One month ago today, one of the biggest game development platforms out there, Unity, announced policies you’ve probably heard far too much about by now. Thankfully, after a month of extreme backlash towards Unity’s attempts to nickel-and-dime their userbase, the Unity CEO John Riccitiello has announced his leave from the company. After this situation and …
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If you somehow haven’t heard of it, one of 2023’s biggest sleeper hits for indie games is DREDGE, the fishing game set in depressing and dreary waters surrounding Lovecraftian cryptids and horrors. This incredibly engaging title has just hit a million sales total, as revealed by the devs in an interview with Game Developer. The …
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A few times every year, Steam has an event for all the PC gamers who want to try many different up-and-coming games, mostly indie titles that need to get their name out there and are launching soon called Steam Next Fest. Naturally, it’s that time of the year again, and Next Fest 2023 starts back …
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Die Gute Fabrik, creators of Sportsfriends and Mutazione, have dropped the release date along with a new trailer for Saltsea Chronicles. It’s their new story-driven adventure game where you sail a ship and meet quirky characters with branching dialogue trees impacting where you go, all told in a beautifully done art style made entirely of …
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Deep Rock Galactic, the hectic procedurally-generated co-op FPS, is finally getting something of a spinoff, one more focused on roguelite gameplay, called Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core. Today, we’ve reached the initial teaser trailer and a complete roadmap for what we can expect from Rogue Core and when to play it. On top of these …
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Annapurna Interactive, my favorite indie publisher, has finally dropped a much anticipated new puzzle game called COCOON. It’s specifically COCOON, not Cocoon. Make sure to get that right; it’ll be on the test. This adventure takes you through recursive worlds that can be picked up and stored inside each other, making for one of the …
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COCOON’s gameplay is primarily chill, relaxing, and no-pressure puzzle solving with very little depending on timing, but the exception to this is the game’s challenging boss fights. These come at the end of a level; beating them gives you access to a new ability to use with the orb you were just inside, and they’re …
If you’ve been playing COCOON, you may have wandered off the path a few times and found something called a Moon Ancestor. These guys are the only really hidden things in the entire game, with the rest of the puzzles and exploration contributing directly to progression. However, these guys can be hard to find, usually …
Here’s an exciting new game you might not have heard of before, and it’s releasing in just two months. Phantom Blade Executioners is a spinoff of Phantom Blade Zero, and it’s a hand-drawn sidescrolling action RPG. It seems primarily focused on a massive and in-depth combat system with incredibly stunning hand-drawn visuals, like a true …
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Earlier this year, ConcernedApe announced he was making a minor, less content-focused update for Stardew Valley, primarily to focus on adding modding support. Still, if there’s anything Terraria has taught me, indie devs get carried away with minor updates, and now Stardew 1.6 is packed with a ton of new content that will excite pretty …
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