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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1h

BELLY RUBS BELLY RUBS BELLY RUBS

Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1h

Oh man.. what a time ❤️

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Trimjob

This is a great golf-adjacent arcade game about sending a hedge trimmer on a collision course with a bunch of weeds to see how many you can cut in a single "stroke". Feels a bit like a lost UFO 50 game, which is the ultimate compliment!

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Trimjob on Steam

Trim weeds in a golfly manner! Aim, click and trim across 4 different gardens each with 18 levels inside. Can you get a TRIM-IN-ONE in all 72 levels? Chill out and enjoy the fully handcrafted original...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Big Hops

There have been a lot of games trying to capture that golden-era of 3D platformers, but I feel like this is the first one to nail the lighthearted and fun side of playing them while offering enough room for hardcore players to have fun. Cute frogs!

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Birdcage

I really love the style of this game! The visuals and presentation are drawing on some Kojima-level inspirations (and I'm sure others I'm not even tapped into), and even if you're not the biggest shoot-em-up fan, you should play this to hear the OST

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BIRDCAGE on Steam

Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this story-driven arcade shooter. The RADON Daughters have launched their ultimate weapon. Take control of the experimental gunship HALCYON and br...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Tears of Metal

Musou meets Braveheart - this hack-n-slash game about leading your army of killer Scotsmen to defeat the invading English and take back your homeland is a blast! The locales look great, soundtrack's killer, and the combat's paced perfectly.

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Tears of Metal on Steam

Tears of Metal is a medieval hack-and-slash co-op roguelike. Carve through hordes of enemies to reclaim your island with the help of your formidable Scottish battalion. As you advance deeper into the ...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Cairn

There have been a lot of great climbing games focused on the beautiful challenge of scrambling up a mountain, but none have been as meditative and focused on every little physical and mechanical interaction as Cairn. From the studio that made Furi!

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Cairn on Steam

Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mou...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Skate Story

I can't write something better than this quote from the Steam page "You are a demon in the Underworld, made out of glass and pain. The Devil has given you a skateboard with a simple deal: Skate to the Moon and swallow it — and you shall be freed."

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Skate Story on Steam

Ollie, kickflip, and grind your way through the ash and smoke of the Underworld as you take on a seemingly impossible quest. Skate fast to destroy demons and save other tortured souls on your journey ...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Scrabdackle

Straight up the funniest game I've played in a minute. A whimsical and charming adventure through a doodle-core world that'll have you blowing up garbage, hanging out with peanuts, and scanning everything like you're Magical Samus Aran.

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Scrabdackle on Steam

The magical misadventure of a novice wizard thrown (literally) into the unfamiliar world outside. Go on a sprawling hand-drawn adventure with spells to study, bosses to best, and a huge handcrafted wo...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Ambrosia Sky

A first-person space adventure where you play as a sort of clean-up agent for people who have died because of an overgrowth of fungus (or maybe something else!) that you have to clean up as you discover what's happened. It's quite beautiful!

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Ambrosia Sky on Steam

You are Dalia, a deep-space disaster specialist dispatched to the rings of Saturn. You’ll lay victims to rest, clean up alien fungus, and research its strange origins. Adapt to survive, cleanse the co...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Goodnight Universe

This is a must-play! Another webcam-as-controller game from some of the people that made Before Your Eyes, that expands on what they did in the original. Seriously, you can play this without a webcam/camera, but you'd be doing it wrong.

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Goodnight Universe on Steam

You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 18h

Are you trying to check out #SteamNextFest demos but can't quite make it past all the AI crud? Overwhelmed by the sheer number of games of varying degrees of quality?

Well look no further! I'm going to be playing tons of demos this week and cataloguing the most standout ones in this thread:

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 21h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1d

Too early to say! The best curators I know are only catching up now, and the ones who do have huge lists can't vouch for them. There are a lot of "here are games that look cool" articles and videos which is more useful than an endless feed of junk, but personally are as useful as the Discovery Queue

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1d

Yeah it's been a tough one. It sucks because my favourite part is playing totally random shit I've never heard of but most of the time that means playing stuff that's secretly AI or messing with stuff that doesn't work

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1d

I'd love that!

Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 1d

I’ll have my Next Fest thread up tomorrow (it’s Canadian Thanksgiving) but man it’s such a shame that this whole thing has become such a mess. Really takes some curation that’s not algorithmically driven to find the good stuff

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 1d

While the demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station is part of Steam Next Fest, you can get the original Perfect Tides at 25% off. Lots of time to play the hell out of it before the sequel's release in January.

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Save 25% on Perfect Tides on Steam

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called is...

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 3d

woke up from a nap in a frenzy

a few good men but make it a few small beers

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d

NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 3d

Happy birthday!!

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 3d

:)

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 4d

One day I’ll find “few small beers” unfunny, but it’s been at least a week and I only feel better about it

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 4d

Huge

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Jesse Guarascia @jesseguarascia.com · 5d

Brackey’s is still the best for ez game dev tutorials. Good too because the video covers the basics really clearly and more advanced topics are in their own dedicated videos that are equally thorough.

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How to make a Video Game - Godot Beginner Tutorial

YouTube video by Brackeys

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