UMAMI
Cosy 3D puzzle game about fitting wooden blocks together to create statues of delicious, towering food
[ PC / 2025 / @mimmox.bsky.social ]
mimmox.com
03.12.2025 17:23 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
THE BERLIN APARTMENT
As a father and daughter renovate an old apartment in Berlin, they discover the stories of those who lived there
[ 2025 / @bluebackpack.bsky.social ]
PC: store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
PS5: store.playstation.com/en-gb/concep...
XSX: www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/...
25.11.2025 19:08 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TINY LANDS 2
Explore 3D dioramas as you try to find all the differences, and collect hidden jigsaw pieces to unlock secrets
[ PC, Switch / 2025 / Hyper 3 Studio ]
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2213330/...
Switch: www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
21.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BABBLING BROOK
Relaxing game in which you sculpt the landscape to create and guide streams through lush forests and sprawling meadows, helping a flock of rubber ducks escape to the sea
[ PC / 2025 / @srd-ramon.bsky.social ]
store.steampowered.com/app/3672300/...
19.11.2025 18:51 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
GALLERIA
Cosy anthropomorphic art gallery simulator that runs along the bottom of your screen. Hire artists, create paintings, and grow your gallery while you work or study
[ PC / 2025 / Maru Studio ]
store.steampowered.com/app/3920630/...
18.11.2025 18:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ILA: A FROSTY GLIDE
In this mini open world adventure, you play a young witch-in-training using her skatebroom to search a magical island for her lost cat
[ PC, PS5, XSX, Switch / 2025 / @magicrainstudios.bsky.social ]
www.magicrainstudios.com
15.11.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
LETTERS TO ARRALLA
In this cozy adventure, you are a turnip delivering mail to fellow vegetables and other colourful characters on an Australian island
[ PC / 2025 / Little Pink Clouds ]
www.littlepinkclouds.com
14.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SIPS AND SONNETS
In this visual novel, you run a tea shop in the British countryside and help customers with their problems through a mix of poetry and the obligatory hot beverages
[ PC / 2025 / Blue Tango Street ]
store.steampowered.com/app/3176190/...
08.11.2025 08:57 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
TALES OF THE SHIRE
One does not simply walk into the Shire. One must also decorates their Hobbit hole, build the town, cook, fish, forage, trade, and (most of all) relax
[ PC, PS5, XSX, Switch / 2025 / @wetaworkshop.bsky.social @privatedivision.com ]
talesoftheshire.com
05.11.2025 18:53 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sadly, that's not on the book (my understanding is there's some boss fights in between all the wabbit wescuing)
05.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
And huge thanks again to @penandswordbooks.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity!
05.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you haven't already, be sure to buy a copy of The Best Non-Violent Video Games
Pen & Sword www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Best-Non...
Castmate (US) www.casemateipm.com/978139908492...
Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Non-Vio...
Waterstones www.waterstones.com/book/the-bes...
05.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BOOK SPOTLIGHT - The Best Non-Violent Video Games
James Batchelor (2023); Pen & Sword Books - White Owl; Non-Fiction
"It’s not pushing pacifism; it’s about what interaction can mean beyond harm... These aren’t just 'safe' games for kids; they’re clever, inventive, and often deeply emotional experiences"
Amazing review from @thevideogamelibrary.org. Thank you!
thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/book-spotl...
05.11.2025 15:54 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Oops. I'll look into it. I thought you just transform people into monsters, vampires, etc
04.11.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SPOOKY EXPRESS
Cutesy horror-themed puzzle game where you need to build a railway line to take vampires, zombies and monsters home - and stranded humans to safety
[ PC, Mac, iOS, Android / 2025 / @draknek.bsky.social ]
spooky.express
04.11.2025 19:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Undusted: Letters from the Past
A casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.
UNDUSTED: LETTERS FROM THE PAST
Help Adora restore a range of forgotten items to learn more about her family & the stories behind each object
[ PC, Switch / 2025 / 5minlab @togeproductions.bsky.social ]
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2891020/...
Switch: www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...
03.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much to The Video Game Library for adding my book to their collection. So glad it's helped the team has found some new games to play! (You can find even more at @nvgotd.bsky.social)
30.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
You're welcome!
23.10.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NOKOMA
Colourful number puzzle game. Tap a numbered tile to split it into smaller numbers, then tap matching numbers to clear the grid.
[ iOS, Android / 2024 / @owlnewworlds.games ]
owlnewworlds.games
23.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
You're most welcome. Hope it's doing well!
21.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MY CARD IS BETTER THAN YOUR CARD
Roguelike deckbuilder in which you create your own cards using stickers, each of which has a different effect to improve your score. Design your cards, then use them to duel!
[ PC / 2025 / @utustudios.com ]
store.steampowered.com/app/3617620/...
21.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
PRETTY SWEET! HEALING GUARDIAN
In this cosy management sim, you play a Magical Girl using candy magic to balance people's emotions and improve their lives. Developed by an artist/designer who tried her hand at game dev
[ PC/ 2025 / @berrylemonadev.bsky.social ]
prettysweethealingguardian.carrd.co
18.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
SOPA: TALE OF THE STOLEN POTATO
Narrative adventure in which a young boy named Miho goes into his grandma's pantry for a potato and gets sucked into a magical world. Every time he returns to the kitchen, something has changed...
[ PC, PS5, XSX / 2025 / Studio Bando ]
sopagame.com
15.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
ISLANDERS: NEW SHORES
Sequel to the acclaimed minimalist city builder, with new types of island kingdoms to create, new ways to score, and overhauled visuals
[ PC, Mac, PS5, XSX, Switch / 2025 / @coatsink.com @thunderfulgames.bsky.social ]
playislanders.com
14.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
LITTLE ROCKET LAB
Cosy automation game in which you build a factory and research new technologies to realise your mother's lifelong dream: to build a rocket ship!
[ PC, Xbox Series X|S / 2025 / Teenage Astronauts, @nomorerobots.io ]
littlerocketlab.com
13.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
NBA BOUNCE
Basketball action for younger players. Choose from 30 NBA team, take to the court, and let the mayhem begin!
[ PC, PS5, PS4, XSX, XO, Switch / 2025 / @unfinishedpixel.bsky.social, Outright Games ]
outrightgames.com/games/nba-bo...
10.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
What are you waiting for? Go pre-order my next book 😜 (Don't worry - there's a surprising among of non-violent Pokémon games)
10.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CONSUME ME
Award-winning slice-of-life game about coping as a teenager and dealing with disordered eating. Every meal is a puzzle
[ PC, Mac / 2025 / @qdork.bsky.social @apthomson.bsky.social ]
t.co/qwD5O8v4SJ
09.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely. I've followed you back so you can DM me. I'll caution that I have [checks spreadsheet] 4,000+ games on the To Do list but I'm always keen to highlight the most recent ones so recommendations welcome
09.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I am a UK based independent Godot game dev. I make (without AI) games that I want to play but don't exist yet!
He/him, self confessed geek, under the thumb of a very cute cat
Wishlist Highway Noir!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3317730/Highway_Noir/
A blog about old games. Written by Ashley Day
gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com
Gamer, JP learner & Anime geek
Used to work in video games, bringing Japanese games to the west, now I'm outside the industry.
Ghostlight_Ross on the other site
Head Game Scout at Secret Mode. Formerly Team17, Fireshine. Opinions expressed here are my own. Core Keeper, Shadows of Doubt, Earthless
Indie dev, made Super Rude Bear Resurrection
10 time medallist in Ludum Dare
Console porter (Recompile, SWOTS, Passing By, Cluedo, Ticket to Ride)
Physicist, lectured dynamics at Technikum Wien
My 40 jam games: alexrose.itch.io
Site: alexrosegames.com
🏳️🌈 Game designer and writer: Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2 | Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social
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Professional nerd, formerly of Eurogamer and IGN. Lover of virtual cars and tiny 2D space ships.
Video game critic. Owner/Final Boss @RPGSite.net, Editor-at-large @Eurogamer.net, occasional freelancer & consultant.
Into: Arcade cabs, Watches, Dogs, Whisky, fighting games (esp SF), RPGs (esp FF), NFL (Rams), Lego, Poker & Blackjack
www.donaldson.zone
A Technical Director at Epic Games making fun stuff in UEFN.
Proud dad, crap runner.
Prev: The Movies, Fable 2, Fable 3, Fable Heroes, Gears Pop, Fall Guys & more. Co-founder of Bit by Bit Games
Product Manager at Enhance (Lumines Arise, HUMANITY, Tetris Effect: Connected, Rez Infinite). Player One Podcast producer/host. Formerly Adult Swim Games, Newtype USA, EGM. Bi guy. 💖💜💙
Games Industry Veteran of 26.3 years & 100+ games
Partner/Head of Production at Remote Control Productions
Managing Director at It Matters Games
Owner of NOTHING MATTERS
"Mr Gamescom" - Linkedin
Star of "Seb Simulator 25"
Your new dad.
Veteran tech/games PR pro. PRed the first VR toolkit, first esports league, first casual games site, et al.
Señor principal analyst covering games, AR & VR at Omdia. Chief sourdough whisperer at @fermentikitchen.bsky.social.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/Dosa_Divas/
Director/Narrative of Dosa Divas, Thirsty Suitors, Falcon Age. Co-Founder and Creative Director at Outerloop Games. Design, art, biz, UI/UX, production. Supporting and uplifting marginalized devs.
Neurodivergent games industry comms specialist retraining as a psychotherapist.
Games. Dogs. Foods. Colossal existential anxiety.
Producer on Silent Hill: Townfall | BFI Board of Governors | EIFF Board | CoSTAR Foresight
Novelist. Video game correspondent for The Guardian. He/him 💖
⚡ PR and assorted creative stuff for Devolver Digital
⚡ Writer, photographer, graphic designer, zine maker, etc.
⚡ Author of Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion
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📍 Yorkshire, UK
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medcomms writer by day, fiction writer by night. Dork.
