Dear Friends,
Welcome to this week’s edition of Cybercade.
If you're new here, Cybercade highlights hand-picked new and upcoming games across all genres. From experimental indies to hidden gems, each week offers a fresh set of reasons to be excited about games again.
This week, we’re looking at six unique titles across Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, and Free-to-Play categories.
Let’s get to it.
| Upcoming Games
Echoes of the Wild
A third-person exploration game where you play as a lone stag wandering a post-human Earth. Discover mysterious runes that whisper the world’s final words, revealing the haunting beauty and deep silence left behind.
🧭 Genre: Adventure, Indie
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: Cosmix
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3632660
Zenith Realms
Start an emotional puzzle-platforming journey with Ninami across a shattered planet. Solve mysteries, navigate surreal landscapes, and piece together ancient memories—all while accompanied by a mysterious raven.
🧭 Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: May El Zein, Viola Huber, Gina Marie Luthner, Emilia Mehlig, Josiane Pos
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3162120
[ VOID ]
A minimalist, monochrome 3D exploration game with no dialogue and no direction. Lose yourself in its strange, shifting dreamscapes, discover eerie beings, and interpret its story through pure environmental storytelling.
🧭 Genre: Casual, Indie, Free To Play
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: team mee
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3655010
Contraindication
"Your end is my beginning."
This short psychological visual novel blends exploration with puzzles as you uncover a narrative already fractured. Bleak, mysterious, and free to play—this one lingers.
🧭 Genre: Indie, RPG, Free To Play
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: Static Remains
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689140
Kandinhale
Trapped in a sugary dystopia.
In this short RPG, you must escape the grasp of a megacorp that owns nearly every consumable product. Quirky, colorful, and disturbingly relevant.
🧭 Genre: Indie, RPG, Free To Play
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: Victor Díez Bildosola, Laura Fernández García
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448010
Poco
Meet Poco—the world’s tiniest clown—on a quest to return to the circus after being cast out. Explore a dreamlike forest filled with broken things and odd creatures in this 2D/3D hybrid point-and-click adventure.
🧭 Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Free To Play
📅 Release: May 2025
🎮 Developer: Whalefall
🔗 Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3454610
| This Week in Gaming
Half-Life 3 Is "Playable End-to-End", Leaker Claims
It’s happening? Maybe. A trusted source says Half-Life 3 isn’t just real—it’s already fully playable.
🔗 Read more on Eurogamer
Nintendo Started Switch 2 Right After Switch 1, Lawsuit Reveals
Legal docs in Nintendo’s Genki case reveal the next-gen Switch has been in development for a while.
🔗 Read more on Eurogamer
This DOOM-Themed Harley Is Straight From Hell (In a Good Way)
A collaboration so metal, it burns rubber and rips & tears at the same time.
🔗 Read more on PC Gamer
| What to Listen to This Week?
Journey OST
One iconic video game soundtrack from Austin Wintory.
Meditative and emotional.
| Final Thoughts
That’s it for this week’s Cybercade. Got a favorite from this week’s picks? Or a game you think more people should know about? Hit reply, I’d love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading,
– Belane
Echoes of the Wild looks so good!
Okay, none of these were on my radar so thank you for this post. [Void] and Poco IMMEDIATELY jumped out to me. Wishlisted!