Katanalevy’s Dead Format explicitly hearkens back to the time of VHS.

EXIT: The Game – Adventures on Catan is an excellent take on the escape room format for home play.

Up or Down? hasn’t particularly landed for me, despite being a recurring game played at friendly occasions.

Terminator 2D: NO FATE is a masterclass in film-to-video game adaptation.

Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker is flashy, fun, and addictive.

Little Corners is a small game made with love, celebrating the simple pleasures of creativity and organization.

More than any other positive aspect, Hollow Knight: Silksong seems to be a feat of technical prowess, a true masterwork of engineering where all the pieces work exactly as intended.

Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered International is a breathtaking RPG that offers a freedom seldom found in modern Square Enix titles.

A simple tower defense game providing a unique challenge from an inability to control mushroom (tower) locations, making every mushroom selection critical to properly defend your trees from destruction.

Jay “IdolismJ” Gary talks to us about his YouTube channel, Guilty Gear, Detroit, and what he's thankful for.

Demonschool is stylish and irreverent.

Total Reload offers an almost comforting take on the puzzle-platformer.

Winter Burrow manages to feel both comfortingly familiar and refreshingly unique.

Malys is chock-full of great artwork, stellar music, and interesting gameplay mechanics.

Nature strikes a great balance between a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling.

Vampyr succeeds when it focuses on its cast of complex and interesting characters.

Iron Lung is a minimalist horror experience where your goal is to navigate your submersible vehicle underwater in order to take pictures of increasingly unnerving phenomena.

Here are the top 14 demos from 2025’s Steam Next Fest.

CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs is a short but dense experience that is just waiting for people to explore.

Should we accept that this is simply a set story with minimal interaction, we must find our joy and meaning in-between the “major” choices.