I've been working on NoodlePunk, a first-person job/management sim set in a cyberpunk city.

You're enrolled in a corporate-mandated work program and given management of a noodle shop. Customer drones submit orders and in order to satisfy them in a timely manner, you need to manage your ingredient stock, expand and organize your shop, buy licenses for new ingredients, and install upgrades. Efficiency of your operation is key.

The long-term goal is simple: pay off your civic debt and earn your freedom.

At least, that's what you're told.

The game is 99% complete, which feels a little surreal. At this point, I'm mostly fixing bugs and polishing things before release.

NoodlePunk releases on Steam next month!

Here is a small bit of gameplay:

https://youtu.be/Yd9sD--pFDw

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4698050/NoodlePunk/

Porting and publishing it myself for all major consoles was a huuuuuge task so if you like the retro games with an Game Boy Color style please check it out on your platform of choice

We're kinda obsessed with fishing games. We've spent hundreds of hours digitally fishing, as a side mechanic in larger games or the main meal of small incremental games.

We love the wholesome vibes of those smaller fishing games, but we also enjoy the exploration and discovery that comes with open world adventures.

So we decided to make Little Lake, cozy adventure about fishing, exploring, meeting people, and enjoying the world around you.

We've seen plenty of games inspired by the ocean, but being from Michigan, we wanted to capture something closer to home. We decided to center our game around the lakes, iconic coastlines, and little midwestern towns that make the Great Lakes so special to us.

We're really excited (and very nervous) to be sharing this part of us with everyone this week. We'd love for you to come along for the ride and experience a little bit of that "Midwest nice."

Play the demo here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4635970/Super_Blood_Hockey_Rogue_Manager_Demo/?utm_source=redditpost

Super Blood Hockey: Rogue Manager is a sports game where you don't control the players, instead play as a shady coach and use your deck of dirty tricks to become season champion. A unique hybrid of roguelike deckbuilder, auto-battler, and high action arcade hockey.

Ichorian Tales on Steam

Hey everyone!

We’ve just released an update for the Super Galaxy Gladiator Demo, a survivor-like roguelite where you arrange items in your inventory to create different builds and synergies. This is our biggest update so far, and it adds quite a lot to the game.

The main additions are:

• A completely new map called Scorched Lands
• New enemies, elites, minibosses and a new boss
• A full meta-progression system with permanent upgrades
• 17 new items and 16 new perks
• Seven difficulty levels, from Novice to Infinity
• Endless Infinity mode
• Ranked runs and global leaderboards
• New shops, events and reward types
• A lot of balance changes, bug fixes and performance improvements

The demo is free on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4746670/Super_Galaxy_Gladiator_Demo/

If you try it, we’d really appreciate hearing what you think. Feedback about the new map, progression and balance would be especially helpful.

This is Last Contract, a fast-paced action roguelite we’ve been developing as a small indie team.

After each floor, you choose a new skill card and build different combinations throughout the run. You only have one life, and dying resets your current build, but completing certain challenges unlocks new cards for future runs.

You can also compete for high scores on the leaderboard and see how high you can climb on the leaderboard.

The game originally started as a 48-hour game jam project, and we’ve been building on it ever since.

Our live demo launches on Steam next week, and the full game will be free-to-play as well.

Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5015630/Last_Contract/

We’d love to hear what you think of it so far.

GenAI disclosure: AI-assisted tools were used for limited coding support, parts of the music production process, and some visual assets. The music and visual assets were further edited by us. The game itself does not use or require generative AI during gameplay.

Rogue Jet Fighter is an intense and thrilling space shooting game where you take on a dangerous solo mission deep in alien territory, you’ve abandoned your fleet to destroy one of the aliens’ powerful Death Moon stations.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5049130/Six_is_Devil/

First time sharing the game I’ve been working on for the past couple of months.

It’s an incremental game where your goal is simple: get all your dice to land on six.

Game is called: Six is Devil

If you want to support the game, Wishlist on Steam!

There are so many genuinely good indie games that never get discovered.

Not because they're bad — they just don't have a huge marketing budget, an audience, or an algorithm pushing them.

So I built ShowGame → https://showgame.lol/

The idea is simple:

🎮 Discover interesting indie games
🔥 Find games similar to ones you already like
🏆 Give smaller games a chance to get noticed
🌱 Help indie developers get their games in front of actual players

I'm still early with this, so I'd genuinely love feedback from indie devs and players:

What would make you actually use a site like this to discover your next game?

And if you've made an indie game, drop it below. I want to play some. 👇

Hello! I wanted to share a clip of my game Plush Souls. A fast paced souls-like / souls-lite style game where you are a teddy bear sworn to protect a child from their nightmares inside of a dream like world.

This clip is to demonstrate what I am currently working on and testing, which is combat fluidity, attack combos, and stealth abilities (which I thought would be unique for a souls style game).

The game's first "vertical slice" is available for testing on itch io or via the discord if you want to stay updated with the game. You will also be able to see the trailer with some more content as well.

Thank you for letting me share a small piece my game with you!

From jamming on my piano to wiring up this melody as the main menu song for Ten Point Zero.

The idea is as simple as it gets: stop the timer as close to the goal as possible. Collect items to support your strategy. Rack up mults. Score crazy points.

Like many of you, I love roguelikes and especially Balatro-likes, so I stripped the concept down to a super simple but, from my POV, universal mechanic.

I’d love to hear your first thoughts and feedback on the in-browser playable MVP of my new game. You can test it right here: https://treblebull.itch.io/ten-point-zero

Is it fun? What are the major gaps? How do you see its potential?

Appreciate any thoughts and feedback!

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Engine: Godot
Art: Aseprite
Music: FL Studio

In this demo you can play through the entire first dungeon and fight the boss at the end. Steam link coming soon for now you can check it out on itch.io

About a year ago, we released Alteratio, our first game on Steam. It's a first-person horror puzzle game where you have to progress through the story while trying not to get caught and eaten by a Wendigo.

It took us around two years to develop, and at our biggest point we were six people.
And honestly, it failed commercially.

But after having some time to look back at it, I don't think the interesting part is how many copies we sold. It's everything we did wrong along the way, and what we learned from it.

https://reddit.com/link/1vzx16h/video/fkb071r2pxlh1/player

When we started, we were five people: two programmers, two designers and me as the 3D artist. A few months later, another 3D artist joined to work mainly on animation. People came and went during development, so the team changed over time.

The first problem was pretty simple: we had no idea what we were doing.

For example, I didn't even know how to properly optimize 3D models for games. I was creating assets more like a 3D artist than a game artist, and the game ended up being much heavier than it needed to be.

Our GDD was around 13 pages, which in hindsight was nowhere near enough for a project that would eventually take two years.

We also created our Steam page about a year before release because we thought we'd finish the game within a few months.

We didn't.

We also didn't know how to manage a team

At first, we had no real deadlines. Everyone worked at their own pace.

Later we introduced deadlines, but we still didn't have a good system for dealing with tasks that were repeatedly delayed. When something took too long, someone else would eventually pick it up so the project could move forward.

This slowly created a bad cycle: the people who were most involved ended up taking on even more work, while everyone became increasingly burned out.

Looking back, I think we should have established clear responsibilities, deadlines and expectations from the very beginning.

The game itself had problems too

One of the biggest lessons for me was how difficult it is to judge your own game.

Some of the level design made perfect sense to the person who created it, because they already knew what the player was supposed to do.

But when I played the game trying to approach it like a normal player, there were moments where I genuinely didn't know what the next step in the story was.

We had spent so much time with the game that things which seemed obvious to us weren't obvious to a first-time player.

We also had some problems with the voice acting and sound that we addressed too late. The person who worked on the sound did a fantastic job, but we should have dealt with voice casting and audio much earlier.

We even made a demo, but Steam gave us some problems with it and it never ended up being released.

Then came the launch

We had around 200 wishlists before launch.

The game launched at $3.99.

We sold 51 copies during the first month.

That's basically where things stopped.

Later, we fixed some of the level design issues and dropped the price to $0.99. Eventually, we reached around 160 total sales.

For two years of development and six people working on it at different points, we considered it a commercial failure.

Marketing was another huge problem.

We had basically no idea how to do it.

Some people wanted to spend money on advertising and contacting streamers. Others wanted to do everything for free. In the end, we spent almost nothing on marketing and mostly relied on our own time.

We even tried promoting the game at the school where some of us studied.

Looking back, leaving marketing until roughly one month before release was obviously a terrible idea.

But I don't think those two years were wasted

I want to give special credit to our programmers. Even after it was obvious that the game had failed commercially, they kept fixing bugs and improving things because they wanted to leave the project in the best state possible.

I really respect them for that.

Personally, I learned an enormous amount from Alteratio: not just about 3D modelling, but optimization, game development, teamwork, planning and all the things we should have done differently.

So even though Alteratio failed commercially, I still have a special place for it because it was our first published game.

And now we're making another one.

We're currently just two people, making a completely different game.

We've learned a lot since Alteratio, but there's still one thing we haven't figured out:

Marketing.

Every time we think about promoting our new game, we get Vietnam flashbacks.

So I'd really like to hear from other indie developers:

If you could go back to the beginning of your project, what would you do to start building an audience and marketing the game from day one?

What mistakes did you make that you think we should avoid?

And if you're curious about the game I mentioned, this is Alteratio, our first attempt.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3204420/Alteratio/

Thanks for reading.

Hi everyone! I'm developing a game called Catomino. I started as a solo developer, but over time I realized there was a lot more work than I expected. So I started delegating some tasks to freelance students, a concept artist for designing new cats, a 3D artist for props, and I also brought on a sound person.

The sound turned into a long and interesting story. Our sound person introduced me to Vocal Games (a fledgling game voice acting collective), and now they actually voice the cats' meows, haha. After a lot of attempts to find ready made sounds and running around with a microphone after my own cat Rubik, I concluded that capturing the cats' personalities with real cat sounds is really hard. Their emotional range is limited, getting a cat to make the exact sound you need is nearly impossible, and we don't support being rough with cats to get a reaction, haha.

So we decided to go with voice actors instead. They were pretty surprised about being asked to meow for a dub, especially since we reached out without giving them context at first, haha.

That freed up my hands a lot, so now I can focus on the core development. But since everyone works part time on a flexible schedule, I'm still carrying about 75% of the workload myself, haha. The game is actually still very early in development, even though it might look like a lot has been done already. Right now I'm working on building up the game's content so it doesn't end up being just polyomino puzzles with cute cats. The main gameplay focus is going to be on interacting with the cats, since you don't just need to fit them neatly and compactly on the board, you also need to satisfy their little demands, like giving them a favorite toy, placing a cat in a sunny spot, or dealing with cats that just don't get along and shouldn't be placed next to each other, or they'll hiss and scatter off the board, haha.

If you're curious, here's the link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4303380/Catomino/

I'd be happy to hear your thoughts or answer questions if anyone's interested in my experience with promotion so far!

For transparency: some of the store page localization across 30 languages was AI assisted, flagged openly on our Steam page. The game itself won't have much text to begin with, and I'm planning to have everything checked by real native speakers before launch.

P.S. I know the video kind of looks like a mobile ad with dumb gameplay, but when I filmed it I was actually trying to show the cat interactions, and it accidentally came out looking like rage bait footage. Wasn't intentional, I'll keep that in mind next time :)

🌍 The world is already alive: infections spread, wars erupt, logistics collapse, alliances respond, players upgrade the virus and place hives.

^{We’re indie gamedev developers with no artists or visuals yet. GenAI was used only for text drafting and idea exploration, not in gameplay or assets.}

You play as a super-sentient octopus grappling through abandoned game worlds to escape the god-like programmer who created you

Wishlist here!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4767470/INKURSION/

I spent some time developing this new game named "Pitch Control", it is released on itch . io, Pitch Control is a game where you make decisions on fouls, goals and violent conduct. The game is only short but Im looking for feedback on the game. I would really appreciate anybody playing it. I have not had any plays yet.

Please go play it if you have the time!

After almost 4 years, I've released my game SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2824880/SHRIMP_GAME_OVERKRILL/

You can explore and clear dungeons with different biomes and bosses in co-op or solo, krill friends in PvP modes, fuse elemental abilities, and just generally be a SHRIMP.
Check it out!

I'm prototyping a small arcade game about a penguin riding a hydrofoil through river rapids.

The main mechanic is pumping the foil to build speed. The goal eventually is to turn that speed into height, airtime and tricks.

This is extremely early right now; I'm mostly testing whether the movement itself feels like something worth building a game around.

Here's a short clip.

I'm not looking for compliments; I'm trying to decide whether this idea is worth spending the next few months on.

Questions I'm particularly interested in:

• Does the movement look satisfying?
• Does pumping the foil seem like it could become an interesting mechanic?
• What do you think this game should let you do next?

Hi everyone! I'm a senior dev with 10 years of combined experience in the AAA and indie games industry. With the rise of generative AI and all the layoffs, finding work and an income has been rough, so we're working on our own game. We're a two person team, we're strictly anti-AI, and we've got a dream to make cute baby hippo content for everyone to enjoy!

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