Independent games worth your attention: new indie releases, Steam demos, festival highlights and hidden gems.
Video Game Menu is a Steam parody where browsing settings, absurd toggles, and hidden mini games replace conventional gameplay levels.
As September ends, the Rock Paper Shotgun team shares their weekend gaming plans. Jeremy plays Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, Ollie troubleshoots a …
Terrible Lizards is a horror parkour game set in a decaying roadside dinosaur museum on Route 66, hiding something dark below. A free playable beta demo is live…
Hytale's biggest content drop yet, Chapter 1, arrives October 12 with a goblin-focused theme. It adds the game's first handcrafted dungeon, a multi-phase fire-b…
At Gamescom, the author played three 20-minute slices of Total War: Warhammer 40,000: battle and campaign tutorials plus a scenario where Space Marines faced a …
Armed Fantasia, a JRPG pitched as a spiritual successor to Wild Arms, has been cancelled by Digital Bros, parent of publisher 505 Games, four years after its 20…
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios is testing a PvE-only mode from October 13-20 after discovering a large and growing share of players never attack others. I…
Fallgrade is a first-person horror exploration game set in an analog concrete nightmare where players survive by manipulating space itself. Core mechanics inclu…
Greedy is a co-op horror extraction game with a charming twist: instead of soldiers, players control raccoons infiltrating procedurally generated ancient ruins …
LOVE alt delete is an upcoming 2027 psychological horror visual novel with a Y2K cybercore aesthetic. Players beta test romanceable AI chatbots called MUSEs fro…
Iron Bramble, the next game from the Rusted Moss developers, is a pixel art metroidvania set in a cyber-gothic megastructure where humanity lives in robotic hus…
Bungie announced Marathon is moving beyond pure extraction shooter design. The delayed Symbiosis update will add a PvE mode and an experimental PvP Team Deathma…
Sisyphus - The Walk Down, from Play It Faster Games, launches October 7th free on iPhone and iPad. Players push a boulder uphill, then follow it back down acros…
People Playground, a Steam sandbox game about tormenting ragdolls, has had its Steam Workshop disabled after another malware-infected mod passed moderation. Dev…
Microsoft has filed US patent 20260183672A1, 'Generative Narrative Game Experience With Player Feedback,' describing a generative AI system that watches players…
Spanish studio Deconstructeam, known for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and The Red Strings Club, will launch Virtue and a Sledgehammer on Steam October 27th. Play…
Microsoft has filed a patent for a machine learning system that analyzes gameplay context, video, audio, and game state data to determine the least disruptive m…
Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley says his viral on-stage speech about his Fallout 4 first-person mod was not planned. He explains he was simply filli…
Nighthawks, a vampire RPG from Wadjet Eye Games inspired by Edward Hopper's painting, delivers brilliant narrative vignettes about freedom and prejudice through…
Microsoft's Xbox division is reportedly planning hundreds of additional layoffs and studio consolidation this week, following a brutal summer that saw roughly 3…
