A new game with 100% positive ratings is now absolutely free to keep forever on Steam. As the most popular PC gaming storefront, and with all sorts of easily accessible publishing tools for developers of all sizes, Steam is absolutely loaded with weird and wild games. If you watch your homepage carefully, you can even score the occasional freebie.
Even among Steam indies, though, this one stands out. Marking its developer's debut on Steam, Monophobia offers up a short but memorable experience with an entirely unique aesthetic. And the best part is, it's absolutely free to download and play today.
Monophobia was developed in RPGMaker, but it's described on its Steam page as a visual novel entirely made out of scanned watercolor paintings, hand-painted by the developer, Z-xian. It's an incredibly short game — about 15 to 20 minutes of gameplay, Z-xian estimates — but then again, it's totally free.
Monophobia follows a girl who believes herself to be the only living thing left on Earth as she recounts her life of solitude and attempts to cope with the challenges of her daily life. It deals with some dark themes and can be genuinely frightening, but it comes from...
