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Asbury Pines Steam WikiData IGDB
Nov. 19, 2025
genre: Adventure platform: Windows
A grisly murder in a small town unfolds across centuries. Incremental-style interactions with the people, places, and events of Asbury Pines grow resources and build rewarding production engines that unlock a sprawling mystery embedded in the flow of time.
Jan. 7, 2026 played
Jan. 7, 2026 Review Steam Review - A unique twist on incremental combined with visual novel, this game delightfully presents the story of a small town through the ages. There's weird and quirky people, animals, plants and locations to discover - each with their own identity that flesh out the in-game world. Its not grindy like the incremental genre is infamous to be, and the drip feeding of story beats keeps you coming back for more. There are a few caveats with it being in Early Access, the UI navigation and scaling specially can be irritaing at times. The liitle music there is, is repititive and while adding to the atmosphere gets samey after a while. That said, its a nice compact well-presented package that doesn't overstay its welcome. Its not a long game to complete. maybe for 100% achievements you might extend your playtime artificially. Kudos for trying something new and experimental.
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Cauldron WikiData Steam IGDB
May 21, 2025
genre: Puzzle / Role-playing (RPG) platform: Windows / Nintendo Switch developer: SleepyDad Games publisher: Caketown Interactive
Cauldron is an upgrade-heavy, minigame-centric, turn-based RPG. Play minigames to strengthen your party, then fight battles to uncover more map, more heroes, more minigames, more everything! If your favorite plant is an upgrade tree, then this game is for you!
Outhold Steam IGDB
Dec. 12, 2025
genre: Casual / Simulation platform: PC developer: Tellus Games publisher: Tellus Games
Outhold is a tower defense game with incremental-style meta-progression. It's intended to be a short and compact experience, offering around 4-5 hours of gameplay  across 10 levels, with some additional endgame content for those who like min/maxing builds.
Addictive game loop Start a run, see how far you get. Use your collected resources to buy upgrades and try again. Become powerful enough to obliterate everything coming against you. 



Deep upgrade tree Create unique builds that fit your playstyle. Experimentation is rewarded, and all upgrades can be refunded for free.


Strategize Focus on upgrading just one specific tower, or find unique tower synergies. There are many ways to progress through Outhold, the choice is up to you. 




Jan. 20, 2026 played
Jan. 20, 2026 Review Steam Review - Let me preface this by saying I am not a tower-defense fan. Outhold is a tower-defense game, stripped down to its absolute basics. No lore, no fancy mechanics, no distracting minigames - just the core gameplay loop of survive a wave -> upgrade -> next wave. And it has been presented so well that playing is just fun. It is living proof that gameplay makes a game enjoyable, not graphics. The balance is nicely scaled so that you are never too weak or powerful for a level. The upgrades are varied and unlock new playstyles to experiment, which interplay with one another. Some challenges do force you to figure out the "meta". Completing the full game is not a momentous task, it took me just shy of 12 hours for 100%. It can be done easily in bite-sized sessions or in one sitting. After finishing, I wish there was a bit more content - I was having so much fun I wanted to continue playing more. But at this price, really can't complain. Recommended for veterans of the genre and newbies alike!
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