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SUGOI Showcase 2025
We have the rundown of everything featured for you below, as you can watch the whole livestream above. Credit: Joystick Ventures StarVaders In StarVaders, humanity's fate rests on your strategic prowess In this demo, defend Earth by choosing from four pilots to control one of three unique mechs on a vertical grid to subdue the alien invaders[...]
StarVaders Will Be Released in Late April For Steam
Indie game developer StarVaders Studio, along with publishers Joystick Ventures and Playworks, revealed that StarVaders will be released next month After more than three years in development and being teased for roughly a year, the game will finally come out on April 30, 2025 Along with the news comes a new trailer, showing off the[...]
SUGOI Showcase Announced For Late March 2025
Joystick Ventures, the indie game company behind The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards, has announced a new event on the way called the SUGOI Showcase This will essentially be an indie game livestream taking place after GDC 2025, as a place to highlight talented teams in the industry going into[...]
The Full Rundown Of TGAGWCAGA 2024 Nominees
Pengonauts Studio and Joystick Ventures have launched a new set of video game awards, as TGAGWCAGA has unveiled their full list of nominees The acronym stands for The Game Awards for Games Who Can't Afford the Game Awards, mocking the fact that all of the commercials you see during The Game Awards charge developers and[...]
StarVaders Confirms Free Demo For October's Steam Next Fest
Indie game developer StarVaders Studio, along with publishers Joystick Ventures and Playworks, have announced that StarVaders will be taking part in October's Steam Next Fest The demo will give players a small sample of the deckbuilding grid-based tactics title as the team continues to work on it for a 2025 release The demo will actually[...]
Chicken Police: Into The Hive! Announces BitSummit Demo
Indie game developer The Wild Gentlemen and publisher Joystick Ventures have confirmed they will have a playable demo for Chicken Police: Into The Hive! at BitSummit Drift 2024 if you haven't seen the game yet, it's pretty silly as you play two chicken detectives in a 1930s animal-themed noir setting, trying to get to the[...]
Enter The Chronosphere To Launch Free Demo Next Week
Indie game developer Effort Star and publisher Joystick Ventures confirmed that Enter The Chronosphere will have a free demo for you to play During Steam's Endless Replayability Fest (another one of the endless supply of game festivals they seem to be doing lately), you'll be able to try the game out from May 13-20 You'll[...]
Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 Will Release On Steam In March
Fictiorama Studios and Joystick Ventures have given us a chance to show off an exclusive launch trailer for Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 The game was launched on May 25th, 2023, for PC via Steam, with a Nintendo Switch version due out later this year The trailer gives you a fun animated look at[...]
Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 Will Release On Steam In March
Fictiorama Studios and Joystick Ventures revealed a new release date for Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099, as well as a Nintendo Switch trailer for the game Originally it was due to come out this month, but those plans changed a bit as they have refreshed it to be released on May 25th Which we[...]
Toy Tactics Announced For Steam Early Access In Mid-March
Indie developer Kraken Empire and publisher Joystick Ventures announced this week that Toy Tactics will be getting released for Steam's Early Access next month If you haven't seen the game before, this is a family-friendly, physics-based, real-time strategy title that will take you on a combat journey that encompasses the history of warfare[...]
Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 Will Release On Steam In March
Fictiorama Studios and Joystick Ventures announced today that Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099 is coming to Steam this March The trailer dropped during the 40th Annual Golden Joystick Awards, as the team showed off their insane voyeur simulator as you will spy on all your neighbors and follow the golden rule of NEVER FEEDING[...]
FixFox
Joystick Ventures along with developer Rendlike has released a new story trailer for FixFox before the game comes out next week This is an adorable little game about a space-traveling engineer named Vix and her toolbox Tin, as they go around repairing objects in the most unconventional ways possible between exploring and eating cozy meals[...]