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It’s a unique week for our weekly recommendations post. This week we’ve toiled away and would like to present to you, the itch.io community, the fruits of our labor. This week we’re getting Shakespearean, looking at a game that slipped… Continue Reading →
Running this blog comes with its fair share of responsibilities. What should we cover, what shouldn’t we cover, which games need the coverage? All of this sets us up for a complicated balancing act. With that in mind, I want… Continue Reading →
Get your game on this week with a release I slept on, an awesome proof-of-concept demo, and a collection of essays on some of my favorite games. It’s a veritable buffet of hot projects ready for your time, love, and… Continue Reading →
In my day-to-day I get asked a lot about how to get started on itch.io. This comes from established developers looking to move their projects over to itch.io and new devs looking to upload a project for the first time… Continue Reading →
This week’s recommendations are all about machines. Building them, using them, and.. what it means for them to be alive? There’s a lot of diversity inside of this general theming, and I’m happy to wholeheartedly recommend each of these games…. Continue Reading →
Are you worried that you don’t have enough things to do? Have you somehow run out of games to play and want to help make sure nobody in the future has this problem? Try out a game jam! We have… Continue Reading →
We’re getting weird with time this week as we recommend two pre-release games (and one that’s already out). Think of how cool you’ll be when these games get huge and you will have already been playing them for months. Read… Continue Reading →
In the interest of transparency, we’re going to do something a bit differently on the blog this week: we’re lifting the curtain a little bit and discussing how the site works. Specifically I want to talk about your game’s launch… Continue Reading →
How about that itch.io sale that just ended? Pretty wild huh? Well we’re back with a new batch of games to recommend to fill your time in case you missed the sale or have somehow finished all of the games… Continue Reading →
Take a vacation into the land of hot deals with the itch.io Summer Sale! From the time you’re reading this until the 1st of July at 10am PST hundreds of games, projects, and soundtracks are available on discount. Throughout the… Continue Reading →
Let’s get experimental y’all. This week’s recommendations are a pair of games that don’t really behave like any others. First up is Kids, a strange and wild look at peer pressure and puberty. This of course is followed by Don’t… Continue Reading →
We love indies at itch.io so we’re happy to support #loveindies2019! But what is #loveindies? An annual celebration of all things indie, #loveindies is a concerted push to connect developers with the fans who love their games. Tell your friends… Continue Reading →
Get your visual novel on with this week’s recommendations. The wordiest genre is back with two cutting edge entries. One is heavily polished jam game and the other is a demo for what could end up being one of the… Continue Reading →
Tabletop RPGs are in a renaissance right now. Spurred on by a variety of forces but namely the rise of Actual Play videos and podcasts has driven flocks of new players to the scene and developers have rewarded them with… Continue Reading →
I’m a sucker for games that get weird. When you’ve played as many games as I have you begin to get tired of seeing the same old thing. That’s why this week I’m happy to say all three of our… Continue Reading →
The weather is starting to warm up which means Summer is around the corner. Hopefully you’ll have a little more free time to relax with friends and family. Why are we bringing this up? Because games are a great way… Continue Reading →
This week’s recommendations are going to be a bit different than usual. We’re recommending less games for one, and the second game I can’t really talk about without ruining it for another. Also the first game is a demo? Weird,… Continue Reading →
In this weeks’ itch.io Recommends we talked about some new games that felt old. We’ve been seeing a lot of that lately so it’s high time we helped folks get into the aesthetic if they’re interested. There are a lot… Continue Reading →
There’s a theme to our recommendations this week: Games that feel old but are new (and a bonus older game that’s new to us). Take a trip down memory lane, or figure out what all the buzz is about with… Continue Reading →
Gather around everyone, Ludum Dare 44 just wrapped up which means we have thoughts! The crew here have been busy checking the submissions for gems and we’ve been working on a collection that features some of our favorites . I… Continue Reading →
Is it just me or are there more and more early access games coming out these days? It feels like every week I’m recommending games that haven’t hit 1.0 and this week is no different. This time there’s an open… Continue Reading →
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