Hard to pick a MOST anticipated game for this year, but I think I'm going with Resident Evil: Requiem. I've loved Survival Horror and RE in particular since I was young. Ever since RE7, the series has been on an absolute heater, so I'm (heart)pumped for this one. #QuestionsWithCauseway

The Haunting of Joni Evers is still 40% off (under $10!) until Monday!! Need an emotional story about family and perspective? It's a wonderful weekend to play what the latest review said "was amazing, and the graphics and storyline were great." store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/... #IndieGames

This is incredible news and only makes me want to use bandcamp more!

It's Friday! And that means, it's time for another... #QuestionsWithCauseway! Last week, we looked back at our favorite games of 2025. This week, our team is going to look ahead. What's your most anticipated game of 2026? Our team will answer, and we'd love you to chime in, also! #IndieDev

I've been excitedly awaiting @funselektor.bsky.social's over the hill ever since that first announcement trailer! Something about that cozy, cooperative vibe just feels right for me with everything going on. I can't wait to explore, adventure, and get out of sticky situations with my friends!

The Haunting of Joni Evers is a cool $8.99 for the next week, which is virtually the same as a number less than that! (Pricing is a dark art and a mad science, after all!)

Need an indie game for January? Play what one review just called “a really surprising masterpiece” for less than $10! (Not sure why they said “surprising” 😅) Also, Tuesday is the anniversary of the release and I’d be eternally grateful to hear what you thought and who your favorite character was!

The Haunting of Joni Evers is on sale for 40% off in the Steam Detective Fest! Missed us during the Winter Sale? Now's your chance to help Joni navigate her haunted home, family trauma, and much much more! store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/...

This doesn't need a "dramatic reading" TikTok, it needs an "auctioneer reading" TikTok.

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

I love that we're doing this! With that said, I had a TOUGH time picking my GOTY. But thinking about which game is still sitting with me, it's gotta be Dispatch. The Telltale formula works... IF you ship episodes on a regular cadence. This one hits hard! #QuestionswithCauseway

Blue Prince, no question. It came barging into my life at an unfathomably low moment last year and shook me out of the dark place.

I played some really great games in 2025! But let’s be real, my favourite game of 2025 isn’t a big game or a super duper popular game — it’s Tiny Bookshop!

Welcome to #QuestionsWithCauseway! Each week, you’ll get to know our team a bit better with a fun Q&A! As big publishers walk down the path of AI, we want to remind you that the best games are made by human beings. And what better way to do that than grill our team with weekly questions?

Not an easy choice, but my personal Game of the Year was Wanderstop (from @ivyroadgames.bsky.social). Almost immediately I felt so personally called out by Alta: her journey, her self-reliance, and her stubborn work ethic (😅), and the way Boro was written to bring levity with guidance was 🧑🏻‍🍳🤌🏻

dentist: you need to avoid crunchy things for a few days me: storygames only, got it

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Four games that defined my 2025

Top 5 games of 2025 5. Kulebra and the Lost Souls 4. The Haunting of Joni Evers 3. The Roottrees Are Dead 2. Tiny Bookshop 1. Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall #IndieGames

One of my favorite things about having released a game is having these little cards with free codes that I can leave behind in random coffee shops or give to people I talk to that enjoy story games.

Personal energy.

Four games that defined my 2025 (I will absolutely say that my studio's debut game helped define my year.)

Scored a great haul if I do say so myself.

This winter, you can pick up our award-winning emotional tale about family, memories, and perspective for under $10!

At the beginning of the year, I launched a podcast called Little Victories with the intent of interviewing game developers about their craft. As the year ends, Taylor from Jetson Plays Games was graceful enough to let me write about the seven lessons these luminaries taught me, and hopefully you.

It's the Steam Winter Sale and The Haunting of Joni Evers is a historically low 40% off! "I can't stop recommending this game to absolutely everyone. An absolute gem of a game that I completely fell in love with." - Steam review Enjoy our emotional tale of an estranged family! #IndieGames #Steam

Ludocene v1.2 is out in time to find your perfect Christmas gift. 🧭 Improved flow 🕹️Game pages 🔤Hot-keys 💌Monthly Recommendations BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret. www.ludocene.com

A lot of excellent indie recommendations here by Andres!

A tease of the next tale we're cooking up! Todd really hopes you can understand that we're not ready to fully pull back the curtains yet, but we're getting close and I can't wait! #IndieGames #IndieDev

I am so fkn excited about this game. I can’t wait to share more with you all.

The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.

YES. You should be thinking about your go-to-market plans during pre-production (if not earlier).

Unmistakable art direction Dripping with style Absolutely stellar vibes Inspiring, thrilling, and I can't wait.

We really need to double down on outwardly stating our work does not contain AI. We're seeing it in movie credits and books, we have to start putting it on things we make and pressuring others to label their work as human made, and normalize that as much as we can, I think. stuff like this maybe

None of this makes any sense. Unless your eyeballs are replaced with dollar signs, which is exactly what's happened with these people. I hate it.

Announcing 🚨Press The Button Day🚨 for #CounterTactics. 📅 On Sunday, March 1st, 2026, I'm submitting Counter Tactics to the App Store for Apple review.🎉 Join the growing beta (see profile); get a jump on the competition before the game goes live this Spring! #indiedev #gamedev

This! AND, have several of those funded projects be from the same teams so they can grow both their skills and their audience and create a greater chance at success!

"Good story, good voice acting, *really* good writing, immersive spooky vibe that doesn't rely at all on cheap jump scares, absolutely my sort of horror game." The biggest of props to our whole team for creating an experience that resonated so well with players.

What I'm trying to internalize: "Rest is an ingredient for momentum."

Yesterday I mentioned how I am a multidisciplinary game artist - one discipline that I really enjoy, and spent a lot of time on for The Haunting of Joni Evers was lighting. Today, I'm sharing some examples that I think illustrate the moods of Joni well, and how lighting contributed.

As of today you can pre-order "Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools, second edition" from @davidlightbown.bsky.social! It is the only physical book about Tool Design out there, and David is a master of workflows! www.routledge.com/Designing-th...

Oddly enough, I came to watching Twin Peaks quite late in the game (around 2023), although I'd been aware of it well before. That's something I think is special about Lynch's works: you know about them, even if you've never seen them, as if through the Collective Unconscious described by Jung (1/10)

In November, we... - held a leadership retreat to build camaraderie, trust, and teamwork while refining our strategy for how Causeway moves forward, - met with a ton of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship support folks in Northwest Arkansas to learn and get advice... 1/4

A very good week, new stuff looks sick, love this team. @gregwrogers.bsky.social @brijenkins.bsky.social @amandafarough.ca @futterish.fsquared.biz @abrasounds.bsky.social @causewaystudios.com #indiedev

I adore the Ghost games, but this is frustrating to read. WE, as a game industry, have to do a better job of protecting the talented, creative people that bring miracles, what we call video games, to life. The “angry” minority is brittle. Small and brittle. You can’t cave to that.

I'm seeing a looooot of executives in the past couple of days claiming that players/consumers think regurgitative AI is fine, but I haven't actually seen the players who think that. Smells like desperation.

Chicken tagine for our last dinner of the @causewaystudios.com leadership retreat!

This, but for other creative work, like writing and editing.

Specifically the interaction with the cultural fund destroys trust: with players, with government orgs, with communities, and partners. Trust like that isn’t easily rebuilt. If you farm out a cultural touchstone to machines, what are you saying about the people who play your games?

we don't just need to be funding small studios to make one game, we need to be funding them to make the ones they can fuck up before they can make the ones they learn from.