Indie HAUNTED: Escape the Dollhouse – Register for Beta
HAUNTED: Escape the Dollhouse is a 2-4 player asymmetrical co-op puzzle game now in beta sign-up with outside clues and trapped friends.
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Indie Stockroom Malady – Beta Demo
Stockroom Syndrome places players in a 1996 Scandinavian furniture superstore on a night shift. The core loop combines flat-pack assembly, showroom furnishing, …
Indie Danu: Rise of the Templars – Beta Registration
Beta sign-up is open for Danu: Rise of the Templars, a medieval fantasy game mixing open-world MMORPG and co-op action RPG. No launch details yet.
Indie GHOST EATER – Join the Beta
GHOST EATER combines hack n slash combat, manga visuals, and a dense sci-fi world; its beta sign-up notice first appeared via Alpha Beta Gamer.
Indie Clumsy Claws – Join the Beta
Clumsy Claws is a physics co-op party game with wagon chaos. A beta sign-up post signals early testing; no launch date or platform yet.
Indie GTA 6 writer says the franchise has rarely centered on national politics outside GTA 4's War on Terror, and the new game won't get "too specific"
GTA 6 will skewer politics via signs, calls and radio, but Rockstar avoids exact events. It revisits the American dream amid wealth and crisis.
Indie "Even knowing how it ends, I'd do it again": Hellblade studio Ninja Theory appears to initiate the layoff process
Ninja Theory staff face redundancy as Microsoft moves to close the studio, leaving an unfinished Senua game and Hellblade's future uncertain.
Indie Banjo-Kazooie: Recompiled developer says claims that generative AI accelerates PC ports of classic games are either “false” or miss the point
Banjo-Kazooie Recompiled dev says AI does not speed up N64 PC ports; true porting needs decompilation, preservation and polish.
Indie Noematica pitches itself as a lucid-dream-inspired, multidimensional The Sims alternative that proudly promises it will never nickel-and-dime players with DLC.
Noematica: Digital Dollhouse is a surreal Sims-like life sim featuring dreamlike visuals, town management, memory-based skills, and a no-DLC model.
Indie Wilderings: The Lost Spring – Join the Beta
Wilderings: The Lost Spring is a creature-collecting roguelite where players befriend Hântu and heal corrupted lands. Beta details remain limited.
Indie Dwelltris – Join the Beta
Dwelltris is a beta spherical Tetris-like puzzle. Players stack blocks on a curved surface and keep Core Stability above zero; launch details pending.
Indie Clear the Snow: Beta Registration
Clear the Snow beta registration reveals a cozy four-player snow-clearing game in early testing, with no date, platform, or launch details yet.
Indie “Programmers will never forgive me for this level”: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 features a rotatable “fleshmetal” puzzle map that drove its developers insane
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 introduces Vicious Circles, a rotating fleshmetal puzzle level designed to test navigation, timing, and spatial awareness.
Indie Beta Registration: TIL They Croak
TIL They Croak is presented as a melee-only boomer shooter in the retro first-person shooter revival. Instead of guns, players fight enemies in close quarters, …
Indie Sunday Newspaper Roundup
The roundup highlights Papers, Please's border dread, Gunman Contracts' VR glitches, and E-Day's Xbox bonus and layoff worries.
Indie Pig Iron – Kickstarter Preview
Pig Iron is a grimy mech FPS demo where a bioengineered pig pilots a rusted six-ton machine against escaped meat organisms.
Indie What’s everyone playing this weekend?
As October arrives, the team shares what it plans to play this weekend: James is reviewing an NDA game full of clanging sounds, Edwin may be trying paddle-and-t…
Indie Join the Beta for Durga: The Lionhearted
Durga: The Lionhearted beta sign-up lets players test a story-driven RPG set in ancient Indian forests, helping improve quests, bugs, and pacing.
Indie Invisum Piscium: Beta Demonstration
Invisum Piscium is a beta demo atmospheric exploration game built on mood, listening, and fragmented conversations, with release details unconfirmed.
Indie Project Confrontation – Public Beta Launch
Project Confrontation's open beta tests tactical third-person squad combat, but key release details remain unconfirmed.