Until Lights Out20224 factsSamuka GomesGame page →Until Lights Out was first released free (name-your-own-price) on itch.io around 29 July 2022, before its paid $1.99 Steam launch on 16 September 2022.samukagomes.itch.ioIt's a Christmas-set horror game — a family Christmas night broken by a curse, an unusual seasonal framing for the genre.store.steampowered.comThe environments were modelled in SketchUp (an architectural modelling tool) and assembled in Unity, per the solo developer.samukagomes.itch.ioThe developer says the game was inspired by a horror movie, though he has never publicly named which one.samukagomes.itch.ioRead 2 more facts
Until None Remain VR20174 factsD.W.S.Game page →The game shipped as two separate Steam products by the same studio: a VR edition (app 697020) and a non-VR 'Battle Royale PC Edition' (app 697010) of the same last-man-standing concept.store.steampowered.comIt was marketed in October 2017 as bringing the battle-royale format to virtual reality, riding that year's battle-royale genre boom.prweb.comMatch design uses a poison-gas ring that closes in every five minutes, hard-capping each match at 15 minutes or until one survivor remains.store.steampowered.comBoth the VR and PC editions have since been delisted from Steam and are no longer available.store.steampowered.comRead 2 more facts
Valorant Mobile20254 factsRiot Games, LightSpeed Studios · Tencent Games, Riot GamesGame page →Valorant Mobile amassed more than 60 million pre-registrations before its China-only launch on August 19, 2025.sheepesports.comDespite being available only in China, the game reached roughly 10 million daily players within months — with no global release date announced.respawn.outlookindia.comTencent declared it the biggest mobile game launch of 2025 in China by both daily active users and first-month gross revenue.ainvest.comThe launch build shipped with 7 maps, 10 game modes, 120 FPS support, replays and an exclusive "Warrior Academy" training mode not found in the PC version.prismnews.comRead 2 more facts
Warhammer Underworlds: Online20204 factsSteel Sky ProductionsGame page →It is the official digital adaptation of Games Workshop's tabletop Warhammer Underworlds; Tin Man Games signed the license in 2019 and spun up a dedicated label, Steel Sky Productions, to build and publish it.tinmangames.com.auIt launched into Steam Early Access on 28 January 2020 and left Early Access into full 1.0 on 21 April 2020.store.steampowered.comIn May 2023, during Warhammer Skulls 2023, it was overhauled and retitled 'Warhammer Underworlds – Shadespire Edition,' with the original build preserved as a separate 'Classic' app.store.steampowered.comIn February 2021 its base price was cut to $9.99 from the $29.99 launch price, alongside a DLC and warband restructuring.gamespress.comRead 2 more facts
Agreeee20253 factsVestmanGame page →Developer Vestman built the entire game to make a point: nobody reads terms of service — so Agreeee forces you to fight through all 12 articles before the "real" game unlocks.en.wikipedia.orgThe agreement screens are deliberately designed to defeat automated inputs, with over 100 distinct minigames standing between the player and the Agree button.en.wikipedia.orgAfter its December 5, 2025 Steam launch the joke found an audience: the game peaked at around 500 concurrent players in late December with a "Mostly Positive" review rating.steambase.ioRead 1 more fact
Alien Hallway20103 factsSigma Team Inc.Game page →Alien Hallway was made by Sigma Team — the studio behind the Alien Shooter and Zombie Shooter series — and is set in their shared alien-invasion universe.store.steampowered.comRather than a top-down shooter, it is a single-lane 'send your soldiers' action-strategy game: the player continuously deploys and upgrades troops to push down a corridor and destroy the enemy base.store.steampowered.comIt was built on Microsoft's XNA framework and later received a sequel, Alien Hallway 2.sigma-team.comRead 1 more fact
ArcheAge20133 factsXLGAMES · Tencent GamesGame page →Jake Song is Korean MMO royalty: he created The Kingdom of the Winds and Lineage, co-founded Nexon's legacy — then spent nearly a decade on ArcheAge after founding XLGames in 2003. He finally left the company in March 2025 'to recharge'.massivelyop.comIts western life ended after a decade of publisher churn (Trion → Gamigo → Kakao): NA/EU servers for both ArcheAge and Unchained closed on 27 June 2024 — while the sequel ArcheAge Chronicles was announced just months later.en.wikipedia.orgThe soundtrack had a rock-star casualty: legendary Korean musician Shin Hae-chul started on the BGM but dropped out mid-development, leaving music direction to Yoon Sang.archeage.comRead 1 more fact
Arma 220093 factsBohemia Interactive Studio · 505 GamesGame page →Arma 2's (June 2009) fictional post-Soviet state Chernarus was modeled on real Czech landscape — and became one of gaming's most consequential maps when the DayZ mod turned it into the survival genre's birthplace.armedassault.fandom.comIn 2012 — three years after release — Dean Hall's DayZ mod sent Arma 2 back to the top of Steam's sellers for months: the mod required the base game, sold over a million copies of it, and seeded both standalone DayZ and the battle-royale lineage (PUBG's Brendan Greene started in Arma modding).armedassault.fandom.comThe 2010 standalone expansion Operation Arrowhead (and the Combined Operations bundle) is what most players actually ran — it remained Bohemia's community platform until Arma 3 arrived in 2013.armedassault.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Arma: Cold War Assault20113 factsBohemia Interactive StudioGame page →Arma: Cold War Assault IS Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (2001) — Bohemia renamed its own classic in 2011 after the split with Codemasters, who kept the 'Operation Flashpoint' trademark.en.wikipedia.orgThe 2001 original won Computer Gaming World's Game of the Year and sold over 2 million copies by 2010.en.wikipedia.orgIts engine technology became VBS1 — a military training simulator adopted by real armed forces including the US Marine Corps.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
City Car Driving20163 factsForward Development, Ltd. · Forward Global Group, Ltd.Game page →City Car Driving is a driving-school simulator, not a racer: it drills real traffic rules with "smart" AI traffic that misbehaves like real drivers, plus full weather and time-of-day systems — and it supports VR headsets.store.steampowered.comThe simulator is the international home edition of Forward Development's Russian driving-instruction software line known as 3D Instructor, which is used for actual driver training.citycardriving.comA full sequel, City Car Driving 2.0, arrived in 2024 and is sold in a bundle together with this original.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Contagion20133 factsMonochrome LLCGame page →The zombies are deliberately old-school 'Romero Zombies' — modeled on Night of the Living Dead's slow shamblers, with no special-ability variants except a riot-gear cop whose armor must be shot off.en.wikipedia.orgIt runs on what the team calls 'MonoEngine' — a modified Left 4 Dead 2 branch of Valve's Source engine.developer.valvesoftware.comCrowdfunding saved it: the October 2013 Kickstarter blew past its $50,000 goal to $87,384 from 3,632 backers — pitched openly as the spiritual successor to Zombie Panic! Source.pcgamer.comRead 1 more fact
Deadlock20163 factsSkunkape InteractiveGame page →DEADLOCK is a room-scale HTC Vive shooter that requires at least a 2m × 1.5m physical play space — dodging enemy fire means actually moving your body, not pressing a button.store.steampowered.comThe game entered Steam Early Access on August 15, 2016 and never left: its last developer update was more than nine years ago, making it a time capsule of the first SteamVR wave-shooter boom.store.steampowered.comThe premise casts you as a system's last defense against "a crazed hacker and his digital army", fought with switchable bullet, laser, plasma and heavy-beam fire modes plus an energy shield.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Dispatch20203 factsJacob Vincent · AdHoc StudioGame page →Dispatch was made 'in isolation' during the 2020 COVID lockdown over a couple of months and released deliberately for October's spooky season — free, as a name-your-own-price itch.io game playable in about fifteen minutes.itch.ioProgrammer Jacob Vincent built a custom visual-scripting interaction system so his non-programmer teammates could visually script the game's scenes — he cites it as the project's main technical focus.jacobvincent.comIts distinctive purple 'void' colour palette for Lovecraftian horror drew specific praise from players, and the game carries an explicit epilepsy warning for its bright flashing colours.necropolygon.itch.ioRead 1 more fact
Doctor Simulator20253 factsMedic Labs, President Studio S.A. · ASIMCORPORATION S.R.L.Game page →The Steam version has been listed as 'coming soon' since 2020 and still has no release date, so the April 2025 PlayStation 5 edition is currently the only shipped version of the game.store.steampowered.comThe PS5 release was published by the third-party label ASIMCORPORATION S.R.L. rather than by the Warsaw-based developer President Studio itself.psdeals.netThe game holds roughly 1.2 out of 5 stars from about 61 PlayStation Store ratings, making it one of the lowest-rated simulator listings on the PS5 storefront.store.playstation.comRead 1 more fact
Dungeonland20133 factsCritical Studios · Paradox InteractiveGame page →The fourth player IS the boss fight: 'Dungeon Maestro' mode hands one player a tabletop DM's toolkit — spawning monsters and springing traps against the three-player co-op party.en.wikipedia.orgIt was one of Paradox Interactive's rare forays into publishing Brazilian development — Critical Studio was based in Brazil, with designers Mark Venturelli and Gabriel Ribeiro Teixeira.en.wikipedia.orgAfter launching paid in January 2013, it went free-to-play that November — but never found its audience: Paradox shut the servers down for good on 18 April 2018.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
East India Company20093 factsNitro GamesGame page →East India Company (July 31, 2009 NA / August 14 EU) was Finnish studio Nitro Games' breakout — published by Paradox Interactive, blending trade-empire management with real-time broadside naval battles.en.wikipedia.orgThe game grew a small fleet of add-ons: Pirate Bay, Privateer and Battle of Trafalgar expansions plus a Designer's Cut, all later bundled as the East India Company Collection.en.wikipedia.orgIts subject made it a rarity: few strategy games have centered the mercantile-colonial company era itself — warfare press praised the premise even where reviews split on the execution.warfarehistorynetwork.comRead 1 more fact
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion20123 factsDreamRift · Disney Interactive StudiosGame page →It was one of the first third-party retail 3DS games outside Japan to launch on the eShop day-and-date with the physical release.en.wikipedia.orgFans voted on the box art — the winning cover shows Mickey surrounded by Disney villains like Jafar and Ursula.en.wikipedia.orgIt launched the exact same day as Epic Mickey 2 (18 November 2012) — a hand-drawn 2D companion to the console game and a love letter to 1990's Castle of Illusion.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Evolve Stage 220163 factsTurtle Rock Studios · 2K GamesGame page →Stage 2 was Evolve's second life: after the 2015 original's playerbase collapsed under DLC backlash, Turtle Rock relaunched it free-to-play on PC on July 7, 2016 — and concurrent players briefly exploded past the original's peak.en.wikipedia.orgJust three months into the relaunch, 2K ended Turtle Rock's involvement (October 2016); dedicated servers went dark in September 2018, and the last peer-to-peer legacy servers were finally switched off in July 2022.en.wikipedia.orgThe hunter cast features Matthew Mercer — Critical Role's DM — as Abe, alongside veteran VAs JB Blanc and William Salyers, with a score whose headline composer is Dead Space's Jason Graves.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Fish to Dish: Idle Sushi20253 factsKygua Tech · IndieArkGame page →The game is designed as a desktop companion — it can dock at the bottom or corner of your screen so you can fish idly while working.store.steampowered.comIt features an official Dave the Diver collaboration: Dave periodically dives into the Blue Hole and hauls fish back to your boat automatically, diving deeper as his gear improves.incrementaldb.comThe $3.59 idle game sits at a 96% positive Steam rating, and completionists report needing roughly 265 hours to unlock every achievement.note.comRead 1 more fact
Force of Nature20163 factsA.Y.stdGame page →Force of Nature was built by the tiny indie outfit A.Y.std, which went on to release the sequel Force of Nature 2: Ghost Keeper in May 2021.steamcommunity.comThe original's resource grind was such a defining trait that "How is the grind? As bad as the first one?" became a top community question on the sequel's Steam forums.steamcommunity.comDespite launching at under $10, the game accumulated over 4,200 Steam reviews (roughly 75% positive) and got its own official soundtrack DLC.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Game of Hearts20253 factsSparkHG · TinyHat StudiosGame page →Game of Hearts is SparkHG's first commercial title and the 45th project published by adult-VN label TinyHat Studios, arriving on Steam in December 2025 after a multi-year episodic Patreon development (Chapters 1–5).gamefaqs.gamespot.comSteam's detailed description positions it as the first entry in a planned multi-game series, mixing still renders with animated scenes.store.steampowered.comIt launched to roughly 94% positive Steam reviews (~97 reviews near launch).store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Gloria Victis20163 factsBlack Eye GamesGame page →Gloria Victis' storyline was co-written by bestselling Polish historical novelist Jacek Komuda and Maciej Jurewicz, a writer known for his work on The Witcher.g2a.comAfter roughly a decade online (Steam Early Access from June 2016) the game finally hit 1.0 in early 2023 — only to shut down on Halloween, October 31, 2023, with developer Black Eye Games closing alongside it, citing financial pressure and burnout.massivelyop.comWhile the MMO's servers are gone, its siege-oriented survival spinoff remains playable on Steam — the last surviving piece of the Gloria Victis world.mmos.comRead 1 more fact
Guild Wars 220123 factsArenaNet · NCSOFTGame page →Guild Wars 2 launched without the genre's holy trinity — no dedicated healer class — and replaced static quests entirely with dynamic world events.en.wikipedia.orgTime magazine named it the #1 video game of 2012 — ahead of Journey, Dishonored and The Walking Dead.en.wikipedia.orgIt sold 2 million copies in two weeks and 3.5M in year one on a no-subscription buy-to-play model — heresy in the 2012 MMO market that later became the industry norm.gamespot.comRead 1 more fact
Hardware Engineers20163 factsGreen127Game page →Hardware Engineers entered Steam Early Access on August 22, 2016 and spent almost three years there before its full 1.0 release on April 22, 2019.store.steampowered.comThe game holds a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, with about 84% of its user reviews recommending it.steamspy.comIts component roster — processors, graphics cards and RAM — uses realistic, balanced specs, letting players build custom rigs for different customer profiles from office workstations to gaming PCs.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Hero Tale20213 factsWeird Johnny StudioGame page →The Gńansk-based studio markets Hero Tale on an anti-mobile-game manifesto: single-player, no pay-to-win, no difficulty scaling and 'zero notifications' — unusual for an idle RPG.weirdjohnnystudio.comThe endgame turns an idle game into a de-facto speedrun ladder: beating the final boss faster yields better rerun rewards, with brackets spanning roughly 600 hours down to under 9.steamcommunity.comIt began as a free itch.io demo and mobile early-access build before the March 2024 Steam release — and its pricing differs by platform: paid on Steam, free-to-play with IAP on mobile.weirdjohnnystudio.itch.ioRead 1 more fact
House Builder: First Job20213 factsFreeMind S.A. · FreeMind S.A., PlayWay S.A.Game page →The prologue contains exactly two free levels — Arctic and Tropical Forest — teaching primitive construction, from surviving an Arctic night to raising a neolithic shack.store.steampowered.comThe series premise is a one-man construction crew building through the ages — the full game spans ~11 locations from igloos and African mud huts to modern houses, with loading screens delivering mini history lessons on tools.lifeisxbox.euIt shipped on July 15, 2021 — four months before the full House Builder even entered Early Access — pure wishlist-funnel strategy from the PlayWay simulator family.univers-simu.comRead 1 more fact
Incremental Epic Hero 220253 factsHapiwaku · Idle System, Inc.Game page →Developer Hapiwaku is a Japanese team that famously started as just two university students building idle games together.hapiwaku.workAfter a long early-access run, the game hit its official 1.0 release on January 2, 2025.hapiwaku.workThe free-to-play idle RPG lives a double life: it's on Steam but also playable directly in the browser on Kongregate and Armor Games.kongregate.comRead 1 more fact
Infestation: The New Beginning20123 factsFredaikis AB · OP ProductionsGame page →Valve pulled it from Steam just TWO DAYS after launch for false advertising — the store page promised features and a '100 sq km' map that didn't exist (the real map was under 10).en.wikipedia.orgIt was renamed from The War Z to Infestation: Survivor Stories in June 2013 after a trademark clash with Paramount's film World War Z — and later resurfaced under Fredaikis as 'The New Beginning'.en.wikipedia.orgWith a Metacritic score of 20, it is routinely cited among the worst games ever released — an April 2013 breach that exposed player emails and IPs didn't help.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Leviathan: Warships20133 factsPieces Interactive · Paradox InteractiveGame page →Its marketing became more famous than the game: the deadpan smooth-jazz trailers narrated by 'Jazz Boatman' went viral, and PC Gamer declared the trailer the winner of E3 2013.pcgamer.comParadox leaned all the way in — a free 'Jazz Boatman' update added the lounge-jazz soundtrack and Jazz Boatman himself as an in-game announcer.destructoid.comDeveloper Pieces Interactive (Skövde, Sweden) later grew into the studio behind 2023's Alone in the Dark remake — this simultaneous-turn naval tactics game was one of its first published titles.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Lidar Exploration Program20253 factsKenForestGame page →The game began as a free itch.io prototype called 'LIDAR.EXE,' which solo developer Andrey Bugrin (KenForest) later reworked and renamed for its Steam release.kenforest.itch.ioA playable demo with only a couple of levels debuted at Steam Next Fest in October 2024, half a year before the April 2025 full launch.x.comIt rode the 2024–25 'LiDAR horror' micro-genre wave that followed Scanner Sombre, spreading via TikTok and YouTube creator playthroughs, and holds a 'Very Positive' Steam rating (~90% of ~284 reviews).store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Lumberjack's Dynasty20203 factsUMEO Studios · Toplitz ProductionsGame page →It is a spiritual successor to UMEO Studios' Farmer's Dynasty, sharing its life-sim and dynasty-management template.mobygames.comIt launched in Steam Early Access on 30 April 2020 and left Early Access with its 1.0 release on 25 February 2021.glitchedrevie.wsYou inherit a run-down logging camp from your aunt and uncle and rebuild it into a forestry business.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Mass Effect Datapad20123 factsBioWare · Electronic ArtsGame page →It was an early, well-executed case of a phone app materially changing a console game's outcome: deploying fleets in its Galaxy at War mini-game raised your Galactic Readiness Rating, which fed into Mass Effect 3's endings.masseffect.fandom.comIts most fondly remembered feature: squadmates texted you in character — retrospectives still celebrate 'Garrus texting you' between missions.thegamer.comIt lived only 15 months: launched alongside ME3 on 12 March 2012, it was pulled from the App Store on 6 June 2013 when BioWare's browser-based N7 HQ absorbed its features.masseffect.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Mass Effect: Infiltrator20123 factsIronMonkey Studios · Electronic ArtsGame page →The game fed directly into Mass Effect 3: intel rescued in Infiltrator raised your Galactic Readiness rating in ME3's Galaxy at War system — one of EA's earliest cross-platform companion-app experiments.masseffect.fandom.comDeveloper IronMonkey Studios merged with Firemint later in 2012 to become EA's Firemonkeys — the studio behind Real Racing 3 — making Infiltrator one of the last games shipped under the IronMonkey name.en.wikipedia.orgIt no longer exists to buy: EA delisted the iOS version around 2015 and the Android version followed, leaving one of the only playable Mass Effect side stories permanently unavailable.masseffect.fandom.comRead 1 more fact
Metal Gear Solid: Lunacy of Legion20113 factsZephyrGame page →Lunacy of Legion is a fan-made Metal Gear Solid tribute built in RPG Maker — the player controls Snake infiltrating the fictional region of Mandora to confirm whether the organization 'Legion' has built a Metal Gear.rpgmaker.netSnake is joined by original companions Zack and Regina, the latter serving as the game's Otacon-style radio support.rpgmaker.netIt exists in no mainstream games database — its only home is the RPG Maker community site rpgmaker.net, where it was reviewed and given a full community walkthrough.rpgmaker.netRead 1 more fact
New Star Soccer 520113 factsNew Star GamesGame page →The entire New Star Soccer series is the work of one man — British solo developer Simon Read, who built NSS5 as the series' return to 2D with an all-new match engine.en.wikipedia.orgNSS5 was the first entry to try free-to-play: an online account gave three free matches per day.en.wikipedia.orgValve initially DECLINED to put New Star Soccer 5 on Steam — a decision later reversed as the series' mobile success (over ten million downloads) made it impossible to ignore.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
OnlyFuck: RuRu's Adventures20213 factsNSFW18 GamesGame page →The core mechanic is 'LEWDOKU' — a Sudoku-variant puzzle solved to unlock content while managing the heroine's profile on 'OnlyFuck', a fictional parody of OnlyFans.opiumpulses.comAll artwork is by Taiwanese-scene illustrator Ruria Raw, whose original character RuRu also headlines her separate visual novel Love RuRu — a loose character-based franchise across two studios.patreon.comDespite being an adult title, it ships with standard Steam infrastructure — ~23 achievements and 5 trading cards.opiumpulses.comRead 1 more fact
OutDrive20163 factsD Ξ N V Ξ R · DNVR ProdGame page →OutDrive's premise is pure synthwave melodrama: the passenger's heart is wired to the car's engine, so if you stop driving, she dies — "her blood will be on your hands".store.steampowered.comThe developer describes the game not as a racer but as "a gaming experiment in the genre of music runner", built to be driven to retrowave and synthwave tracks.store.steampowered.comBoth the official OST ("The Foreign") and a 5K wallpaper/poster art pack are sold as $0.99 DLCs — unusually art-directed extras for a $2.99 indie experiment.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Outlast: Journey of a Gladiator20203 factsSanan Ahmed, Rohan Ahmed · Sanan AhmedGame page →It is a turn-based gladiator strategy-RPG following a 'slavery to freedom' story, with 37 campaign levels, a boss every fifth level and three final bosses.store.steampowered.comIt supports cross-platform online PvP and spawned a mobile sequel, Journey of a Gladiator 2 (2022, iOS and Android).pocketgamer.comDespite sharing the word in its title, it is entirely unrelated to Red Barrels' Outlast horror series.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
Pinball Heroes20093 factsSCE San Diego Studio · Sony Computer EntertainmentGame page →Pinball Heroes (November 12, 2009) sold its eight PlayStation-themed tables individually on PSN — an early experiment in micro-priced first-party digital content rather than one boxed pinball game.en.wikipedia.orgThe series kept getting reborn: bundled as "Pinball Heroes: Complete" on PS Vita in 2013, then re-released on PS4 and PS5 in 2022 as part of Sony's classics catalog — three console generations for a PSP mini.en.wikipedia.orgTrophy hunters adopted the PS4/PS5 re-release as a famously quick platinum — an unexpected second life for a 2009 pinball collection.culturedvultures.comRead 1 more fact
PUBG: Battlegrounds20173 factsPUBG Corp · Bluehole StudioGame page →With more than 75 million copies sold, PUBG is the best-selling PC game of all time — and by 2018 it had already amassed 400 million players across PC and mobile.variety.comThe battle royale genre literally grew out of creator Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene's 2013 DayZ: Battle Royale mod for Arma 2, itself named after the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale.en.wikipedia.orgGreene went from living on welfare in Ireland to creating a billion-dollar game — Bluehole contracted him after seeing his Arma mods, and PUBG shipped in 2017.cnbc.comRead 1 more fact
RaceRoom Racing Experience20133 factsSector3 Studios · RaceRoom Entertainment AGGame page →Publisher RaceRoom Entertainment AG is tied to KW Automotive — the KW Suspensions company supplied real telemetry data for the game's physics and suspension modeling.en.wikipedia.orgIt quietly became one of the biggest licensed garages in sim racing: 252 fully licensed cars from 46 manufacturers and ~180 track layouts, including a laser-scanned Nürburgring-Nordschleife — Eurogamer called it 'the best racing game you've never heard of'.en.wikipedia.orgIt hosts official real-world series — DTM, WTCC/WTCR and ADAC GT Masters — and ran the official WTCR esports championship when COVID stopped real racing in 2020.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Really Big Sky20123 factsBoss BaddieGame page →Boss Baddie is a two-person UK indie studio — founder James Whitehead originally formed it in 2007 to build a different game entirely (Tormishire).gamedeveloper.comIt packs 12 game modes into a $3 shooter — from a 2-minute Countdown mode to Pacifism and unlimited-lives Peaceful mode — all over procedurally generated runs.store.steampowered.comOnly three months after launch, it evolved again: Boss Baddie announced Big Sky Infinity, the PS3/Vita follow-up, in May 2012.engadget.comRead 1 more fact
Rematch20253 factsSloclapGame page →It is Sloclap's third game, after the martial-arts titles Absolver and Sifu — a 5v5 online football game from a studio previously known for hand-to-hand combat systems.en.wikipedia.orgIt passed one million players on its launch day, 19 June 2025, and three million just five days later.en.wikipedia.orgUnlike traditional football games it uses a third-person, single-player-controlled camera — you play as one footballer for the whole match rather than switching between the team.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Rocksmith 201420133 factsUbisoft San Francisco · Ubisoft EntertainmentGame page →The box ships with a physical instrument cable: the Real Tone Cable converts a real guitar's ¼-inch jack to USB — the game is unplayable without an actual guitar or bass.en.wikipedia.orgUbisoft's central marketing pillar was audacious for a video game: 'learn to play guitar in just 60 days' — a campaign aimed as much at guitar students as gamers.venturebeat.comThe 2016 'Remastered' edition wasn't a re-sell: it replaced the original as a free update for every existing owner.steamdb.infoRead 1 more fact
Routine Racers20203 factsEutiquianoGame page →Despite 'Racers' in the title it's not a vehicle racer: the game is a comedic side-scrolling 3D runner where the 'race' is against everyday life — escaping work, supermarket shopping, drinking at a bar, stopping a fire or capturing narcos.store.steampowered.comIts endless bonus level is titled 'the Tyranny of Monday'.store.steampowered.comThe game markets itself as deliberately punishing — described as 'one of the most challenging, frustrating, and just plain punishing video games ever' — and is the solo project of a Barcelona-based developer under the alias Eutiquiano.devuego.esRead 1 more fact
Shakes and Fidget20093 factsPlaya Games GmbHGame page →The game adapts the German webcomic by Oskar Pannier and Marvin Clifford — itself a World of Warcraft parody — and turned the joke into one of Europe's biggest browser MMORPGs with over 40 million registered players.en.wikipedia.orgIt collected real hardware: the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis for Best Casual Game (2009) and GameStar's Best Browser Game award (2010).en.wikipedia.orgLaunched in browsers in 2009, it hopped every platform since — Android 2011, iOS 2012, then Steam — and Hamburg's Playa Games still operates it as a live game more than 15 years on.en.wikipedia.orgRead 1 more fact
Soul Gambler20133 factsIlex Games · GamestormingGame page →It's a Brazilian take on Faust: São Paulo indie Ilex Games — a studio devoted to 'games with deep psychological and/or esoteric bias' — recast Goethe's devil-bargain as modern office-life discontent.ilexgames.com.brEvery soul-fragment you gamble changes the story — the ~2-hour graphic novel branches into multiple endings depending on how much of yourself you sell.indiegamereviewer.comThe game reached Steam in July 2014, roughly a year after its original 2013 release — with its art book and soundtrack sold as a companion DLC.gamepressure.comRead 1 more fact
Super Mega Neo Pug20163 factsSnowFlame, Back To Basics Gaming · Back To Basics GamingGame page →Super Mega Neo Pug is the third game in the Turbo Pug series, following Turbo Pug and Super Space Pug — and the first to send the pug fully airborne, trading the endless-runner ground game for flying stages and giant bosses.store.steampowered.comThe series' three games are sold together on Steam as the "Pug Life Bundle".store.steampowered.comDespite its sub-$2 price tag, the game ships with an original soundtrack composed by Felix Arifin, plus unlockable costumes and playable creatures beyond the titular pug.store.steampowered.comRead 1 more fact
