Belle Citique

Cozy City Designer ‘Belle Citique’ Grants Fans of the Genre Their Biggest Wish – Animals and Villagers

Build in harmony with nature in Belle Citique, a cozy city designer finally giving fans of Townscaper and Tiny Glade what they’ve always wanted – villagers and animals!

[January 21, 2026]: Build for harmony and happiness in Belle Citique, a cozy new city designer from Willis Studios. Belle Citique is a cozy, water-focused city designer, with a powerful building-system that naturally adjusts to the terrain around it, creating canals, tunnels, waterways, parks, and more. Attract residents and animals to your city and watch them enjoying the lives you’ve built for them, exploring bustling marketplaces and lovely boulevards. Residents comment on what they love, and ask for more!

Instead of replacing nature, bring out its best – and attract animals to live within your towns. Towering walls and bridges adapt to the rivers and hills around them. Decorate your city with plazas, gates and fountains, naturally molding to the environment for a feeling of perfect balance. Fans of Townscape and Tiny Glade will feel at home!

With a new demo now on Steam, players can get to building their idyllic city – and populating it immediately.

Watch the trailer for Belle Citique below.

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Key features of Belle Citique include:

Unleash the Joys of Nature. Walls and houses sprout tunnels to let rivers pass through. Canals work their way between buildings and around plazas. Trees grow joyfully towards the sun. Instead of just replacing or removing nature, Belle Citique imagines how we might build together with it.
Calming Natural Beauty. Enjoy villagers fishing in the canals, and dogs playing in the park. Watch the birds gently soaring by. Admire the mountains and the streams. Belle Citique is the perfect way to release your tension and unwind!
Happy Residents! As your city grows, more and more people will come to live in it, admiring your hard work and going about their lives. Residents will compliment your architecture and design, and as the population increases, more building-blocks and biomes will be unlocked to explore and experiment with.
Full Customization. Adjust colors and other design-details for each building-block to make sure that your city perfectly matches your heart. The only limit is your own imagination!

Belle Citique is available to wishlist now on Steam, with a demo currently available. It is planned to release in Q1/2 2026.

Tailside

Cozy Cafe Sim ‘Tailside’ Launches into Early Access on PC

Serve furry, friendly customers in laidback debut

Lithuania (January 21, 2025) – Opening day has finally arrived as developer Coffee Beans Dev launches cozy cafe sim Tailside into Early Access on Windows PC via Steam, with a full launch planned for 2027! Serve freshly baked goods and cups of coffee to friendly and furry customers as you create the perfect chill out spot!

Watch the Tailside launch trailer:

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Sit back, relax, and fulfill your cafe management dreams in Tailside. Customize your cafe, bedroom, and terrace with a range of decor including the comfiest chairs, succulents, and plushies before opening the doors to take orders from creatures from across the forest!

Play without pressure as you roast and grind beans, create beautiful latte art and level up your coffee-making skills. Progress is laidback and with every in-game day, you’ll get closer to unlocking new brewing abilities and additional, decorative items with hundreds of signs, seats, and much more to eventually choose from.

Along the way, you’ll also meet more villagers and get to know a little more about the adorable animal customers who stop by each day. Follow their stories as the daily newspaper brings you closer to your paw pals.

Tailside even lets you add your own furry faces! With mod support, you can import custom characters and turn them into cafe visitors, bringing yourself and your real-life furry friends into the game.

These features are just the start of the Tailside journey as, on the Steam page, Coffee Beans Dev has already shared a roadmap of updates as the game progresses to 1.0 in 2027. Planned features include a full greenhouse system, a flower shop to grow and sell plants, and the ability to visit other players’ cafes!

Key Features of Tailside

Progress Without Pressure: This is a wholesome sim, not a tycoon title and the gameplay is designed to be stress-free. Those who prefer to play without levels and objectives can also enjoy the Sandbox mode, which is more decor-focused.
That’s That Me Espresso: Brew coffees made with different flavors, and strengths, create latte art, and unlock even more coffee varieties as you progress through levels!
Fully Customizable: Design multiple areas in your cafe, with a bedroom and a terrace, as you choose from hundreds of decor items. Import custom characters for even more personalization!

Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim is out now on Windows PC via Steam for $9.89 USD, £8.36 GBP, and €9,71 EUR with a 10% launch discount. The game is also “Playable” on Steam Deck.

For more on Tailside, follow developer Coffee Beans Dev on X (Twitter) and join the official Discord.

Bladesong

The level of detail in this game is insane and makes me feel like an actual blade Smith not just a gamer playing a game.

You start the game in a dream state you pick your character type male or female then what your life was like your knowledge and so forth and yes it actually helps with the progression in the story as some choices depend on certain skills you have your toughness and knowledge being some as well as finesse, after you make your choices the game opens up into the tutorial and even the tutorial tells you pay attention or you wont learn so please pay attention.

The first thing it goes over it the camera movement which im not a fan of why would you stick a camera binding to the press of the scroll wheel makes no sense at all but thats just my 2 cents. Next your looking at the anvil and the process begins. The tutorial starts by telling you how the lengthen the metal that will become the blade each blade has a sweet spot in length and the info box on the top left tells you everything that is e,petted of the sword you are making and boy does shit get complex as you progress. Then you gotta flatten the blade and widen it these 3 steps are the most basic of everything your gonna be doing so make sure you watch everything closely cause if you mess up you will have to start over and fix the sword properly.

Next the game will show you how to put a tip on the sword and this one is probably the most trickiest of them all as you can over tip the sword to the point its almost a needle which some customers will want that.

Then comes the sharpness of the blade which is the easiest to do you see a blue line will pop up on the blade and will move until it hits the proper spot then it will change to orange when you have reached the exact point intended honestly best guide line ever.

The whole left side of the screen while your at the anvil is your info bar as well as the square that pops up on the right also shows some details as well.

After the tutorial of making the game shows you a small fixing tutorial cause not only will you be making blades you will be fixing them as well. The amount of detail and information in this tutorial is insane and well done could they have added more sure but it might have messed with the flow of the game.

After the game drops you into the story of the game where you are awoken at a tent with a forge outside in a tent filled camp of people trying to enter a city for safety. You will try to get in as well but no luck sadly.

This is where the game opens up where every choice is both good and bad where everyone is watching you and where one wrong move can mean death for your character.

The economy is rough not only must you find supplies but you also gotta find vendors and boy the first vendor you find is rough considering this game takes place during medieval times people were scared of plagues and everything else.

This game is amazing the detail the feel of making a sword the hilts and everything in between i am so glade to have experienced this game and I cant wait tonsee what they do with it in the future so if you wanna feel like a real bladesmith pick up Bladesong you wont be disappointed, thank you all for coming by take care and game on.

poppy playtime chapter 5

November 22nd, 1990
Incident Report
[RESTRICTED_conditioning_1990]
EXPERIMENT #1188 “CATNAP”

From the beginning, it was clear 1188 would need extensive treatment.

What is your name?
What is your experiment number?
Can you tell me who you are?

Total treatment time: 49 days.
Treatment outcome: Successful.

—M̶̠̒͠Y̷̲̌̽ ̸̱͂N̴̠͘AM̶͍͉̍Ë̷͔̙́ ̸̩̪̾Í̷͇̯S ̸̦̈́̕T̶̤̆HE̴͉͛Ȍ̵͙͒D̶̜̊͝OR̴͆͜E—

Further observation continues: https://discord.com/invite/FmsXQDK7Zp

Poppy Playtime: Chapter 5 — “Broken Things” launches February 18, 2026, on PC. Wishlist now on Steam and Epic Games. Console versions will be available in the months to follow.

The Real Face of a VTuber review

Hello everyone hows it going today I wanna talk to you about my first ever murder mystery game called The Real Face of a VTuber. But first huge thank you to Lilien Games for sending me a copy to check out hugely appreciated so let’s dive in.

As I said this is my first murder mystery game so honestly I wasnt sure what expectations to have or what to look for so I went in blind and im glad I did the game is a blast and so detailed in its experience and the tutorial isnt in your face it blends with the game as a natural part of conversation it was perfectly done and impressed me from the start.

So players take on the role of a prosecutor by the name of Justin Truth who’s sole mission is to figure out who murdered our victim and to bring justice to the departed so justice we shall bring.

So im guessing more murder mystery games are similar in theres a lot and I mean a lot of dialog and reading which honestly im fine with it feels like a novel and the mystery is just getting juicy.
So the victim owns the company where everyone will be interrogated and its your job to determine which employee did it and how, now this game has multiple endings that means you will be playing more then once for a complete story and im not complaining one bit this game hooks its claws into you as soon as you start getting into the main story.

The gameplay is simple and smooth I haven’t had any issues the whole time ive been playing the graphics are similar to a visual novel game so the colors are great nothing is over done.

So your job find the murderer but you also get a bonus in you must find out who is the face of the vtuber who was employed at the company you will interrogate and check evidence cross examine everyone and everything find out who’s lying and telling the truth and trust me this part is hard cause I already have a few people I dont like in the game and I wanna blame them so bad but im trying not to be biased.

I haven’t come across any bugs except one of the achievements didnt pop up for me but other then that the game is solid and fun.

Im sorry this review isnt up to par ive never played a murder mystery game so I dont have anything to go by but I will say this the game is fun the details are insane and makes you wanna play more non stop so please pick up the real face of a vtuber and experience for yourself thank you all have a great day and game on.

Super Alloy Crush Demo

Super alloy crush is what you get when old school megaman is a huge inspiration, I wanna thank the team at Alloy Mushroom for sending me a demo code to check out let’s talk about it.

So the demo is short in total it took me 51 minutes to beat both characters which isnt bad but I kinda expected a bit more but its a demo so I understand.

Super Alloy Crush is a rougelite brawler that takes huge inspiration from classic megaman side scrollers. You play as 1 of 2 characters Kelly or Muu to battle evil doers. Kelly is the range character using guns, grenades and other specials to dish out damage he wasnt so bad but I couldn’t mesh with him I died once in the demo using him but that was mostly do to my own carelessness. His gun play is solid but you will struggle with boss battles considering all the jumping you have to do. Muu is the close combat expert and my favorite of the 2 characters. She gives off the classic wolverine aggressive feel with her play style using what im guessing are plasma claws or electric not sure hard to tell she charges into combat driven by combos and damage and made the demo much easier then her counter part Kelly.

During the demo the levels felt amazing the combat felt solid the variety in enermies was great and the boss battles were intense as enemies spawned to help the boss.

The demo closed out with a bit of the bullet hell rougelite im used to and it was fun I had a blast and cant wait to experience more of this game when it releases.

So if your a fan of megaman rougelites brawlers and Co op games check out super alloy crush with its awesome crt filters for the classic vibes and its great level exploration this game has huge potential and I cant wait tonsee its release, thank you for stopping by take care and game on.

Masters of Albion

Build By Day, Defend By Night. A God Game Reimagined – Watch the Action Unfold in the New Release Date Trailer HERE

Guildford, UK – January 12, 2026 – 22cans, led by legendary game creator Peter Molyneux, today announced that Masters of Albion will launch on Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 18:00 BST, exclusively on PC via Steam. A brand-new release date trailer showcases the game’s unique blend of cosy creativity by day and brutal survival by night.Built by a team that includes legends of the industry, Mark Healey, Russell Shaw, Iain Wright and Kareem Ettouney, who were key in developing Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and Fable, Masters of Albion reimagines the god game for today. Blending strategy, simulation, town management, and real-time defence, the game gives players extraordinary freedom to play the game the way they want to play it.Taking inspiration from some of Peter’s classic titles, Masters of Albion is a return to form, blending gameplay mechanics from multiple genres, strategy with simulation, town management with defence, to reinvigorate the god game, and give players the power and freedom to create.

Or destroy…

Said Peter Molyneux:
“Masters of Albion is the culmination of my life’s work, a game that owes so much to titles like Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and Fable. It’s a totally unique game that we hope will delight players, a game that brings God Games into the modern gaming landscape and puts the genre firmly back on the map.”

Albion, a land shaped by the hands of heroes, is at a great turning point in its history. Its lords and luminaries have pulled Albion’s society into a new age of manufacturing and production, a golden era, an industrial revolution. But behind this modernisation lurks a painful past of magic and mayhem, one that threatens to drag Albion back into a dark age of mysticism.

Shape the world from above as a god or step directly into it by possessing heroes, workers, animals and more.

Masters of Albion mixes strategy, simulation, town management, and real-time defence, all woven into a rich narrative-driven world.

“Some are born with power, some achieve power, and some have great power thrust upon them.”

Build, Create, and Customise

As a god, you have absolute freedom over your towns and villages:

• Design and build every structure
• Hire, house and manage your workforce
• Customise buildings with paint, patterns and embellishments
• Combine building types into unique multi-purpose structures
• No timers or waiting, build instantly and iterate freely

From small workshops to sprawling towns, Albion grows exactly how you decide.

Wield the Power of the God Hand
Command the world with ancient powers:

• Manipulate buildings and objects freely
• Possess and control the living
• Inspire, reward, insult, or punish your people
• Throw giant boulders, spiked balls, exploding barrels or just plain old-fashioned people
• Rain lightning, fire and destruction down upon your enemies
• Shape Albion with absolute authority

Enjoy the freedom that being a god brings, but with great freedom comes great responsibility.

Roam Freely Across Albion
Experience the world from multiple perspectives:

• View Albion from the heavens or possess living beings to explore on foot
• Control heroes, dogs, workers and even chickens
• Complete quests to unlock treasures and secrets
• Delve into dangerous underground cave networks
• Craft weapons and armour for your heroes
• Design the clothes that your workers wear (however bizarre)
• Explore, experiment and uncover the forgotten history of Albion

Defend the Night
When night falls, Albion is no longer safe. Malevolent creatures emerge from the darkness, attacking towns and killing indiscriminately. Survival depends on preparation and decisive action:

• Design, build and arm powerful defensive turrets
• Hire heroes to protect the people
• Escort the vulnerable through the terrors of the night
• Construct walls, choke points, and deadly defences
• Channel enemies into carefully planned kill zones
• Use god powers to strike fear into the undead
• Possess heroes and fight enemies directly in real-time combat

Each night tests your planning, creativity, and resolve.

Key Themes
• Power and responsibility
• Industry versus ancient magic
• Freedom of choice and consequence
• Cosy creativity contrasted with chaos and danger

Players can enjoy the freedom that comes with being a God by Wishlisting the game now via Steam ahead of its release on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. Keep up to date on the latest news via X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Players can get exclusive news and content by signing up to the official Discord.

Anthem#9

Turn-Based Gem-Matching Roguelite ANTHEM#9 Launches February 5th on PC via Steam

New “Extra Mission” Endgame Content Promises Unprecedented Challenges

Tokyo, Japan – January 13th, 2026 – Shueisha Games is excited to announce that the gem-matching roguelite ANTHEM#9 will launch on February 5th on PC via Steam. Along with the release date, the new “Extra Mission” mode has been revealed – a high-difficulty endgame challenge for players who complete the main campaign. The publisher also confirmed that ANTHEM#9’s creator Koeda will also host a special developer talk and Q&A session on January 30th at 8:00 PM JST via the official Discord server.

Watch the ANTHEM#9 Release Date Trailer:

Extra Mission: A Brutal Endgame Challenge
“Extra Mission” is a challenging endgame mode in ANTHEM#9, unlocked after completing the standard campaign (Missions 1-4) and designed for players seeking the ultimate test. Players begin with Extra-1 and progress through increasingly brutal stages. Each level boosts enemy stats and adds restrictions that push players to their limits. Clearing Extra-1 unlocks Extra-2, challenging players to test how far their skills can go in an escalating gauntlet.

Refined UI Based on Community Feedback
Based on recent community feedback from the ANTHEM#9 demo, the full release has undergone a major user interface overhaul. The redesigned UI is cleaner, more intuitive, and streamlined to make gameplay smoother and more accessible for players. Every element has been refined to keep players focused on the core gameplay and maximize enjoyment in the fast-paced roguelite action.

Developer Talk & Q&A – January 30th
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to go behind the scenes with ANTHEM#9’s creator, Koeda! On January 30th at 8:00 PM JST, Shueisha Games will host a special live developer talk on the official ANTHEM#9 Discord server, where fans can hear never-before-shared stories from the game’s development and ask Koeda questions directly. The session will be presented live in both English and Japanese, making it accessible to fans around the world. Another creator talk is planned for the launch period — stay tuned!

Join the official Discord server: https://discord.gg/Ap3JGdmECq

About ANTHEM#9
ANTHEM#9 is a turn-based roguelite where players match red, green and blue gems to activate skills and unleash dazzling combo chains. Quick thinking and smart deck-building are the keys to survival as every run challenges you to adapt, strategize and push your combos to the limit.

Match gems to trigger powerful skills, chain them together for massive damage and crush bosses with style. Collect new skills and “Blessings” as you progress through procedurally generated dungeons as you customize your deck to fit your strategy. The higher the combo, the greater the thrill of battle!

pie in the sky release date

Become a Magpie, Pluck the World: Pie in the Sky to Release on February 2, 2026

Become Australia’s apex predator in a retro bird simulator

[Australia] – January 12, 2026 – Monster Shop Games and indie.io are proud and only slightly terrified to announce that Pie in the Sky, a unique retro arcade adventure, will release on February 2, 2026 for PC on Steam. Players will take to the skies as one of Australia’s most dangerous airborne threats, a creature whose heart is as black as its plumage: The Magpie.

The goal of the Magpie is twofold: First, find enough food to feed its ever-hungry chicks, second, wreak havoc, cause mayhem, and terrorize humans in any way possible: Swoop in like a missile to knock over pedestrians, topple cyclists, and spill trash bins; gorge on food, then carry out bombing runs on the weird hairless apes; divebomb them with litter; find clever uses for everyday objects to teach humans the meaning of fear.

Players can be a feathered menace across six different levels inspired by iconic Australian locations, packed to the brim with secrets, interactions, and humans to terrorize. From idyllic suburbia, through picturesque beaches, to busy downtowns, there is no shortage of collectibles to find, mayhem to unleash, food to steal, while objectives only get crazier and more challenging.

While the Magpie is already a perfect organism, unclouded by delusions of morality, its perfection can be further refined and specialized: Make it fly and walk faster, swoop more often, digest more readily to carry out bombing runs. If players prefer to, they can also change the colors of its feathers to mimic other amazing examples of avian perfection – or have their beautiful bird wear a nifty pirate hat.

There is nothing quite like a magpie in a pirate hat. Or a retro-themed game that features not just high fidelity graphics of the PlayStation 2 era, but also a retro approach to progression: There are no vital parts of the game gated behind DLCs, no pay-to-win features, no lootboxes: Everything in the game can be unlocked simply by playing and introducing Aussies to the real terror of Australia…

“As an Australian, I’ve always seen magpies swooping people (including my kids) and thought, ‘It would be fun playing as a magpie in a game and turning the tables’”, says Mark Smith, the developer behind the game. “That’s where the idea began and before I knew it, I had a game on my hands that played like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in the Sky but instead of skate tricks, you swooped people, stole their food and flew through gaps to keep your combo going. I’m a solo developer from Perth, Australia and I’m thrilled to share the terrifying reality of what Magpies are capable of with the rest of the world!”

Ready to put the fear of the Magpie in humanity? Pie in the Sky will release on February 2, 2026 for PC via Steam.

Gedonia 2

First I wanna thank Kazakov Oleg for sending me a copy of the game its greatly appreciated um let’s dive in i guess.

This review is hard for me to write I wanted to enjoy the game but I just couldn’t enjoy it after a few hours playing it I knew it wasnt for me.

The Good

The game has simple graphics nothing over demanding kinda reminds me a bit like borderlands with the style they used just a bit more matted then over bearing.

The world was great nice and big plenty of beautiful things to see and some mob encounters as well.

The game did recently add another area sadly I wasnt able to reach it since the new area was for players level 22 and above.

Now onto the rest the game starts you out in character creation everything is instanced session based so I had to create my own session to play the game nothing was created before hand, there isnt much of a tutorial either so you get 8 points in character creation to displace among the 4 main stats me I went 2 across the board which is my first mistake but of course the game doesn’t tell you that or give you a hint.

So I started the game and walked around you see floating question marks which I guess is this games form of a tutorial it tells you how to do something which I already figured out before I even got there the first person I come across is a cultist who wants me to join him I refuse but even if u change your mind your locked out of him since you cant chat with him anymore so I pressed forward I couldn’t open the door cause I needed a key and I couldn’t break down the wooden boards cause I wasnt strong enough so then what I had to climb up the dilapidated building until I could manage to get high enough to jump into the next area I dont know if thats how its supposed to be but it was bullshit.

So I continued made my way through the cave found a mysterious group that killed everyone and left me I slowly snuck out and kept going after making it into the new area I was met with a guy who had a mission to kill some zombies finally some action I thought then I found the zombie and well things aren’t what they seemed.

I progressed into the first town with a man named earl who has plenty of attitude who I instantly disliked but I did a mission for him which put me in his good graces and moved me to the next city and more missions which is weird considering my low level and this new area was ment for levels 18 and up so make it make sense for me.

This next area is where I got stuck and kept dying over and over no matter what I tried to do and that honestly killed any hope I had for the game.

I even tried to play in multiplayer but me and my friend couldn’t figure out how to do it there’s no walk through nothing, I get that this game is trying to be hands off but how do you make new players welcomed when you explain nothing this game does nothing to help new players and I cant recommend it one bit even with the low price of 14.99 other games explain there concepts much better, even google was no help cause all it would say is find a red crystal ok where what city what level yes I could have gone into there discord for help but why its the games job to explain stuff to me not some other person.

The combat had a delay between the actions and movement and I would always get hit even after dodging this game needs work maybe down the road ill revisit it but for now ill stay away and you should to take care and game on.