future of games showcase

• New abyss X zero trailer, a fucking awesome game made by the team behind unsighted, trans ppl are making a kickass low poly fucked up game with yuri go for it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYFB1xtfks

• ZodiacXXLeo, insane looking game about piloting a ship with a fast paced soundtrack, just brimming with style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4migTR84Nz0

• Battle Suit Aces, new game from the devs of Battle Chef Brigade. Looks like a deckbuilder roguelike but with a heavier focus on characters and storytelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IQq3xEg8g

• All Systems Dance, a game thta calls itself a "dance battle adventure". No real reveal on how it plays but you certainly do a lot of dancing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPe80YQouYE

• Yooka-Replaylee, a remaster of yooka-laylee. This makes me feel old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2LgdpzV7A0

• Nova Hearts, another great entry into the "persona rewired my brain I wanna make a game like this", game mixing turn based combat, dating mechanics, and a phone-styled interface https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJyCkLovlz0

• DLC for A Date With Death, a visual novel dating simulator where you're trying to date death to keep him from claiming your soul. Seems to be more content, running a kickstarter now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gabmag/a-date-with-death-beyond-the-bet?ref=5j1679

• LOK-DIGITAL, a wordish puzzle game that seems like it'd be good for people who love like, puzzmo and sudko and that stuff. Demo is out now on steam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSzyc_QsfoI

• Croakwood, a citybuilder where your city is all cute frogs from the developers of parkitecht. This is the first of the FROG GAMES which I will be numbering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NxvSvT2fQ

• Cozy Marbles. a game about making marble tracks, like the wooden ones you used to have as a kid, then rolling lots of marbles down them and seeing which ones win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7rIQtlxiNo

• Phoenix Springs, a beautiful point and click mystery game with a fantastic artstyle. As a point and click enjoyer i'm gonna play the hell outta this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_6r7VLuC2Y

• REKA, a game where you have a baba-yaga style hut with big chicken legs and you go around being a witch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGYF6cQXwzg

• Sandara, a game that's a... roleplaying deckbuilder? Seems to be similar to Citizen Sleeper but with deckbuilding instead of dice; genuinely this one is so strange I can't figure out how it works. Seems awesome tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oghxyzSjVNc

• Airborne Empire, a citybuilder where your city is built in the sky, and thus you have to consider things like weight balancing, keeping yourself airborne, and fighting sky pirates. Also it's all cute anthro birds? Demo out now, gonna check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYT9DF0cFJw

• Dungeon Clawler, one of a few a roguelike dungeon crawl games with a funny central mechanic: in this case, it's crane/claw arcade games. the items you grab decide what you do on your turn. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXxjSXhCNR8

• N.O.D.E., a cinematic puzzle platformer that looks like Inside or Little Nightmares but instead plays like a programming game; setup commands for your robot and then execute them all in a row. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hsvGSf6js

• Copycat, a game where you play as a cat who's home was taken from her by a different cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRAn77l5Opw

• Light Odyssey, a top down action game about being a little tiny dude killing really really big monsters. Very heavily inspired by shadow of the colossus, it seems. V pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zez-kqGK6yw

• Psychroma, a side scroller narrative game where you play as a digital medium exorcising cybernetic ghosts from a house. Watch this one if you like really fucked weird horror visuals. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuncdhJbbV0

• NEW EDITION of Slay the Princess, "the pristine cut", with new endings, expanded current endings, new languages, and coming to consoles. Out this fall. Also a fancy collectors edition with lots of funny prizes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Kg5NCYIkY

• SIZZLE REEL TIME: Echo Generation Midnight Edition by Cococucumber, Rooster by Sticky Brain Studios, Alzara radiant echos by Studio Camelia, Timberborn by Mechanistry, Bubblegum Galaxy by Smarto Club, Retro Gadgets by Evil Licorich, Nomori by Enchanted Works, Margin of the Strange by Future Cat LLC, Rose and Locket by Whistling Wizard, Ra Ra Boom by Gylee Games, Genokids by Nukefist, and Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip by Snekflat. All look cool but I don't have time to grab them all. Timestamped link to the sizzle reel: https://youtu.be/YmTc_jmdLpc?t=2080

Wholesome Direct

• Myth Match, a mix of those games where you merge sets of 3 to make objects you then merge into sets of three to make more advanced objects with like, a crafting style "build up the community and take care of it". Seems cute, demo is out now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/Mythmatch/

• Caravan Sandwitch, an big open world exploration game where you have a big cool car and are a cool witch. Also, most importantly, has a cute little frog guy making this the second frog game. Demo out now https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582650/Caravan_SandWitch/

• Tiny Bookshop, a game where you run a tiny little bookstore with a focus on the narrative of the town you're in. Demo out now. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2133760/Tiny_Bookshop/

• Été, an artist game where you paint a watercolor-looking world with color, then use the objects you've painted as stamps to make your own little paintings. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1065070/t/

• Discounty, a shopkeep game where you run a little grocery store sorta thing; seems heavy on interacting with the town you're in. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274620/Discounty/

• Rooster, a point and click-ish puzzle game with beautiful art emulating chinese brush art. Seems very creative and is beautiful to look at. https://www.playrooster.com/

• A Playdate sizzle reel, featuring Spellcorked, Reel-istic Fishing, Faraway Fairway, Bloom, Escape the Arcade, and Rowbot Rally. Look, if you have a playdate, you should check this out. And the playdate is awesome.

• Into the Emberlands, an... exploration survival roguelike where you build up a little town? Cute art, and could be really compelling. Demo out now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcUcsV-9Xk

• Squeakcross, it's fuckin picross! there's like, a whole thing of using the items you picross to build a little house or dress up a little mouse, but like. It's picross, you're gonna like this if you like picross. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP0bfird5Ek

• Critter Cafe, a game that's half zelda-style top down puzzle game (with no enemies as far as i could tell) and half "run a little cafe" game. Also, there's cute little guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVNqNMYQ4c

• Garden of the Sea, a VR game with all the like, build a little house, do some farming, take care of some little guys, go fishing, etc stuff you get in an animal crossing-esque thing. Is there a name for these? The trailer is that it's coming out on Switch, which... baffles me. This is a VR game! Switch?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fGEFgbEs-g

• Fantastic Haven, a game about building a fantasy nature preserve of sorts to rehabilitate and help like, griffins and dragons and stuff. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2e3MkRzVh8

• Crab God, a city management/god game roguelike where you manage a bunch of crabs, trying to keep them alive and collect enough food and resources for the next level. Demo out now https://store.steampowered.com/app/2289390/Crab_God/

• Ila: a Frosty Glide, a game about being a witch who skates around on a SKATEBROOM. It's an open world platformer thing where you skate around on a skatebroom. AWESOME. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GXIVTGJERM

• Sally, a life sim exploration farming etc game where the gimmick is your house is an airship in the sky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlH59HGNp1w

• Sizzle reel! Great god Grove, Times and Galaxies, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo, Pine: A Story of Loss, and After Love EP.

• Dungeons of Hinterburg, a dungeon crawl adventure game where the open world is a popular tourist location, and all the locals are... annoyed at all the tourists coming to the dungeon. This one seems really cool, looks real pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4bodE6swE

• Fruitbus, a game where you run a food truck, foraging ingredients while you drive around and then serving people when you stop. Looks cute! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtooJ5FYdZ0

• Freeride, an RPG game set on a fucked up mysterious train where you have to help a bunch of fun characters. No combat, but does have goofy physics stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugXVwIbgzek

• Kameru, an idle/simulation game about keeping a farm full of cute drawn frogs, breeding them, and building a place. I probably missed one or two, but this makes 3 frog games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loiYaZM97sw

• Lost and Found co., part of a trend of hidden object games on steam where they present you with a HUGE beautifully detailed area and ask you to find things in it. Like a where's waldo book. This one looks like it has point and click puzzle elements? Demo out now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmpTAlIksf0

• Littlelands, a big exploration RPG with a really distinctive art style I can only describe as.. playmobile-esque? Everything looks like a kids toy in that distinct way. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScYEhCH5HWk

• Usagi Shima, an idle game where cute hand drawn bunnies show up and you look at them. Remember neko atsume? It's that but with bunnies. There's a new update now, apparetly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCH_YtY_Q0E

• Minami Lane, a management sim where you build multiple buildings on a street to help keep everyone in a town happy. apparently it's coming to switch, which seems a good home for a cute casual game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFZZ-lbtkQ

• POOOOL, it's suika game but with pool balls. If you don't know what suika game is, it's 2048 but with physics. Out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizbx9vYDmU

• Tiny Lands 2, a spot the difference game with some really beautiful 3d models to look at. Extremely pretty looking game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Za73XoDTBU

• Moonstone Island, a bit of pokemon monster collecting, a bit of stardew farming life sim, and a bit of deckbuilder styled combat. Pretty pixel art, this game is already ut and seems to be doig well, but now it's on switch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeFHoDPmnRg

• Rolling Hills, a "running a restaurant" style game where you play as a cute robot making sushi for people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OLq60psk6k

• On your Tail, a mystery adventure sorta game with a lot of great furries. I'm already excited for this game, lots of minigames, lots of puzzles, interesting looking mystery, and LOTS of cute furry girls. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNDcEZnh4yI

• Spilled!, a cleaning game where you pilot a boat around cleaning up polluted waters. You get money for your efforts, upgrade your boat, and so repeat. Demo out now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0GyoYbrH7c

• The Palace On The Hill, a lifesim/store management sim about being a boy in 90s rural india and managing a tea shop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA21pD1i5vA

• Traveller's Rest, a pretty pixel art game about managing a fantasy tavern. It's already in early access, this trailer is for the newest update, adding tons more story content to the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w0KUW7OUws

• Another sizzle reel! Petit Island, Albatroz, and Magical Bakery.

• While Waiting, a mobile game about sitting around and waiting in comedic situations. Funny enviroments where you fuck around with random stuff while you should be waiting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBsxzuL4YK0

• Sopa, an adventure game about exploring a weird realm full of frogs. Really pretty and interesting, seems very heavy on story. Our fourth frog game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xineNRm4RhE

• Tracks of thought, a card game style game where the cards are used for conversations on a strange train. I support this game because bugs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63-8ePK3q9Y

• A final sizzle reel I am too tired to talk about, but it also has KITSUNE TAILS kitsune tails is awesome you can play the demo right now if you like old mario platformers but wish they were gayer and about women play this game. if you don't like that play it anyways becuase it rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU

Latin American Games Showcase

• Prisma, the next entry in the "oh persona fucked up your brain" games. At least I think it is, we don't have much to go on from this trailer except a really sick style and some cool camera stuff. Interesting to look at, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXRub_pTNlo

• Goblin Cleanup, a game where you play as GOBLINS in MAID OUTFITS. The gameplay seems to be a viscera cleanup detail styled cleaning game but with a dangerous dungeon that can kill you, or maybe your friends? I'm not sure i'm too busy thinking about GOBLINS in MAID OUTFITS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-XxQAr0i_E

• I Was Lost, i gotta be real I could not figure out what the gameplay in this was aside from it being a word puzzle game until I looked up the game on steam. It looks like it's a poetry thing? I'm still a bit unsure, but it's certainly interesting. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1935420/I_Was_Lost/

• Deathbound, a soulslike with a gimmick of you playing as 4 different guys with different fighting styles and switching between them on the fly. I've actually watched iron pineapple play the demo for this one, it's an intersting gimmick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3PdYobUWOk

• Into the Grid, a cyberpunk deckbuilder game. This trailer is mostly showinf off all the in depth deckbuilder stuff, which could be cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5PXmnGgATc

• Heaven Crawler, a hack n slash roguelite where you get to attach big machine parts to your little guy while fighting even bigger machines. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWSYZ174Of4

• Bit and Quantum Save the Earth, a vr puzzle game about working witha little guy on a space station to repair stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPaPZDDVfg

• Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age, a fighting game that's been announced for a while and has a demo out now is announcing a new character that's a giant disel mech dude. If you like fighting games, maybe this one will work for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAJbZRH7j8

• One Card One Shot Mafia, a... roguelike about finding the right person in a deck of cards to shoot? This one seems like a game that starts simple and gets really, really wild. Gonna check this out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUc24mlhG_g

• Iron Hive, A deckbuilding citybuilder strategy game with a very edgy look that i'm kinda into. I always love a deckbuilder trying something new with why you're building the deck, so i'll check this out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2679070/IRONHIVE/

• Gurei, an action platformer where you fight a series of hard bosses in an yorder, and each boss killed makes all the other more difficult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUCyt2kBlRg

• Hidden in my Paradise, a cute little game about making a cute little place and taking pictures. There's a fairy. All games should have a little fairy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyInPne3A8E

• Mark of the Deep, a top down action metroidvania style game with a lot of interesting combat and a lot of fucked up pirates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKor_wgVShs

• The Amazing Crackpots Club, a "we made up our own sport" style game like towerfall or something. This shit rules. I love a fake sport game. it's a big weakness of mine. There's even a moth, this game was made for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbU2jHkGYNI

• Arco, a turn based tactics RPG game with lots of interesting gunplay. Cute pixel art and interesting tactics stuff, seems cool. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzE49RqfJU

• Project Timi, a 3d rhythm puzzle game! I'm gonna be real, this game looks cool but i'm so tired at this point I need to take a break. Here's the trailer, demo out now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjnEy6LdrpA

• Naughty Geese, a yoshis-island inspired retro platformer where instead of throwing eggs, you throw the goslings following you around. Drive around on a motorcycle as an edgy cool dude duck. Some furries will like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppm_vUGV5Q

• Runa and the Chaikuru Legacy: a good lookin 3d platformer with some cool big giant monsters and things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es2_80qaubs

• Vinebound: Tangled Together, A vampire survivors-like, where the gimmick is you're controlling 2 characters (solo or co-op) with a vine connecting them. Attacks might travel across the vine or ask you to catch enemies with it, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWa6A2eJYqE

• Slime Heroes, an action RPG with solid co-op where you play as a litle dragonquest style slime guy fighting lots and lots of dudes. Sure i'm disappointed they aren't slimegirls, but maybe the slimes ARE girls... you never know... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwR3aO96WNs

• The Path Into The Abyss, an open world FPS survival game set in buenos aires, seems to be taking heavily after stalker. Edgy as fuck and dark as hell, but also you can make yourself delicious drinks :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3ZfPNZOMY

• The Coldest Winter, a highly stylized horror point and click game about a bunch of fucked up guys. Great looking art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwTeBK75iko

• Hollow Flowers, a... okay i'm just gonna copy over the description for this one from the video: "a transmedia project in the development stage and involves the creation of a short film, an animated series, a video game, and a comic". Ambitious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cXn5viBgs

• Among the Stars, A side scrolling party-based rpg where you play as a girl who can TURN INTO A STAR WOLF. Furries she turns into a WEIRD STAR WOLF IT'S AWESOME. Also the game looks cool and is about indigenous brazilians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwAAbdin2Y

• Mexico 1921: A Deep Slumber, a self described "docugame" where you play as a photographer during the 1920s in mexico, exploring historical people, places, and events that lead up to the assasination of president Álvaro Obregón. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfqAt8f0cE

• Curilemu, a lovecraftian horror gmae that feels very death stranding to me. Lots of big spooky boys to run away from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3LuZ8UMoy4

• Sopa: Tale of the stolen potato was ALREADY IN THE WHOLESOME DIRECT SKIP

• The War In Chiapas, a 2d stealth action game about being an insurgent in the jungles of 1980s Chiapas Mexico, trying to survive against a paramilitary group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDtHCbEwQE8

• Keylocker, a cyberpunk anime turn based rhythm jrpg that marks the second gmae i've seen with a "music is illegal" plot. Extremely stylish, and one of the characters is the gun that keeps breaking destiny 2! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325040/Keylocker__Turn_Based_Cyberpunk_Action/

• Travel On, Pigeon!, a puzzle rhythm game about navigating spaces to the beat of the rhythm as a cute little bird. Also the second pigeon-based rhythm game i've seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRcf8fdndk

• Extinction Rifts, a fast paced combo-heavy fps where THOSE BASTARDS HAVE ALL THE MONOLITHS!!! I don't know what this means but it showed up on screen in huge letters and left such an impression i keep saying it to myself. what does it mean. why did they say that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94tPHLThO0

• Desvelado, a precision platformer where you play as the world's cutest vampire bat trying to put out all the lights in his castle. Demo out now, and i'm gonna try it cause that vampire is cute as fuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqBb-A33kc

• Pipistrello and the cursed yoyo, a stylish 2d top down adventure game where you solve puzzles with a yo yo. This main character looks so fuckin cute in a 2000s edgy cartoon network way, in a Mad Rat Dead way. Demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE65hSnQio4

• Wind Runners, it's a 2d jet fighter game like Luftrausers! Like Jet Lancer! Like hyperspace dogfights! Like a bunch of other games i'm probably forgetting! All of these games fucking rule and so will this one I hope and i'll play it just like i've played all of these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKaUUlgHPO0

• Atomic Picnic, a co-op roguleike third person shooter game. I love a good co-op game, maybe this'll be fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMm-wKTLt4

• Century of Anticipation, a very surreal game about locking yourself at home trying to get time to pass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DtwT0IhOK4

• Super Farming Boy An arcade-y farming game based on chaining together fruits and vegetables and getting combos, with lots of wacky powers and weird stuff constantly happening. Feels very old school wacky arcade game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcTBl862Qy0

• The Midnight Crimes, a dark noir 3d point and click adventure game. Feels very late telltale, i.e. Wolf Amogus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kK27wEk2Dw

• Despelote, a slice of life adventure game about being a kid in Quito Equador in 2001 and desperately wanting to go play soccer at all times. I feel gross writing soccer while describing the latin american games showcase. It's football, it's fucking football, american football sucks this is goddamn football. anyways this game is stylish and cool and has a demo out now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLVIGcc33CM

• Payloaders Strike, a movement FPS where you have an extremely powerful punch. Play as a robot guy and beat up all the other robot guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eITKXun635k

• Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, which is about as inspired by Skies of Arcadia as any game i've ever seen. Additionally, it's got an interesting turn-based arial combat thing going on, seems like something fans of a few specific weird games absolutely have to check out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJYWphfe070

• Under Canopies, an exploration/survival game that feels less heavy on survival challenge and more based around casual exploration and building yourself a nice place to live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YioHD0U5s8Y

• The Cabbage Effect, a surrealist twin stick shooter with cutscenes that look like they were inspired by the greatest animtaors of our generation, AC-BU. Honestly this feels like an XBLA game from 10 years ago and i mean that in the absolute best way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rng95FsoZms

• Bittersweet Birthday, a 2d action exploration game with a lot of pixel art style and a cute bird boy who... seems to both be friend and foe? This has a lot going on in a way that I really like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VoEdE5memQ

• ABYSS X ZERO: we already saw this trailer but it's STILL SICK AS FUCK please get ready for abyss x zero

• Beacon of Neyda, a side-scroller strategy game that seems like a bit of tower defense and a bit of the Kingdom games. Lots of post-apocalyptic robots to fight, lots of ruined pixel art structures to explore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT1pwpIAZwA

• Roadout, a mix of a top down racing game and a top down dungeon crawl with some cool post apocalyptic vibes. I've actually played this demo and had a real good time with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7sokyWFsQw

• BoyScout: Patrick's Town, a pixel art adventure game with a lot of funny minigames to find. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537480/Boyscout__Patricks_Town/

• Super Crane HD, a match 3 arcade game where you play as a cool bug. God I love cool bugs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQbmGan_OhE

• DreamSweeper, a game where to explore the world safely you have to... play minesweeper! There's also some cool music stuff going on, this seems like a solid puzzle dungeoncrawl thing entry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfFXqDz1QmQ

• Eagle Knight Paradox, a side scrolling action platformer game where occasionally it shifts into a slice of life thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2niDga1iCJE

• Soulquest, a sidescrolling action pixel art platformer where you fight lots of big guys. Seems like a cool 2d fighty game, and it stars a girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaLEd6nGxQ

• Codex Eternal Eclipse, a cool 2.5d sidescroller rpg game with guys with mechanical wings. I love cool mechanical wings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzeUGshfRJg

• Tenebris Somnia, a pixel art point and click horror adventure game where whenever the game starts to show you a monster, it shifts to FMV with some stunningly creepy practical special effects. as an official cohost Fmv Enjoyer, this is sick as fuck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnM08uPZr8U

• Vulture: Scavengers of Death, a low-poly retro resident evil style survival horror game where all the combat is turn based tactics stuff. Also features a man with the largest shoulders i've seen in a very long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqFIOs_2W4

• Stay With Me! An Alien Abduction Story, ananlog horror walking around style horror game. All done through a vhs, and the monsters seem to be old school greys, you know the ANTI ALIEN ALARM PROTECTIVE SHIELD PROTECTIVE SHIELD kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNvsUFmy_p8

• Dreamcore, a first person horror game ful lof weird liminal spaces and big empty rooms. What if weird suburban enviroments went on forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3BoqWqkZwA

• Saborus, a puzzle horror game where you play as a chicken in a slaughterhouse trying to survive and not be fed to the machine of industry (and nuggets). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcipd8xVWr4

• Bloodrush: Undying wish, a fast paced hack n slash roguelike with 1 hit kill and a focus on parrying d dashing around. Also, extremely goth, which i approve of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPZBk9khxg

• Dark Crown, a roguelike deckbuilder where all your guys are chess pieces and can be moved in ways that fit what they do. Creepy and cool looking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPK6bufhRE

• Digital Exorcist Case File 1: Defrag, a visual novel where you play as a disgraced agent who must exorcise digital daemons. Very anime inspired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVg3N-vaJ8Y

• Astral Rot, a third person survival horror game with old school "one camera angle per scene" camera stuff and a cool space station setting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bz50LUsuco

• Mariachi Legends, one of the most beautiful 2d platformers i've ever seen. Absolutely stunning, check this out if only for aesthetics, although the rest of the game looks great too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNpMID9DbLA

Women Lead Games show

• Ra Ra Boom, a 4 player co-op beat em up game where you play as ninja cheerleaders. Tbh, bat em ups are ike fighting games in that i don't really undrestnad what makes one good or bad, I just enjoy playing em. And I'll enjoy playing tihs, prolly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sExQ6HKZ0xo

• The Palace On The Hill was ALREADY MENTIONED TODAY NEXT

• Yes Your Grace: Snowfall is a sequel to Yes Your Grace, a management rpg thing where you play as the king of a kingdom making choices to try and manage your kingdom's needs and avoid being overthrown. The sequel seems to have some really cool cinematic pixel art cutscenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0Maue64nU

• Citadelvm, a citybuilder/strategy game where you build a kingdom in ancient roam and then send soldiers into battle in a grand strategy style. Also, sometimes gods show up and stomp around your city like I normally see in macro furry art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSJLxsm2gmc

• Sunnyside, a farming and life sim game showed a special trailer for it's cooking system, which it's trying to make more realistic then other cooking mechanics by actually paying attention to things like prtions or how far ingredients will go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Njg8kJAx6s

• Crush House, a third person "shooter" where you film members of a bachelor-style Who Dates Who tv show with your camera and try to capture the juiciest footage so you won't get cancelled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z30Scg9u1u4

• Duck Detective, which is already out? did I cover tihs already? It's a really good mystery game where you play as a cartoon duck. Idk i feel like i've seen this trailer 10 times but it's a good game. Oh they're announcing it for mobile right. it's gonna be on mobile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4s-Pu0HXMo

• Just Crow Things, a "cause as much chaos as you can" simulator adventure game where you play as a crow flying around nad pooping on people and beating them up with basebal bats.

• Phoenix Springs i ALREADY TALKED ABOUT NEXT

• Quantum PI, a noire detecitve game where you wander around a very strange looking town trying to solve murders. Also, you're a cat. Or at least your head is a cat. It's weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_O6ZiXh0I

• Soulitaire, a game where you play solitaire to try and predict the future, uncovering fortune telling cards as you go. Each card can be interpreted many ways, which could change the outcome of someone's life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HgtnkTTSo0

• Mexico 1921 I already talked about NEXT

• Woodo, a 3d puzzle game where you assemble little wooden dioramas. They're real pretty , and it seems to be trying to be very meditative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeZRmaMNwk8

• Star Stuff, a programming automation game. You'll be running around placing objects in a 3d platformer way to keep your machine running, but you'll be doing it in sync with machines you program the specific behaviors of, bit by bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCb8q_m2J6U

• The Star Named Eos, a first person puzzle adventure game with a focus on photography. I do love a good ol fashioned first person puzzle, and this is pretty and interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Jgpox6mQM

• Bubblegum galaxy, a building game where you rebuild the galaxy tile by tile. Cute low-poly artstyle and some interesting puzle gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s9Haqnqp0I

• ABYSS X ZERO AGAIN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

• I already talked about Dungeon Clawler NEXT

• Hyde's Haunt and Seek, a multiplayer horror game that has a trailer where they had a guy sing a song about the game in a costume. This sort of thing either makes you immediately love a game or immediately hate it. I'll let you decide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovQQ5nDv17o

• MUNCH, a survivors-style action roguelike where you play as the big creepy monster eating all the humans to evolve into bigger, creepier forms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reD2NpRvAUY

• Urban Jungle, an unpacking-style "place all of the objects in the house" game but with a focus on putting a bunch of plants all over the place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9le4goaQ0mA