Tom Betts

The best games of 2025 | Year in Review The games we played and enjoyed the most, from another spectacularly abundant year.

Over at GamesIndustry.biz, @lewispackwood.bsky.social named The Horror at Highrook as one the best games of 2025.

"...if there's one game I haven't been able to stop thinking about, it's The Horror at Highrook by Nullpointer Games..."

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Hey, unfortunately Imgur is blocked here (UK) so I can't see the images you have attached.. Charcoal is a consumable card that adds 1 point to tasks in the study.. You should be able to use it there as lojng as yuo have a task and a character also in that room (in the right slots)

With this and Tainted Grail, I feel like Ive really been able to scratch my preferred flavour of fantasy RPG recently!

Its got great level design with loads of cool shortcuts and hidden areas and hardly any wasted space. The world isnt huge but its very dense. The build system is a bit too Nioh in its RNG but stil very compelling for someone like me who likes to theorycraft.

Ive been playing "No Rest For The WIcked" and damn it really does tick all the Tom Boxes. exploring, loads of stats and builds, a bit grindy, some stylish art, characters and lighting. Its UX and explanations are a bit janky at points, but its still in EA.

Sorry to hear this. Hope you and the team find some new gigs soon.

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

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9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

Shame you can't downvote ceos isn't it.

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Dan has been making super enjoyable funny games for as long as I can remember. His new one is just out and features actual humans voice acting, so you dont even need to read!
If you like Brit Wit and a bit of point and clicking check it out!

No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.

Testing reality-bending visual effects for my game!

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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

New Common Side Effects series?
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Also, damn that was a great series..

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I've actually never been to this, but most of the talks Ive seen from it are great! If you are doing anything interesting PCGwise maybe see if you could submit something?

And you know they are doing it at a hundred other locations at the same time. I get that agencies are paid to reach audiences, but exploiting a "devs looking for feedback" channel feels liek another case of folk with money to burn taking the air from folk who actually care.

Got annoyed recently by marketing agencies astroturfing in specialist interest forums/discords/reddits.

People popping up as new users, posting a screenshot from "their game", asking folk to wishlist, but then unable to tell me anything about the game, or respond to any questions.

Godhusk - rebirth Godhusk - rebirth the official guideby PlastibooFirst edition sold out, second edition reprinted soonend of March 2026a LORE Game Book (loreGB)"A vessel is born anew.The bearer of the deadman's will w...

The setting and the tone are super bleak, expansive biomech type stuff with the layout and design of a 1990s magazine cheats page.. great stuff
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Been checking out GodHusk and I love the idea of so much detail and love being put into a guide-book for a thing/world/game that doesnt exist. I mean I suppose its not too far from a TTRPG campaign book, but it doesnt seem to want to be that.

happy bidet!

very nice, its got a sort of reaction diffusion vibe

Congrats! Seems like it was well worth trying!

Highland Trip on Steam A first-person psychological horror game where you explore the remote Scottish Highlands, gather resources to survive the night, and evade a stalking presence that blurs hallucination and reality. The...

🎙️ Looking for Scottish Gaelic voice actors for paid work on a small indie horror game set in the Highlands.

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Apparently if they are using a lot of CGI some directors wil light the actual shoots in a super bland way so that they have more flexibility to swop stuff around in the cgi post production part.

rawr!!!!

ill stop now :)

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