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VOL. MMXXVI · No. 1 All the games that's fit to ship. Not affliated with Valve. TWO BITS · 13 OCT 2026

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CARD BATTLER · LORE-RICH · ROGUELITE 13 OCT 2026

Hungry Horrors

98%
OF 267 REVIEWS
Created by Clumsy Bear Studio
$14.99 $11.99 -20%

You are a spoilt princess whose favourite hobbies are leisure, rest, and sleep, and who thinks manual labour is an activity for servants. Unfortunately, your kingdom has fallen under a ravenous curse, and every creature of British and Irish folklore has turned into a “Hungry Horrors”. With no prince showing up to save you, you reluctantly take matters into your own hands and set out to break the curse, feeding strange creatures one meal at a time. You are, predictably, not happy about it.

Cook traditional dishes, master five tastes, satisfy legendary Horrors, and unlock the secrets of a cursed kingdom. Season your cards, equip cookware, find powerful potions, rescue familiars, fish in mysterious waters, meet folkloric characters, and carve your own path through a kingdom built on old legends.

BUILD YOUR CULINARY DECK

Craft a deck of authentic British and Irish recipes, from Cranachan and Yorkshire Pudding to Jellied Eels and Toad in the Hole. Collect ingredients on your travels to cook new dishes and grow your deck. Season your cards to change their flavour and unlock powerful abilities. Equip cookware that bends the rules of every encounter, and shape your deck around the flavour chains you want to pull off.

FACE MYTHICAL MONSTERS

Encounter Jenny Greenteeth, Marool, Dullahan, Y Fad Felen, and other Horrors drawn from English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh legends. Each one has its own appetite, preferences, and hatreds. Learn about their origins and the folklore behind them. Read them right and they leave full. Read them wrong and the princess becomes the next course.

MASTER FLAVOURS AND CRAVING SYNERGIES

Every dish carries one of five flavours: salty, sour, savoury, bitter, or sweet. Match each Horror's cravings, chain the right flavours in the right order, and watch hunger snowball. Every Horror has favourites and things they despise. Learn them, exploit them, and serve the perfect meal.

EXPLORE THE BRITISH ISLES

Travel through dark woods, gloomy meadows, spooky bogs, and the misty loch. Meet legendary characters with quests to complete, trade with merchants, and uncover artefacts and cookware hidden across the kingdom. Unlock fishing to reel in new ingredients and loot. Find a familiar to follow you on your journey and sniff out potions along the way.

CHOOSE YOUR WAY TO PLAY

Take the long road in the main campaign with persistent progression, where unlocked recipes, abilities, and seasonings carry between runs. Play Vanilla for the standard experience or crank it up with Spicy mode. Stack modifiers like Culinary and Gourmet to twist each run further.

Hungry Horrors is a pixel art card game where food and fear collide. Made by two people, shaped by the community, served with a generous helping of folklore.

RPG · MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER · FREE TO PLAY 13 OCT 2026

Iverian Wars: Craxion vs Defugel

31%
OF 583 REVIEWS
Created by Zemi Interactive
Free

A Classic Hardcore MMORPG

Gather resources through hunting, warfare, and cooperation with other players. Craft useful items and powerful gear from what you collect, then unleash your strength in massive wars where skill and strategy decide victory.

Meet players from all around the world, build lasting friendships, and create your own story in a vast world of adventure and conflict.

World of Iveria

In the world of Iveria, a powerful empire has collapsed, and in its place have risen two divided and troubled empires. What was once a peaceful continent is now torn apart by war between the two most powerful factions, Craxion and Defugel.

War is everywhere. Small and large battles erupt in every corner of the continent. Yet the roots of this conflict trace back to the ancient era of the Iverian Empire. It is only a matter of time before the two greatest factions must unite and stand together to confront the darkest scheme of all.

Will the continent survive at all?

Join us in Iverian Wars: Craxion vs Defugel at the most exciting moment in the history of Iveria—and stop the continent from falling.

Here’s what you can expect in the game.

Large-Scale Faction Warfare

Players can engage in warfare at every scale, from small-scale skirmishes to massive field battles.

Faction-based territory occupation, along with content such as Battle in Chaos and the Dark Portal, creates a dynamic battlefield where strategy, positioning, and coordinated faction play ultimately determine victory or defeat.

Action-Oriented Combat with Hidden Skills

Combat goes beyond standard skill rotations.
Discover hidden skills that let you roll to evade attacks and perform powerful jump attacks, rewarding timing, movement, and mastery.

Freedom-Driven Equipment Progression

Build your character your way with a progression system centered on freedom and choice.

Players can freely name their gear, customize and combine all item attributes, and create unique builds without being locked into fixed paths.

If you want it, you can get it.

Party-Focused Gameplay & Dynamic PvE

Party-focused gameplay lies at the heart of the experience, featuring Party Wave, large-scale faction battles, and dynamic party-based encounters. In addition, the Scavenger System introduces Spirit Scavengers that create unpredictable PvE situations—even during combat—requiring players to constantly adapt their strategies.

Shape the Fate of Iveria

Iverian Wars: Craxion vs Defugel is a living battlefield where faction conflict, strategy, and player choice define the world.

SIMULATION · SURVIVAL · BASE BUILDING 12 OCT 2026

Keep Her Safe

98%
OF 60 REVIEWS
Created by Gugu Studio
$9.99 $6.49 -35%

Humans are gone, and chickens take the wheel—all 20 billion of them.

Seven days of acid rain birthed zombie hordes... and intelligent animals. As a high-IQ chicken, you are civilization’s last hope. Defend your base’s [b]Energy Core[/b] against relentless waves and launch the ultimate rocket to stop the rain!

Oh, and about that survivor lady back at base? Focus up—you have to survive first.

Build Defenses

Construct defensive structures to strengthen your base against increasingly dangerous threats.

Post-Apocalyptic Survival

Scavenge, fight, and stay alive in a lethal wasteland dissolved by acid rain.

Craft Your Own Build

Combine weapons and gear to counter distinct enemies, mutant monsters, and unknown threats.

Co-op Wasteland Warfare

Team up with friends! (Pro-tip: flamethrowers are totally broken... just watch out for friendly fire!)

Mini-Games & Casual Fun

Need a break from saving the world? Blow off some steam with multiplayer mini-games—like playing soccer with the boys after a hard day's grind!

ACTION · ACTION ROGUELIKE · ROGUELIKE 12 OCT 2026

Horns of Deliverance

84%
OF 57 REVIEWS
Created by schemesmith
$11.99 $10.79 -10%

YOU HAVE A BRAINCHIP IN YOUR HEAD

Horns of Deliverance is a fast paced action roguelike with grounded gunplay. Enjoy the benefits of a brainchip with easy to view health diagnostics and alerts. 

YOUR BRAINCHIP IS TRYING TO KILL YOU 

Someone flipped the switch and now your brainchip is trying to kill you. Consume psychoactive substances to interfere with your brainchip and stay in control long enough to make it to the end. 

FEATURES:

  • Procedural Level Generation

  • Varied Enemies 

  • Psychoactive Substances With Crazy Effects

  • Upgrade Equipment Between Levels

  • Behold Divine Providence

TEAM-BASED · CO-OP · PVP 12 OCT 2026

Haunted Heist

100%
OF 43 REVIEWS
Created by autotroph games
$9.99 $7.99 -20%


OVERVIEW

Haunted Heist is a round-based asymmetrical party game for 3–8 players. A team of Heisters works together to retrieve gems scattered throughout a procedurally generated mansion—while a rival team of Tricksters haunts the halls, sabotaging their every move.

The Heisters must collect gems and return them to their safe room before time runs out. If they succeed, they win. If the timer expires, or they’re wiped out by the Tricksters’ antics and attacks, the mansion claims another crew.

THE HEISTERS

Heisters rely on teamwork, tools, and proximity chat to survive the mansion’s dangers. Armed with a handgun, flashlight, flares, and defibrillators, they must manage their battery, conserve ammo, and stay close to one another to avoid being picked off.

Powerups can restore resources, enhance equipment, or help navigate its winding halls. Smart coordination and steady nerves are essential—because the Tricksters are always watching.

THE TRICKSTERS

Tricksters thrive in the dark, using fear, deception, and sudden violence to keep the Heisters off-balance. Their arsenal includes night vision, player muting, voice swapping, disguises, invisibility, voice modulation, and the ability to strike from the shadows before vanishing again.

Each ability runs on cooldowns, rewarding clever timing and psychological pressure. A skilled Trickster mixes mind games with lethal ambushes, becoming an unpredictable and genuinely unsettling force of chaos.

FEATURES

  • Asymmetrical PvP Mayhem – Heisters work together to gather gems while Tricksters sabotage, deceive, and hunt them through a haunted mansion.

  • 3–8 Player Party Chaos – Perfect for friends, stream nights, and community games with flexible team sizes.

  • Procedurally Generated Mansions – Every round takes place in a new layout with fresh routes and hiding spots.

  • Tense Co-op Survival – Heisters must conserve batteries, stick together, and communicate through proximity chat to stay alive.

  • Unhinged Trickster Abilities – Invisibility, disguises, night vision, voice swapping, muting, ambush attacks, and more—each with cooldowns that reward clever timing.

  • Combat & Tools for Heisters – Utilize handguns, flashlights, flares, and defibrillators while scrounging for powerups that enhance your gear.

  • Psychological Warfare – Tricksters can harass, mislead, and terrify their opponents, turning every hallway into a potential trap.

  • Fast, Replayable Rounds – Quick matches encourage experimentation, laughs, and revenge rematches.

  • Built for Parties – High chaos, proximity chat, and emergent storytelling create highlight-worthy moments every session.

MANAGEMENT · COOKING · BUILDING 12 OCT 2026

Life, the Universe, and Restaurants

98%
OF 58 REVIEWS
Created by GARRY
$14.99 $9.74 -35%

Open your restaurant for business in the vast reaches of space, take orders, and prepare every dish by hand! Gather ingredients, prep and process them, plate each dish, and serve it—all while racing between the kitchen and Customer Tables to keep up with an ever-growing stream of orders.

Too much for one person to handle? Leave the work to all kinds of robots! Record your cooking routine, and your robots will repeat it endlessly. They can take orders, cook, serve dishes, transport Coins, and clean up.

Unlock higher-tier Recipes with increasingly complex preparation steps, then arrange multiple Cooking Robots to work together in sequence. Transform a frantic little kitchen into the most efficient automated production line in the cosmos!

Your goal is to complete the business objectives at each stage and upgrade your restaurant from 1 Star all the way to 5 Stars.

Earn Coins, unlock Recipes, purchase new cookware, and acquire new plots to expand your restaurant. Build more Customer Tables and production facilities, and hire additional robot staff. As your restaurant’s Star Rating increases, you'll unlock more purchasable plots, Recipes, structures, robots, ads, talents, and management systems.

As your kitchen grows, your dishes will become more complex—and your customers' demands will become increasingly outrageous. Keep purchasing new plots and expanding your restaurant. Refine your layout, optimize traffic flow, increase production capacity, and take on each Star Upgrade objective. Turn your humble little restaurant into a luxurious, highly efficient 5-Star establishment!

Running a successful restaurant takes more than knowing how to cook. You'll also need a sharp mind for business.

Use different ads to increase the profits from specific dishes—or even reshape your entire business strategy. Build Posters to make customers more likely to order particular dishes, or use TVs to steer them toward a carefully selected menu. Guide your business in exactly the direction you want.

Create your own business build around dish prices, order rates, serving speed, and automation efficiency. Promote the same dish day after day, rotate your menu, specialize in Veggie Dishes or Meat Dishes, and use queue length, your current Coin balance, or even "special events" to keep pushing prices higher. Find your own winning strategy and watch your daily revenue climb!

The customer is always right? Well, the customers here really are "gods"—but keeping every last one of them happy isn't necessarily the best way to run your restaurant!

Trash Bins, lighting, and other unusual methods can all drain your customers' patience. Once they completely lose patience, they'll fly into a rage and become impossible to reason with... which is exactly what you want!

Under the Cosmic Regulatory Bureau's "self-defense" provisions, you may legally kill unruly customers and harvest their valuable Brains.

Use the Brains of these "gods" to upgrade talents and unlock more powerful brain-based robots. Then deploy Turret Robots, Guards, and other Defense Facilities to protect your restaurant. After all, in this bizarre universe, it was never going to be just about cooking...