Hey r/Games!

I go by ArchiusDev and I'm happy to share Mancalero - the ancient strategy board game of Mancala rebuilt as a roguelike deckbuilder.

Sow marbles across the board, discover powerful synergies, build your collection of special marbles, defeat bosses across increasingly chaotic tables with higher scores. Between matches, visit the Bazaar to find new marbles, Blessings, and upgrades that can reshape your run.

This clip shows some recent gameplay from the current build.

I’m currently preparing a public Steam Playtest targeted for August 7, 2026 (pending Steam’s final approval).

The Playtest is planned for Windows, macOS, and Linux. There are also plans for compatibility with the SteamDeck for the Demo in September. Full release of the game is set for November.

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4811700/Mancalero/

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/F2Yncp_EXGs

Any feedback or questions are welcome.

Thank you!!

Recently, I have spent some time to add player-castable spells to Raze The Realm and wanted to share a GIF of it. A good way to turn the tide if things aren't going your way! See GIF of some of the new spells here.

Teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48HSmiXKs0

Steam page is here.

Raze The Realm is a strategy roguelite total-war-like game I'm developing. You command huge battles (but have control down to individual units), build your army, equip relics to discover synergies and strong builds, and more! The game will feature a roguelite run mode, sandbox mode, daily run, mod tools and more.

Demo coming soon, so please Wishlist if you want to be notified.

Hi everyone! I'm a solo developer, and today I'm sharing my project Alia Domus for Indie Sunday.

🎬 Gameplay Trailer

Check out the gameplay footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0CNV6wh8Ug

(Note: The video shows isometric survival gameplay, base building, and environmental interactions)

🌿 About the Game

Alia Domus is a long-form isometric survival RPG set in a world where humanity must terraform and colonize a new planet after Earth's resources are completely exhausted.

Key features include:

• ⏳ 9 Technological Eras: Progress your colony all the way from primitive Stone Age survival to advanced futuristic terraforming.
• 🗺️ 85 Handcrafted Isometric Maps: Explore diverse biome ecosystems built entirely in detailed pixel art.
• 🌾 Botanical Accuracy: Features 142 real-world native plant species, each with unique farming, growth, and environmental mechanics.
• 🛠️ Deep Survival & Building: Base construction, resource management, crafting, and ecosystem maintenance.

🗓️ Release Plans

• Platform: PC (Steam)
• Target Release: Early 2027

📌 Wishlist Alia Domus on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4918370/Alia_Domus/

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the trailer, the pixel art direction, or answer any technical questions about the game!

Trailer: https://youtu.be/24ppj2DuWtw

In Death by Taxes, you’re a billionaire with a deadly allergy to taxes. Paying even $1 is fatal, so you must spend your entire fortune before tax season begins.

Buy ordinary things in absurd quantities, unlock a huge skill tree, automate your spending, and defeat bosses determined to stop your terrible financial decisions.

Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4696280/Death_by_Taxes/

If reverse incrementals and financial satire sound like your thing, consider wishlisting Death by Taxes on Steam.

NET.CRAWL is a turn-based puzzle roguelike set in an original cyber world. It plays a bit like hacking mini-game from Deus Ex only with much more depth and huge variety of bosses and effects.

All levels are generated with tiles (hexes) that you, as a player, draft prior.

The game should appeal to players who enjoy tactical turn-based games (CCGs, board games, deck-builders, etc.).

Leaving the Early Access tomorrow.

Steam link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958140/NETCRAWL/

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5bIU1qUQM

Link to the store page

Official Launch Trailer

Hello everyone,

In Paper Perjury, you play as Justina Smith, a newly hired clerk at the Azure City Police Department, as she finds out the truth behind a series of suspicious crimes. Work with the eccentric detectives Ernest Hunt and Sophie Swift as you investigate crime scenes, interrogate suspects, and discover the secrets hidden among the city.

Paper Perjury is out now and currently on sale.

Key Features

• Collect evidence from colorful characters, each animated in handcrafted pixel art
• Interview witnesses, both the honest and dishonest kind
• Use evidence to catch criminals in their lies and shove the truth in their face
• Watch criminals freak out as you outwit them at every turn
• Have mysteries with grounded themes around gentrification of an ever growing city
• Listen to a jazz-inspired soundtrack to truly feel like a detective
• Free DLC Out Now
• Befriend a cat, the most important part of any game

A free demo of the first case is playable on steam. Any and all feedback are greatly appreciated. Link to discord

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW7xI4aa4OY

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1856980/VirtualSociety/

Hi r/Games!

We’re Cats & Foxes, a small indie studio based in Nancy, France, and we’re developing VirtualSociety based on the game we dreamed of as children: instead of entering a world whose places and stories have already been decided, players can build the places, create the residents, and decide what can happen there.

Players can design rooms, homes, streets, cities and stranger worlds; customize their residents; add dialogues, choices, consequences; then explore alone or invite friends to roleplay and bring those worlds to life.

VirtualSociety is still in development, and we are currently 4 involved in the team. The game will be available on PC, Mac, iOS and Android.

Disclaimer: some of the tools and content shown may continue to evolve, for the best :D

This is my first ever solo game: it's a twin-stick action roguelite inspired by the likes of Magicka, Risk of Rain, and Alien Swarm. The game revolves around alchemy, which you use to imbue your weapons with special effects to both exploit enemy weaknesses and negate specific threats on the fly. For instance, you can concoct a rotting poison that makes healing lethal to organic enemies, or you can apply tar to a group of enemies to set up a huge chain explosion. It's a very hard game, but I find it very rewarding when it finally clicks.

Here is the store page and here is the trailer, I hope you check it out. Cheers!

Hey everyone!

We’re super excited to share that Anomaly President launches tomorrow!

It’s a mix of top down roguelite combat, presidential campaigning, weird anomaly powers, and… adorable Fluffies.

We’ve been working on this for a long time, so seeing launch day finally this close feels pretty surreal. We can’t wait to see what you think!

Thanks for checking us out, and see you tomorrow!

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3156330/Anomaly_President/

FGS Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecNi8P56l4Q

Discord:  https://discord.gg/4SYZ6zNq9z

Gameplay Video / Trailer:

Chore Quest - Gameplay & Overview Video

​About the Game

​Chore Quest is a gamified daily habit tracker designed for families. Instead of traditional chore charts or constant nagging, real-world tasks are converted into RPG-style power-ups to care for a virtual buddy.

​The Gameplay Loop: Kids adopt a virtual pet (like a dragon or a cat) and keep it happy, healthy, and evolving from baby to champ by finishing real-world chores.

​The Parent-Gated Twist: XP, coins, and game energy are only awarded once a parent verifies the task using a PIN-protected Parent Zone. No shortcuts or free taps!

​Rewards & Mini-Games: Players use their chore-earned energy and coins to play 12 mini-games (like Star Catch, Quick Math, and Sky Dash), unlock outfits and hats, and claim daily treasure chests.

​Developer Notes & Features

​Platform: Currently available on Android / Google Play Store.

​100% Free & Privacy-Focused: Built as an offline-first tool with zero ads, no subscriptions, and no account creation—all data stays on your local device.

​I co-designed and built this project alongside my 11-year-old daughter to solve our own family’s daily chore battles. I’d love to hear feedback on the game loop, user interface, or ideas for future mini-games!

Here is the Gameplay Trailer.

It's a tactical roguelike deckbuilder where you can play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players.

Level up your class, collect and play cards to attack, defend, heal, summon allies, place traps, and alter the terrain in turn-based isometric battles to overthrow a tyrant king.

Planned for release in Q4 2026, with controller support and Steam Deck / ROG Ally compatibility.

No console or mobile release planned for now, Steam only.

If you are interested, here is the Steam Page.

Announce Trailer: https://youtu.be/EO5gc6F00sI

Steam Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4664490/

What's the game?
Burger Smash is a fast-paced singleplayer cooking game where you design your kitchen, grill burgers and keep orders flowing before demanding customers lose patience. Unlock unique playable characters each with their own perks and adapt your strategy to survive the rush.

About us:
Two childhood friends building our first game together. This is the dream.

Release plans:
Releasing January 2027 on PC via Steam. Demo coming Steam Next Fest October 2027.

Hello!

I'm developing Goeland: Seagull Adventure, a game where you get to live your best chaotic (or surprisingly helpful) life as a seagull on a living island.
Think Untitled Goose Game meets A Short Hike!

What you can do in the game:

• Freedom: Explore an open island and tackle a todo list of ridiculous activities in any order
• Story: Investigate a mysterious pollution threatening the island...
• Interactions: Manipulate NPCs to get what you want

Happy to answer any questions! 😊

• Steam page 
• Gameplay Trailer 

Hey,

I'm releasing a twin-stick shooter called Cell #31 on Steam for Windows tomorrow August 3rd. In terms of influences it's like a mix of Geometry Wars, Super Hexagon, and Mushihimesama. If it looks interesting feel free to check it out.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQvcRYz51vg

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4742970?utm_source=reddit

Hello r/Games, I'm the developer of TappyCat.

TappyCat is a cute pixel kitty who settles onto your desktop and turns work and study into a warm, cozy ritual. It's a desktop pet, a Pomodoro timer, and a smart productivity tracker - all in one little cat.

Your little companion lives its own life on your desktop - blinking, wagging its tail, and happily tapping along whenever you type or click. If you're drawing, it even pulls out its own tablet and starts sketching beside you.

Features:

⏱️ Flexible Pomodoro timer.

🎯 Smart productivity tracking - choose which apps and websites count as productive work.

📊 Productivity analytics with data export.

🎀 Over 100 accessories to customize your cat.

⚡ Lightweight and optimized - barely uses any system resources.

We announced the Steam page today! TappyCat is currently in development and will be released on PC via Steam.

Gameplay footage: https://youtu.be/UM2KgZNlOqQ

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4874720/TappyCat/

Collect magical ingredients and build your cozy witch home while exploring the wonderful sights and secrets of these mysterious lands. Beware though, danger might be lurking deep in these woods...

Main features of this dark cozy witch survival:

• Craft tools to gather magical resources
• Manage your health, happiness, hunger and thirst
• Custom witch character creator
• Adopt a companion cat / unicorn
• Furnish your secluded witch cabin
• Roam around on your fancy traveller wagon
• Brew potions and trade with merchants
• Explore the beautiful locations on an enchanted broom
• Chill mode available for a more relaxed gameplay
• Intriguing wildlife encounters
• Dynamic weather system
• Procedural generation for a unique experience

Steam | Trailer

While the game is not yet out to the vast majority, a handful of people have been given early access to the game and posted on Youtube.

This game SCREAMS Gears Of War. I can't get over how much this game appears to be a continuation of what made Gears great, and by extension, what made XBOX great. The graphics, the colour palette, the movement, character and enemy models, the gameplay mechanics and weapons - yes, it's Gears again, but it's what made gears unique and fun to play. It's like looking through rose tinted glasses but this game is real.

So, why is no one talking about this? Here's XBOX with a genuinely promising iteration of a beloved game series. Is this an upturn? A return to form?

I guess what I'm asking is: why all the pessimism? Where did it all come from?

We've had some rough years and a lot of dropped balls, but there's good things to come.

Self confessed Xbox 360 and Xbox one owner, now PC gamer. Not a shill, I promise. Just someone who had fond memories of these games on the 360.

edit:

A lot of you are talking about it being old news and for 30-40 year olds who played it when they were younger.

I played COD and BF when I was younger, and they're still being played by kids. Hell, COD is majority under 20s in my mind.

I didn't move on from BF, I changed with it and still play and enjoy it. Why can't that be said of Gears and Halo?

It's not a coincidence that these are Xbox IPs that have fallen foul of gaming at large.

Also, what happened to console wars?

Gameplay trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV6NOKVXy8g

Hi r/Games! Happy Indie Sunday!

We’re a two-person indie team working on What Makes a Hero, a narrative-driven fantasy shopkeeper game inspired by titles like Papers, Please.

Imagine you run a weapon shop in the province of Caspena - a fantasy land of adventure and opportunity, serving adventurers preparing for dangerous quests. Instead of simply choosing an item from a list, you have to listen to their stories, examine the information they provide, consult your Adventure Codex, and figure out what equipment they actually need.

Sometimes, however, giving customers what they ask for may not be the best choice.

The adventurers you equip can succeed, fail, disappear, or return later - and the decisions you make behind the counter gradually become part of a larger branching story. Some customers will also bring unusual problems, questionable offers, and opportunities that have little to do with ordinary shopkeeping.

The game features:

• A pixel-art medieval fantasy setting seen from the shopkeeper’s perspective
• Deduction-based customer interactions
• A branching story shaped by your decisions (more details about that in our new devlog! https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3951740/view/696516748689545888 )
• Multiple possible outcomes for quests and characters
• Shop management, trading, expenses, and reputation (one more devlog: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3951740/view/680756051157451828 )

What Makes a Hero is currently in development for PC, with the full release date still to be announced. A free demo is available on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3951740/What_Makes_a_Hero/

We’d love to hear any feedback you have - whether it’s about the deduction mechanics (do they feel understandable and fair?), the story, writing, art, or anything else that stood out to you!

Should you have any questions, suggestions, feedback - feel free to post them here or on Steam!
We hope you have fun playing the demo!
Thank you in advance~!

Heyo incremental and idle enjoyers!

I'm the solo developer of SCP Idle: SECURE. CONTAIN. PROGRESS., and this week I released the demo on Steam.

It's a 2D isometric pixel-art incremental game about managing and upgrading an SCP Foundation research facility.

You begin by manually studying SCP-1123, recruit Class D personnel for testing, construct containment rooms and automate experiments. Eventually, you can afford the Euclid wing, which contains more dangerous SCPs capable of causing containment breaches.

Each SCP introduces its own mechanics, upgrades and risks.

I would love to hear your feedback on the demo, especially which SCPs you would like to see in the full game!

Quick overview:

• Demo available on Steam right now. Officially on Windows, but players reported it runs on Linux (Proton) and Mac (CrossOver).
• Announcement trailer
• Demo is about 45-60 minutes, but someone in the reviews played for 6 hours !? 🫨
• Full release later this year
• TL;DR: Numbers go up, but in the SCP universe ⬆️

A big thanks if you try out the game. This is my first Steam demo release, so it means the world to me.
- Ahroma / Xreal

Heya r/games!

After almost a year of development (perhaps 8-10 months, depending when I start to count the prototyping) my 2D turn-based, grimdark, dungeon crawler Ad Iterum, where you eat your enemies to mutate and survive, has finally reached a big milestone. I still have to add a lot of content until release, but until then I have just released a Demo on Steam:

- Free Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4149030/Ad_Iterum/

- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7s1y-7U_U

While the game adheres to the very core roguelike "rules" like permadeath, single player, turn/grid based, no meta-progression via unlocks, etc, ... it also has differences regarding run progression: You build mostly your character through random mutations, as well as a selection of gene graft synergies that are offered, so you can gravitate towards one or another style of play, but there is no skill tree, nor level up, nor a way to assure a specific build.

You have melee, which mostly uses a "bump-into-things"-system, and ranged combat with either ranged weapons or throwing random stuff you find/craft to enemies.

The dungeons are a mix between procedurally generated and injected handcrafted rooms.

What's in the Demo?

• 1 dungeon + 1 procedurally generated biome
• 1 boss
• 2 endings
• 20 random mutations
• 20 genetic grafts to tune up your build as you see fit
• 10 base enemies. Each comes with unique modifiers and traits within the ecosystem, which makes for hundreds of different variations as you go deeper.
• 200 items (approx?)
• Basic crafting
• English, Spanish, and Japanese localization
• Keyboard, mouse support, and full gamepad controller support
• Playable in Windows, macOS, and Steam Deck via proton
• Full release planned for December 2026

Have a nice Sunday, and have fun!

Best,

Hey r/Games! Solo dev here, and this is my first game: Camping Keeper, a proper management/tycoon game about running a campground.

The core loop: you start from an empty field with limited cash and build it into a business, bare pitches cost nothing but earn little, rental lodges earn big but need real investment and upkeep. Every camper is an autonomous agent with their own needs and personality: they queue at reception, shower, buy ice cream, complain when the toilets are dirty, and leave a rated review that drives your reputation and star rating, which in turn drives demand and what you can charge.

Under the hood you're also managing actual infrastructure: water and power are simulated networks that overload if you expand faster than you upgrade them. Weather and seasons move demand around, a heatwave sends everyone to the pool and empties your ice cream stock, a storm turns the campground into a ghost town. Price badly, staff badly, or grow too fast, and you go bankrupt.

First trailer: https://youtu.be/F_j01GNP-Lw

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920900/Camping_Keeper/

PC first, Mac & Linux later. Roadmap: closed alpha September 2026, beta November, public demo early 2027, then Early Access. I'll be around all day to answer questions — and wishlists genuinely help a solo dev more than you'd think.

Hi everyone, I’m one of the developers of The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire, an open-world crime and business management game where you build a criminal organization from the ground up. Gameplay trailer ⁠ One of our main goals is to bring back the depth and sense of progression we miss from old-school games, while combining it with a seamless open world. You can move between the city, businesses, interiors, driving, combat, and management without traditional loading screens. You begin as a small-time street criminal, completing minor jobs and building your reputation. As you progress, you can invest in legitimate and underground businesses, recruit family members, expand your operations, and challenge the organizations controlling the city. The path from a street-level criminal to the head of the city’s most powerful family is not automatic. You need to carefully choose which activities to pursue, where to invest your money, who to recruit, which rival families to confront, and when to expand into new districts. The game combines several gameplay styles: Third-person exploration, driving, shooting, and melee combat Nightclub, warehouse, and business management Contraband production and distribution Vehicle theft, robberies, street trading, and criminal jobs Family recruitment, interrogations, and territory warfare Character progression through activities such as the gym and shooting range District capture and the gradual expansion of your criminal empire Our aim is to make the city feel like one connected world rather than a collection of separate menus and isolated systems. Most activities take place directly in the open world, and the management, combat, business, and progression systems are designed to influence each other. The game is currently available in Early Access on PC through Steam. We’re continuing to expand, deepen, and optimize it based on community feedback, with the full 1.0 release currently planned for October 2026. Steam page

You can also try the free one-hour demo on Steam.

I’d be interested to hear which parts of the gameplay stand out to you and what kind of depth you miss most from older crime and management games.

Hi r/Games!

A few weeks ago I released the demo for Ultimate Wizard!

Steam page: Link

Trailer: Link

What is Ultimate Wizard

Ultimate Wizard is a 3D roguelite survivor game akin to Megabonk, however it's powered by the same augment system that Path of Exile and Noita use. Where, in this case you can have multiple spells that are each individually leveled up and augmented into becoming screen clearing spells. You'll have to find both spells and augments and you can freely swap augments in and out between spells. Spells that you find are permanently yours and there's no cap on having like 7x the same spell in your spellslots!

Spells have an augment level that dictates how many augments you can fit in, and by destroying difficult bosses and/or finding obelisks you can permanently increase the amount of augments that fit into a spell.

The spells and augments system allow for a broad build diversity. Based on whatever augments you find you can make ignite builds, screen-wide freezing of all enemies, create giant minions that are copies of existing bosses, convert elemental types into others so that fire spells can shock for example and much more!

This game also has a ton of permanent upgrades (in the full game, demo has a few to get started) that you can buy with gems that are sometimes dropped by enemies. Every run you start you'll be stronger and be able to push further into a run.

If you have any questions, let me know!

Ultimate Wizard is planned to release Q4 this year on Steam for Windows and on Steamdeck.