The question has divided enthusiasts for decades: Is boating a form of hiking? Well, regardless of where you stand on the subject - you can now take a detour to cruise the waters yourself in A Short Hike! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34782392/d16b9ef4dedbe7911f75cc264001881ca5471ea8.gif To celebrate the Switch release of the game, I'm releasing a small free content update to all current platforms! Just drop by the local rental shop and the boat can be yours for the whole afternoon! Speed around the waters...

Hey there! Hope you're doing well and staying safe. It's been a while since the last update! Since then, A Short Hike has won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the 2020 Independent Games Festival! It still feels surreal to me, but I wanted to thank everyone who played and shared my game. I also want to give credit to Dawn Blair, Mark Sparling, Andrew Wong, and David Czarnowski, since the game wouldn't have been the same without their contributions and support. So, the upda...

The Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality has been a stunning success, raising $8.1m for funds supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. The bundle, which contained more than 1700 games donated by their creators, was bought by over 810,000 people, raising $8,175,430 - well over its $5m target. The average contribution was $10.30. The top contribution was $5000. The Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality was widely considered to be the best value bundle in video game history, n...

Red Dead Redemption 2 may be a good Animal Crossing substitute for people suffering from AC-FOMO at the moment, but I’d argue that the best PC stand-in for Nintendo’s cozy life sim is Adamgryu’s A Short Hike, which you can currently get on the cheap as part of Itch’s stupidly good value Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality. Indeed, it made the long wait until Animal Crossing: New Horizons that bit shorter when I gorged myself on it over the Christmas holidays last yea...

itch.io's creator has launched what is probably the largest bundle ever in its efforts to support the Black Lives Matter movement. Partnered with 564 creators, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality comes with a whopping 742 DRM-free titles in total, valued at over $3,400 ( 2,675), but which you can have the whole lot by paying however much you want, with donations starting at a minimum of $5 ( 4). It's already raised over $2 million ( 1.5 million) since launching over the weekend with a goa...