

Miles Edgeworth stands, looking stern, as a figure in shadow behind him points a gun at him.

News

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection brings two Miles Edgeworth games to the PC

And Ace Attorney Investigations 2 outside of Japan for the first time

June 18, 2024Graham Smith

12 comments

Serafin and Juni work with the player to enter a derelict spaceship.

Feature

Can you guess which Australian TV sci-fi of the early 2000s inspired Citizen Sleeper 2?

Through a wormhole, darkly

June 12, 2024Brendan Caldwell

19 comments

Harold is desperate to trade manga with Luna.

Review

Read Only Memories: Neurodiver review - a bright cyberpunk noir overdosing on easter eggs

Squid pro quo

May 15, 2024Brendan Caldwell

18 comments

Sam and Andy sitting by the fire talking in Vampire Therapist

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Vampire Therapist is like playing language puzzles against different types of theatre kid

Fangs for the memories

May 14, 2024Alice Bell

20 comments