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?

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?

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?

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.

Deadhaus Sonata is a self-described, “narrative-driven action RPG” that, alongside the leadership of Dyack, is being created by a small indie team of around 10 called Apocalypse Studios.

all of the Elder Gods begins in the shoes of Evangeline Drayton, who’s being haunted by a recurring dream where she’s drawn to a mysterious artifact. She's also, concerningly, missing a few months - having befallen a bizarre ailment where she was walking, talking, and interacting with those around her but retaining no memory of it.

Scattered Hopes is set around the beginning of the reboot, as the Cylons re-emerge for the first time in 40 years, nuke all the human colonies, and use a backdoor into the humans’ systems to take out any of the modern ships in the fleet.

In MOTORSLICE, you’ll control P, and no, that is not a reminder to clench; it is, in fact, the name of our mysterious lead character. Now that we’ve established this section of the review is going to sound awkward, P is cute, bubbly, funny, and extremely acrobatic, while also sometimes referred to as a Slicer.

The Spell Brigade has been in Early Access since September 2024 and is finally dropping into its version 1.0 this week.

Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege is what you cool kids would call a “Classicvania.” There are 21 linear stages to spear your way through, stiff movements and controls that reek of NES design philosophy, knockbacks (if you so wish), annoying enemy patterns, tough level design, and of course, sub-weapons and screen-clearing power-ups.

Sintopia is a sim game all about taking control of Hell, to build a profitable and effective corporation that cleanses sinners of their sins before sending them back to the overworld. However, unlike other sim games of a similar type, you also need to manipulate the citizens of the overworld to ensure no demons appear, the ruler is on your side, and that your hell enterprise always has a healthy flow of new souls.