Under the Ward
Horror
Work the night shift on a hospital ward where the patients keep moving
- Dread built from routine, not monsters
- Binaural audio, best with headphones
- Content warnings in the menu
$11.99
Indie games, curated by players
50 indie games, filtered by genre, length and platform
Every listing carries the same fields: studio, platforms, realistic play time, player count, price and a short caveat. Filter by what you actually have tonight: two hours, a Steam Deck and a controller.
- games played to credits
- 50
- volunteer curators
- 23
- paid placements
- $0
Categories
Browse games by category
- 8RoguelikesRuns that end badly and start again a little smarter. Deckbuilders, dungeon dives and bullet hells that reward one more go.
- 7PuzzleLogic, deduction and clever machines. Games that make you reach for a notebook and feel brilliant twenty minutes later.
- 7CozyLow stakes, warm light, no fail states. Gardening, tidying, baking and small jobs done well.
- 7PlatformersJumping, gliding and climbing, from forgiving strolls to one-hit precision runs with leaderboards.
- 7StrategyTactics, card games and tiny empires. Turn-based thinking in sessions that fit an evening.
- 7NarrativeStories you walk, read or talk through. Short, well-written games where the choices are the mechanic.
- 7HorrorDread over jump scares. Night shifts, frozen lakes and motels you should not have checked into.
Featured
This month's featured games
Paid
Saltglass Descent
Dive a flooded lighthouse where every breath of air is also your currency
Borough of Small Hours
Walk a city borough at 3 a.m. and talk to everyone still awake
Lamplight Laundromat
Run a 24-hour laundromat, fold clothes and listen to night-owl stories
Mirror Kiln
Bend light through hand-blown glass to fire a glassmaker's old kiln
games by category
Roguelikes
Runs that end badly and start again a little smarter. Deckbuilders, dungeon dives and bullet hells that reward one more go.
- Paid
Saltglass Descent
Brinewick Games · Roguelikes
Dive a flooded lighthouse where every breath of air is also your currency
$14.99 - Demo out
Ninefold Bell
Kasumi & Reed · Roguelikes
A bullet hell where ringing a temple bell rewinds the last three seconds
$16.99 - Early access
Mycelia Run
Damp Basement Games · Roguelikes
Play as a mold colony spreading through a different damp cellar each run
$9.99
Puzzle
Logic, deduction and clever machines. Games that make you reach for a notebook and feel brilliant twenty minutes later.
- Paid
Mirror Kiln
Glasshouse Two · Puzzle
Bend light through hand-blown glass to fire a glassmaker's old kiln
$14.99 - Demo out
Shortwave Logic
Callsign Kilo · Puzzle
Tune an old radio and deduce who is broadcasting from where
$11.99 - Paid
Sixteen Drawers
Walnut Hinge · Puzzle
Open a dead inventor's writing desk, one locked drawer after another
$8.99
Cozy
Low stakes, warm light, no fail states. Gardening, tidying, baking and small jobs done well.
- Paid
Lamplight Laundromat
Spin Cycle Studio · Cozy
Run a 24-hour laundromat, fold clothes and listen to night-owl stories
$12.99 - Early access
Otterwell Hot Springs
Steam Lantern Co. · Cozy
Build and run a mountain hot spring for tired forest animals
$14.99 - Free
Little Bookbinder
Ottilie Marsh · Cozy
Stitch, glue and bind books for a village of very particular readers
Pay what you want
Platformers
Jumping, gliding and climbing, from forgiving strolls to one-hit precision runs with leaderboards.
- Paid
Paper Kite Pilgrim
Tamsin & Hollow · Platformers
Ride the wind across a mountain range on a kite made of old letters
$17.99 - Early access
Drainpipe Dreams
Gutterball Interactive · Platformers
Parkour across a rain-soaked city's rooftops as a very determined rat
$12.00 - Paid
Copperback
Elytra Works · Platformers
Roll, bounce and build momentum as a beetle in an overgrown greenhouse
$14.99
Tonight, play something nobody told you about
Browse fifty games by genre, length and platform, or let the Friday letter pick five for you.
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