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VOID LANCER - A rather decent C64 Shoot 'em up from Snow-G

Indie news Rock Paper Shotgun 29 Sept

With Deadlock's latest updating promising six new heroes, over 10,000 new voice lines and too much more to mention, it's clear Valve are still pretty committed to it

It feels weird that Deadlock is technically a game that isn't out yet, doesn't it? You can't even just play it as someone that's never done so, you have to have someone that's…

Indie release First Day Games 28 Sept

Deskrawl: Idle ARPG

26,343 peak players76% of 529 reviews Climbing fast

Grind mobs, farm loot and capture enemies to serve you. Deskrawl is an epic idle ARPG that plays at the bottom of your desktop. Farm legendary items and build overpowered heroes while you work or chill.

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Indie release Invisible Walls 29 Sept

Neighbors: Suburban Warfare

1,037 peak players66% of 2,231 reviews

Neighbors: Suburban Warfare is a chaotic online multiplayer party brawler where suburban rivals go to war. Team up with friends in wild PvE and PvP matches, destroy rival houses with everyday items turned weapons, and defend your home using traps, gadgets, and crazy team combos.

Indie release Pengonauts 29 Sept

Dicevaders

673 peak players100% of 54 reviews Climbing fast

Dicevaders is a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder about leading the ultimate alien invasion. Set in the StarVaders universe, draft and manipulate the dice row, build an unstoppable army, and unleash adrenaline pumping combos through powerful synergies and strategic play.

Indie release Something We Made 29 Sept

TOEM 2

636 peak players97% of 65 reviews Climbing fast

Step back into the shoes of a curious photographer and set off on a brand new adventure all about uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders in TOEM 2, the sequel to the acclaimed TOEM.

Indie release Studio Monoblok 29 Sept

Endless Rails

208 peak players84% of 19 reviews

Protect your train with your drones as it rolls through a monster-infested wasteland. Reach new stations to buy new weapons, wagons, and upgrades. Keep rolling until you or the game crashes. Isometric bullet heaven roguelite.

Indie release Darjeeling 29 Sept

The Merlies

33 peak players100% of 3 reviews

Meet the Merlies, a tiny birds community trying to find harmony in a cute post-apocalyptic world filled with the remains of a long forgotten civilization. Gather your birdies, explore this wild world with your tiny bird squad and complete your village out of collected scraps!

Indie release Friend & Fairy 29 Sept

Petal Crash 2

27 peak players100% of 5 reviews

The freshest in arcade puzzle action blossoms again! Crash blocks together into dazzling chain reactions in a puzzle like no other - now completely refreshed with refined gameplay, arcade graphics, brand new game modes, and more!

Indie release Red Axe Games 29 Sept

Gamer Stop Simulator

26 peak players72% of 326 reviews

Gamer Stop Simulator is a simulation game where you manage a video game store. Buy games and consoles from customers, repair broken devices, test games, and add rare items to your collection. Negotiate prices, expand your store, and grow your business in this exciting retail experience!

Indie release DustyNifty 29 Sept

Cosmo Cat: A Cozy Desktop Idler

22 peak players

An emotional desktop idle game where you spend time with your own cat floating through space and record your day as constellations.

Indie release Studio Chahut 29 Sept

Dog in the Machine

19 peak players100% of 7 reviews

Train an AutoDog to escape a dystopian mecha-city in this tactical roguelite. Craft powerful modular attacks, plan every move with stress-free real-time previews, and unleash devastating chain reactions to outsmart hordes of killjoy robots!

Indie release No Brakes Games 29 Sept

Tiny Flock

17 peak players100% of 3 reviews

From the creators of Human Fall Flat - Tiny Flock, a cosy, physics-based VR puzzle game for all ages. Help guide your adorable wayward sheep through beautiful hand-crafted diorama puzzles using the environment around you to get them to safety!

Indie release Die Wizzos 29 Sept

Wizzo PopOut

14 peak players100% of 24 reviews

Bounce, blast, and out-magic your friends! Control a bubble-riding wizzo in this chaotic 4-player top-down arena shooter. Combine spells on the fly, unleash high-knockback combos, and launch your rivals off the map in fast-paced couch and online battles.

Indie release QUByte Interactive 29 Sept

Blades & Battles

10 peak players100% of 9 reviews

Relive the era of beat 'em ups in a new legend! Wield your sword as Arthur or Lancelot and fight side by side in epic battles inspired by the classic Golden Axe, now in 3D with pixelated 2.5D graphics and full of retro action.

Indie release Slice of Nice 29 Sept

The Great Release

10 peak players100% of 3 reviews

Don’t get caught farting in the meeting! In this stealth-comedy game, you must strategically vent your mounting "pressure" by timing farts around office distractions.

Indie release Judas Brothers 29 Sept

Late Order

100% of 3 reviews

Night shifts at a cursed 24/7 diner. Every night — new rules and unsettling events. Fulfill orders, don't annoy the bizarre monster in the mascot's body, and maybe you'll have a chance to survive until dawn.

Indie release OPG EUPHORE 29 Sept

KUNTEYNIR

100% of 10 reviews

The setting is the Russian outback, the courtyards, garages, and entryways where underground hip-hop was born. Here, instead of outer space, there are residential areas, instead of fantasy, there's harsh reality, and instead of abstract blocks, there are fragments of the urban environment.

Indie release The Foxy Guiz 29 Sept

Foxy's Potion Shop

100% of 8 reviews

Join Foxy in its little cabin in the middle of the Magical Forest as the new potion crafter! All the inhabitants of the Forest are thrilled that you moved in to perform the art of brewing in a cauldron!

Indie release Wilks Studios 29 Sept

Cricket Management 26

69% of 35 reviews

Build your cricketing dynasty in a deep and immersive cricket management simulation. Manage tactics, transfers, finances, player development and matchday strategy across multiple formats including T20, One Day and red-ball cricket.

Indie release eye-factory 29 Sept

Amnesia Bullet

100% of 4 reviews

An amnesiac girl fights “Bad Things” in a single-player third-person action shooter. Earn Crown Coins, raise stats, and reclaim lost memories. Clear the story to unlock the true-ending route and mini-games; reach the true ending for a survival endgame. Gyro aiming works with supported controllers.

Indie news Game Developer 29 Sept

Steam's discounts and events tab will soon be fully algorithm-driven

Steam announced a new set of changes for its discounts and events tab that will impact which games players see.

Indie news Rock Paper Shotgun 29 Sept

Sometimes the thing you need is a wonderfully ethereal physics platformer jam game where you are a little round guy with very stretchy arms called Big Stretch

I have a working theory that above all other aspects, the Vibe (with a capital V) of a game is the most important thing to enrapture a hypothetical audience. A strong Vibe is not…

Indie news Game Developer 29 Sept

Former Dying Light franchise lead joins Bloober Team horror imprint Broken Mirror Games

'If you’re a developer, studio, or creator working on something interesting in horror, give me a shout!'

Indie news Rock Paper Shotgun 29 Sept

Valve is changing Steam's homepage discounts and events section to go the way of the algorithm to get you to look at, and buy, obviously, more games

Go ahead and boot up Steam for me. Underneath the ad banner for whoever paid to be there for that day and the featured and recommended sections, you'll find a section titled…

Indie news Rock Paper Shotgun 29 Sept

"You will not be using belts": Satisfactory's first expansion isn't the same game set underground - there's a whole new set of resource-moving toys to master

When you start factory automation game Satisfactory you awake in a drop pod plunging towards the surface of an alien world. In its first expansion you'll be heading a little…

Indie news Game Developer 29 Sept

Naughty Dog is working on new The Last Of Us 'projects'

Naughty Dog is signaling what comes next for the studio after it finishes Intergalactic.

Indie news Rock Paper Shotgun 29 Sept

After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library

"At the time, I didn't immediately think my boss was filling the walls of our place of business with corpses," so opens the reveal trailer for Something is Wrong with the Library,…

Indie news Game Developer 29 Sept

Control Resonant director lays out case for avoiding excessive 'yellow paint'

'It has to feel like it’s on you to make a decision on what to do with those elements that you see within the world.'

Indie news Game Developer 29 Sept

'We were constantly overshooting our capacity:' Arc Raiders exec says success resulted in burnout

Aleksander Grøndal admits Embark has struggled to balance the needs of millions of players with those of its workforce.

Indie news Warp Door 29 Sept

Hive Time (Cheeseness, Mimness)

"Harvest resources, grow your hive, and produce a new Queen before the current one dies." - Author's description PWYC to download on itch.io (Windows, Mac, Linux)

Indie news Warp Door 29 Sept

Spaghetti Celesti: Devour The Heavens (PUNCAKE Délicieux)

"Per favore, have a seat and prepare to devour the heavens!" - Author's description Download on itch.io (Windows, Mac, Linux)

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Indie news Alpha Beta Gamer 29 Sept

Tyrant Tactics: Birth of Revolution – Beta Sign Up

Tyrant Tactics: Birth of Revolution is an Advance Wars-esque turn-based strategy game set in 2088 supporting up to four players locally and online. In Tyrant Tactics: Birth of…

Indie news Alpha Beta Gamer 29 Sept

Stunt Paradise 2 – Open Beta

Stunt Paradise 2 is a Trials-esque arcade racing game built around speed, explosive chaos, and increasingly deadly obstacle courses designed to push your driving skills to their…

Indie news Alpha Beta Gamer 29 Sept

Doctrineers – Beta Sign Up

Doctrineers is a turn-based strategy game built around fast gameplay and strategic variety, where no two matches ever unfold the same way thanks to its unique bidding and…

Indie news Indie Retro News 28 Sept

Solseed: Journey to Spring - An updated retro adventure for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K by marinovic

Indie news Indie Retro News 28 Sept

Frogger Junior - Love the classic Arcade frogger? Then check out this new Amstrad GX4000 and ZX Spectrum NEXT game!

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VOID LANCER - A rather decent C64 Shoot 'em up from Snow-G

With Deadlock's latest updating promising six new heroes, over 10,000 new voice lines and too much more to mention, it's clear Valve are still pretty committed to it

Deskrawl: Idle ARPG

My Favorite Incremental Roguelike Is Finally Out! - Dicevaders [Sponsored]

Mechwarrior meets Bannerlord? - Drop Command

Neighbors: Suburban Warfare

Dicevaders

TOEM 2

Endless Rails

The Merlies

Petal Crash 2

Gamer Stop Simulator

Cosmo Cat: A Cozy Desktop Idler

Dog in the Machine

Tiny Flock

Wizzo PopOut

Blades & Battles

The Great Release

Late Order

KUNTEYNIR

Foxy's Potion Shop

Cricket Management 26

Amnesia Bullet

Steam's discounts and events tab will soon be fully algorithm-driven

Sometimes the thing you need is a wonderfully ethereal physics platformer jam game where you are a little round guy with very stretchy arms called Big Stretch

Former Dying Light franchise lead joins Bloober Team horror imprint Broken Mirror Games

Valve is changing Steam's homepage discounts and events section to go the way of the algorithm to get you to look at, and buy, obviously, more games

"You will not be using belts": Satisfactory's first expansion isn't the same game set underground - there's a whole new set of resource-moving toys to master

Naughty Dog is working on new The Last Of Us 'projects'

After trading space babies and running people over with a truck, Strange Scaffold want you to organise a haunted library in Something is Wrong with the Library

Control Resonant director lays out case for avoiding excessive 'yellow paint'

'We were constantly overshooting our capacity:' Arc Raiders exec says success resulted in burnout

Hive Time (Cheeseness, Mimness)

Spaghetti Celesti: Devour The Heavens (PUNCAKE Délicieux)

Tyrant Tactics: Birth of Revolution – Beta Sign Up

Stunt Paradise 2 – Open Beta

Doctrineers – Beta Sign Up

Solseed: Journey to Spring - An updated retro adventure for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K by marinovic

Frogger Junior - Love the classic Arcade frogger? Then check out this new Amstrad GX4000 and ZX Spectrum NEXT game!