Developer: Nifflas and Bit KidPublisher: Bit KidYear: 2026Genre: PlatformerSystem: Windows I have fond memories of playing Knytt so I was very happy to see that it got an official rerelease recently to celebrate the game’s 20th anniversary. If you haven’t played it before, it’s a freeware game where you have crashed on a planet and […]
Developer: hoolisYear: 2026Genre: ArcadeSystem: DOS Just a few days ago the full version of a DOS game called Europa Panic came out. A demo version was previously released for a jam last year and I enjoyed that so I was happy to see this full version come out. It’s a top down arcade game where […]
I’ve said it before on here but fucking knock it off. Yes, even for coding. I’m crabby about it because a dev did a long winded post about how they know it’s bad but they want to keep using it so they’re gonna. I dunno, I think that if AI is stealing my shit and […]
As everyone at this point knows, the games industry is in an incredibly rough spot right now and thousands have lost their jobs and are looking for work. A new bundle has launched on Itch.io to try to help some of those folks out. The Game industry hardship fund is a bundle that you can […]
Ron Gilbert has just announced Thimbleweed Park 2, which you can already wishlist on Steam. I’m excited! I was a fan of the original game and I’m always happy to see Ron working on a new adventure game with the folks that made the first game. As part of the announcement, you can also follow […]
I’m still not back to doing indie game roundups just yet but I did want to give a shout out to all the adventure games coming out lately since there’s been so many lately but you wouldn’t know it from being in the adventure game community, which seems more content to complain about how it’s […]
Cyan’s Mysterium convention is happening right now, which means all the Myst-related announcements are happening. The biggest one was a look at a prototype in the Myst universe that they were shopping around but never got funded. Project Anglerfish was going to be a first-person adventure game set in the universe but not a direct […]
Developer: LlamasoftYear: 2020Genre: ArcadeSystem: PC Given that this site is called The Virtual Moose, I’m surprised I never wrote a post about Moose Life, the 2020 arcade game by Llamasoft. It’s a game where you play as a voxel moose, flying through 3D tunnel-like levels, shooting at weird little bits and making them explode into […]
As people love to do on the Internet, I saw someone saying that no one is doing physical media for computer games anymore and we need to go back to it. Well good news, they do! Indiepocalypse has their videogame tape market where you can get neat little indie games in cassette tape cases. It’s […]
Recently I wrote about Caper in the Castro, what is often described as the earliest known queer game, but it turns out that there may be games older than that and the internet needs you (yes, you!) to help. Jason Scott from The Internet Archive recently made a post on Bluesky asking for help tracking […]