#casualgames — Public Fediverse posts

Kotaku: White House Removes Awful Tetris Clone From Website After The Tetris Company Posted It Takes ‘Copyright Infringement Very Seriously’. “The White House has quietly removed a racist and not-very-well-made Tetris clone from its awful ‘arcade’ website. The move comes shortly after The Tetris Company publicly criticize the clone while reminding everyone that it has a history of going […]

Ars Technica: Pocket’s AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results. “After playing around with Pocket for the better part of a week, I found myself getting hooked on the simple process of quickly standing up functional, relatively feature-rich game prototypes simply by chatting with an LLM. But the result of all that time and AI effort is a couple of interactive toys that are […]

9to5 Google: Google made a cozy mobile game called ‘Froggy’s World’ & the whimsy is back . “Google has quietly released a cozy mobile game called Froggy’s World in the vein of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. Froggy’s World is accessed by searching ‘weather’ on Google Search and tapping the new ‘play’ icon in the top-right corner of the Knowledge Panel card.”

Lifehacker: ‘Outlier’ Is a New Word-Search Game That Makes Me Feel Smart. “We’ve seen daily word searches before (maybe you use our daily Strands hints?), but this one is a bit different. Instead of finding specific words—or the most words—you’re asked to find the rarest words you can.”

For my latest article for Inquirer.net, I decided to talk about something light and fun and it is the daily puzzle game #Gerrymandle. Your aim in the game is to create electoral districts so that your political party wins more districts than other parties.

https://technology.inquirer.net/148161/gerrymandle-a-fun-way-to-steal-elections

(Inquirer.net is the digital arm of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country's largest newspaper.)

#TechINQ #games #CasualGames #elections #gerrymandering #politics

Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: a number-based daily guessing game called Estimania. From the Hacker News Announcement: “Estimania is a daily game where you get 5 numerical questions and are scored based on how close your guesses are to the actual number. There’s also a leaderboard and groups, so you can compare your judgment with other players and friends.”

Scientific American: Wordle, but for art history—Anthropeum turns the Met Museum into an online game. “Armchair art historians, rejoice: there’s a free online daily game just for you. Called Anthropeum, the game involves guessing where and when various artifacts from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art come from.”

The Lyceum: The Eleusinian Mysteries: Interactive Game. “The Lyceum hosts the first interactive video game inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries, which lets you walk in the shoes of a Greek citizen in one of the most important events of their lives.”

There's SO MUCH fun in this GAME 😍 #SteamNextFest
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#gameplay #casualgames #cozygaming #indiegame #nextfest #gaming #puzzlegame #indiedev #gamedev

Alle, die regelmäßig "kostenfreie" Online-Spiele spielen, kennen sie: In-Game-Werbung. So omnipräsent, so wenig untersucht ist sie. Arno Görgen analysiert Werbeformen in Mobile Games - von spielbaren Demos bis zu irreführenden Gameplay-Videos ⬇️

https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/9294

#GameStudies #CasualGames #MobileGames #SpielKultur#Wissenschaft

First day of #SteamNextFest is going GREAT 🥰

Make sure to try Knick Knack Stack if you haven't already 🫶
💖 Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4456070/Knick_Knack_Stack/

#cozygaming #indiegames #casualgames #gaming

9to5 Mac: Wikipedia just launched its daily historical facts game on iPhone: Which came first?. “Wikipedia has launched a daily historical facts game on iPhone called ‘Which came first?’ The game is included in the latest version of Wikipedia’s iOS app starting today. ‘Which came first?’, which first came to Android, includes five daily questions based on historical events.”

Have you played Knick Knack Stack demo yet? If you:
- Want to go on vacations in Egypt
- Like stacking stuff to make towers
- Enjoy chatting with friends

This might be a game for you! 😊

👇 Demo and wishlist link 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4456070/Knick_Knack_Stack/

#TrailerTuesday #indiegame #puzzlegame #ff #casualgames #cozygames #gaming #gamedev

TAKE the POSE 📸🥸

Steam Next Fest in 12 days!!!!!!
😊 Wishlist and play the demo 🤍
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4456070/Knick_Knack_Stack/

#WishlistWednesday #indiegame #puzzlegame #cozygames #gaming #casualgames #gamedev #ff #SteamNextFest

An Infinity Storm of #indiegames !
Discover the best #videogames uploaded on indiexpo by the #gamedevs already the World!
#kickstarter projects, AAA #games or new #casualgames !

Lifehacker: You Can Play This ‘Hidden’ Game in Your TikTok DMs. “TikTok has gone through a lot of changes as of late, especially since U.S. companies took a majority stake in the company. But while users have had to decipher new terms of service, some of which raise alarm bells, they’ve also had some innocuous adjustments to contend with as well. Case in point: TikTok now has a game, built […]

Gizmodo: The Creator of Wordle Just Came Out With a New Game, and It’s Hard. “After selling his hit puzzle game Wordle to The New York Times in 2022 for an undisclosed price somewhere in the ‘low seven figures,’ Josh Wardle is finally back with a new game. But while Wordle became hugely popular for its simple, intuitive, and satisfying gameplay, Wardle’s latest project, Parseword, is aiming […]

Spotted on LinkedIn, from Doug Beeferman: Cadgy. From the help popup: “Make valid 5-letter words by selecting one letter from each column, like the word ‘SCARF’ below. There are exactly 10 basic words and 10 bonus words to be found. Definitions for the bonus words appear beneath the grid—they are sometimes very esoteric—but you’re on your own to find the basic words. A letter turns gold […]

Popped up in my RSS feeds: Words.zip. “An infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words—no account required. Select letters and submit valid words to add them to the grid.” You may have to scroll the word search some to find a spot with unfound words. You cannot use a letter that’s already been used for another word.

Techdirt: Let’s Go! The Public Domain Game Jam Starts Today. “This year, that means we enter a new decade, as works originally published in 1930 finally exit copyright protection and become free to remix, repurpose, and build on. Gaming Like It’s 1930! begins today and runs until the end of the month, and we’re calling on designers of all stripes to help us show why a robust and growing […]

Mozilla Blog: Data War goes digital: Firefox’s card game is now online. “Billionaire Blast Off started with a simple premise: send billionaires into space and have fun doing it. With Data War, we created a fun and often chaotic game where you compete to win a one-way ticket to space for a data-hungry billionaire. We were thrilled that so many people at TwitchCon had a blast playing it. You […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/06/data-war-goes-digital-firefoxs-card-game-is-now-online-mozilla-blog/

Calishat: Turning Wikipedia Into a Word Game: Wiki Stack Game. “Wiki Stack Game starts you off with a big handful of random words. Your objective is to add words to a Wikipedia search with the goal of making the query as long as possible while still getting results.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/20/turning-wikipedia-into-a-word-game-wiki-stack-game-calishat/

Mashable: Rule34dle is a game that mashes up Wordle and smutty cartoon art . “Like Wordle, Rule34dle is a game, but distinctly different. When you go on the site, you’ll be paired with two fictional franchise characters (like Pokémon) and told how many pornographic posts exist of the one on the left. The number of smutty posts for the character on the right is hidden. You must guess which of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/12/mashable-rule34dle-is-a-game-that-mashes-up-wordle-and-smutty-cartoon-art/

Engadget: The New York Times is letting you create your own Wordle puzzles. “…fans of the popular word game can create their own custom puzzles. The publication announced today that its All Access and Games subscribers have the option to make World challenges of their own to send to friends and family.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/07/engadget-the-new-york-times-is-letting-you-create-your-own-wordle-puzzles/

Twinkleby from Might & Delight to launch September 23 with Linux / Steam Deck support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/twinkleby-from-might-delight-to-launch-september-23-with-linux-steam-deck-support/

#Twinkleby #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck #CasualGames #CosyGames

New post on #DuskOfDreams #GameReview on #Indonesia language, courtesy of @VNNZ16 on @dusk-of-dreams-gaming-review-corner :
https://gamingnotes.fioverse.zone/dusk-of-dreams-gaming-review-corner/a-summers-end-hong-kong-1986-sentuhan-romance-dalam-sebuah-visual-novel

This is A Summer's End review, a visual novel that captures 1980s nuance!

This is also part of our combined #365DaysOfGaming ~

No EN version for this one, at this point.

#DuskOfDreamsGameReview #Bahasa #Steam #ASummersEnd #VisualNovel #InDepthReview #CasualGames #VisualArtsGames