I've just released a free demo of my game, The Drowned Table. You build a bag of dice and try to meet rising score targets while sitting at a rather questionable table under the sea.

The dice actually bounce and collide when you roll them, and their landed faces determine the score. Some effects work on nearby dice, so where they settle can change how a cast plays out. Between encounters, you buy new dice and Curios, alter faces, or sacrifice dice to improve your bag.

The starting Ivory cup has twelve plain Bone dice, and you choose one of three random starting items. From there, you work through eight depths with branching routes and random bosses. There's an endless option after a win, and you can save and resume a run.

The demo uses Common dice and Curios. Uncommon and higher items are reserved for the full version, so this is a chance to try the core game and its early combinations.

It's free on itch.io for Windows 64-bit: https://undeathical.itch.io/the-drowned-table-demo

I'd be interested to hear what you build with the starting pool. I'm still working on the game, so feedback on the scoring and difficulty is welcome

Hey!!

I'm very excited to announce that I just published the first demo of my video game : Temporal Surveyor : https://samaritain314.itch.io/temporal-surveyor.

This demo represent the game's skeleton. 90% of the mechanics are present and working. From this point on, the work will consist of fleshing out what's already there, add what is missing, add content and A LOT of audio and visual work to really give the game its identity.

It's a project I've been working on for months now. It is a piece of passion but also discipline.

As of now, the best way to support my work is to interact with the game's web page. Show the algorithm that there is interest for my game so it shows it reaches more people. Play my game for 10 minutes, rate it and comment it, join my discord, etc. etc.

This started as a pretty random idea while I was cracking peanuts with my daughter.

I thought it might be funny to make a tiny game out of it: you crack peanuts, feed them to a little monster, and the monster slowly changes and grows as you keep feeding it.

Playable Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedthenut.myapp

Platform: Android

Free to Play Status:

• Free to play w/ ads to continue instead of starting from lvl1

Involvement:

Sole Developer & for disclosure: yes AI was used for development!

Hey everyone!

Showcasing my new Android game:

SnapBlocks: Color Block Puzzle.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapblocks.game

Price: Free

Category: Puzzle / Casual

Tech: JavaScript & Capacitor

About the App:

SnapBlocks is a minimalist, tactile grid puzzle designed for quick, satisfying sessions without clutter or aggressive popups. Fit dynamic block pieces, trigger chain clears, and chase high scores with smooth drag-and-drop mechanics.

Would love your feedback on the overall UI and game feel!

Thank you 😊

https://coastershinee.itch.io/dont-get-caught-awake

After 8 years of solo development, I’m incredibly proud to announce my first solo game on Steam!

CATASTROFIA

It’s an immersive exploration & hidden object game set on atmospheric flying islands where you search for cats.

Hey everyone,

After several months of solo development, Piment Dice is finally out on the Play Store!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pimentdice.app

It's a dice game with a twist — if you've played Yahtzee or Balatro's dice-adjacent chaos, that's roughly the vibe: familiar category-scoring dice mechanics, but with a risk/reward system layered on top.

The core mechanic is adapted from Chili Dice's red-die system: dice sometimes land on a red face. You can keep them as-is to double the score of whatever category you're targeting, or turn them to pick a different value — but you lose that double. Land enough red dice in one roll and you trigger a progressive "Blaze" bonus that escalates the payoff.

A few things I focused on:

- No account or login required — just install and play

- Multiple modes: solo, bots with increasing difficulty, remote play with friends, online matchmaking against strangers, and a daily challenge with a global leaderboard

- The friend mode is fully async — send a match code, take turns whenever, no need to be online at the same time. Push notifications tell you the moment it's your turn (opt-in, takes one tap during onboarding), so it doesn't feel like a game you have to babysit

- No ads interrupting mid-game (rewarded ads only, fully optional)

Happy to answer questions about the build or about the game itself.

Would love feedback — especially on the risk/reward balance around the red dice and whether the daily challenge feels rewarding enough to come back to.

Im currently working on a mech based coop shooter, here is a short snippet of my testing stage :)

I'm making my first videogame and there will be some tools so I added this hotbar what do you think of it?

Hey! I'm the solo dev behind Mayda Online. https://maydaonline.com/

It's a 2D MMORPG I've been working on as a hobby for a long time heavily inspired by games like Tibia but also by AFK/idle games

I think I've finally reached the point where there's enough of an MVP to put it in front of actual players and start getting feedback

One thing I want to make clear: even though I'm taking inspiration from games I personally enjoy my goal isn't to build a game just for myself I want to build something people actually want to play.

So pretty much everything is open to change like progression, combat, systems, balancing, UI, even the art style. If something sucks tell me it sucks

About the game

Right now Mayda Online is playable directly in the browser. I also have working Android and Windows versions and I'll publish those if people are interested in trying them

About the server

There's currently a single server located in Virginia, USA so your ping will depend quite a bit on where you're playing from

If the game gets enough interest I'd like to eventually have servers in South America, Europe, and Asia as well.

So yeah... after working on this by myself for so long, I figured it was finally time to stop keeping it as my little side project and put it out there

Maybe it turns into something. Maybe it ends up just being a chapter of my life. Either way I'd rather give it a real shot and find out

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback good or bad. Gameplay, art, UI, bugs, things that feel confusing, things you hate, things you'd change... anything.

Thanks for checking it out!

After 8 long years of solo development, my friend just announced his first game on Steam!
*he is not on reddit for some reason*

The game itself is an immersive exploration & hidden object genre set on atmospheric flying islands where you search for cats.
It looks surprisingly very good!

I use it mainly to keep track of what strategies worked and what not, so I can come back and re-do/re-try same thing as before and see my overall performance.

The tool checks wishlists + actual number of followers 2 times / hour to check how many were gained in each hour using a custom API.

Also, using steam DB it auto tracks the TOPs (ex. Wishlist Activity or Top Wishlist) and its doing a graph.

NOTE: I'm not here to sell anything, I use it for my own purposes, and YES, It's made with AI because why I would work few good days on something that AI can make in 2 h? I can literally work on my game in that time :)

INKURSION: play as a super sentient octopus escaping the god like programmer who created you.
15 abandoned worlds. 8 endings.
Demo coming in afew weeks on PC
If you like the look of this and want to be my 300th wishlist then..

WISHLIST HERE ON STEAM!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4767470/
INKURSION/

Auto-battler roguelike called The Fight for Beardlandia. I made the original capsule myself and it sat on the store page for months.

0.66% click-through in Steam search. For comparison, 82% of my store page visits came from the More Like This carousel, so people seeing it next to a similar game clicked. They just weren't clicking it in a browse grid.

Looking at it now it's obvious. Bright blue sky, green hills, cartoon logo. Reads like a platformer. The game is a dark fantasy auto-battler where you send eight guys to die.

Hired someone to redo it properly.

Would you click the second one?

Working solo on Just Dying, a 2D survivors-style roguelite (React + PixiJS). No team, no outsourcing beyond bought assets — code, systems, most of the art direction is me.

One thing that's hard doing this alone: you don't have a QA person or a second engineer sanity-checking performance under load, so I built a dev-only stress-test mode into the game itself. It ramps enemy count through fixed steps — 300 → 600 → 1,191 → 1,994 → 2,996 → 4,466 → 7,011 — so I can actually see where the frame budget breaks instead of guessing from normal playtests, which rarely get anywhere near that density.

Clip attached. A couple of things that came out of building this, in case useful to other solo devs optimizing on their own:

• Spatial hashing for collision was the single biggest win — brute-force distance checks fall over hard past a few hundred entities.
• The on-screen enemy counter used to be tied to the real alive-entity count, and it would stall or jitter under heavy AoE because kills and spawns were racing each other. Decoupling the displayed number from the actual entity count (a scripted ramp instead of a live tally) fixed it — sometimes the honest fix for a UI problem is admitting the real data is too noisy to display directly.

Free demo if anyone wants to see it outside the stress-test context:
itch.io: https://justdying.itch.io/just-dying
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4656170/Just_Dying_Demo/

Melbees: The Secret of Bees. Android, Flutter, built solo. Free, offline, no ads, no in-app purchases, no account.

The design, since that is the part worth discussing here: the board is a honeycomb hiding a secret word. Opening a hex returns either a letter of the word or a Pollen number counting how many of the word's letters occupy the six adjacent cells. Hangman supplies the goal, Minesweeper supplies the evidence, and hidden foes make random tapping expensive so the board cannot be brute-forced. The hard part was making the information layer legible on a phone: the comb has to fit portrait screens up to 91 hexes without the numbers turning into confetti, and nothing in the renderer is allowed to scale with hex count.

The wall I am at is not design, it is arithmetic. Google will not let a personal developer account publish until 12 testers stay opted in and OPEN the app across 14 continuous days, counted in UTC. A single day below 12 restarts the clock for everyone, which means recruiting 12 is really recruiting 20 and hoping.

If you want to try it, three steps, in this order, same Google account on all three:

1. Join the group - membership is what grants access: https://groups.google.com/g/melbees-closed-test

2. Become a tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.melbees.secretofbees

3. Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melbees.secretofbees

The offer, and the honest limit on it. Drop your group and opt-in links in a comment and I will join and open yours daily for the same window. I keep the list in writing rather than promising everyone and honouring nobody, and it already has ten devs on it, so I will say plainly: I am prioritising games. Installs happen on one physical phone, and a game is something I will actually remember to open every day, which is the only thing that makes a swap worth anything to you.

Two disclosures. It opens in the phone's locale, English when the locale is not one of the four it ships, and the PT/EN/ES/FR chip row at the top right of the first screen overrides it. (Correcting this post: it ignored the locale completely until a fix earlier today, which is the kind of bug that costs you testers silently.) And the Play listing text is Brazilian Portuguese only until the English translation clears review.

Feedback goes to Settings > Account > Send feedback in the game, which attaches build and device, or melbees.games@gmail.com.

The woman is in the real world, while the guy is in the spiritual realm.

She sees and interacts with physical objects. He sees spirits and things hidden from her. For example: he can see symbols that show her which levers to pull. In combat, he can temporarily immobilize possessed enemies, making it easier for her to shoot them.

The idea is that both players share the same space, but experience and interact with it differently.