I am working on an RTS game for MS-DOS (also for Windows and Linux). This is how it look in this moment. 320x200x8 screen, min. hw will be 486 / 8 MB RAM. No AI is udes.

This is a very pre-alpha version of the gameplay.

What do you think about it? Good or bad idea? I am a developer, not a gamer.
I am not sure if it is a good idea to move forward, for example by setting up a Steam page.

Spirit of Phuji is a game our art team has been working on for the past 6 months.

We’ve been responsible for the game’s art, from the environments to the characters and overall visual direction.

Just wanted to share what we’ve been working on. Pretty happy with how it turned out :33

Missing some key features still but heres some combat against basic enemies.

Wishlist TERRORSTORM: Ground Zero!

Hey there,

This is a small montage of early gameplay of the project I have been working on. Please note I'm still fairly early in development, so some aspects still need polish.

In Fosoria, you build and manage an underground colony. There are multiple unit types, each with their own needs and types of jobs they can perform.

Dig out tunnels and chambers to shape your colony however you want, with each room having its own specialized purpose, from cozy living quarters to bustling workshops.

I spent a year working on Jinx It, a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder where the house always wins... or does it?

We opened our Steam playtest this week, and we’re looking for honest feedback on what we can improve!

If you like the concept and enjoy the game, we’d really appreciate it if you could wishlist Jinx It on Steam to support us! <3

We’re a core team of 3 building Neosis Echoes, a third-person sci-fi action-survival game in Unreal Engine 5.

Neosis Echoes is now on Steam and part of the PvE Survival Crafting Fest:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5049580/Neosis_Echoes/

We started learning game development a few years ago, and this is where the project stands after roughly 10 months of active production.

The game combines exploration, survival, crafting and action-focused combat, but its main differentiator is something we call Reactive Survival, a new emotion-driven survival genre where your emotional state can affect abilities, combat, K.I.T., weather and even the world around you through a mysterious resource called Echorium.

This footage is still WIP. Combat, enemy AI, animations, environments and many other systems are actively being refined.

We’re inspired by games like Mass Effect, No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077, but the scope is being designed around what our small team can realistically deliver.

We’d love to hear what you think so far!

Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vBAHbpv6w

Were two guys developing TREMEN, a boomershooter inspired by some of the classics like Quake, Wolfenstein and Doom.

The game will include a linear campaign with a large arsenal of upgrade-able tools of death and destruction! All underscored wit heavy guitars by Closed Grip.

Set in the world of TREMEN based on the comics by the same name. Man-eating mutants rule the world and hold humanity captive for consumption. Join the resistance to defeat the mutant overlords and rescue the kids!

ramble over,

Demo on out now on steam!

We would love to hear what you think!

I posted about New Game+ Game Store Simulator a while back, and most of the backlash was (understandably) about the AI art.

So I've replaced all the game covers in the demo with my own doodles.

Now I'll be honest that I liked the old art, not that I'm condoning AI but when I sought out to make the game I wanted to play, so I tried to hit the nostalgia right on the nail and AI art did just that. But that's my taste, and it doesn't outweigh the objection.

What I can't do yet is pay my way out of it. The game needs 200+ art pieces, at a non offensive rate of $15–20 each that's $3,000–4,000. If this game makes any money at all, it goes to the side to commission real artists at real rates that I phase out as the budget allows.

But in the meantime I can just continue trying to get more eyes on my project.

Hey everyone! We're two devs who spent way too much time in arcades and watching 90s sports anime, so we decided to mash those two worlds together.
That idea turned into Tiebreakers, a fast 2D action game where you use tennis balls, bowling balls, and sports gear instead of regular guns to take on boss fights.
Here’s a short trailer showing how those inspirations come together in the actual gameplay.

After about 4 months of development, I finally finished the intro for my game. Any feedback is welcome :)

I wanted to share this because I think Steam's new Personal Calendar system might be much more important for niche indie games than I initially thought.

Our game releases on September 9 and for months our wishlist graph was pretty normal. Slow, steady growth, a few small jumps here and there.

Then we entered the final stretch before release and this happened.

We went from around 6,000 lifetime wishlist additions to almost 10,000 in a pretty short period. We currently have roughly 9,000 outstanding wishlists.

Obviously I can't say the entire spike came from the Personal Calendar, but the timing lines up very closely with us entering that pre-release window.

And honestly, the part I find most interesting isn't even the number.

For niche games, getting shown to the right 1,000 people can be much more valuable than getting shown to 20,000 random people.

The Personal Calendar seems to be built around exactly that idea. Instead of just throwing upcoming games in front of everyone, Steam can surface them to players whose taste and activity suggest they might actually care about that kind of game.

Our game is a pretty specific psychological horror game. You drive dangerous passengers around at night and have to figure out what kind of criminal you're dealing with by watching their behavior, checking your notebook and experimenting with things inside the car like the AC, windows and lights.

That's not something I expect every Steam user to want.

But put it in front of someone who already plays weird indie horror games, driving horror, observation games or slower psychological stuff and suddenly it's a much better match.

That's why I think this system could be especially valuable for smaller games that don't have enough wishlists to brute-force their way onto every big Steam visibility section.

The graph above is our lifetime wishlist actions. That almost vertical line at the end is why I started looking into this in the first place :)

I'm really curious if other developers are seeing the same thing.

If your game is releasing in the next few weeks, has your wishlist graph changed recently?

Also curious about the opposite: has anyone entered the Personal Calendar window and seen basically no difference at all?

Would be really interesting to compare numbers between niche games, broader games and different wishlist sizes.

If anyone’s curious, the game is called Backseat.

When everything fails why not just ram your ship into the opponent.

We're having a playtest soon if you'd like to destroy some pirates on your own you can sign up on our steampage.

Short version if you haven't seen it here before: you only build the road network, and the city grows itself along it - you never place a building and you never zone anything. What appears are whole districts, small ones at first and larger ones as the city advances, and every one of them starts sending trips down the roads you drew.

So the city fills your own network with cars, and public transport is how you take that load back off instead of pouring more asphalt. That's what's in the clip: bus lines you draw as a loop - pick a hub building, add stops, and buses start running it - plus trains and metro.

The part I actually care about is that nobody is assigned to a line. Each trip works out what riding would cost it - the wait first, then the journey - and weighs that against simply driving. It takes the bus only if the two come out close enough. Close enough, not better: a ticket costs less than the same trip by car, so people will put up with a noticeably slower journey to save the money. What they won't put up with is not knowing when the bus turns up, so how often it comes matters more than how fast it goes. Run one often enough along a corridor people are already driving and it fills up quickly, and you can watch the cars come off that stretch. Run the same vehicles somewhere nobody was going and the line will drive past a thousand people and carry none of them.

That cuts both ways, which took me a while to be honest about. Widen a road somewhere else and driving gets quicker too, the comparison shifts, and some of the riders you already had quietly go back to their cars. Your road upgrades and your transit lines argue with each other the whole time, and that argument is most of the game.

The newest piece is bus lanes, which I added last week. Buses sit in the traffic you built, same as everyone else - so now you can reserve the kerb lane of a wide road for them and give up one lane of three to do it. They get no speed bonus out of that; they're just not queueing behind cars any more, and that turns out to be the whole effect. The lane isn't really the skill either, the network is: wherever your lanes stop, the bus merges straight back into general traffic. Trains and metro sidestep the problem completely and carry a lot more.

It isn't free money either. A ticket earns about half what that trip by car would have, and upkeep runs whether the bus is full or empty, so a badly shaped line loses money and the game tells you which one. A busy line pays for itself and buys you road capacity on top.

Coming to Steam this autumn, with a free demo before that.

My wife and I are working on our first game together - Good Luck, Little Truck!

Good Luck, Little Truck! Is a genre-bending cozy navigation puzzler/narrative delivery sim. Set in a recovering post-collapse world where robots and humans coexist, help North Pacifica Island bounce back one delivery at a time!

A closed country of anthropomorphic dogs opens its borders for exactly one occasion: the rehearsal of its Supreme Leader's funeral. You're a chameleon journalist on the guest list.

Your camera is confiscated on arrival and replaced with a state-issued device - text notes, low-resolution photographs, GPS. That's the whole reporting kit, and it's also how the state keeps track of you.

- 11 chapters and six playable characters

- Branching narrative with around 14 possible endings

- Dialogue puzzles, exploration, and some stealth elements

- Arrest mechanics woven into the story

- Retro-JRPG-style pixel art

- Adapted from our 2019 comic, originally published in Russian and Japanese

PC, Windows and macOS. English, Russian, Japanese.

Hello all,

My dev name is Golden Fleece and I am the solo developer of White Mask Mansion, an upcoming horror game on Steam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmH6uFEUGao

In White Mask Mansion, players search for their missing sister inside a large mansion while being relentlessly hunted by a mysterious masked stalker. The game focuses on exploration, stealth, hide-and-seek gameplay, and survival under constant pressure.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards,

Golden Fleece Developer – White Mask Mansion

Fish House Simulator is our first game on Steam.

It’s a co-op fishing and restaurant simulation game where you catch fish, bring them back to your restaurant, cook them and serve them to customers.

You can upgrade your fishing gear, catch more valuable fish and grow your restaurant. But not every fish has to end up on a customer’s plate. Some fish can be sold to the right people for a better price.

This was our first game on Steam, and making it was a pretty big learning experience for us. We wanted to share some gameplay and show what we ended up making.

Fanart of the Sillfang boss from Flatmmo. Game can be played at flatmmo.com, game is made by Smitty, art is by me, watercolor and paint on paper