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Get a life-sustaning dose of cute animals with this week’s recommendations. Frogs and birds have teamed up to delight you in Frog Detective and Toripon.

Check out all of the full recommendations through the link.

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Everyone likes games, but it can be hard to find your new favorite. We do a pretty good job of surfacing games via our front page, blog, and email digests but what about the folks who want to watch their games?

Enter: The itch.io Youtube channel.

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Grab some friends for mech RPG action, or live with no friends but a bird. Yep, we have both ends of the friendship spectrum covered with this week’s recommendations. One is a stylish exploration of a dead world, and the other is one of the biggest tabletop launches of the year. Check out more details through the link.

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What’s that you say? You don’t have enough things to do this fall? Here are a stack of awesome game jams you can fill up your long nights with lasting from now until 2030. Yeah, you read that right. Check out the full details through the link.

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Is your week... lacking? Well let us fill it up with great games! We have a pair of games to make your week awesome for fans of puzzlers and heartwarming adventures. Check out the full details through the link.

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Games have the power to transport us to fantasy lands and teach us about the world we’re living in. This week we’re recommending a pair of games that represent both sides of this coin. One is a roguelike/metroidvania fusion and the other looks at the real life troubles facing Chile right now. Click through the link for the full details

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There are 200,000 games on itch.io now! It’s a huge milestone but it’s also a daunting number of games to play. So how do you sort through this mountain of games to get to the ones you’ll like? Here are some of the ways you can dig into the massive amount of games on the site.

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We’re still recovering from the madness that was the itch.io Halloween Sale (and Halloween Selects Bundle!) but that didn’t stop us from checking out new games! If you also want to dive straight back into the freshest projects click through the link and check out a trio of new games for you to fall in love with.

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Sorry horror fans, despite it being the spookiest month of the year we don’t have any scary new projects to recommend. But that doesn’t mean we’re leaving you empty handed. This week we’re happy to recommend a developer’s entire catalog and a beautiful mystery. Click through to the full post for all of the details.

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Can’t get enough Ludum Dare? We dove back into the sea of entries and have returned with a fresh catch of Ludum Dare picks to keep your gaming schedule full to the brim. Check out our full recommendations through the post.

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While it may be the spookiest month of the year, that doesn’t mean that the games you play have to be frightening as well. This week’s recommendations swing heavily away from the macabre and into the land of medieval point-and-clicks and 2000s era throwbacks. Yeah, it’s a crazy combo.

Check out the full details through the link. 

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Ludum Dare 45 just wrapped and it’s cemented itself as not only one of 2019′s biggest game jams, but one of the biggest ever. There are already over 1000 new games on the site, and that’s a lot to sift through. We found a few gems in our travels already and wanted to call some special attention to them. Check out some beautiful, original, and scary games through the link.

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Get cozy with a collection of dates and a pair of horror adventures in this weeks’ recommendations! Both of fall’s moods are covered in these indie experiences. Check out the full details through the link.

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Bot Land is a recent release that looks to help folks get into real-time strategy games despite the genre’s intense dexterity requirements. Developer Adam Damiano has moved the genre away from needing superhuman speed, to controlling units through scripting. It’s a shift with major implications that Adam was happy to talk about on our blog. Check out the link for the full interview.

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If exploring hostile worlds sounds like your ideal Friday night then we’ve got the games for you. This week we’ve unearthed a pair of games that takes a mechanical look at giant-but-deadly playspaces to explore. Get your hands on roguelite Noita’s wacky physics and Nauticrawl’s tactile one-screen submarine adventures. Check out the full details on these great adventures through the link.

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When Nowhere Prophet first launched into early access it was promising but still had a long journey to go on. Through the past few months the game has grown into something really great. Need more convincing? Learn more about why we love the game and why you’ll fall for it to through the link.

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If you love the unique looks of hand-drawn art then you’re in for a treat this week. Yep, our weekly recommendations are 100% hand-drawn this week and are better for it. Want to know what this all means? Check out the full details through the link.