Statistic: There are 195 demos in the upcoming #SteamNextFest that contain adult content. Hentai, general porn, nude desktop companions, naked fruit, and so forth. #steam #nextfest #hentai #porn #fruit

There will be over 4,800 demos in this month's Next Fest, making it the largest Next Fest of all Next Fests.

Next Fest devs: if you're interested in some free promo, or want to sponsor a spot, check this out: weloveit.io/developers/n... #steam #steamgames #indiegames #nextfest

Teasing this for next week! #steam #steamgames #nextfest #indiegames

Arcane Eats, the World's most delicious #roguelike #deckbuilder, has a new expanded demo with a GIANT update; and it’s in Steam Next Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/2640090/... We’d be delighted for you to sample what we’ve been busy cooking! But maybe Gorgon Ramsey says it best… #indiegames

I kinda want to parody Steam's "Discovery Queue," and I'm thinking "Discovery Canal" is amusing but too outlandish. Am I getting old in my old age?

FINALLY I can publicly say that Mr Magpie is being published by @bhvr.com, the creators of Dead by Daylight! It's been great working with them. Everyone on the team is bright and talented. We are super lucky to have them in our corner. youtu.be/1gHE0TOoP5g

Duskers is getting a sequel! 10 years later 😅 The Steam post has more info, including the new teaser trailer - featuring the voice of Deonte (our producer). You can even wishlist it on Steam if you're into that sorta thing 😉 steamcommunity.com/games/254320...

Announcing: Hidden Folks 2 - New themes and areas. - Improved graphical quality. - Second (not text!) clue. - Lots of new mouth sounds. - Various quality-of-life improvements. - Made in #godot. Get an email when it releases: hiddenfolks.com Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4480060

Let's have a race: which Steam tags have been the most popular over time? (Source: WeLoveIt.io) #steam #steamgames #indiegames #gamedev #data

Still a prototype, but per @skydomehive.bsky.social's post about Popular Upcoming focusing on more-popular games, here's a prototype I call "Popular-Enough Upcoming": weloveit.io/experiments/... #steam #steamgames #indiedev #gamedev

Do you have a game in the upcoming #SteamNextFest? I want to hear about it for an interactive thing we're doing at WeLoveIt.io. We shall celebrate #NextFest demos and solve game discovery forever. #steam #indiedev #gamedev

Turn humble villages into a thriving network of trade and prosperity to satisfy the gods. Prophet Margin is a relaxing city-building puzzle where every road, resource, and connection creates new opportunitie! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/... #PitchYaGame

I'm talking to Matt and Tim here about trends in Steam games. This one's about the number of screenshots on Steam games over time. #steam #steamgames #gamedev #indiedev

Let's have a race: which Steam tags have been the most popular over time? (Source: WeLoveIt.io) #steam #steamgames #indiegames #gamedev #data

Hello, Wayfarers! Today, we have some big news for you! Stars Reach is coming to Early Access this summer, and we’ll have a lot more to share about this in the coming weeks. Watch the trailer on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTl...

Our "New Steam Times" newspaper view of the latest Steam games is live! Check it out: weloveit.io/the-new-steam-times The goal is to improve game discovery by making new releases more skimmable. #steam #steamgames #indiedev #indiegames

We've closed submissions for bsky.app/profile/ichi.... I had the thought that we could do a whole newspaper page for everyone who responded. Working title "The Indie Friend Times," but would love to do something more clever before we launch it, if anyone has ideas. #steamgames #indiedev #indiegames

So, from the weloveit.io/how-expensiv... experiment, the most expensive wishlists we've found are approaching a quarter million bucks. Mine is around $250.00. I'm a cheap date. #steam #steamgames #indiegames #indiedev

It's official 🌴 Ourlands is out NOW! Please go and wishlist/get the game, and if you do, drop a lil review on it too! Cozy vibes are patiently waiting for you :) Get the game here: Steam: s.team/a/2074470 Epic: store.epicgames.com/p/ourlands-2...

Here we go! My game, Neighborhoods - wishlist if you're into some cozy urbanism! Or claymation characters getting pancaked: store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/...

OK here we go again. It's been a year. I'm attempting to run 100miles to raise money for @parkinsons.org.uk. Would love a share. events.parkinsons.org.uk/fundraisers/...

Do gamers wishlist aspirationally? Do they save games they never play? PRELIMINARY FINDINGS: Sampling ~55k Steam users who keep a public wishlist, and for >=1h playtimes in games, only about 18% strongly play the genres their wishlist points to!

Hokay, I put The Cozy Steam Times together as a preview of the whole New Steam Times: weloveit.io/the-new-stea... It's a newspaper view of all the latest cozy games coming out on Steam. #steam #steamgames #cozygames #indiegames #indiedev

We'll be launching a new site that lets gamers browse Steam releases in a visually delightful newspaper style. As always we want to promote indies doing cool stuff. If you're interested, stick your game here → weloveeverygame.fillout.com/t/j3xw5Vn7WQus #steamgames #indiedev #indiegames

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We'll be launching a new site that lets gamers browse Steam releases in a visually delightful newspaper style. As always we want to promote indies doing cool stuff. If you're interested, stick your game here → weloveeverygame.fillout.com/t/j3xw5Vn7WQus #steamgames #indiedev #indiegames

Launching this cozy Steam game browser soon! #steam #cozygames #steamgames

How many shots do/should devs have on their Steam Store page, anyway? Taking bets as to the ideal number! The average that devs DO have is decreasing each year. Tim Ermilov, Matt Martindale, and I will do a video about all that next week. #steam #steamgames #indiegames #indiedev

Tune in to @thinkygames.com Thinky Direct in a bit to catch Prophet Margin and other great games! Demo release!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=26pA... Find it on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

This is what FMV + Dating Sim looks like on Steam, in newspaper form: weloveit.io/experiments/...

Putting together our "Cozy Games on Sale" browser. Still pretty basic, but getting there: weloveit.io/sale-browser... #steam #cozygames #steamgames #cozy

Plinking around with a new experiment in how to present games. Looking for feedback on The New Steam Times: weloveit.io/experiments/...

How big are Steam users' wishlists? From our current sample, most users have wishlists with double digit numbers of games.

🌴 MAJOR ANNOUCEMENT! 🌴 Ourlands, my cozy island builder, will arrive on June 2, 2026 on both Steam and the Epic Games Store! I'd greatly appreciate it if you could go and wishlist it and share it with EVERYONE YOU KNOW! Spread the vibes. Links below 👇🏽

The biggest wishlist we've seen so far (weloveit.io/how-expensiv...) has been over $62k. That's crazy-pants! Mine's still at $250. I need to get listing.

"How Expensive Is Your Wishlist?" is live! weloveit.io/how-expensiv... It's a cheeky joke with an alterior motive: can we turn your wishlist into a sexy, skimmable showcase that reminds you why you wanted those games in the first place?

Discovery Deep Dive episode #2 with @greyalien.bsky.social is up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrP...

We just made the Midgame Fund agreement public. midgame.fund/terms The money TL;DR is: - Devs pay investors back from the game's revenue after it releases (if ever). - 75% of revenue pre-recoup. - 25% of revenue post-recoup, until 6 times the investment or 5 years after release.

Klifur is out now on Steam!!! 🥳🧗‍♂️🧗‍♀️🧗🍾 #indiegames #bouldering #climbing

@its-martindale.bsky.social and I are working on a new toy with a hidden purpose: reminding you why the things on your Steam wishlist are cool. More TBA!

Cheers for the shout-out on @pcgamer.com, @foddy.net !

HOLY HECK! Existential Treads - our retro top down shooter + settlement builder + tower defense game - is OUT! 🤘🍻💯 Stop reading! Go nab it! Thanks! You rule! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... Itch: ashadamsgames.itch.io/existential-... #indiegame #indiegamedev #towerdefense

This game looks interesting and also insane. Highlights here: weloveit.io/game/4157130/

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

Announcing Hardhats: A Voxile spin-off game entirely around putting together complex builds with your friends, in a world where everything can go wrong! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdI4...

2. In 2015, I was con chair for my first *major* Mysterium, and the idea arose to have a panel of Boston-local devs talk about narrative in games. In addition to @ichiro.bsky.social and @eblong.com, Dean was kind enough to show up to our con and bloviate (his word) on the subject.

It's IMGD Presentation Day! We have a full-day student conference of creative and technical research. Graduate students present in the morning, undergraduates in the afternoon. If you're interested you can tune online, and I'll be sharing project work here too. echo360.org/section/b7d6...

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

You can calculate cost-per-hour and hours-per-dollar for games, for median review times. That leads into a whole conversation about how to value a game, but I also do remember when I was younger, and had like $3 to spend on a thing.