With the smell of pumpkin spice wafting out of every coffee nook and the versatile veggies ripe and ready for Halloween, the indie.io team is back to making its best games an ever more enticing bargain. So whether you're pining for a grand strategy title to 'one more turn' the entirety of fall, or feel the need to cozy up to the fire with a must-have life sim, the indie.io Steam Autumn sale has something to fit your feelings (and your budget) this season.
For those looking for a nautical getaway, now's your chance to grab Forgotten Seas for a whopping 30% off before it docks for its 1.0 release in October. This swashbuckling survival sim mixes dingy pirate adventures with supernatural spooks and scares, making it about as close to a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Pirates of the Caribbean tale as you can get.
As you explore the bewildering Bermuda Void in a bottled ship of your own making, you'll uncover untold riches and forever feud with the doomed Dread Pirates who'll do anything to protect their booty. The endless oceans teem not only with schools of flesh-eating piranhas, but grand krakens that love nothing more than to wrap their tentacles around anything you attempt to smuggle back to shore.
Now, you may be too late to welcome the long-awaited Knights of the Crusades 1.0 update, but you're just early enough to get a 20% discount off the standard asking price. A recent mainstay of the indie.io sales, this sandbox-style grand strategy game brings a little city building spice to its intense tactical gameplay.
Set in the days of the Templars and the Holy Wars, Knights of the Crusades didn't even need its wider 1.0 release to climb to 'Very Positive' standing on Steam. And with 'Playable' Deck compatibility, it's the perfect 'one more turn' type of game. Whether taking on the mantle of a legendary Templar or forming your very own Holy Order, you'll carry your crusade from the battlefields of Europe and North Africa all the way to the Holy Land, playing your part in (or rewriting the history of) grand skirmishes like the battle of Edessa and the Reconquista.
As you blaze your path across the continents, you'll repurpose captured hamlets into strategic resource-generating dwellings to bolster your economy and grow your standing with neighboring nations. How you manage your battalions will play a major part in your campaign to capture land, and will ultimately dictate how you defend newly won territory long after the campaign comes to a close.
Can't wait for that new Fire Emblem game next year? Not to worry! Just grab Dark Diety 2 at 20% off. This retro throwback turn-based tactics game channels the days of the 16-bit era with a smooth anime aesthetic and stylish attacks bursting with impact.
Set in the land of Verroa, kings, queens, kingdoms, and armies tussle on tiled battlefields with a high fantasy flair. And with a new Korean localization, it can double as a way for Korean pop-culture geeks to practice the language while snuggling up with a Dalgona Coffee.
Taking place shortly after the events of the first game, Dark Deity 2 tests the Eternal Order's efforts to protect Verroa against another catastrophic war. Controlling the last hero's descendants, you're in charge of how this rough and tumble crew takes on a whole kingdom attempting to smash and grab the community their ancestors helped rebuild.
If fighting for a whole kingdom or taking on ghouls for gold isn't your idea of a cozy time, indie.io's slow life simulators might just be your cup of cocoa. Echoes of the Plum Grove takes the pop-up book look and feel of Paper Mario and turns it into a carefully crafted generational farming simulator. Plant crops, tend to wildlife, cook up a storm, and nurture the town: Echoes of the Plum Grove is as serene as life can get. Until it's not. Disease can strike when you least expect it, and with a focus on rearing the next generation of this fair village, the demise of beloved characters, including your own, makes this a true generational life simulator. But, hey: it's cute. And there's always an alternative.
Echoes of the Plum Grove is one half of the Cozy Fall Farming bundle. The other? Firefly Village, an 8-bit homage to the humble beginnings of the farming sim movement. This bite-sized, streamlined farming sim sheds the depth of others to stave off decision fatigue, letting you focus on the smaller and more meaningful moments of living life on the farm. Serene sounds and a soft palette make this a pick-up and play game that's perfect for the day's little lulls.
And it wouldn't be an indie.io showcase without a new game now, would it? The "extremely complex" Don't Die, Collect Loot is an early access release that's crying out for its community to help shape its final form. This roguelite bullet hell RPG mash-up packs the increasingly complicated loot drops of today's dopamine-dosing RPGs with the arresting vertical shoot em' up action of something like Touhou or Gradius.
If the ghoul-churning thrill of Vampire Survivors mixed with the progression of Realm of the Mad God, you'd get Don't Die, Collect Loot. Hop in early, and not only will you get to help the lone visionary hone the dangerously enticing gameplay loop, but you'll score the game at a nice 20% discount until October 2.
See something to settle down with? Save big on the indie.io Steam Autumn sale until October 6. And if you happen to need a little help with your own solo or small team project, check out the indie.io website for wise words, or the wider indie.io Steam page to see just how many of your favorites the team has had a hand in. The indie management and publishing platform helps to bring dozens of games like these to market every year, and yours could be next.