A plain ol’ list of indie games we are keeping track of, finally looked at, and are not reviewing herein, but wanted to mark and hope you’ll discover something neat, along with developer, publisher, and trailer embeds where available, and a quick breakdown for each.
REPLACED
Sad Cat Studios | Thunderful Publishing
A cinematic 2.5D action adventure about R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, investigating Phoenix Corp in an alternate 1980s America. A real stunner that finally delivers after a long promise.
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
Fumi Games | PlaySide
A first-person shooter about Jack Pepper, a private investigator in Mouseburg. The game uses hand-drawn black-and-white rubber hose animation. It got some shade for not being more immersive or whatever, buts it barrels of fun.
Gecko Gods
Inresin | Super Rare Originals, Gamersky Games
A puzzle-adventure game about a small gecko exploring a forgotten land and solving environmental puzzles.
Ground Zero
Malformation Games | Kwalee
A retro survival horror game set in South Korea after a meteor impact leaves the country in ruins.
OPUS: Prism Peak
SIGONO INC. | SHUEISHA GAMES
A narrative adventure about a weary photographer stranded in the Dusklands with a girl who has lost her memories.
Fortune’s Run
Team Fortune | Team Fortune
A first-person shooter with immersive sim elements set in a decaying industrial world where people fight for passage to frontier worlds.
The Ember Guardian
Ratbit Games | Slug Disco
A roguelike strategy game about managing workers, building defenses by day, and protecting the fire at night.
Lia: Hacking Destiny
Orube Game Studio | Orube Game Studio, GoGo Games Interactive
An action roguelite set after machines control Earth. Lia fights robot patrols and uses hacking to support the resistance.
HALLOW BLADE
Xekvera | Top Hat Studios, Inc.
A dark fantasy action adventure set in a subterranean kingdom, focused on a wandering knight bonded to a possessed sword.
Queen’s Domain
Freshly Baked Games LLC | Future Friends Games
A retro-fantasy action RPG about searching for a missing father on the Isle of Neasied.
Pluto
Siege Wizard Interactive | indie.io
A roguelike deckbuilder about a jailed wizard casting elemental spells while trying to reach his niece’s birthday party.
Better Than Dead
MONTE GALLO | MicroProse Software
A bodycam first-person shooter set in Hong Kong about a survivor escaping her captors and recording her revenge.
ChainStaff
Mommy’s Best Games | Mommy’s Best Games
An action-platformer about a soldier with a transforming spear and grappling hook fighting mutating alien hordes.
Midnight Horde
Carry Castle | Carry Castle, Gamersky Games
A gothic action roguelite with parkour movement and enemy waves in a medieval European city during the early 1900s.
Sol Cesto
Tambouille, Géraud Zucchini, Chariospirale | Goblinz Publishing, Maple Whispering Limited
A tactical roguelite about guiding a hero through a changing dungeon where each action has consequences. Ok this one has its…challenges, among them an apparent lack of agency. The devs are tweaking and balancing stuff, but the odd mechanism, highly stochastic, with the hand drawn animation make it hard to look away.
Legends of the Round Table
Artifice Studio | Artifice Studio
An Arthurian RPG about leading the Knights of the Round Table and deciding how the kingdom handles each crisis. Using period accurate instrument performances and painstakingly done hand-painted art and research, this is one of those rare birds that merits attention and likely its eventual accolades.
The Guardian of Nature
Inlusio Interactive | Inlusio Interactive, Nexting (Japan)
A hand-drawn puzzle adventure about botanist Henry using size-changing abilities to restore natural systems. Truly a delight to behold and about nature stuff we love.
Hull Rupture
Konfa Games | tinyBuild
A base-management tower-defense roguelite about keeping a spaceship moving while alien attacks threaten its crew.
Water Womb World
Yames’ Games | Yames’ Games
A short religious horror game about exploring the sea floor and searching for Eden.
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