As someone who has played a lot, and I mean a lot, of farming sims, I know how intimidating they can seem. Many times I have looked at two or three choices for my next adventure and worried that I was going to choose the wrong one. This anxiety when it comes to the genre is a pretty common one, as these games are often characterized by their long playtimes and very similar gameplay. It’s within the smaller details where people begin to carve out a preference and identify the

Deer & Boy features our titular Deer & Boy on a journey across the country, spanning forests, factories, mountains, and caves, and with every part of our journey, we face a whole host of hazards, challenges, and beautiful vistas to ogle at. Developers Lifeline Games have touted Deer & Boy as ‘an animated film you can play,’ and that is exactly what they have achieved, with a beautiful story, gorgeous world, and all the adorable animal companionship Disney made commonplace.

, Dark Scrolls is the latest game to take a swing at what was once considered an exciting genre, though to developer doinksoft’s credit, they are at least attempting something a bit different by having an old-school auto-scrolling screen that can quite literally crush players if they don’t keep moving forward.

o what is Swapmeat? Well, it's not the lingo used to exchange nudes on Grindr (though perhaps it should be), nor is it a weird phallus-swapping porno inspired by Freaky Friday, though again - maybe someone should be taking notes. Instead, Swapmeat is the gaming scene’s newest attempt to be actively repulsive to vegetarians, bringing us a beef-themed third-person shooter and roguelike that takes massive inspiration from Risk of Rain 2...

Now, I don't play a lot of beat-'em-ups as I often find their gameplay to be as repetitive as those fake mobile games ads YouTube probably forced you to watch at the start of this video. But occasionally, ones like Absolum or Big Helmet Heroes will be great enough to tickle my fancy and earn a recommendation, genre misgivings aside. Is Lost Castle 2 such a game?

Tales of Seikyu is a cozy farming sim that stars a whole bunch of half-animal/half-human hybrids known as Yokai (as well as a few just regular humans), all of whom are meant to look conventionally attractive so that when you get further down the line, you can make one of them your boo and get them to help you out on your mystical quest to find your parents and the rest of the fox clan…

Crushed in Time is a sort of spin-off of the developer’s first game, There is No Game: Wrong Dimension, where you traverse different video game universes in a point-and-click adventure. One of these universes included Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and the team must have loved them so much that they decided to give them their own game.

I didn’t think much when Witchspire came my way. An open-world game full of things to find, stuff to craft, brooms to fly, and critter souls to harvest and force into indentured servitude. A big point of the game is to live and frolic with your other little witch friends.

Does Voidling Bound, a twist on the monster-taming genre, work? Or is it just another monstrosity?

Solarpunk is your run-of-the-mill survival game with not a lot that makes it stand out from the swathes of other titles that spew out every month.

There was nothing quite like The 7th Guest when it arrived in 1993. Developed by Trilobyte and published by Virgin Interactive, it became one of the world’s first CD‑ROM–only videogames.

Echo Generation 2 takes place a few years before its predecessor; that one taking place in the 90’s and this one standing with both feet firmly planted in the 80’s. From what I gather, there are at least a few returning characters this time around, namely younger versions of the first games protagonists.

After six long years of development Mina the Hollower is here at last, coming to us from Yacht Club Games, the same talented folks that brought us the legendary indie release Shovel Knight.

Superhot meets Hades out on the final frontier, and its final form calls itself Enter the Chronosphere, put together by developer Effort Star.

So does Yerba Buena, a narrative-focused puzzle platformer that challenges you to literally copy-paste the movement of its environmental objects, stick the landing?

In Rugrats: Retro Rewind Collection, players gain access to the following titles: Rugrats: Search for Reptar on PlayStation, The Rugrats Movie (the video game…I know, that’s confusing), originally released on the Game Boy and Game Boy Color; Rugrats: Time Travelers, also on Game Boy Color; Rugrats: Studio Tour, which debuted on PlayStation; Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, released on PlayStation, N64, Game Boy Color, and later PC; and finally Rugrats: Castle Capers on the Game B

Thrifty Business is a shop management simulator developed by Spellgarden Games. If that name sounds familiar to you, it's because they released Ritual of Raven in 2025, which was one of my favourite games of last year.

Coffee Talk: Tokyo is more talk than coffee and tells the story, over 15 night shifts in an old-school cozy cafe, of a variety of regular customers from all walks of life (and death)

Zero Parades centers on Hershel, codenamed Cascade—a spy who finds herself back in the field after a prior job went awry for reasons we're not yet privy to. Unfortunately, her new assignment is starting out no better as she arrives in the city of Portofiro to find her partner, Pseudopod, “zeroed out”—alive, yet mysteriously unresponsive.

RoadOut has you playing as Claire, a walking cliché of a tough, snarky mercenary who survives, if perhaps not thrives, in a desert wasteland called The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is populated by three rival factions that all have work to dish out for anybody willing to put themselves in harm’s way.