Peter "Wraithkal" Christiansen
@wraithkal.bsky.social
Writer of many, many, MANY words... 🏳️🌈 https://wraithkal.com https://wraithkal.itch.io https://youtube.com/@wraithkal https://mas.to/@wraithkal https://linktr.ee/wraithkal
I've spent the better part of the last 12 years being told that Dark Souls II is this critically flawed, lesser game, only to see it be slowly redeemed. I was right when I reviewed it. I'm right now. For @aftermath.site: fuck the haters, Dark Souls II is (still) good. aftermath.site/dark-souls-i...
They Could Never Make Me Hate Dark Souls II
I have spent over a decade being told that Dark Souls II is bad. But history has vindicated the game, and I never let the haters win.
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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 5d agoHater week isn't over. I got one more in the quiver.
The August update is available for all Patreon members (free and paid). There's talk of what I've been playing alongside my projects.
August Update (2026) | Dave's Game Thoughts
August Update (2026) by Dave's Game Thoughts on Patreon. Join Dave's Game Thoughts's community for exclusive content and updates.
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📰 There's a new version on the itch app out with a bunch of qualify of life updates: Proper bundle support, per-game launch settings, fixed search, and more. Check out the full update here: itch.io/updates/itch...
itch app bundle support, launch args, and more
The itch.io app got two updates this month: v26.15.0 and v26.17.0 . We dug through our issues tracker and addressed some of the most commonly requested problems and requests. Our latest updates make b...
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🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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💍NEW VIDEO!💍 Come with us on a dreamlike journey in this 6 HOUR extravaganza where we explore Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and beyond. [With closed captions] www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9AR...
Farewell Phantomile | A Klonoa Analysis
YouTube video by Transparency Boo
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Just added game #479 to my Steam Curator, House of LGBTQ+, the mystery vn, Dissolution of the Silent Union 🏳️🌈 store.steampowered.com/app/4530240/... #yuri #lgbtq #visualnovel
Save 10% on Dissolution of the Silent Union on Steam
The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school. A melancholic and liminal short story played in a single sitting, where the fear of collapse is felt at every moment.
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It's been two weeks since The Incident at Galley House launched, and I've written up a lengthy technical blog post about its development: eviltrout.com/blog/2026-07...
Building Galley House
The technical details behind developing The Incident at Galley House.
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🎮 new post: running a third-party steam event for the first time sharing some numbers & a timeline for nonbinary coded games! hopefully this info is helpful to other indie devs interested in running a steam sale event tnywndr.cafe/office/2026-...
nonbinary coded games - running a third-party steam event for the first time
organised nonbinary coded games with nomnomnami so here's some numbers, timeline, & thoughts
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This week's free-to-read Musings article is on how it's too easy to stop playing a game for any reason when there are literally thousands of other games to play.
Games Are Too Easy to Quit (Monday Musings #57) | Dave's Game Thoughts
I've been thinking a bit about gameplay lately. I've talked in my videos and in this column about how subjective game feel can be. A player
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🎮 Released: PLEASE NOTICE WHEN I'M GONE 🎮 A timed esoteric experience. You have 45 minutes. Solve puzzles, investigate documents, draw, and remember the hurt. 💝Free, playable in-browser. 💝Original artwork 💝Interactive page PLAY: meirigames.com.br/downloads/ga... #VNDev #indiedev #gamedev #game
Just added game #478 to my Steam Curator, House of LGBTQ+, the action-RPG, Hero of Sunset 🏳️🌈 store.steampowered.com/app/3952390/... #yuri #lgbtq #rpg
Hero of Sunset on Steam
Venture into this retro pixel art action-adventure with an open world. Explore, fight, solve puzzles, challenge bosses — and, most importantly, you can romance the cute girls!
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I bundled up my commercial games for a couple a weeks! ✨ itch.io/s/196454/wav... #indiegame #adventuregame #rpg #turn-based #pointandclick #retrogame
Wavey Games Summer Bundle by Wavey Games
A bundle by Wavey Games, 10.99€ for Melon Head, Pepper Odyssey
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This year’s schedule and lineup of incredible talks and panels are live! Visit adventurexpo.org for details. Join us at #AdvX26 in London on 7-8 November to hear from @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @theexaminedgame.bsky.social, and more amazing gaming pros. Keynotes coming soon! Follow for updates
#NonbinaryCodedGames may be over, but the event page is still up because nb devs are here year-round! we now have a site for future news: nonbinarycodedgames.neocities.org in the meantime, wishlist any games you might have missed, play through the gems you've found, & write some reviews 💛🤍💜🖤
Nonbinary Coded Games | Home
annual steam festival celebrating games made by nonbinary developers
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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3w ago💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames
The Steam page for our new puzzle game, Stip, is live! Input numbers, undo, deduce, and try again. Please don't touch anything else. Everything is fine. ⭐Wishlisting helps us tremendously! Check it out here store.steampowered.com/app/3227960/...
Stip on Steam
Assign, undo, deduce! Solve a series of minimalist number puzzles. Use constraints to assign numbers to the correct stips. Navigate the interconnected puzzles to uncover secrets. Please ignore any odd...
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it's the last day of #NonbinaryCodedGames! maybe your next fave game was made by a nonbinary dev! check out the page to find out 👀
kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE!@npckc.net · 3w ago💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames
Juggling dating with learning to don a detective cap sounds tricky, but it is actually highly entertaining in @fnifegames.bsky.social's ShelfLife: Art School Detective demo, and... I have (positive) thoughts. www.wraithkal.com/shelflife-ar... #mystery #supernatural #NonbinaryCodedGames
ShelfLife: Art School Detective demo impressions
Johana vs. The Art Killer...
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Shadows of Eldemir is an upcoming Victorian cosmic-horror point-and-click adventure RPG. Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4848090/... #adventure #rpg #pixelart #indiegames #retrogames #steam
Took @kalpasoft.bsky.social's They Speak From The Abyss: Zenith demo for a spin, and I had a fair bit to say about it afterwards... www.wraithkal.com/they-speak-f... #indiegame #dungeoncrawler #NonbinaryCodedGames
They Speak From The Abyss: Zenith demo impressions
If you stare too long into the abyss...
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CALLING ALL LOW BUDGET INDIE GAMES‼️ We're gathering games interested in participating in a "Low Budget, Big Heart" Steam Festival! 💰Self Published, Self Funded 🤏Under ~50k budget 🚫NO AI if you're interested in the festival sign up here: forms.gle/cndDrEf4rxiL... rts appreciated :)
Low Budget, Big Heart Steam Festival interest form
We're looking for interested developers of low budget games to participate in our potential steam festival! Self published/self funded games are also welcome. If your game had a development budget ov...
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(1/2) Another nail in Amazon's coffin? Hardly. They're too big to learn from what is clearly a lazy and moronic over-reliance on technology. AI is not viable as a replacement for the efforts of experienced translators or narrators, and yet, here we are. Big yikes. iheartsapphfic.com/2026/07/17/t...
Just added game #477 to my Steam Curator, House of LGBTQ+, the magical yuri vn, Our Home, My Keeper 🏳️🌈 store.steampowered.com/app/3092190/... #yuri #lgbtq #visualnovel #curator
Our Home, My Keeper on Steam
Co-developed with ebi-hime, this is a fairytale-inspired yuri visual novel full of magic. Follow Paige, a struggling writer, as she moves into a spacious home in the English countryside, where she mee...
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Even the best laid plans... Started the week super excited and hopeful about covering a whole bunch of games during the Nonbinary Coded Games event. store.steampowered.com/curator/4610...
Steam Curator: Nonbinary Coded Games
Nonbinary Coded Games showcases games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, and outside the gender binary, along with games that have nonbinary rep!
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