Independent games worth your attention: new indie releases, Steam demos, festival highlights and hidden gems.
Microsoft is moving to close Ninja Theory, the Cambridge-based studio behind the Hellblade series, after two separate sale agreements fell through. The proposed…
Road to Jukai, a first-person psychological horror game, has launched its open beta. Players take the role of a night-shift taxi driver in rural Japan, picking …
Rebel Wolves will release the first major patch for The Blood of Dawnwalker in early October. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz told Eurogamer it adds an easie…
Kingmakers, an upcoming action-strategy hybrid from Redemption Road, has opened beta sign-ups. Players travel back to medieval England armed with modern weapons…
JSAUX has released two faceplates for Valve's Steam Machine: a $100 E-Ink panel and a $90 PixelMatrix LED panel. Both support performance monitoring, clocks, we…
Expendabots, a cooperative horror extraction game for 1-4 players, has opened its beta to everyone ahead of release. Players control cheap, replaceable robots s…
BRAINSHELL, a new indie psychological horror game, is now accepting beta sign-ups. The game's premise centers on a world where computers run on living human bra…
Takashi Iizuka, Sonic series producer, revealed Sega executives nearly canceled the entire franchise during its lowest points. In an interview, he credited the …
Packed Lair is out now on Steam, combining base building, Tetris-style spatial puzzles, roguelike drafting and auto battling. Players take the role of an evil o…
Syndicate of Souls has opened beta sign-ups, presenting itself as a throwback MOBA that prioritizes tactical thinking over mechanical speed. The game emphasizes…
Break The Night is an early-in-development hack 'n' slash action game with a playable combat demo debuting at SAGExpo. It follows three roommates trapped in a r…
Yui, creator of popular co-op mods for Elden Ring and Dark Souls, has released an alpha version of a seamless co-op mod for Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First S…
Indie developers report that Steam's discoverability is improving. Despite thousands of annual releases, some small studios are seeing their games reach more pl…
Dressmaker, a cozy crafting indie game inspired by real dressmaking, launched on Steam on September 21 and reached number nine on the platform's top seller char…
Bit671 invites readers to complete its 2026 Indie Games Survey, a quick one-minute questionnaire with simple questions. The survey runs across multiple sites, s…
Well Dweller, a dark fairy-tale Metroidvania by solo developer Kyle Thompson, is now available on PS5 priced at $19.99/£17.99 with an extra PS Plus discount. Th…
