Sip Fisher
Sip Fisher is weird.
Beginning behind a literal locked door in the middle of the woods, players are instructed to grab a straw and get fishing.
Eventually, they’ll drain the whole lake.
Aether & Iron
Few genres may be considered quintessentially American in their construction – the superhero movie, the spaghetti Western – but none more than film noir, according to both me and Roger Ebert, per a 2012 piece.
The world of Aether & Iron is an alt-1930s New York, aloft in the sky, equal parts noir and classic RPG.
Pepsiman
In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, many brands were shifting marketing strategies, and tragically, due to either that shift or his Japanese origin, we in the West weren’t able to experience Pepsiman.
Scale the Depths
Scale the Depths is not an average fishing sim. Instead of centering the rhythmic push and pull of reeling in fish and the minutiae of rod and reel combinations, it offers a linear progression model and underwater landscapes to explore.
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
The Nintendo DS’ influence is felt on all levels in Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved, from the carefully pre-rendered and blurred 3D backgrounds to the larger than average text size.
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Spring itch.io roundup
The five best things we played on itch.io this spring, brought to you by our editor-in-chief
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MiO: Memories in Orbit
MIO: Memories In Orbit is a game about hope lost, about the moment in the journey where the crush of the world wins and you curl up and wait for the end. About a tiny robot. About a little spark of hope?
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Everything Next Fest: Feb. 2026
If you were curious what you should be looking forward to on Steam this year, look no further. Here are eight of the best demos we played this fest alongside our (objectively) correct opinions.
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Creature Kitchen: Charmingly Retro
Heart, humor, and horror are balanced expertly with the stupid simple cooking mechanics and delightful Dreamcast-era graphics. In short, this game cultivates a vibe.
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Fallout 4’s settlement builder is so bad it’s fantastic
Sometimes I enjoy things that are bad.
Zelda CD-i cutscenes. The Johnny Depp remake of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Fallout 4 base building.
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