LOS ANGELES – June 8, 2025 – LOVE ETERNAL, the unconventional horror platformer about escaping the domain of a selfish god from developer brlka and publisher Ysbryd Games (WORLD OF HORROR, VA-11 Hall-A), will launchon PlayStation 5|4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in Q4 2025, as seen in today’s PC Gaming Show.

When Maya leaves the dinner table to answer a phone call, she returns to find her family missing, her home destroyed, and her surroundings transmuted into an unfamiliar, eerie landscape reminiscent of the Iron Age. Seek a way out of this strange predicament by navigating the unpredictable liminal spaces and ignoring Earthly laws of physics – but not before confronting the powerful god responsible for her abduction.

Dash through the crumbling chambers of a labyrinthine castle, leaping, flipping, and strategically landing on the floors and ceilings of each puzzle-like room. Plan jump arcs carefully to make use of environmental boons that trigger Maya’s ability to flip gravity in midair, and avoid razor-sharp spikes, shifting lasers, and other deadly obstacles in precision platforming challenges.

Take in vast, desolate landscapes as disquieting ambient tones haunt the god’s domain. Gaze at imposing, yet lonely, statues throughout the realm’s many environments, from undersea caverns to uncanny copies of Maya’s suburban home. Brave encounters with monstrous doppelgängers of Maya’s family and friends, and meet other victims of the deity’s abductions.

“During development we put a lot of time and care into the castle’s atmosphere, creating music and ambience whose interplay expressed a sense of forlornness, and using a painterly style of pixel art to give a sense of a world much larger than the small corners you see as the player,” said Toby Alden, designer at brlka. “We’re looking forward to sharing the secrets of this time-worn realm later this year.”

LOVE ETERNAL will reveal Maya’s attempts at escape on PlayStation 5|4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in Q4 2025 with English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian language support.

About Ysbryd Games

Publisher Ysbryd Games delivers games with stories that have the heart and soul to stay with players for a lifetime, underlined by captivating gameplay and striking aesthetics.

About brlka

brlka is a two-person team comprised of developer Toby Alden and artist Sam Alden. They create platformers with unique, surprising elements. 

Bend gravity, break reality, and change the lives of four all-too-human aliens forever

MUMBAI/BROOKLYN — June 8, 2025 — 1000 Deaths, the award-winning psychedelic 3D platformer where choices dramatically alter the story and gameplay, developed by Pariah Interactive, enters the mind’s eye on PC via Steam on Thursday, Aug. 7, as revealed at IGN Live today. PlayStation 5 will join the trip down memory lane in a future date. Play a brand-new PC demo, available now as part of Steam Next Fest.

Guide Vayu, Maxie, Terry, and Boga, aliens with problems all too human, through the crossroads of their life. Across three, highly replayable, 20 minute episodes, lead them from birth to death; as they learn about the world, form their identities as teenagers, make their stamp on the world as adults, and look back on the consequences of their actions in their dying days.

Jump into each character’s evolving Headspace, the architectural embodiment of their moods, as a fleet-footed television set, and roam the plains of their embroiled minds in more than 45 eccentric, story-centric stages. Flip gravity, deploy jetpacks, alter levels with toggle switches, and space out.

Collect Broadcasts, videos playing on 1000 Deaths’ TV mascot character’s screen, that illuminate interpersonal conflicts residing within the cast. Choose how to curve their convictions into meaningful life choices to unlock new levels and gameplay mechanics tied to their inner turmoils like fear of commitment, desire for power, and penchant for nihilism. Make peace with each character as they endure the cycle of life, aging, and death, and make vital decisions to steer their lives in drastic directions.

Failure is an option, actually. No sweat! Conflict resolution has consequences, but you can always try again (and again) in a branching, non-linear narrative. Navigate replayable, abstract realities across three episodes with a total of 12 possible endings. Play at your own pace in Story mode, or put your platforming skills to the test in Arcade mode with 47 levels that stretch the bounds of 1000 Deaths’ mechanics.

“I love platformers, especially ones that rely on interesting ways to move around: Super Mario Galaxy, Crash Bandicoot, and modern games like A Hat in Time, and Celeste in particular…” said Prashast Thapan, founder of Pariah Interactive. “How I wanted to make my mark was to put my own spin on how to fuse the joy of play and memorable characters with a narrative structure and themes that you rarely see in platformers.”

“We’re telling stories about weighty topics – the struggles of forming your identity, the darkness that lies at the heart of our beings, how others change us and we change others, and the role that media plays in influencing our desires and decisions. All the major events in 1000 Deaths begin when a character is in front of a TV, and these external influences impact their lives in ways I hope our audience thinks about. We’ve really tried to strike a difficult balance: making a game that’s both fun and thought-provoking.”

1000 Deaths releases Thursday, Aug. 7, on PC via Steam as revealed at IGN Live, with support for text in English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Play a brand-new demo today on Steam as part of Steam Next Fest. A PlayStation 5 version is in development, with other platforms to be announced at a later date.

For more information on 1000 Deaths, follow Pariah Interactive’s official pages on X, Instagram, and Facebook, check out their official YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok, and join the growing Discord community.

About Pariah Interactive

Pariah Interactive is an independent games and XR development studio based in Brooklyn and Mumbai dedicated to bringing surreal experiences into reality. Founded in 2019 by Prashast Thapan, they’ve grown to collaborate with contemporary artists and organizations to transform often untold narratives, histories, and mythologies into digital interactive experiences for wider audiences. 

Survive the paranormal thriller No, I’m not a Human’s new Steam demo now – and sign up for the GIANT immersive sim Militsioner’s upcoming Steam playtest!

NICOSIA, Cyprus – June 8, 2025 – Indie game publisher CRITICAL REFLEX (Mouthwashing, Buckshot Roulette) is thrilled to debut new trailers at the PC Gaming Show today for two of the most highly anticipated titles in its upcoming line-up: the anxiety-horror thriller No, I’m not a Human and Kafkaesque immersive sim Militsioner. Players can also experience a brand-new demo for No, I’m not a Human on Steam now and sign up for Militsioner’s future public Steam playtest.

WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. The world is ending. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. A new demo for No, I’m not a Human is available now on Steam covering five in-game days. Meet new characters, sus out Visitors in new ways, and utilize useful items like the radio, postcards, and energy drinks.

In Militsioner, you’re an ordinary nobody who hasn’t done anything noteworthy, let alone…a crime. Must be a mistake, but this morning you were arrested. Pack your stuff and leave as fast as possible, but be wary – every move you make is being followed by a Giant Policeman. Navigate the city and escape in an engaging experience where every problem has multiple solutions. But keep on guard. The town and the Giant are watching your every move. Request access now to get a taste of this Kafkaesque experience when the new playtest drops.

No, I’m not a Human is available to demo and wishlist on Steam now. Players can also wishlist Militsioner and request access to its upcoming public playtest on Steam.

For more information on these games and everything else in the CRITICAL REFLEX line-up, follow CR Channel on Twitter, and join the CR Channel Discord community for the latest news, engaging discussions and more.

About Trioskaz

Trioskaz is a development team that was born out of the idea of creating games that reflect people’s everyday fears, anxieties and inner feelings. Trioskaz gathers people around them who share this vision.

About TALLBOYS

TALLBOYS was founded by developers who came together to create Where The Clouds End, an atmospheric adventure game. Encouraged by the positive feedback from showcases, they shifted their focus to Pandemic Express, a multiplayer survival game that combined asymmetrical mechanics with player-driven action. During the development of Pandemic Express, the team grew, and after its release, they began working on Militsioner.

About CRITICAL REFLEX

CRITICAL REFLEX is an indie game publisher obsessed with genre-blending, rule-breaking, brain-melting games. We help devs polish the weird, sharpen the wild, and launch their projects loud. Known for titles like Buckshot Roulette, Lunacid, Mouthwashing and No, I’m not a Human, we champion the unforgettable experiences. Genre is a prison and we ate the warden.

About CR Channel

CR Channel is the CRITICAL REFLEX publishing label focusing exclusively on indie horror. Join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/FrzN8srBfy

Apply Guns to Infected Areas

Announced during the PC Gaming Show, unsophisticated first-person co-op shooter Mycopunk will blast its way into Steam Early Access on July 10. After welcoming thousands of new recruits via its public demo, Mycopunk has its sights set on becoming popular enough to fill at least two subway trains.

The Galaxy’s Most Violent Cleaners Just Clocked In

Your ragtag gang of robot rejects have been hired by the universal megacorp SAXON for one last shot at profitable glory (and avoiding the scrap heap). You are the New Atlas Hazard Crew, a ramshackle squad of exterminators sent to uncover the mysteries behind a planet-wide fungal catastrophe.

Corporate Sent the Cheapest Option: You.

Embark on a series of dangerous planet-side missions to drive back the mycological menace. Could this be a simple natural disaster like they claim? And did SAXON really misfile your taxes? Or was that your own fault?

Who cares? You’re underpaid, over-armed, and ready to clean house.

Mycopunk: Proudly Made on Earth.

Wishlist Now.
Play the demo

FUNGICIDAL TENDENCIES
Choose from an outrageous arsenal of advanced futuristic weaponry (and some power tools), then supercharge them in a one-of-a-kind grid-based upgrade system to create the ridiculous sci-fi super-weapon of your dreams.

BREAK THE MOLD
Slaughter hordes of enemies as they corrupt and weaponize the planet’s technology against you. Pick crawlies apart piece by piece — but be wary, whatever they drop could be grabbed up by another enemy.

VISIBLE RESULTS IN 1-2 MISSIONS
Alone, these rickety robots aren’t up to much, but together they become more than the sum of their parts. Combine upgraded abilities and customised weapons to create synergistic builds and achieve strategic co-op mayhem. Or just shoot each other.

ROACH MOTEL
Let off steam between missions in an orbital dropship packed with toys and games. Hang out with your friends, uncover more about the galaxy, and shoot the breeze with the insectoid SAXON veteran Roachard Cox

Hangzhou, June 9, 2025 –  Pew Pew Games are pleased to announce that Terminull Brigade, the exhilarating co-op roguelite PvE shooter, is debuting a public demo during Steam Next Fest, running from June 9 to June 16. 

Players will experience the game’s blend of strategic roguelite play and fast-paced shooter action during the event, by simply heading to the Steam page and downloading the demo during the event. 

Terminull Brigade invites players to unite as the Rogueteers, a strike force of unique heroes fighting to battle a wave of AI invasion which threatens their futuristic digital world. The game will launch as a free-to-play title later this year, and has been gathering a passionate community since its first alpha test in December 2024. 

The Demo includes:

• 3 Playable characters reflecting distinct playstyles and personalities
  • Heyneckes, a brash gunslinging hero able to engage enemies from afar.
  • Aurora, an esports champion turned support specialist with a range of control and defensive abilities
  • Blade, a katana-wielding close-range brawler adept at closing distances and finishing enemies.
• 2 Maps
  • Futuristic City – a neon-lit cityscape, seeing players battle amidst towering megastructures
  • Wasteland – a desolate arena, filled with danger and tactical opportunities to outwit your opponents
• Multiple difficulty levels  – each map features multiple difficulty levels. Complete a difficulty tier to unlock the next challenge—only the toughest Rogueteers will survive the highest levels.
• Perks system – a range of diverse perks let you customize your character and try out new builds with each wave of combat.

Join the Fight

This public demo marks the first opportunity for players worldwide to squad up and experience Terminull Brigade‘s intense co-op PvE action. Whether you go solo or team up with friends, the fate of the digital world depends on you.

Join the fight and stay updated on Steam or the official Discord.

About Pew Pew Games

Pew Pew Games is a game development studio based in Hangzhou, China, dedicated to delivering innovative and engaging multiplayer experiences. With a passion for action-packed gameplay and creative world-building, the team strives to connect players through shared adventures.

Revealed today at the PC Gaming Show, the new Expansion adds base management, a mysterious faction, and fresh challenges to the icy depths of Europa

Jupiter, Europa – June 8, 2025 – Daedalic Entertainment and developers Undertow Games and FakeFish are thrilled to announce Home & Harbor, a major expansion for the hit sci-fi submarine sim Barotrauma. The expansion will launch in 2026 and was officially revealed today with a brand-new trailer at the PC Gaming Show. Players can wishlist Home & Harbor now on Steam [LINK TO DLC] to stay updated on its development.

Steam Page Home & Harbor Expansion: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3714450/Barotrauma__Home__Harbor_Expansion/
Steam Page Barotrauma Main Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/602960/Barotrauma/

Home & Harbor will transform the Europa experience by adding two exciting pillars of new content:

• Base Building: For the first time, players can gain ownership of their own outpost. Customize, upgrade, expand, manage, and defend your base, unlocking perks to boost your campaign progress and crafting a true home beneath Europa’s icy seas.
• New Faction – The Descendants: Meet the Descendants, a mysterious, high-tech faction whose origins date back to the earliest days of human settlement on Europa. Their unique storyline introduces new challenges, secrets, and rewards that will reshape how players engage with the game world.

The Home & Harbor expansion will launch alongside a large free update for all players, ensuring that even those without the expansion will benefit from new gameplay content and enhancements.

About Barotrauma:
Developed by Undertow Games and FakeFish, Barotrauma is the ultimate 2D co-op submarine simulator where survival is an afterthought and betrayal is just another day at the office

About FakeFish and Undertow Games:

Barotrauma, an underwater, outer-space game of teamwork and ever-present Danger, reached 1.0 in March 2023 after several years in early access on Steam and continues to receive regular updates. Embracing mod-ability and open development, Barotrauma is built in close communication with its players, and its Steam Workshop hosts over 50,000 fan creations. Barotrauma began as a freely downloadable project by Undertow Games, the solo developer of the free open-source horror game SCP – Containment Breach. Later, the award-winning fellow indie studio FakeFish joined the project with their team of industry veterans and fresh talents to launch Barotrauma on Steam. Based in Turku, Finland, the joint studio continues to support Barotrauma with further updates while also developing future game titles.

About Daedalic Entertainment
Daedalic Entertainment is a renowned publisher that has supported indie developers for over 17 years, bringing its titles to every major gaming platform. The lineup of games includes a diverse variety of unique titles, focusing on four distinct areas: storytelling, strategy, co-op games, and wholesome games. With an international team of around 45 employees, Daedalic is currently working with various development studios to create a new lineup of innovative games across consoles and PCs to market. Recent hits include New Cycle, Barotrauma, Unrailed!, REVEIL, Potion Tycoon, Deponia, Shadow Tactics, Inkulinati, Hidden Deep, Fling to the Finish!, and more.

Please look out for upcoming games, including The Occultist, Woodo, Once Upon a Puppet, Wild Woods, and many more. Since April 2022, Daedalic Entertainment has been a subsidiary of the French publishing house, Nacon.

Montreal, QC – June 8, 2025 – Chasing Rats Games, the mischievous minds behind Struggling, just dropped a brand new trailer during the PC Gaming Show for their upcoming title Worship, a Pikmin-inspired, co-op roguelite about blood rituals, cult management, and doomsday devotion.

Following a sucessful kickstarter campaign and funded by Kowloon Nights – a videogame fund supporting amazing indie titles such as Spiritfarer and Sea of Stars – Chasing Rats Games has also revealed the game releases in Early Access on July 16, 2025 exclusively on PC via Steam, inviting players to don the robes of a zealot, carve symbols in blood, and incite the apocalypse alongside friends in online co-op chaos.

Worship is a multiplayer game where up to four players team up to spread their faith, grow their cult, and bring on the apocalypse. Inspired by Pikmin, the game puts a twisted spin on real-time unit control, as players use hordes of loyal followers to fight, explore, and—when necessary—be sacrificed in grisly rites to appease their dark deity. With its striking ink-sketch aesthetic and hand-drawn animations, the art direction walks a razor’s edge between disturbing and delightful, combining gleeful absurdity with unsettling rituals.

Key Features:

• Blood Rites – Draw mystical symbols with blood to cast devastating spells, manipulate your environment, and solve puzzles. 
• Followers are Everything – Command your faithful to fight, carry, destroy, and die for your cause. Their devotion is absolute… and expendable. 
• Ever-Changing World – Each run takes place in a procedurally generated map, filled with rival factions, evolving challenges, and divine tests of faith. 
• Test your Faith with Friends – Complete rituals, earn devotion, and prove yourself worthy in boss encounters before summoning your god into the mortal realm through online co-op multiplayer.

Worship will launch in Early Access on July 16 2025 and is available to wishlist on Steam right now. Stay updated on the game’s official Discord for the latest news straight from the source.

About Chasing Rats Games

Chasing Rats Games is an indie video game studio based in Montreal. We bring our flavor to the indie scene with whacky, genre-bending games that thrive on chaos and camaraderie. Our goal is simple: to make weird games that are as fun to play as they are to watch in the best possible way.

Ever wonder what it takes to keep a tradin’ post runnin’? Saddle up and step inside!

Oberhaching, Germany, June 9, 2025 – Publisher SunDust, a label from the German publishing folks at Toplitz Productions is proud as a peacock to announce that the demo for Wild West General Store Simulator is available now as part of the rip-roaring Steam Next Fest!

Pack your bags and travel back to days yore where you’ll be takin’ over the granddaddy of what will become supermarkets. Deck your shop, located in the middle of a dusty ole ghost town, with all manner of goods – from mighty fine baked beans and other foods right up to tools. Walk the thin line between supply, demand and them pesky profit margins. Savor the sweet “Ka-ching!” of the cash register ringing in your ears as coins start fillin’ your pockets.

Earn your stripes by unlockin’ new products and fancy stuff as your store grows and you have to tell yourself, that the customer is king, as they get mighty particular bout their needs. Prove that you got what it takes to handle random calamities like grain or meat shortages, so you ain’t gotta go to the bank beggin’ for a loan to stay afloat. Need some help? Hire a trusty sidekick to work the checkout or wrangle the stock, Test your mettle in a mostly fair and square contest of Tomahawk Tossin’ to win new licences for your store or tempt fate when you spend your hard-earned dough on mystery crates packed with rare treasure or more stuff to peddle to the townsfolk.
For them hardcore shopkeepers, they can try the “Realistic Prices” mode, where every penny counts just like in the 1800s. Try makin’ ends meet when all you’ve got are nickels and dimes to bring home to Molly!

Demo Highlights:

• 25 goods to stock them shelves
• Constantly changin’ customer hankerin’s
• A full blown economy, which can be tougher than a char-coaled steak
• Random happenin’s to keep you on them toes
• “Casual” or “Realistic” pricin’, so pick yer poison
• Tomahawk Tossin’ Contest
• Do-it-all-yourself or hire a sidekick for stockin’ or cashierin’
• Smooth as butter controls 
• A right proper tutorial so you can start making decent bucks

The full-blown release of Wild West General Store Simulator is ridin’ into town on Steam Early Access later this year. And it is stacked, packin’ more than 70 products, three of them minigames (all of them with different levels of grit), more helpers to help you out (if you can afford them, that is, cause they ain’t coming cheap), more and fancier decorations, a higher store level cap with sweet unlockables, a rustlin’ and growin’ town around ya and a whole heap more!

So what’cha waiting for? Dust off your boots and start buildin’ the mighty finest general store this side of the Big Apple.

About SunDust

SunDust, a label of Toplitz Productions, focuses on charming indie games with a lot of heart and soul. The spectrum of casual-oriented titles ranges from user-friendly simulations to exuberant party games as well as other accessible and entertaining game concepts. At SunDust, indie studios with character can find a stage to give free rein to their creative ideas, personal flair and individual style.

Barcelona, Spain – 9 June, 2025. Sharpen your cleavers and charge your controllers as a playable demo of the upcoming Terrifier: The ARTcade Game has just carved its way onto PC via Steam, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch, giving horror fans a blood-soaked sneak peek at the twisted mayhem to come!

Publisher SelectaPlay and developer Relevo invite you to step into the blood-caked shoes of Art the Clown in this unapologetically brutal, retro-inspired beat ‘em up. Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, the demo lets players experience a slice of Art’s demented world where cops are minced, limbs fly freely, and no film set is safe from pixelated slaughter.

With its gorgeously grotesque pixel art, spine-snapping finishers, and fluid animations that ooze menace, this isn’t just a demo, it’s a taste of carnage so rich, you might just lose your lunch (grab a puke bag, just in case).

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game Features:

• Old-School Arcade Horror: Inspired by the bloodiest gems of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the demo delivers pure beat ‘em up chaos with that signature Terrifier edge.
• Jaw-Dropping Pixel Violence: Every slice, dice, and dismemberment is lovingly animated to make your stomach turn and your inner sadist smile.
• Gore-Fueled Gameplay: Pick up brutal weapons, unleash ridiculous finishers, and terrorise your foes with Art’s uniquely murderous flair.
• Multiplayer Madness: Team up or take on your friends in local co-op. More bodies, more blood.
• A Killer Soundtrack: Chiptunes meet chainsaws in a music mix that’s equal parts nostalgia and nightmare fuel.

Think you’ve got what it takes to survive Art’s twisted playground? There’s only one way to find out, play the demo now and prepare to paint the pixels red.

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game is coming soon digitally to PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PC via Steam, and Xbox Series X|S and as a terrifyingly gorey physical Collector’s Edition for PlayStation 5 and NIntendo Switch, but for now, horror hounds can download the demo for FREE and get a delicious head start on the carnage!

About Selecta Play 

Selecta Play is Selecta Visión’s video game publishing branch. The company works with talented studios on unique video games and helps them publish their titles in both physical and digital formats in Europe and worldwide.

About Relevo 

Relevo has been developing video games for various platforms since 2009, be it consoles, PC, mobile, arcades, or even vintage microcomputers. They are committed to creating well-designed video games that offer fresh and creative gameplay, lots of depth, great characters, high replay value, and loads of fun retro gaming influences.

LONDON (June 9, 2025) – Following the success of the original Neon Abyss, the highly anticipated sequel, Neon Abyss 2, is set to make its mark when it launches July 17, 2025.

Veewo Games are thrilled to give players a taste of the action by releasing a Multiplayer Feature Demo during the upcoming Steam Next Fest. This demo builds on all the wonderful feedback from previous playtests. With 16 new weapons added since the playtest there are a whopping 32 weapons to discover.

Players can band together with up to three friends to conquer the Abyss as a team, taking on the roles of either Nik, Elise or Saya. They can also team up with friends in the Time Attack Mode which gives players different time limits based on the difficulty selected to complete six levels. It’s all over if the players die or the timer runs out.

For those who would still rather go it alone, all content in the demo can be played single player.  Players can coordinate their builds to multiply each of their unique synergies and combos, creating powerful forces of destruction. 

About Veewo Games

Founded in 2011, Veewo Games is an award-winning independent game development studio based in Xiamen, China. With a focus on creating replayable, surprising, and dramatic gaming experiences. The studio’s titles include Neon Abyss, Super Phantom Cat, and Super Phantom Cat 2 and they are now working on Neon Abyss 2. Veewo Games is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment and continues to deliver immersive, high-quality experiences for players worldwide.