Featuring Unit Down, MagiCat, Adventures of Chris — The watchword for today’s selection of games is cute. All of these titles feature a cartoon-influenced style, as distinguished from the decidedly darker titles that tend to populate my collection. …

Featuring Polyroll, Until I Have You, and Noitu Love 2: Devolution — I feature a lot of platformers here, probably because I own lots of them. There are a great many platformers on Steam — they’re easy for small teams to make, there’s a lot of potential variety in the mechanics and design, and the market for them is very big. Unfortunately…

Featuring Deleveled, Heartseeker, Ceilless — One of the biggest challenges facing many indie games is that they often have a simple nature — simple graphics, simple storylines, simple (if cleverly implemented) mechanics. It makes it hard to stand out from the competition, let alone against the AAA titles that dominate the market. But for the…

On display — Crypt Stalker, Super Cyborg, Gunmetal Arcadia — These days, digital marketplaces are bursting at the seams with retro platformers presenting themselves as “spiritual successors” to something on the Nintendo Entertainment System. Most of them are adequate at best, but there are some fantastic platformers that can be had at a tiny price. …

On display — Godstrike, Ultra Space Battle Brawl, My Night Job — Christmas is now behind us, and that means a lot of people out there are staring down the barrel of a really questionable Steam backlog. …

Featuring Castle of no Escape 2, Haimrik, Mastema: Out of Hell — Steam is a bottomless cave in which games at the bottom receive little light, but if you’re willing to dig, there are gems down there. I like indie games, which is why it’s a shame that finding new ones — beyond the mega-sellers that everyone already knows about — is…