The annual Women-Led Games Showcase happened earlier this morning, an initiative dedicated to highlighting all the amazing things women do in games. The showcase spotlighted a variety of innovative games from women-led and majority women studios.
In conjunction with the showcase is the Women’s Day Sale happening on Steam, where you can buy, wishlist, and try demos for women-led games around the world. The Steam sale is happening from now until March 10th.
If you’re not sure where to begin, here are a few recommendations to get you started!
1. Momento (Fat Alien Cat & Nomo Studio)
If you liked Unpacking, you’ll love this title. Momento is a cozy room decorator with whimsical settings, relaxing gameplay, and charming branching narratives. Journey through a life where the objects you choose to keep influence the life you lead. The game is a warm ode to the challenge of following your dreams down the winding road of life.
Wishlist Momento on Steam
2. Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge (Humble Reeds)
The frog version of Neko Atsume, foster a sanctuary for frogs and restore the biodiversity of the wetlands in Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge. In this cozy farming sim, you raise frogs by playing mini games and decorating your habitat. With the demo already out and a planned release date this year, you can hop right to it!
Wishlist or try the demo for Kamaeru on Steam
3. Awkward 2: The Party Game of Savage Secrets (Snap Finger Click)
Have you ever wanted to play Jackbox Games… but more adult? Awkward 2 is the adult multiplayer party game filled with dark, hilarious, and sometimes downright disturbing questions. Laugh, debate, defend and find out things you never wanted to know about your friends! You can also check out the first Awkward game on Steam right now!
Wishlist or try the demo for Awkward 2 on Steam
4. The Heirloom (Babubi Games)
Already 224% funded on Kickstarter, The Heirloom is definitely one to watch. Inspired by the atmosphere of the Hebrides and Scottish folklore, the game is a single-player mysterious thriller adventure with puzzle elements, where players are given the opportunity to make fateful decisions while navigating through a story full of family secrets.
Support The Heirloom on Ko-Fi
5. Tiny Glade (Pounce Light)
Designed for the medieval lover in you, Tiny Glade is a small relaxing game about doodling castles. Explore gridless building chemistry, and watch the game carefully assemble every brick, pebble and plank. There’s no management, combat, or wrong answers — just kick back and turn forgotten meadows into lovable dioramas.
Wishlist Tiny Glade on Steam
6. darkwebSTREAMER (We Have Always Lived In The Forest)
Not for the faint of heart, darkwebSTREAMER puts you in the shoes of an occult streamer on a 90s dark internet. In this horror RPG sim, experience a fully procedurally generated world and endless sinister stories as you grow your stream. Surf the web, perform rituals, make hard choices, manage your stats and try to survive your increasingly haunted apartment.
Wishlist darkwebSTREAMER on Steam
7. Gourdlets (Aunty Games)
Grab a blanket and get snuggled in with Gourdlets, a city-building sandbox about crafting adorable towns for little vegetable folks. Pick from an uber-cute catalogue of buildings, plants and decorations to design the perfect cozy paradise, then watch as the Gourdlets arrive by train and start to inhabit your world. No objectives, no points, just building.
Wishlist or try the demo for Gourdlets on Steam
Watch the complete Women-Led Games Showcase here:
