There weren’t a whole lot of “decent” games released on October 1 2022 in the Steam section, but there were several of the adult category that kind of caught my eye, so if that’s right up your gaming alley, then hey, this might be a good day’s worth of games to you. Not a whole lot, mind you, but enough to get you through a couple days of loneliness, I suppose.
Itchio had a good chunk, due to all the submissions for the Spooktober Visual Novel, but they’re visual novels only, as I can’t pinpoint the dates when any other games were released on specific days.
- Not all games are listed
- I only chose games in English
Games Released on October 1 2022
A Book of Secrets and Regret
- Available on Itchio
Going over to Reese’s house is always a fun time; her mom is never around, there always seems to be an endless supply of pizza, and you get to spend your time summoning demons! Well… trying to summon a single demon that is.
You have spent countless nights trying to summon this demon, so much so that it has lost its excitement. So why is Reese still so invested in summoning it? If you succeed in summoning it what will you do from there? No matter what, beware. Summoning a demon never ends happily.
After Midnight
- Available on Itchio
The line between our world and theirs is blurred after midnight. Strange things tend to happen, most people sleep through it in ignorance. You do not. You are aware and you are exhausted. Eventually, the line between reality and delusion is too blurred to distinguish.
Asobi
- Available on Itchio
You’re a private taxi driver.
You receive reservations.
Reach the pick-up point.
Then drive your clients toward their destination.
Tonight, you have to take a girl to a hotel.
But who is she?
Why is she going there?
Autumn Spirit
- Available on Itchio
The world is slowly crumbling and you are falling apart with it. In an attempt to find a semblance of peace and to rethink your future you go into exile in a remote corner to enjoy the calm of nature. But you are not alone on these mountains, another soul in pain is on your land, a ghost grounded on earth by regrets. Deciding to free him of his curse, you might find peace yourself in the process.
Blue Thistle Ghosts
- Available on Itchio
. . . is a game about a long-haul trucker named Jo, who’s just hoping to bake some pumpkin bread and meet a ghost. Standard stuff, y’know?
Boo-Dunnit
- Available on Itchio
There’s been a murder! Can you decide on a culprit in this Halloween themed mystery?
Bookbound: A Warlock’s Tale – Act 1
- Available on Itchio
The city of Una has fallen . All hope seems lost until a young woman awakens an ancient spirit entity to aid her in her quest. In exchange for magical powers, she signs a contract that might cost her dearly.
Exotica: Petshop Simulator
- Available on Steam
Exotica is a simulation game where you run an exotic pet shop in the city.
Girl and Chainsaw
- Available on Steam
Gal x Chainsaw x Zombie!! World after the zombie pandemic disaster.A third-person 3D action game with an emphasis on control and exhilaration, where you smash zombies and other creatures while spraying blood with a chainsaw like in a B-movie!
The Graveyard Shift
- Available on Itchio
After the death of their partner and best friend, officer Shearsmith struggles to adjust to working life with their newly assigned partner. Forced to spend the literal graveyard shift on a cemetery stakeout together, can the two of them see past their differences and learn to get along? Perhaps Volkham can help Shearsmith overcome their loss. Or will the night watch prove too much for the pair? It’s up to you to decide.
Some things are better left buried…
Hentai Survivors
- Available on Steam
Roguelite bullet-hell combat meets sexy hentai action in Hentai Survivors. Plan your builds, upgrade heroines, and survive against the clock. Keep the heroines alive and they’ll be sure to reward you!
I Wanna be Her
- Available on Itchio
Someone ends up in the bottom of a dry well; in there they can hear a voice making them a offer. “I let you out, you give me your ▊▋█▌▍▊▋█▌▍”
Maybe after enough time paying whatever wouldn’t sound to bad.
And maybe comming back can tell you something.
A little horror? experience about looking at walls and talking to mysterious voices with loops and no clear ending.
Inside Jennifer
- Available on Steam
Inside Jennifer is an adult, corruption game, with multiple choice routes and endings. As Jennifer’s life unfolds, you’ll have to make decisions that will cause unique and distinct interactions between all characters. Stay loyal, lie, cheat or go wild, the choice is yours.
The Madness of [Redacted]
- Available on Itchio
A curious journalist by day, author by night, investigates the inexplicable case of a vanished scientist in Hamburg in the early 20th century.
Uncovering the truth about his very own family history, he has to face the awakening of an ancient being.
The Mayfield Plague
- Available on Itchio
Death was slow, feeding into the body until nothing was left
Those who showed no sign were suddenly seized with fevers
They coughed and shivered, screaming in the darkness like banshees
It was terrible to watch as they died soon after, succumbing to the pandemic was terrible.
When it spread all over the town, no one stood a chance.
No one. Not Mother or Father or Daughter or Son. Not a dog or cat or rooster or cattle. Nothing.
Midnight Cafe
- Available on Itchio
It’s Halloween, a day full of myths about the supernatural and everyone decides to come together to tell scary stories that show that humans can be scarier than any supernatural activity, that is, themselves.
The Séance is a café whose owner is nothing more than the personification of death, an angel of death called Asriel and works as a neutral place that serves humans and supernatural creatures with the most diverse drinks. Known for its odd hours, the cafe only opens at late night, and Halloween is no different. While humans are out there hunting trick-or-treating shenanigans, you stumble on this place where creatures decide to take a coffee break and gossip about what humans are capable of.
Are you able to remember the details correctly and tell a story about how humans can be scary?
Midnight Manor
- Available on Steam
Midnight Manor follows the story of a man down on his luck, who happens to find himself at the doorstep of a luxurious manor as a terrible storm surges outside. Greeted by a generous, but lonely, old man – he’s offered shelter in exchange for completing some simple tasks during his stay.
Nameless
- Available on Itchio
Something lurks in the Umbral Forest, its wicked tendrils snaking out to reshape the very woods themselves. Is this the beast Israh Almasi seeks to hunt and slay for the sake of his dying son? Or something even darker and more sinister than he ever could have imagined?
Meanwhile, a mysterious man has made himself at home at Israh’s campsite. He calls himself Nameless… and he only comes at night.
Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within.
Nameless: The Departed Cycle is a dark fantasy/horror visual novel featuring a prominent male/male romance. Make choices to determine Israh’s fate, and strive to survive — perhaps even slay — the monster stalking the Umbral Forest.
Nowhereplatz
- Available on Itchio
Nowhereplatz, U3 is a Visual Novel about abandoned Berlin subway stations, neopaganism and weirdly specific first world problems.
You are THE MAN WITH A CHEAP HORNS HEADBAND.
Has Mom ever told you to get a driver’s license or to think about returning from buckwild Halloween parties earlier? Now you’re stuck on this subway station, Nowhereplatz, line 3.
REMEMBER, the timetable says, EVERYTHING YOU DO CAN BE USED AGAINST YOU.
Offal
- Available on Itchio
Play as Moriah; a tired, anxious student with a passion for drumming.
Offline Meeting
- Available on Itchio
Offline meeting in a dark alley at 10 pm. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
One Final Moment of Clarity
- Available on Itchio
You are Oliver. A young man in the countryside, meeting the love of his life for the first time.
You are Oliver. Trapped in an endless nightmare from which there is no clear exit.
You are Oliver, unsure what is real anymore.
When you can’t trust your own mind, who can you trust?
One Night at Annie’s
- Available on Itchio
Help Annie, a sweet grandmother, cover up the evidence of Larry’s murder–just don’t get caught by Officers Brad and Chad.
Panacea: Rebirth
- Available on Itchio
On the outskirts of a small village, a sickly girl explores the forest in secret day after day. Are the creatures from the woods as dangerous as the rumors claim?
Picta Mori
- Available on Itchio
When first seemingly harmless achievement in technology turns into something sinister is not an unknown scenario to us. Picta Mori plays with the idea of what if AI image generator would start predicting people’s deaths.
Room 1057
- Available on Itchio
Charles is a very normal man who enjoys the simplicity of life and every little thing it has to offer. During his summer vacation, he decides to leave for a few days and stay in a small motel near the sea. There, he gets the key to room 1057. After getting ready to go to the beach to spend a whole afternoon under the warmth of the sun, his room door doesn’t seem to open anymore.
And as he tries to find a way out, everything swiftly goes wrong…
Slaves
- Available on Steam
A man who dies in an accident gets reincarnated into a parallel world to fight evil!
The Statement of Randolph Carter
- Available on Itchio
An occultist’s pupil has been arrested following his disappearance. His testimony haunts you, driving you to crack the case.
TYRONE vs COPS VR
- Available on Steam
Sip lean and shoot cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America… Fully reimagined for VR!
Vivica’s Heart
- Available on Itchio
With no memories and no sense of self, you are brought to a witch’s house deep in the forest. To regain your life, you must break into the house, complete a task… and survive whatever you may find there.
Waterborne
- Available on Itchio
Sam is abruptly woken in the middle of the night by a phone alarm obnoxiously blasting Beethoven’s Fifth in their ear. Now wide awake with rain from an unexpected storm heavily drumming against the window, they decide getting back to sleep is futile and get up. Sam soon discovers that all is not well, and their cabin-in-the-woods weekend with friends starts feeling suspiciously like a horror movie.
Wheel of Innocence
- Available on Itchio
Reina is currently in her last year of high school; but had recently changed schools due to severe ableist bullying, and hopes to finish it with a clean slate. After a few days in the new year she is introduced to her volunteer assistant, a kind and upstanding classmate named Mizuki.
During the rest of the first semester they bond over the hardships of school life and become close friends with something more sprouting underneath, but not without conflict brewing in the horizon. Will they face their problems hand-in-hand, or lose their grasp on that which binds them together?
Wilting Regrets
- Available on Itchio
When people are wronged, they cannot let go. They seek retribution, salvation, revenge. Even in death, those feelings persist, morphing the spirits of the dead into mangled beasts of the afterlife.
In this world where a place for the dead exist, it is the job of executioners to help those spirits find peace by removing their regrets. However, at times the spirits long for the death of the ones who wronged them, and through careful examination, it is allowed for an executioner to end those lives in place of the wronged.
Executioner. A job for criminals, those who have no place in the living world that they have no choice but to live between hell and the living.
You, Spider Lily, are one of the executioners specializing in revenge.
And one day, just before the week of Halloween, two new cases find their way to you.
World of You
- Available on Itchio
Mei is ready to make a new start, hoping to return to in-person classes in the aftermath of a leave of absence. Together with her cousin and best friend, Chrissy, Mei prepares to navigate the turbulent waters of high school. However, her apprehension turns to uncertainty as she contends with social anxiety, chronic health issues, and a growing distance with Chrissy.
The only thing that gives her respite is an odd video game centered around a girl named Kimi, determined to achieve the “ideal” teenager experience- becoming prom queen. Will Mei find the high-school life she hopes for within the game, or does something darker lurk within?
When freedom, family, and fear find themselves clashing, How far would you go to achieve your dreams?
Yokai Detective Kou
- Available on Itchio
When Kou, a Yokai “Detective” summons Sada, a ghost from the tv, he has to team up with her to spread her legend or else he’ll lose his soul.
