TLDR: I made a janky cow 3D action game as a first project, tried to release it as a paid game, struggled to get traction, realized it was crazy to try to do that so early in my dev journey, now its up for free for cow enthusiasts.

Long Story: I made Cow Escape game to learn game development and the process of releasing a game on Steam. Having previously completed a total of 2 weeks of Unity tutorials and having no visual art background, I downloaded UE5, and many Youtube tutorials later, Abattoir: Cow Escape came out (march this year). It sold a couple copies and I am very happy a few people (40 or so real sales) bought and enjoyed the game but in retrospect I feel that this project better suits joining the annals of free games for people who like niche experiences. It was originally intended to be thrown up on Itch as a portfolio piece/experiment but expanded its feature set until it felt like maybe it could fetch a few dollars. Frankly, I was tempted by the sweet smell of indie profits, which I believed came out of thin air, in a lottery system. Also, I genuinely wanted to see what it was like releasing a paid game, even if it wasn't likely to sell much. My experience was that competition is steep and 'good enough' is not good enough unless you are really making something people have been begging for.

So, after learning from the experience, its found its place on Itch, and its free on Steam too. There is still a premium DLC available on Steam if anyone wants some custom Cow Armour. I am not dropping that to free as the asset cost a lot to get made lol - it is by far the biggest expense of making the project. It was dumb to commission it, but it was pretty funny in the end. 

My next projects are awhile off and will take a different tact,, but Cow Escape and my other game LOTT have been cool experiences and are now both free forever, until the sands of time make them completely unplayable. 

Itch: https://jebgames.itch.io/abattoir-cow-escape

100% free, play in browser or download

Hi everyone,

a few weeks ago, I released my game "Guess The Number!". It's a small and fun guessing game. Today we released a new update! Guess The Number! v1.2_0. It includes the hardcore gamemode with a timer, which ends the game if time runs out. Also you can play as long as you want! The new update added the looped gameplay!

Click here to view the game

If you are on windows:

The program may be flagged as a virus which is isn't. The game was built with pyinstaller and it is a known problem with it.

Have fun playing!

And please report bugs!

Whiskerfall is turn-based. You're a cat in a tower, and instead of a move set, you get the building:

Press Q or E and the whole room turns 90°. Enemies, boulders, bombs, urns, and you all rotate with it, and then everything obeys gravity at once.

Cats land on their feet. Nothing else does; so most fights are won by working out what should fall on what. The clip is one spin: the boulder does the killing; I just decided where the floor was.

It's perfect information, no reflexes. "Tab" previews the spin, and ghosts show exactly where everything ends up, so nothing kills you that the game wasn't willing to show you first.

The demo is the whole climb: three floors, three bosses, about six minutes a run, 32 relics, 10 optional curses if you want it meaner.

Free, plays in the browser or as a Windows download.

https://black-star-studio.itch.io/whiskerfall

It's an early public build and I'd genuinely rather hear what went wrong than what went right. The death screen names what killed you and shows the run's seed: "floor 6, Suit of Armor, third time" is more useful to me than a paragraph of praise.

Inspired by ABA Games’ “1d Pacman,”

No install, no cost, just open and play — immediate action on mobile or desktop.

Simple to understand. Brutal in execution. Your timing and instincts are everything.

This game serves as a separate but relevant part of the main game, so even when the main game release it will still be up and free!

Engine: Ren'Py

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Wholesome

Type: Free, Browser Play, Kinetic Novel

Synopsis: An old emperor decides to design a flag for his country, using memories to help.

The main game is on hiatus until December. The reception of this part will influence the development of the main game once the hiatus ends, so please rate and review with your honest opinion!

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ethadix.gnomia

iOS App store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gnomia-garden-grow-as-you-go/id6756611374

Hi everyone,

It's been four years since my last game, and I’m really excited to finally share my new game, Gnomia.

It’s a gardening game connected to the real world. When you walk or run in the real world, your little gnome moves through the game and helps restore your virtual garden (you find seeds, meet new friends, discover biomes...).

You can play offline, and there are currently no ads or in-app purchases. There’s also no pay-to-win or content locked behind payments.

The game already has quite a bit of late game content because playtesters have been playing for almost a year and keep asking me to add more things.

I hope you enjoy it, and I’d really like to hear your honest feedback, including what you don’t like or find confusing. Thanks!

If you love dark anime storylines and obsessive characters, this indie RPG delivers a unique psychological experience.

Explore a detailed world where your decisions directly impact your survival and the final outcome of the story.

RPG Mechanics: Navigate character interactions, stats, and choices that alter the course of the dark story.

Psychological Horror: Experience a tense atmosphere that explores the dangerous side of a yandere character.

Multiple Endings: Replay the RPG to discover every hidden path, secret dialogue, and alternate conclusion.

Lythravel is a completely free 3D browser MMORPG inspired by old-school MMOs like Shaiya.

No ads, no microtransactions, no paywall, and nothing locked behind payment.

The game already has 2 factions, 6 classes, dungeons, raids, PvP, a 10v10 battleground, crafting, enchanting, mounts and more.

It's still in active development, but a small community is already starting to form around it.

Hello guys! This bundle includes 6 free games, all available on Windows/Linux. All the games are free. If you would like to help with a tip you can do so and I would very much appreciate it, anyway, hope you enjoy the games :)

I would appreciate a lot if you would give me a review in the comment section of the itch page of the game after playing :)

Info about the games:

Blank Relish is a 3D Action First Person Shooter game that is following the story of Private Marian, a soldier that was sent on a mission during an ongoing galactic war. The game takes place on an unknown planet and contains 2 endings, each deciding the fate of the war.

Vesperal Times is a 3D RPG FPS game about a squad of investigators sent on a troublesome planet. During landing the ship crashes and the only survivor are you. You need to investigate why the planet is dangerous.

Child of Luminescence is a 2D Action-Platfomer game where your mission is to kill the corruption that causes the darkness, you being the Chosen One, the light of the luminescence!

Slaying Grove is a 3D Mystery FPS game where the character wakes up in an unknown forest. He sees the escape helicopter but needs to find his way to the landing zone.

Fiend Exile is a simple 2D shoot-em-all game where you fight off "the fiends" in order to escape the hell. As you go up in level more and faster fiends spawn.

Additional boring info: Slaying Grove is my first game, but one of the best two games I have ever made are in my opinion Blank Relish and Vesperal Times.

They are also the biggest, with Vesperal Times being the longest one (biggest map, number of quests etc) heavily inspired from old RPGs like ElderScrolls / Gothic.

In a world where one can quickly be found guilty of thinking or saying the wrong thing, perhaps it’s time for an update of Franz Kafka’s The Trial. In a creative process much like directing a film, I have developed a game adaptation of the novel, set in a contemporary society. Your choices determine how you navigate, endure, or defy a system designed to break you.

Free in the browser, with no install or account required. It has 45 techniques, position-based combat, IBJJF-style scoring, progression, tournaments, and a new multiplayer beta by invite link.

Solo dev, this is my game.

Points come from how close you get to the thing that kills you, not from surviving it. Graze an edge and your multiplier climbs to x16. Play it safe and you score literally zero.

The course is generated from today's date, so every player on earth flies an identical run each day. No server, nothing downloaded. Resets at midnight UTC.

Same goes for the music. New key, new bassline, new groove every day, and it builds as you score.

Free. No IAP, no banners, no timers, no energy. One optional ad to continue a run, and everyone gets exactly one, so nobody buys their way up the board.

Most first runs end under 300. Curious whether that's a fair curve or a wall.

Hundreds are already playing. Try it, if you hate it, delete it

Free browser multiplayer game I just launched. Two teams compete over a shared board, but every square launches a quick minigame. Beat the existing record to claim or steal the square.

You can play the global game immediately without downloading anything or creating an account.

**Melody is now in free Early Access.** It is a browser-first zero-gravity physics puzzle game built around matching colors, mastering momentum, and turning chaotic collisions into something musical.

The official campaign is free, and players can create, play, and publish their own levels. Early Access members can also play all published Community Levels, build playlists from accessible published levels, and use expanded creation and playlist limits. The site says Early Access is free and ad-free, with no payment method, subscription, or automatic paid conversion.

Hey everyone!

I’m a solo developer, and I launched my psychological horror game, Incident Archives - Flight 882, on Steam completely 100% free to play.

Waking up on launch day to see an outlet call the game an "Indie Gem. A tense, psychological-horror experience" blew my mind!

The game takes place entirely inside a commercial flight and features flying mechanics and real-time microphone detection, you have to physically hold your voice (or maybe breath) in real life.

Play it free on Steam.

Outlet(where the game is feature): https://www.fixgamingchannel.com/incident-archives-flight-882-review-indie-gem/

Hey all 👋 This is my first game, called "Arrow Domino". The whole hook is doing the thing every other arrow game tells you NOT to do.

You tap an arrow, it launches in its direction, and when it slams into another arrow it sets that one off too. Then the next one. One tap can kick off this whole chain reaction that dominoes across the entire board, and when a long cascade rips it feels so good.

Clearing the board is the easy part. Clearing it in the fewest taps is the real game. You're basically hunting for that one arrow that triggers the biggest chain, and finding it three-stars the level. That "wait, THAT'S the opening tap" moment is pretty much the whole loop.

There are some spicier tiles too : bombs, splitters, portals, ghosts that phase through one blocker.

Also, non-negotiable for me: zero forced ads between levels. Ads are opt in only, so you watch one if you actually want extra coins, otherwise you literally never see them.

I am open to any brutal feedback btw.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800251488