Cybercade #30 2025 | A Tea Party, a Trade Route & a Tactical Frostbite
Dear Friends,
Welcome to this week’s edition of Cybercade!
If you're new here, Cybercade is a weekly game discovery newsletter. Every week, I hand-pick upcoming releases—ranging from experimental indies to genre-defining titles—to help you discover something fresh and worth playing.
This week I spotlight six games across Action, Adventure, Casual, RPG, Strategy, and Simulation, including a few Early Access launches.
Let’s get to it.
| Upcoming Games
Teaparty in Candyworld
Unravel the dark and twisted history of Candyworld in this creepy narrative puzzler. Explore its pastel horror, solve puzzles, and choose your fate: escape forever—or save the crumbling world.
🧭 Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Early Access
📅 Release: 30 Jul, 2025 | 🎮 Developer: WildCatCom
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3524070
Odin's Defense
Journey through Norse myth in this action-adventure saga. Defend your homeland, hunt Fenrir, and earn your place beside Odin in the final battle.
🧭 Genre: Action, Adventure
📅 Release: July 2025 | 🎮 Developer: Office XII
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3021780
Tradewake
Command a cargo ship in the roaring 1920s. Navigate trading routes from icy ports to tropical harbors. Upgrade your ship, expand your network, and make risky deals to build your maritime empire.
🧭 Genre: Adventure, Casual, Strategy
📅 Release: July 2025 | 🎮 Developer: Honeymelon Games
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3825280
Inkborn
A roguelike deckbuilder with a twist: build chainable glyph combos for devastating effects. Customize your skill tree, adapt on the fly, and uncover a world crafted in ink, metal, and memory.
🧭 Genre: Casual, RPG, Strategy, Early Access
📅 Release: July 2025 | 🎮 Developer: Acram Digital
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2924580
Frosthaven
The acclaimed board game comes to life in this dark fantasy tactical RPG. Dive into deep strategy, play solo or co-op online, and experience a brutal world filled with opportunity and danger.
🧭 Genre: RPG, Strategy, Early Access
📅 Release: 31 Jul, 2025 | 🎮 Developer: Snapshot Games Inc.
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2347080
Prospector
Land on an alien planet, harvest resources, and automate your machinery in this cozy management sim. Trade with off-world colonies and uncover hidden secrets beneath the surface.
🧭 Genre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
📅 Release: 31 Jul, 2025 | 🎮 Developer: Loonworks Games
🔗 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1928080
| This Week in Gaming
Microsoft quietly removes ability to purchase movies and TV shows on Xbox and the Microsoft Store
Microsoft will no longer offer digital purchases of TV or film content across Xbox and its storefronts.
How to Find a Second HP Tank in Shadow Labyrinth
Shadow Labyrinth’s Sky-High Tree hides a secret: your second HP Tank. Missed it? Here’s how to find it without backtracking.
Still Wakes the Deep Studio The Chinese Room Goes Independent
Known for narrative-driven games, The Chinese Room is breaking free from Sumo Digital to focus on original IPs.
| What to Listen to This Week?
🎧 Faster Than Light (FTL) Soundtrack
A atmospheric soundscapes—calm, tense, mysterious. The first track in particular takes me straight back into the game.
You can find it here:
| Final Thoughts
That’s all for this week! Let me know what you're playing—or excited to play—and feel free to share Cybercade with a friend who loves discovering games as much as you do.
Take care and see you all next week.
– Belane
Tradewake sounds like a good time, give me smoky docks, risky deals, and the hum of engines at sea! The screen shot gives of Dredge vibes. Count me in for navigating the highs and lows of a 1920s trade empire!