Sweet jeebus... The current Ultrakill speedrun world record is utterly incomprehensible. TAS-style nonsense doing all the early access stages so far in under 10 minutes. Spoilers, obviously, but if you blink you'll miss em'

I don't hate on bad games if they clearly make an effort. I will forever love The Demon Rush for shooting for the moon and blowing its own legs off. But when I see an RPG Maker game proudly announcing that it's part-written by ChatGPT? Fuck everyone involved in that game. Absolute losers.

There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks. So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs

On one hand, Aqualounge is rad and you should tune in. On the other, it reminds me that Microsoft's big 'backwards compatibility & preservation' push included like one wave of memorable Xbox games, a PC port of Phantom Dust (which is free & great) and then just kinda stopped. 360 BC is patchy too.

There was a big Elden Ring mod release today - Reforged 2.0, one of those big remix type mods with reworked environments, new bosses, etc. www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mo... Pretty slick trailer! And it has both custom matchmaking and seamless co-op support.

A reminder: Despite being a 40-something veteran games journalist and regular in PC Gamer, printed globally, I do not have access to much of the Steam store, because they cannot prove that I am over 18. I could provide a drivers license, passport, birth certificate. I have talked to their staff.

Sorry to SpacedockPost on Sojourn, but just want to signal boost this unfortunate situation. The game and DLCs are heavily discounted on GOG so grab em if you've ever wanted to. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock was my first gig with a major sci-fi IP and a fond memory for me. Very sad outcome. -Dan

One indie game I'm looking forward to in the new year is The Last Salvage Squad - a Japanese indie FPS that's doing a lot of stuff differently. You play as a team of big robot friends (like 5-15m - lots of variance) fighting off gigantic alien invaders and rescuing survivors. Looks cute & arcadey.

A really great thread of unusual 2025 releases. It's sort of terrifying that despite talking to people and reading about games every day, and most of these games being the exact kind of thing I look for/share/discuss, I have heard of maybe four of the games in this thread. Game discovery, man.

The pre-release for UZDoom's debut is here! If you'd like to help us test UZDoom in preparation for 4.14.3 grab the build here: github.com/UZDoom/UZDoo... (expand the Assets tab) (Windows and Linux available; Mac coming later) Read the details here: zdoom.org/wiki/UZDoom_...

Oh, that sucks - just found out that the excellent Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock is getting delisted next week. Presumably licenses expiring It was a bit threadbare at launch but the DLC really bulked it out into my ideal BSG game. Shouldn't be too hard to source once it's delisted but still sucks

Fantastic deep dive analysis video on a classic game that absolutely should not exist. Silent Hill 3 was developed start to finish in around 9 months.

If you like it, consider supporting the game with a late pledge on Kickstarter from now until November 24th!

Hear ye, hear ye, denizens of His Country: the BLANKSWORD Demo has received its final major update! Alongside a bunch of bug fixes, there are now new maps and movesets to explore. 👀 This is the best time to try out the demo if you haven't yet!

Ooh, big expansion/relaunch for Astronautilus happening next week. store.steampowered.com/app/1724120/... A very Monolith/Star Of Providence-inspired shooter but with its own identity. Looks to be even more of its own thing with this expansion.

LIVE NOW! 🔴 Come along everyone, feel free to get in here with any questions you might have for Brandon. Gonna be playing a little Powerwash Sim 2 while we're at it. www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion

Hey folks, gonna do an extra stream today, gonna having a bit of a chillout and chat with @brandon.insertcredit.com about Demonschool which is coming out very soon!

While discourse surrounding them was all over the place, my main disappointment with the Tomb Raider remasters was that there was no mod tool releases. Thankfully, the community have stepped up to create a new TR engine of equivalent quality, and a new generation of levels & fangames are being made

I really need to play more of Hell Is Us. It's exactly the kind of polished, slightly offbeat AA game that needs to become the backbone of the industry as AAA crumbles under its own weight.

Oh jeez, TWO VR space-fleet command games dropped today. And one of them is a Homeworld spinoff. store.steampowered.com/app/3385960/... store.steampowered.com/app/2949240/... Could videogames slow down for like ten minutes? Let me catch up a little?

Hi everyone, I'm urgently looking for any work. I'm a writer and narrative designer, I offer game consultations and mock reviews, I localise between German and English, I can write copy. If it needs words, I'll do it! Here's some games I've written on in the past:

Another game I've been poking at but need to sink more time into; NODE: The Last Favor of the Antarii It calls itself a puzzle platformer, and I guess that's true, but it plays more like a point-and-click adventure where your verbs are timed movements, as you give bursts of commands to a cute drone

Was just playing a bit of the excellent Doom mod Godless Night, and it has one of the best implementations of difficulty settings I've seen. Five modes, each with a description and references for which campaigns they are most comparable to, from 'Vanilla D2' at the lowest level to 'Sunlust' at max.

Huh, just watched someone streaming a bit of The Division 2 and I definitely need to look at my character builds, because they were one-shotting almost everything on Heroic difficulty with a revolver. Only enemies that took 2-3 hits were the heavy gunner types.

Heck yeah.

On top of all my Sicko Picks, there's so many games that look like fantastic candidates that I've not even touched. RoPoKo, for instance - an ASCII-style neo-retro adventure and tribute to the Sharp MZ-700, an early 80s computer that was big in Japan.

There's a round of GOTY discussion going around, and I realized that a lot of my favourite games this year have been absolute Sicko Picks. So here's a few games I've loved so far in 2025, starting with a mild one: Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. A scrunkly lil' puzzle-metroidvania with so many fun verbs

Seconding this. The OG X-Com has seen an ENORMOUS modding renaissance in the past few years thanks to the OpenXCom engine. The best way to play it vanilla, as it fixes a ton of bugs and improves the UI. Some of the biggest mods dwarf the original game by a factor of ten times the content or more.

shoutouts to toby fox for just doing this when a platform tells him he HAS to add achievements to his games

These past couple days have just been a ridiculous firehose of interesting indie games. Here's one that almost slipped under my radar - a Professor Layton-like puzzle anthology adventure!

Every now and then I'm reminded that there's a lot of people whose entire videogame world is GTA and maybe Red Dead if they've got broad horizons. I cannot ever imagine being those people. Even as a Red Dead liker, the thought of that just being IT is hard to comprehend.

Alright! It's Tomorrow so time to turn this into a thread! Welcome to IGF Games I Want To Talk About 2025, my annual tradition where I bring up a selection of games I played as an Independent Games Festival judge that I thought were interesting and deserved further highlighting.

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

Choosing the best release date for your game now:

FISH³: FIRST CATCH - HIGH-OCTANE SPEED-FISHING A **FREE** STANDALONE PREQUEL OUT NOW!!! FOR ABSOLUTELY FREE!!! GO TRY IT OUT!!! #indiegame #gamedev

Ubisoft are such a bizarre company. Sometimes, their long-term support for older games is great, going above and beyond when there's no obvious big profit to be made from it. But every so often, the monkey's paw curls and we get stuff like the Ghost Recon Breakpoint NFTs or... whatever this is.

I somehow didn't realize this is from the developer of Railgrade. I really liked Railgrade. A much tighter, more mission-based take on railway-building management/strategy. You've gotta hustle quickly and efficiently, giving it a puzzley feel.

OMG I didn't have the resources to also Remaster the VR version and I learned today and yesterday from a lot of comments. people frickin love the Falconeer VR.. I had no idea youtu.be/xgQxbIjJl8Y?...

NOW. GO GET IT. GET IT NOW. TRUST.

After months of trying to convince me to be mad about Pirate Software and me just not giving a shit, the youtube algorithm seems to have finally given up. And now it's serving me videos about why I should be mad about Phil Fish. Some of these videos? Ancient. Others, brand new... Why??? Let it go!

Folks shouldn't skip on this one. It's an incredibly stylish 'light' 4X strategy game with a weird fantasy setting (no orcs or elves here), a Hitoshi Sakimoto soundtrack, and fast auto-battler style combat.

Seconding this. The OG X-Com has seen an ENORMOUS modding renaissance in the past few years thanks to the OpenXCom engine. The best way to play it vanilla, as it fixes a ton of bugs and improves the UI. Some of the biggest mods dwarf the original game by a factor of ten times the content or more.

Delayed a week due to sudden Steam Approval drama, but Inti Creates' horny witch platform brawler is out. Looks pretty fun!

Gail... Something has happened. youtu.be/IjAuJXG7wfI?...

Okay, this has happened a whole bunch of times this week, but has anyone else noticed ads just being ADDED to your youtube viewing history? Presumably fucking up my recommendations? I've removed this Boots ad THREE TIMES now, and have never watched it even once.

Today we just got 100 new followers and a bunch of people saying "whoa I've never heard of this" re: the game we have been thumping into the ground for the last 3 years by posting one gif from our earliest demo. If you think you post too much about your game: you probably don't!

I am pouring one out for the entire goddamn Fallout London dev-team. And modders in general.

Ah, I missed that a few months ago, the Steam version of Noel: The Mortal Fate got updated to the 'Complete' edition with all the upgrades from the console release. A wild genre-hopping urban fantasy episodic adventure series. Made in RPG Maker doing everything BUT regular JRPG combat.

Whole lot of people hooting and hollering about Look Outside right now - and rightly so, it's right up there with Lisa and Omori and Fear & Hunger as an RPG Maker all-timer. Just keep in mind that, like Slay The Princess, it was a short side-project. The dev's REAL game is still in the works.

a year ago, I released CARTER'S QUEST, the first step in a grand narrative adventure I've been planning for over five years. almost everything in the game was hand made by me, all of the good and the bad. it's 35% off right now and I'd really appreciate you giving it a try