Fields of Aaru is a farming life sim set in the Ancient Egyptian afterlife. There are two of us developing it full time, and we've worked on it for 3.5 years. The demo has been out since June, we just wrapped up Next Fest.

The people who play it are nice about it (100% on Steam after 28 reviews), but they mostly praise how it looks. We think the gameplay isn't really drawing people in, and it's been very hard to get traction on social media, which signals that the game just isn't appealing to people the way he hoped it would.

- If you watched the trailer or looked at the Steam page, what looks boring or is confusing? Is it clear what kind of game it is without looking at the genre tags?
- What would make you more interested, and what kind of unique gameplay experiences would you want from a game like this?

For those who've played it before and are interested in trying out the latest update: we've added irrigation channels, villager gifts, more character creation options, an enhanced graphics mode and six new languages.

Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4665870/Fields_of_Aaru_Demo/

No need to be nice! Give us brutally honest feedback.

No generative AI was used!

We're working on Flame Hunter, a game about the legendary ghost hunter, Zhong Kui. According to legend, on his first day as an imperial minister the emperor fired him on sight for being too ugly. He had a heart attack and died.

Now he's reincarnated in a new job; a shapeshifting ghost hunter. Still ugly, but with powers!

Core Mechanic: You can shapeshift into any enemy you can catch and use their abilities in combat and puzzle-solving. You can only hold one enemy at a time, but you can shapeshift back and forth at will, making combat fun and dynamic.

steam link

A survival horror game where you explore an abandonded lab filled with monsters who can only move when they cannot be seen. A single BLINK could be fatal... Using your own webcam, your real-life blinks will translate to the game world.

You can wishlist it on Steam :) https://store.steampowered.com/app/5277990/DONT_BLINK/

After testing 4 different capsule artworks during Steam Next Fest, I got lots of helpful feedback from the community. Thank you all!

I'm sharing a little behind-the-scenes look at how I draw and put together my capsule art, from the initial sketch to the final illustration.

There's still a lot to improve, but now I have a clearer direction to work toward!

Hope you enjoy this little peek into my art process!

Witch & Dragon: Hope of Elements is a turn-based tactical roguelite centered around elemental reactions, featuring 5 elements, 20 elemental reactions, and randomized maps. The Steam Demo is now available if you'd like to try it yourself!

Our game started as a gamejam, and capsule art was done quite quickly (I am the main visuals person in the team, and did all the capsule variations). After quite a successful itch release, we decided to make it into a full steam game, and the old capsule art was just not feeling right:

The game is an incremental where you (a snail) turn a desert into a lush forest, and then keep optimizing everything to insanity and darkness, and actually very little of that was shown in the initial capsule art!

So we set the objective for the new one to:

1. Show the core fantasy (snail regreening desert)
2. Show the main mechanic of the game (planting)
3. Give some hints of the darkness / humor the game proposes

How did you think it went?

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4362170/Feed_The_Forest/

From one peasant to an army: here’s Island Crusade in action

Click monsters, recruit knights, and free 100 pixel-art islands. Discover the Underside, a blood-soaked mirror of the kingdom where a second army fights alongside your crusade.

No offline progress: your armies fight while the game is running. Recruit reinforcements, turn iron into relics, and build your power through successive crusades.

Steam page (wishlist): https://store.steampowered.com/app/5455700/Island_Crusade/

Demo available here : https://neovalpox.itch.io/island-crusade

AI disclosure: All the graphics come from human-made pixel-art packs (Tiny Swords Pack by Pixel Frog, Super Pixel Effects by unTied Games) and the music from human composers on OpenGameArt (credited in game). No AI-generated images, animation, code or music. AI is used to translate the game's texts into other languages only.

The Way Home is a small typing game: Emily walks home on a path of letters, and every key you type lays the next block under her feet. My brother designed it while teaching in Japan, and I helped him build it in Unity

This update puts the whole game on one 320x180 grid with one 32-colour palette: the forests, the letter blocks, Emily, the bosses, the keyboard and the menus. The clip switches between the old and new art every two seconds on the same moment. F10 does the same in the game, so the original look is still there if you prefer it.

Also in the update: menus in seven languages, and two typing modes where you type Chinese characters or Japanese kana through their Latin spelling.

Is there anything that reads worse in the new look than in the old?

This is a mix of emails from a while ago I think this is our classic "Unfortunately we are not interested in [YOUR GAME] at the moment"

My game has changed a lot, so feel free to play the demo and let me know what you think!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256450/Cards_of_Prophecy/

I have been working on Treeternal for over a year now, starting to mostly work on the engine which was made in C++ and now finally seeing the end of the tunnel. Demo is done now it's time for finishing up the final version with more content. Release is in around 2 weeks so busy times ahead!

Hello everyone!

My third metroidvania (after Super Roboy and Grumpy Jack), set in Japanese folklore, is coming along alright, and I figured I’d post a little update.

You can wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4534260/Kodama_Slumber_of_the_Gods/

The game focuses on fluid platforming, melee combat, and has a (very skippable) mythological story.

Thanks, and have a lovely day!

we finished the new trailer for The Apartment and made it in all 9 languages the game supports, so everyone can catch the vibe in their own language. english, russian, german, spanish, polish, japanese, korean and chinese

on steam it just plays in whatever language your steam is set to, which is kind of cool

the game is a psychological horror about a tiny apartment and something behind the door that keeps wanting more. if you liked MiSide or No, I’m Not a Human it’s kind of that vibe

demo is coming really soon, it’s 6 days in game and there are 3 endings

would love to hear what you think before the demo drops. does it make you want to play? anything confusing? too slow? be brutal, we can take it (probably)

steam link in the comments. and please don’t open the door :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4923230/Thorner_Demo/?utm_source=redditThorner Demo

Hi,

early development of my tower defense game called "That's a Lot of Zombies".

Short description: "Fly an AC-130 gunship and gun down millions of zombies. Your squad is stuck on a roof and the dead are climbing over each other to reach them. Lay out sentry guns, flamers, claymores etc. before each night. Call in A-10s and B-52s. Hold the roof till the helicopter lands."

Looking for honest brutal feedback. What you guys think?

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5446270/

PS: Let me know if you are interested in playtesting the game.

Hi! I'm the dev behind Spectrakin, a monster-taming RPG inspired by the GBA+DS Pokémon games and Digimon World. The core gameplay is centred around three key pillars:

• Team-building: Catch, train, and build a team of unique Spectrakin, with growth systems that influence their strengths in and out of battle, as well as their evolution paths.
• Adventure: Explore the diverse region of Eidolia, uncover the tragic history of the world, encounter strange elemental factions, and discover what lies beyond the boundary between worlds.
• Town development: Meet humans and Spectrakin on your journey, help them with their troubles, and convince them to join your town to unlock new facilities and upgrades.

Once a thriving civilisation, Eidolia was abandoned following a mysterious catastrophe that brought humanity's ambitions to an abrupt end. Now, generations later, people are slowly returning to its ruins, unaware of the secrets that still lie buried beneath them. As you explore in search of your missing brother, you'll piece together the events that led to Eidolia's downfall, and discover that the forces behind it may not be as distant as they seem.

Please consider following my Kickstarter page and hitting the "Notify me on launch" button if you're interested, it really helps me out! You can also wishlist on Steam.

Hi everyone! There aren’t many video games dedicated to padel, so we’re making one. Here are a couple of screenshots from Padel Simulator, still in development.

Would you play something like this? We’d love to hear what you think.

A missing cousin. A strange desert resort. Secrets that should have stayed buried. Step into the unsettling world of Rattle Spring and play the demo!

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4671010/Rattle_Spring/

Also web demos:
https://oddgingergames.itch.io/rattle-spring-basement
https://oddgingergames.itch.io/rattle-spring-overture
https://oddgingergames.itch.io/the-crows-room

I've been working on new unlockable skins for The Last Sphere. Here's a quick showcase of some of them!

Demo for our upcoming game: The Last Sphere

Okay! I can FINALLY share something! After 9 years in the games industry, while prototyping and making small games as a hobby, with the dream to be an indie dev one day I've finally, kind of, become one.

We have released the demo for our upcoming game Rowan Needs Shinies!

I'm Sammie (one half of soft void with my partner)

Here is my short pitch about the game:

Rowan Needs Shinies! is a cozy, atmospheric incremental game inspired by games like Lyca and Shelldiver, combined with the story-telling and worldbuilding of games like Strange Horticulture, In Stars and Time, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, and Animal Well.

Unlike many incremental games, Rowan Needs Shinies doesn't have a traditional skill tree. Instead, the skill tree is built depending on the choices you make. There's multiple endings to discover depending on which upgrades you choose to get, so that every playthrough feels unique.

It still feels unreal.

A bit of our backstory:

I really did quit my job in the games industry after 9 years as a Unity developer. I was in a toxic, extremely stressful job that was taking a toll on both my physical and mental health.

Originally the plan was to take some time off then find a new job, but it felt like a rare opportunity that both me and my partner were unemployed, with enough savings to last us for a while. We figured that if the game does well, we can keep going as indie developers.

We're both pretty risk averse, we tend to play it safe and do the standard thing. BUT THIS TIME we felt that this was a risk worth taking. We don't have any kids yet, we are living in an affordable place, this was the perfect time to take a year off to try and make our own game. We really wanted to do it, and so we did.

I am really excited about what we have made and what comes next. It's a bit scary to not know how things will go, but I think that's normal.

Thanks for reading, and feel free to ask me any questions ^^

This is a charming indie survivorlike/roguelite that really caught my eye because the spellcrafting looked like a lot of fun. After trying it....it is fun :DDD

Game feels like it was handcrafted with a lot of love, and each of the characters are so distinct and have some funny dialogue :PP

Have you tried The Magus Circle?

I am a solo indie developer. I have my game Jumpfighter out for over 6 months now, yet It lacked something that made people come back for more. I revamped my 2D arcader into 3D using unity. Would love if you can give it a try and share feedbacks. How long can you survive??

Currently only available for Android. IOS and steam version in the works.

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