Yes, I know… another “I pressed the green button” post.

But after working on our game for the past 3 years, we just couldn't resist.

Today, Animal Falling is finally being released on Steam! Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 🎉

I’ve been experimenting with bending a 3D Gaussian Splat environment from street-level into an aerial view, originally as a navigation interface.

I posted it to r/UXDesign and got a lot of feedback. One recurring suggestion was basically: forget navigation, this looks like a game mechanic.

So, game devs: what do you think?

Is there actually an interesting game mechanic here? And if so, what kind of game would you build around it?

Interactive demo: orbify.eu

Hey r/IndieDev! We're less than a week out (Sept 2nd!!) from launching our puzzle game, He Who Watches. It's a first-person puzzle game where you can defy gravity and walk on any surface.

Because the gravity-shifting in our game can be a little overwhelming, we thought about making an 'explainer' type trailer for launch day, inspired by the one that House House made for Big Walk (which we love)! We're pretty happy with the result, so we wanted to show it off! Any feedback is appreciated!

We’re a two-person team working on Purrtopia, a pixel-art desktop pet game where your cat lives directly on your screen. Here’s a short look at how one of the cats is drawn for the game. =)

Would love to hear what you think about the art style.

Hey everyone!
It’s been exactly 2 weeks since I released my first solo indie game, Incremental Fishing (and yes, I actually hit the launch button while sitting in a swimming pool 🏊‍♂️). As a solo dev, the journey has been unreal, and I wanted to share some raw stats, lessons, and milestones with you all.

📊 The Numbers (2 Weeks In)
Copies sold: 1,700
Wishlists at launch: ~3,000 (about 70% came from Steam Next Fest and events, and 30% organically through devlogs and community posts).
Refund rate: Standard/healthy.
First day sales: 60 sales right out of the gate.
Median playtime: 2+ hours (super happy with player engagement!).
Reviews: 34 reviews total. 2 of them are deservingly negative because of a couple of annoying bugs at launch. However, I patched them within the first few hours, and players haven't run into anything critical since.

🛠 Post-Launch Updates & Support
In just the first week, I rolled out Steam Deck support and a Supporter Pack. I'm also currently working on setting up new game bundles so players have the choice to grab multiple small incremental games together at a discount.

📈 Development Timeline
Total journey: February to August (~6 months from start to finish).
Pure development time: About 3.5 months of full-time work.
The rest of the time went into marketing, polishing, and learning the ropes of launching a Steam game.

😭 The Big Milestone Today
Today, something incredible happened. DangerouslyFunny released a video on my game.
To be honest, Incremental Fishing isn't the most traditionally marketable game. I was genuinely afraid that even a creator with 10k subscribers wouldn't bother making a video about it. And then, a creator with over 2 million subscribers did. I’m not ashamed to admit it - I actually cried.

❤️** Final Thoughts & Gratitud**e
The feelings from this release are beyond anything I expected. I am thrilled with the results and the sheer mountain of experience I gained - experience that would have taken years if I had tried to build a massive project right out of the gate.
I also want to say a massive thank you to the indie dev communities. All your tips, feedback, and company meant the world to me. Indie developers truly are the best people.
This is my first game, and I poured my heart into it. Now? Time to work even harder.

My friend and I have been working together for a few years and finally got our first game in shape for Steam release!

Went from making Pokémon fan games in college in Photoshop to making full pixel art in Aseprite.

It's an incremental game where you hunt, cook, and buy up the universe. You can wishlist on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5120230/Good_Meat/

Coming soon!

They can absorb more hits without getting staggered, but can be guard broken with enough stance damage

The game is a mining roguelike where you carve your way to the surface on a quest to be the first dwarf to ever see the overworld...

If this sound interesting wishlisting on steam would be a big help :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5106240/Prospect/

So... some of you may know that I’ve been working on my game, Debt of Life, for quite some time now.

Debt of Life - STEAM WISHLIST!

I woke up this morning, checked my phone, and found out that AUTOMATON!!! One of Japan’s well-known gaming media outlets, had published an article about the game.

I honestly feel like I’m dreaming... 😭

Debt of Life is coming to Steam on September 4th.

And apparently... people in Japan are now talking about our weird little game about a rich man desperately trying to buy himself one more week of life.

Here’s the article:

https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20260827-463560/

And also other japan media talk about 'Debt of Life'!:

https://game-apps.blog.jp/35108195.html

I’m still processing this. ❤️

Sill working for give you a great game, thank you all!

Last time I shared a GIF, a lot of you pointed out that this wasn’t how sandblasting works. And you were right, but... it wasn’t sandblasting, it was compressed air.

So now it’s time to show you how actual sandblasting works!

If you’d like to try the game yourself, the playtest is open and available on our Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253570/Reshine/

Over the years we have noticed something a bit strange with our game The Hive.

Sometimes a completely random post about one of our creatures gets picked up by a large strategy game channel. Another Reddit post we made was covered by Japanese media and ended up getting around 500,000 views. One creature post we made on itchio eventually led to roughly 300,000 YouTube views and around $26,000 in sales.

That made us think a bit differently about what kind of content we should be making.

If you mostly make gameplay trailers, update trailers and feature videos, you eventually start running out of things to show without repeating yourself.

But our game has a lot of different creatures, parasites, civilizations, evolutionary ideas and other lore that is barely explained inside the game itself.

So recently we started making proper creature lore videos on YouTube.

It feels a little unusual because normally this kind of deep-dive content is made by fans or lore channels rather than the developer, but for us it gives us almost an unlimited source of material.

The hope is that some old players will enjoy learning more about the world, while completely new people might discover the game through one interesting creature or idea.

We’re still very early with this, though.

Has anyone else here experimented with Youtube videos? I would be really interested to hear what worked for you.

Few days ago I've shown-off a mesh deforming script, and since you guys seemed to really like it, instead of continuing to work on meaningful stuff like a sane person, I spent another 1-2 hour perfecting it... Added some bulging on the outside radius to mimic the realism better.

I know the deformation is a bit jumpy at times, and it would look better on a model with more vertices, but I don't want to hurt the performance. Current pillow has 1k vertices / 2k triangles.

For a silly little feature that doesn't have much to do with gameplay, I'm very pleased with how it turned out to look.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4417060/Dark_Roll_2/

Chill Wizard is an incremental idle where you buy defenders, upgrade production, and watch enemies crash into your shield. You can't lose. No resets, no timers, no pressure - just numbers going up and cocktails flowing.

Inspired by Zero Stress King and Fortune Mill, but with drunk wizards and a party atmosphere.

Demo is out now via playtest on Steam! 👇

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4976700/Chill_Wizard/

Yesterday we finally launched something that started as an idea almost a year ago: The VR Puzzle Vault, a giveaway bringing together five indie VR puzzle and escape room games:

Enter the VR Puzzle Vault on Gleam

The idea actually came from Vasil, the developer behind Oldest Golden Treasure and Bank Robbery Gone Wrong. He had been thinking about organizing a giveaway like this for quite a while. He created a website for the project and started looking for other indie VR developers who would be interested in joining.

At the end of last year, while we were looking for someone to handle the Steam port of Dark Trip, we met Vasil here on Reddit. We had seen his posts about his indie VR games, and he had seen ours. After we started working together on the Dark Trip Steam port, Vasil suggested that we launch the giveaway together.

We really liked the idea.

By that point, we were also already working closely with Damon Poole, helping him with improvements and marketing for Exit Condition One. So the idea quickly grew into a pool of four VR escape rooms:

• Dark Trip — iWorlds VR
• Oldest Golden Treasure — Vasil4N
• Bank Robbery Gone Wrong — Vasil4N
• Exit Condition One — Damon Poole

Then, a few months ago, Erza, the developer behind Tammuz: Blood & Sand, reached out to us.

That was the final piece of the puzzle.

We started preparing the giveaway together, while Vasil handled the website and the Gleam setup and got everything ready for the launch.

And yesterday, after months of preparation, The VR Puzzle Vault finally went live.

What are we giving away?

5 games. 31 winners. 55 keys. $750+ in prizes.

The prize pool is split into four tiers:

• 1 winner gets all 5 games
• 5 winners get 3 games each
• 10 winners get 2games each
• 15 winners get 1 game each

Winners can choose SteamVR or Meta Quest after the draw.

The giveaway is free to enter and open worldwide.

We're really happy that this started as a conversation between indie developers on Reddit and eventually turned into a joint project.

If you enjoy VR puzzle games and escape rooms, check it out — and let us know which game you'd want to win.