New Steam Releases 🥳
We have been anticipating these two games for a while and they are finally available on Steam! Go support them by buying the games and posting reviews.
Liminalcore
Explore and admire while navigating through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore.
A game by Waqas Shafique, Shaheer Khan and Najam Ul Haque of Shadow Owl Studios and Ashen Studios
Buy on Steam
The Void Project
Face demons, overcome their patterns and finish them off in as less time as possible to reach the top of the leaderboard.
A game by Rayyan Aziz and Adil Shafiq of The Silver Demons
Buy on Steam
New Itch Releases 🎉
Even more releases. Yay!
Announcements 📢
Lots of Pakistani game developers are working on cool projects, some of which they have announced this month. Looking forward to more updates on these.
Alien Market Simulator
Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market.
Game Steam Page
SHEL: The Cure
A narrative puzzle/simulation game set on a dystopian space colony, where you inspect, diagnose and treat replicant workers on the behalf of a shadowy corporation.
Team Gramps YT
Abyss Occult
A psychological, narrative driven horror game, partially based on a true story.
Announcement Teaser on YT
Chaman Station
A narrative-driven experience that will take you on a journey of discovery, resilience, and self-reflection.
Linkedin Announcement
Jams and Events 🗓️
IGDA Pakistan Narrative Jam (20th - 27th Oct)
IGDA Pakistan hosted a story writing jam on their discord around the theme of ‘Horror’. There were 12 entries and IGDA Pakistan will be hosting another event on November 3rd where these spooky stories will be read and a winner will be announced.
Other News 📰
r/PakGameDev
This new subreddit was created for Pakistani game devs and creatives (by me) as a place where people in the industry can share what they are up to and new comers can find guidance and aspiration.
Steam Next Fest
Steam hosted the year’s third and last Next Fest which is an event featuring lots of free demos and new games. Two Pakistani games Liminalcore, The Void Project and PedalVerse participated this time and their demos are still up so give them a try.
That’s it. All that happened during the month of October in the Pakistani Game Development scene mostly related to PC indie games. Hopefully, I’ll be able to do this again next month.
Did I miss something? Do you know of a Pakistani indie studio or developers that are doing something cool? Please share and help me highlight them.
Are you a developer or part of a studio? Please feel free to post about your own work.