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Get a life-sustaning dose of cute animals with this week’s recommendations. Frogs and birds have teamed up to delight you in Frog Detective and Toripon.

Check out all of the full recommendations through the link.

Everyone likes games, but it can be hard to find your new favorite. We do a pretty good job of surfacing games via our front page, blog, and email digests but what about the folks who want to watch their games?

Enter: The itch.io Youtube channel.

Click through the link for all of the juicy details.

Grab some friends for mech RPG action, or live with no friends but a bird. Yep, we have both ends of the friendship spectrum covered with this week’s recommendations. One is a stylish exploration of a dead world, and the other is one of the biggest tabletop launches of the year. Check out more details through the link.

What’s that you say? You don’t have enough things to do this fall? Here are a stack of awesome game jams you can fill up your long nights with lasting from now until 2030. Yeah, you read that right. Check out the full details through the link.

Is your week… lacking? Well let us fill it up with great games! We have a pair of games to make your week awesome for fans of puzzlers and heartwarming adventures. Check out the full details through the link.

Games have the power to transport us to fantasy lands and teach us about the world we’re living in. This week we’re recommending a pair of games that represent both sides of this coin. One is a roguelike/metroidvania fusion and the other looks at the real life troubles facing Chile right now. Click through the link for the full details

There are 200,000 games on itch.io now! It’s a huge milestone but it’s also a daunting number of games to play. So how do you sort through this mountain of games to get to the ones you’ll like? Here are some of the ways you can dig into the massive amount of games on the site.

We’re still recovering from the madness that was the itch.io Halloween Sale (and Halloween Selects Bundle!) but that didn’t stop us from checking out new games! If you also want to dive straight back into the freshest projects click through the link and check out a trio of new games for you to fall in love with.

Sorry horror fans, despite it being the spookiest month of the year we don’t have any scary new projects to recommend. But that doesn’t mean we’re leaving you empty handed. This week we’re happy to recommend a developer’s entire catalog and a beautiful mystery. Click through to the full post for all of the details.

Can’t get enough Ludum Dare? We dove back into the sea of entries and have returned with a fresh catch of Ludum Dare picks to keep your gaming schedule full to the brim. Check out our full recommendations through the post.

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