Itch.io Summer Sale 2026 Recommendations

Steam and Itch.io are doing their regular summer sales! Plenty of other folks have done Steam sale posts online so I thought I would do one for Itch.io since I like that they take a smaller cut from sales, have a lot that isn’t on Steam, and it’s DRM-free. I’m only including games that are on sale and not really talking about Pay-What-You-Want or free stuff this time. Some of these were already mentioned in the bluesky thread I did but I’m adding more to the list as well. Apologies in advance for the lack of organization! Midnight Scenes: The Highway I am a massive fan of the Midnight Scenes series, an anthology of short horror point-and-click adventure games that can be played in one sitting. You can start with any of them so I’ll just link to the developer’s page where you should just grab the one that sounds the most interesting to you. I reviewed the first game, The Highway, here. LOVE is a challenging minimalist platformer that also features options to make it approachable to…