A spooky, creeping atmosphere in an otherwise cozy town and a pleasing time-progression mechanic, with many excellent small details. Reminds me of Welcome to Night Vale in the best ways.
Infinite beautiful islands, made all the more evocative with the low-resolution viewport.
A minimalistic take on The Sims where you build lovely little villas for fluffy llama friends. It has an engrossing game loop, charming graphics, and just a touch of absurd humor.
A fantastic use of form, adorable characters - and a beautiful depiction of feeling lonely, aimless, and sad.
One of my favorite space whale concepts, and some beautiful art to boot.
A compelling and wonderful tiny space adventure about Captain Kerry and their space-whale-ship Alice. Like a classic episode of Star Trek, but cuter, weirder, and funnier.
Feels like Legend of Zelda, with a devilishly engaging game loop, delightful puzzles, and quirky characters realized in just a handful of words of dialog and a few frames of animation.
Beautiful hand-drawn art, straightforward gameplay, a simple but evocative world full of implications that make it feel huge and mysterious even when it only takes a few minutes to play. Also the UI design is fantastic - especially the way speech bubbles and interaction works.
A gentle game about helping alien civilizations develop. It's a tech tree with a story. As civilizations rise, you get attached to their successes and habits; and when they ultimately fall, you mourn what they would have accomplished with the knowledge they've been given.
Quiet and contemplative. The music adds a lot to this simple game.
A lovely poetic little hike, with beautiful scenery, colors, and some nice shifts in perspective.
An elegant little project tracker and task manager, and nearly the perfect replacement for my sticky note collection.
Super minimal puzzle that focuses your attention on physical time and space in a surprising way.
A semi-interactive vignette of a tiny sea voyage, with a great use of bitsy's low-res pixel art style.
Beautiful pixel art, and clever ways to work within the limitations of bitsy to create real puzzles and some lovely interactive effects.
Holy moly I didn't know you could do such intricate, architectural art at this resolution! Not only that, but the world and the story have the sort of fading glory melancholy that reminds me of Jack Vance or Michael Swanwick.
A game of ghosts and regrets.
Tiny roguelike adventure time!
A tile-laying adventure with a set of simple rules and satisfying strategy. Also it's adorable!
I got to beta test this, and it was amazing. Exploration and environmental puzzling with a sublime atmosphere, the world here feels vibrant and alive and real - as if it exists on its own, for itself, and you have to adapt to it and become part of its ecology. At the same time, it questions your stumbling efforts to understand and manipulate the world around you. You are an outsider - what is your role? Do you even have one?
Fish Tank Makeover just made my day. It starts out amusing, and ends up going farther than you think.
Some clever use of bitsy's limitations, and a cute world to explore, plus adorable dancing.
Minimalist pixel art, a two-dimensional interactive poem. Lovely.
This game is a revelation in storytelling. It is so simple - a few components whose interaction triggers bits of epic poetry and whose animation symbolically illustrates the progression of the tale. It transcends its simplicity to become iconic and profound.
Simple but gets the job done. Few individual levels are difficult per se, but the flow that develops as you learn the patterns and strategies over many levels is satisfying.
This game is devilishly difficult. It demands perfection. I gave up in frustration partway through, but I still love the music, the world, and most of all, the little white pixel cat you play as.
Atmospheric - it expands beyond the boundaries of its small size with a dramatic soundtrack, the perfect color scheme, and most of all, eerie poetic dialogue form melancholic, mysterious characters.
Beautiful art, relaxing music, and deliciously short. Like an interactive EP.