Top Games Of Winter 2025 - As Picked By The Neon Noroshi Community!

Finally tired of playing your comfort games for the 3281940380th time? Keen to venture out to try other genres but not sure where to start? Here’s a list of games as recommended by our community members over at our Neon Noroshi | Yotsuba Interactive Discord.

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Trash Goblin

Finally a game that speaks to our goblin soul. In Trash Goblin, it’s good vibes only as you uncover trinkets and clean them so they can be sold in your shop! Customise them by upcycling, follow the requests of your eccentric customers and spend your earnings on shop customisations and tool optimisations. There’s no pressure, no risk, no fail states, just a game to chill out to and be your full 100% goblin self.

Caravan SandWitch

Explore a Sci-Fi world with your trusty van in Caravan SandWitch. You’re on a quest to find your missing sister and along the way you’ll be navigating treacherous terrain, ancient ruins and more as you get closer and close to the truth behind your sister’s disappearance. There’s a diverse cast to meet, eclectic biomes to explore and a legacy to leave behind as you help communities overcome world-impacting environmental consequences.

Skate Story

Skate Story is a skateboarding game like no other. You play as a glass demon from the Underworld who has been tasked by The Devil to skate to the Moon and swallow it. Achieve this and you shall be free. This might seem simple enough but Skate Story is anything but with it’s achingly beautiful otherworldly designs, enigmatic music and a skateboarding mechanic that’s realistic and therefore rather punishing.

Cooking Simulator

Old but gold Cooking Simulator is still a great game today! Become the ultimate chef as you take control of a highly polished, realistic kitchen with every utensil and kitchen appliance you could want. There are over 80 recipes to master, brought to life with dozens of ingredients that you can slice, dice and serve up. There’s both a career mode and a sandbox mode so you can decide if you want the fame and glory of running your dream restaurant or just a chill space to cook, vibe and maybe even blow things up.

Bombe

Do you love minesweeper but hate having to... manually sweep? In Bombe, you program a minesweeping algorithm to solve minesweeper boards for you. It turns minesweeper from a game of low-level decisions to high-level logic, which then also quickly descends into tricky and complex puzzles. Expect hexagonal grids, mysterious negative mines, and strange clues? There’s definitely more than meets the eye to this game. Our community member says you’ll enjoy this niche pick if you like Minesweeper, any Zachtronics game and programming in general.