A super dense one-room bitsy games, full of inside jokes and references to bitsyfolk. But maybe my favorite part of it is the use of in-dialog sprites to create faces alongside the text!
A minimalist roguelike
Medieval manuscripts, giant snails, exciting chase scenes, puns, relationship drama... this game has it all and more!
Lovely tale of daily routine and missing someone far away. Plus some *fantastic* low-fi user interfaces.
Fantastic kid-noir mystery/adventure game! I wish there were a whole series of these.
A short, lovely stroll with crisp, clean pixel art and some clever use of transitions and changes of perspective. (Also a great use of the itch.io page theme to create a nice frame for the game!)
This is very cathartic. Money may not be able to buy happiness directly, but it can go a long way to creating the conditions for justice, equity, freedom, and joy. So go spend all of Jeff Bezos' money on these good things.
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.
One of my favorite space whale concepts, and some beautiful art to boot.
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.
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.
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.