Skatebird is a video game about a bird who skateboards in a miniature skatepark with grind rails made out of pencils stacked on top of erasers. It's coming "soon-ish" to Steam and it's too cute for words. Glass Bottom Games assures that pl...

This contest is one to purr over: Win a Steam copy of Cattails. If you visit this here website a lot, you might have noticed that I have something of a similar setup in my contest posts. I like to start with an intro, give some game info, a...

You don't necessarily flock to a video game convention expecting to see fish, but if someone makes the offhand suggestion to hit up a nearby aquarium and the pitch has time to simmer, before you know it, you're committed to spending $35 per...

Life sucks sometimes. Kick back and enjoy a free Steam game! Enter our contest for your chance to win Stone: A Hip-Hop Stoner Noir. It doesn't happen very often, but from time to time I get press for a game that perfectly gels with my perso...

When your game's first bullet point is "Become the sugar glider," you have my attention. Away: The Survival Series is an episodic adventure series in which animals have inherited the post-apocalyptic earth. In the first episode, you'll play...

31 years ago a man was born. That man liked bunnies and foxes and ninjas, and as luck would have it, carrots were one of his favorite healthy snacks growing up. Fast forward to today and that man really likes bunnies and foxes and ninjas, a...

I've already filed Spirit of the North in my mind as "that chill fox game." The upcoming third-person adventure has players exploring Iceland-inspired scenery as a red fox. You'll solve light environmental puzzles, and that's basically it. ...

If you're anything like me, you like both blobs and cats. You also like free games because you're extremely cheap, but devilishly handsome. So let's smash all that together and give away 10 copies of BlobCat! The fine felines over at BySamb...

I'm the kind of person whose ears instantly perk up at the sound of a interesting name. After all, your name is one of the first things someone learns about you, so why wouldn't you want the best one? With that in mind, when the deafening t...

EA and Maxis have announced that the Cats and Dogs expansion for The Sims 4 will be heading to PS4 and Xbox One on July 31, 2018. The pack brings a whole heap of different cat and dog breeds to add a furry companion to your Sims' life. It i...

Omensight is a game about furry, humanoid, animal things that are all trying to murder each other for various political reasons. The whole spectacle of it is absolutely adorable right up until the moment that it chooses not to be. The story...

Sometimes we get something in our tipline that makes me let out an audible, "What the fuck?" Usually it's the bad kind. More of a declarative statement than an utterance of pure inquisitive joy. Agatha Knife gave me an audible, "What the fu...

Way to the Woods is just the little pick-me-up I needed on a tired Monday morning. It's a game about deer exploring a world seemingly abandoned by humans, and simply put, it's lovely. I particularly like the giant cat's sewer lair. That's ...

Who's a good dog? Who's a good dog? You're a good dog. Yes you are, yes you are. You are such a good dog! Yes you are. You're just the goodest good dog that ever dogged. Yes you are! Yes you are! You may not be a good game but you're certai...

Since its launch back in 2016, Idle Idea Factory's aquarium-management game Abyssrium has been downloaded over 25 million times. The simple clicker title allows users to create life in a pocket-sized aquarium filled with hundreds of differe...

Asymmetry in board games is a tricky thing. Do it wrong, and asymmetry can lead to imbalance, which can lead to flipped tables and scattered pieces, or at the very least a muttering of "I'll never play that again."  So most games that ...

If we can't get a Tokyo Jungle sequel (or even a re-release on PS4; I'll happily settle for that!) then I'll just have to get my insane animal action in elsewhere. Ace of Seafood, which released for PC last year but is only now coming to Pl...

[Feel like you're drowning in spooky blogs yet? Well too bad! Michael Giff walks us through yet another horrible video game water level, and the shockingly simple way he was able to overcome his fear of it! Dtoid is always looking for cool ...

Australia-based outfit House House have released footage of their as-yet-untitled new game, in which you play a "horrible goose" aiming to ruin everyone's day.The very amusing pre-alpha clip showcases the title's stealth gameplay, in which ...

Drop whatever you're doing and please, dear friend, gaze upon this magnificent furry bat critter from Monster Hunter: World. I only need 15 seconds of your day. 30 if you're prone to cuteness overload. There's also some extended footage o...

Zoo Tycoon? Pretty great. The original, I mean. It's been some time since I've played it but I bet it'd only take a few minutes for the species requirements to come rushing back. I was obsessed with that game (and to a lesser extent, the 20...

Pet the Pup at the Party is an excellent little game about, well, petting dogs and avoiding awkward social interactions. It's one the silliest and most relatable games I've played all year.  Here is a breakdown of what you do in Pet th...

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, is bearing down on us. The anticipated re-release is being celebrated by publishers Square Enix with, of all things, a 24/7 livestream of a warren of rabbits. The cute funsters are supposedly representativ...

It's been an especially weird day on Twitter, and Bubsy -- Bubsy, of all things! -- has played a part. The anthropomorphic bobcat returns this year with a new PC and PlayStation 4 platformer, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back, in development a...

The Wonder Boy series has sort of a complicated history. Several different franchises have claimed at least one of the series' titles, including Wonder Boy, Monster Land, and even Adventure Island. The Wonder Boy games were always conf...