[Monthly STOVE] October Issue 2025-10-29

We understand that you want to collect and play games on STOVE, but it can be difficult to know which ones to try or add to your account. After all, STOVE offers a very large selection of games!

For you, we prepared “Monthly STOVE.” Each month, we select five games that are worth owning and playing on STOVE. The selection criteria include product sales, playtime, active players, and the activity level of the game’s community board. Think the choices don’t seem right? You’re free to disagree — but the curation begins now.

The Alleyway

Released on October 29, this is a brand-new title. In this game, you collect “ghost traces” hidden throughout alleyways and try to escape the maze-like streets.

The player locates apparitions using a bracelet worn on the wrist — a bracelet given to them by a shaman grandmother during childhood. When you reach a spot where the bracelet begins to glow and take a photo with your smartphone camera, a “ghost trace” or a “phantom” appears.

The goal is to distinguish between ghost traces and phantoms and report only the ghost traces. If successful, you obtain a key and get closer to the secret of the ghost.

The ghost always chases the player. There’s a reason the game makes your hair stand on end. If the game starts to feel strange, try pressing Alt+Tab. A horrifying figure will appear on your monitor… yes, your face~

Also, Alleyway realistically renders its objects. The environmental sounds amplify the horror. It strangely brings back memories of the alley where you lived as a child. You wonder if the friends from those days are doing well…

It feels like the snowman made of briquettes might still be there, but when did you grow up this much? That is the real horror.(Click link)

Lost Signal

It is a “STOVE ONLY” tagged game that can only be purchased on STOVE. Although it is a horror game, it has an easy difficulty suitable for beginners. The background music and characters are expressed in a bright and cheerful style. It pursues a form of horror that is not purely frightening. The jump scares are not unpleasant, and the puzzles are friendly. Gamers who normally cannot easily try horror games can enjoy this comfortably.

The player takes on the role of a streamer escaping from an abandoned hospital. You are chased, hide in tight spaces, and solve puzzles while trapped, enjoying the tension.

The concept of being a streamer is fresh. Even in urgent situations where you’re being chased by ghosts, you can complete subscriber missions and receive rewards, which is also refreshing. Viewer chat is not just background but affects gameplay through user missions and advice, increasing immersion. And of course, as with any “streamer” setting, there are some rather explicit service scenes.

Clean illustrations, pixel graphics, and Yuna’s voice acting blend together to provide satisfying visuals and audio.

Judging by the illustrations alone, it might look like a romance simulation, but it is a horror game where a strip—no, a streamer explores a psychiatric hospital.(Click link)

Who’s at the Door

You have schizophrenia. But you have no memory. And you are trapped in a small house. Hallucinations appear continuously and begin to overtake reality. There is a game where you can directly experience this terrifying situation.

That game is Who’s at the Door. Since it was developed by Skonec, it may seem like a VR game, but it is not. It is an immersive narrative game that adds a story to an anomaly-detection escape-room style game. With a playtime of about one to two hours, it delivers a powerful experience in a short amount of time.

For eight days, you must distinguish between reality and hallucinations (abnormal phenomena), uncover the truth of the past, and escape the house. If there are no hallucinations, or if they disappear, you open the door to receive medication from a mysterious visitor. However, if hallucinations remain, you must take the medicine next to the door. If handled correctly, the treatment progresses normally. But if you open the door while hallucinations persist, or take medicine without hallucinations, you must start over from day one. This is true horror.

Also, STOVE sells a bundle containing Alleyway, Solitary Broadcast, and Who’s at the Door. It is available only on STOVE.

Club (Secret Plus)

If you tremble too much and become scared while playing Alleyway, Solitary Broadcast, or Who’s at the Door, you can relax your mind and body by turning to Secret Plus.

A title containing Secret Plus means that its expression level differs from the standard version—another identity of STOVE. It is STOVE’s blessing that enriches freedom of expression and the indie game creation ecosystem.

Club is a bishoujo dating simulation based on the webtoon Club developed by TAPKO. As of August 2025, the original webtoon surpassed 52 million subscribers.

The content and flow are not different from other romance simulations. The protagonist joins a club, and the club’s beautiful members flock to him. He must win his own love amid their physical advances. Since this will never happen in your life, it is best enjoyed inside the game.

Games based on original works—especially those with strong cult fanbases like Club—often face criticism for story adaptation. However, the game version of Club is praised for adapting the story well without damaging the original.

Since the game contains sexual expressions, a higher-rated global version exists. However, due to regional lock, it cannot be purchased domestically.

Only STOVE’s Secret Plus edition provides the adult content and CG in the most refined manner, so keep that in mind.(Click link)

Super Fantasy Kingdom 

세The scariest thing in the world is not ghosts nor the advances of beautiful women, but time. Whether too little or too much, time is always a struggle. Super Fantasy Kingdom is a roguelite city-building game that offers an immersion capable of erasing your spare time in an instant.

The player rebuilds a kingdom while defeating monster armies that attack the castle gates each night. You must carefully plan resources, troops, and overall kingdom management, making strategic decisions to build your heroes and city. Enemies are relentless and pressure your defenses more as time passes.

Building space is limited and the choices exceed the available area. Therefore, continuously making simple yet difficult decisions that affect your domain long-term is part of the game’s charm.

The publisher Hooded Horse distributes titles such as Manor Lords, Norland, Cataclismo, Against the Storm, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, Nova Roma, Xenonauts 2, Shadow Gambit, Endless Legend, and the upcoming Himame: Olden Era. In other words, it is a company with a good eye for games.

Praise to STOVE for delivering solid Korean localization for such a wildly time-devouring, ridiculously fun game! (Click link)