Stick A Fork: hover, stab, jam, repeat

Here's the whole pitch: you just hover. Forks stuck around the table leap up to follow your cursor and stab back down into a giant fruit, and every landing pays out gold. Spend it on more forks and bigger upgrades, smash the fruit, collect your jam, then Ascend and do it all again, faster. It's an active incremental from Flowdot that you play with nothing but your cursor, all bright, cute pixel art, and the table just gets wilder every run. At $3.99 with the launch discount (normally $4.99), it costs less than a fancy coffee.

What makes it click is the pace. Ascend early, ascend often: resets come quickly, each one feeds a permanent skill tree you uncover node by node, and there are boons to mix into every run, so the momentum never sinks into a grind. Flashy effects, cute visuals and good sound keep the smashing lively. And just when it looks like it's wrapping up, it pulls one more trick out of the drawer. No spoilers, but it's a good one.

The catch: it's short by design. Most runs wrap up in around 5 to 6 hours, and the endless mode afterwards spirals out of control fast, so think snack, not forever game. A few more things to know. It's Windows only for now, its Steam Deck support hasn't been rated yet, and there's a report of clicks not registering on the Deck after one update, so Deck owners may want to hold off. AI was used only to translate the game; the art, animation, sound and music are human-made or licensed. The developer has been patching fast since the Oct 28 launch (Steam Cloud saves already landed), and there's a free demo if you want a taste first.