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VOL. MMXXVI · No. 1 All the games that's fit to ship. Not affliated with Valve. TWO BITS · 11 JUL 2026

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STRATEGY · GRAND STRATEGY · 2D 10 JUL 2026

American Dream

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Created by American Dream
$10.00

American Dream is a realistic strategy simulation about building wealth through real estate and business across the United States.

You begin with almost nothing — an inherited duplex in a modest city — and work your way up through rent, upgrades, financing, and reinvestment. Cities use real economic data, so buying in Tulsa feels very different from buying in San Francisco. Every market has its own costs, risks, and upside.

Grow at your own pace: acquire residential and commercial properties, unlock new asset types through research, travel to new markets, and scale from hands-on landlord to portfolio owner. Hire property management agencies to automate leasing, repairs, and day-to-day operations so you can focus on your next acquisition. Expand into hotels, launch businesses, and invest as your empire grows.

Success is not luck — it is capital discipline. Decide when to buy outright or finance, which tenants to accept, when to upgrade, and how to allocate cash across your portfolio. Setbacks are real, but so is the payoff: a portfolio that eventually earns more in a day than most people make in a year.

If you want a tycoon game that feels grounded, strategic, and satisfying — where the fantasy is earning your way to the top — American Dream is your path.

SIMULATION · CASUAL · AUTOMATION 10 JUL 2026

FLOWORKS

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Created by QUENCH FORGE
$7.99 $6.79 -15%

Wire your factory. Watch it flow.

FLOWORKS is an automation × idle factory builder where you design your factory as a living node graph. Materials flow along the wires you draw and change shape at every machine — mine, smelt, build, ship — all the way up to a robotics empire.

The "aha" is the game

Place a machine, draw a wire, and raw materials start flowing and transforming on their own. When a line jams, the bottleneck literally glows — and that little "ah, THAT's the problem," followed by the fix, is the loop you'll keep chasing. Every factory is a puzzle you wrote yourself: untangle it, parallelize it, make it hum.

Play at your own pace

  • Relax and idle — lay down a line, close the game, come back to progress. No timers, no fail screens; running low on power just slows you down, it never punishes you.
  • Or optimize obsessively — shave power and wire distance, balance throughput, and push the deep production tree to its endgame. The ceiling is high.
  • Five minutes or five hours — tinker briefly, or disappear into "just one more line."

Is it for you?

If you love the build-a-machine-that-builds-itself feeling of factory and automation games, the steady number-go-up of idle/incremental, or simply the quiet satisfaction of turning a tangled system into something elegant — FLOWORKS is made for you. No reflexes required. Just you, a blank canvas, and materials waiting to flow.

Features

  • 🏭 Lines you wire yourself — Mine → Smelt → Build → Ship. Connect nodes and watch materials flow, changing from raw → intermediate → final at each machine.
  • 🔎 Bottlenecks at a glance — jammed nodes glow and buffers back up. Diagnose, parallelize, and optimize — a living engineering puzzle.
  • ⚡ Power × distance — longer wires draw more power, so compact, clever layouts win.
  • 🗺 Economy map — sell products to towns for ¥, open trade routes to neighbors, and watch populations grow and demand more.
  • 📈 A deep production tree — steel → electronics → chemicals → aluminium → engines → robots & drones (agri, care, combat, construction, logistics, space, medical).
  • ☢ Nuclear & beyond — a full uranium fuel cycle with reprocessing (MOX) and breeder reactors for near-endless power.
  • 🤖 Import vs. in-house — buy intermediates to spin up fast, then switch to in-house production to raise your margins.
  • 🧩 Easy or Normal — play on one enormous board (Easy) or master multi-board logistics (Normal).
  • 💤 Grows while idle — progresses on your device even when closed. No server, fully offline.
  • 🎨 Zero assets — no image or audio files; every visual (SVG/CSS) and sound (Web Audio) is generated in code.
CASUAL · SIMULATION · SNOWBOARDING 10 JUL 2026

SnowFlow

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Created by TheStyleMachine
$8.99 $6.74 -25%

A minimalistic physics-based snowboarding game built around trick expression, body movement, and creative riding.

No run-ending wipeouts. No restarts. Just keep shredding.


Designed by expert snowboarders, SnowFlow focuses on the feeling of building momentum, controlling rotation, and expressing style through movement.

THE TORSION SYSTEM

At the heart of SnowFlow is a simple but expressive torsion system, designed by expert snowboarders. Use body torsion, rotation and counter-rotation to generate spin, shape tricks, line up jibs, and stomp clean landings.

PREPARE ON THE SNOW:  Set your pose, visualize the trick, and load up to create momentum.

GET EXPRESSIVE IN THE AIR: Add style, control your rotation, line up your landing, and make every trick your own.

NO WIPEOUTS, JUST BETTER RIDING

A messy landing only costs style, but the ride keeps moving.

SnowFlow keeps the pressure low while still rewarding better timing, cleaner body control, and smoother stomps.

PARK, STREET, POWDER...

Flow through a mix of snowpark, street, and powder-inspired terrain. Each feature challenges you to manage momentum, control rotation, and find new ways to express yourself.

UNLOCK YOUR STYLE

Keep riding to unlock new terrain features, scenarios, and gear.

Customize your rider with new looks and equipment, then bring your own style to every run.

Flow is not just in the riding. It is in the look, too.

EASY TO RIDE, DEEP TO MASTER

SnowFlow is relaxed from the first run, but the torsion system gives you room to keep improving.

Learn when to wind up, when to release, when to counter-rotate, and how to use body separation to make each trick feel different, cleaner, smoother, and more stylish.

EARLY ACCESS · ONLINE CO-OP · CO-OP 10 JUL 2026

Drill Crew

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Created by Renvati Games
$4.99 $2.99 -40%

DRILL CREW

KEEP THE MACHINE ALIVE.

Descend deep underground with your crew aboard a massive industrial drilling machine. Every expedition is a high-risk journey where one mistake can cost everything.

Mine valuable resources, survive unexpected disasters, upgrade your machine, and make it back to the surface before the depths claim your crew.

EVERY CREW MEMBER HAS A ROLE

Success depends on teamwork.

One player scans the underground using the radar system, searching for valuable ore while avoiding hidden TNT.

Another controls the drill's direction, steering the machine through dangerous terrain.

Others repair damaged pipes, extinguish fires, transfer resources, manage fuel, and keep the machine running under extreme pressure.

No single player can be everywhere at once.

SURVIVE THE DEPTHS

The deeper you drill, the greater the rewards—and the greater the risks.

Every expedition brings new challenges.

• Random ore locations

• Hidden TNT deposits

• Pipe failures

• Machine damage

• Fuel management

• Emergency repairs

A single mistake can turn a successful expedition into a complete disaster.

BUILD A BETTER MACHINE

Return safely to the surface and sell the resources you've collected.

Use your earnings to improve every part of your drilling machine.

Upgrade drill performance, fuel efficiency, storage capacity, radar range, durability, and more to reach even greater depths.

The stronger your machine becomes, the further you can push each expedition.

EVERY EXPEDITION IS DIFFERENT

No two runs are exactly the same.

Ore deposits, TNT locations, and the challenges you'll face change from run to run, forcing your crew to adapt and work together.

Every decision matters.

Every mistake has consequences.

Every successful return means one more chance to go even deeper.

STRATEGY · ROGUELITE · TOWER DEFENSE 10 JUL 2026

The Anchored Hour

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Created by Hourwisp Studio
$7.99 $7.19 -10%

The Anchored Hour is a roguelite tower-defense strategy game about defending a displaced royal keep after a mysterious black orb tears the castle into a hostile timeline.

Build up your defenses, scout through fog-covered lands, gather resources, and send your own waves of units down the path to destroy enemy towers, outposts, and the enemy base. Each run pushes the kingdom farther through unstable biomes while relics, upgrades, and hard choices shape how your defenses survive the next assault.

Key Features:

- Tower-defense strategy with an offensive twist: defend your keep while sending your own units into enemy territory.

- Build and upgrade towers, support buildings, collectors, and scouting tools.

- Scout fog-covered maps to reveal resources, threats, and points of interest.

- Fight through enemy towers, outposts, elite enemies, and biome-based pressure.

- Collect relics and upgrades that change your run and support different strategies.

- Manage resources, workers, routes, and timing as each day escalates.

- Designed for replayable runs with different maps, biomes, and build paths.

The game is planned for Early Access, with active development focused on balance, readability, art/audio polish, and expanded content over time.

STRATEGY · CARD GAME · ROGUELIKE 10 JUL 2026

Agestan

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Created by Erasist
$9.99

Build Your Hidden Base, Master the Strategy

Agestan is more than just deploying troops; it is a brilliant battle of city-building. Construct Barracks, Markets, Hospitals, and Towers on your isometric square grid that your opponent cannot see. Position your buildings carefully to gain extra powers and create a flawless economy.

6 Civilizations & Deep Deck-Building

Choose from Abbasid, Chinese, English, Mongol, Ottoman, or Viking civilizations. Draft from random cards each turn to build a massive army. Stack identical buildings to upgrade them. Sacrifice your structures for an economic boost, or cast deadly abilities like 'Poison Arrow' and 'Berserker' on your troops to turn the tide of war.

The Age of Destruction: Battleship Meets Auto-Battler!

You have spent the first 4 turns preparing your army. On Turn 5, the rules of war change completely: The Age of Destruction begins! The player who wins the battlefield earns the right to fire a blind, devastating catapult strike at one of the 25 tiles in the opponent's hidden base. Permanently destroy their critical buildings and be the last civilization standing!

Epic Roguelite Conquest Mode

Beyond the 1v1 PvP, a deep single-player experience awaits! Choose your civilization and march your army across 20-tile enemy maps. You only have 3 lives on a journey filled with bandits and raiders. If you lose a battle, the "Last Stand" begins; if the enemy reaches your main building, you lose a life. Buy survival items from rare merchants and bring all civilizations to their knees!