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Indie Lovecraftian fishing game Dredge is gonna be a movie
Dredge is going to be a movie.
Open Roads review: Take it slow and savor the drama
Open Roads tells a twisting tale about generational trauma with all the comfort and warmth of an early 2000s network drama like Gilmore Girls or Charmed.
ULTROS and the palette of surreal sci-fi
Every scene in ULTROS is packed with detail and brilliant color. This is what surreal sci-fi looks like to Niklas Åkerblad, AKA El Huervo.
Open Roads preview: Bring me to life in 2003
Open Roads feels like a mix of Gone Home, Life is Strange and What Remains of Edith Finch, in the best possible way.
Here's the cream of the crop from the Day of the Devs Game Awards stream
Day of the Devs is awesome. Here are the new indie games, release window updates and hot titles from the 2023 Game Awards Edition of the show.
The Game Awards raises an old question: What does indie mean?
One of the titles nominated for Best Independent Game at The Game Awards 2023 is not indie. Here, we'll discuss a framework for deciding what's indie and what's not.
Viral indie game Only Up! delisted from Steam
The developer of Only Up!, a viral indie climbing game that blew up in popularity on Twitch streams, has delisted the title from Steam. After receiving accusations of using infringing assets and promoting NFTs, the game’s creator said they plan to “put the game behind” them due to stress.
The cozy cat game that escaped from Valve
Little Kitty, Big City is basically the opposite of Left 4 Dead, Half-Life or Counter-Strike -- which is surprising, considering its creator helped design those games over the past 17 years.
Indie games have entered the era of bespoke publishing
For anyone with an eye on video game news, it’s been hard to ignore the recent rise of names like Annapurna Interactive, Devolver Digital, Private Division, Humble, Epic Games and Netflix tied to independent projects. The distribution process for indie developers has shifted over the past few years from a self-publishing-first model, to one that prioritizes deal-making and acquisitions. For the moment, this shift is powering a small but highly visible boom in the world of indie games.
Witchy narrative adventure ‘The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood’ hits PC and Switch on August 16th
Deconstructeam announced today that its upcoming divination-based game, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, arrives on August 16th. The player-choice-driven narrative adventure will be available for PC and Nintendo Switch. In addition, a new launch trailer gives us a closer glimpse at the title’s tarot deck building and weighty decision-making.
'Storyteller' is the latest hot indie game coming to Netflix
Storyteller is a game about writing, word puzzles and the twisted tales we tell ourselves just to get through the day, and it'll be playable via the Netflix app on September 26th.
'to a T' is a coming-of-age game about a T-posing teenager
In to a T, players have to navigate the world as a teenager who can't lower their arms from an outstretched, T-shaped position.
Bloober Team is done making psychological horror games
Layers of Fear was Bloober Team’s final psychological horror game. The studio didn’t advertise this fact, but behind the scenes, a switch flipped weeks ago: When the remastered and expanded Layers of Fear collection came out on June 15th, it marked the end of a phase that was known internally as Bloober Team 2.0.
‘Vampire Survivors’ is getting an animated television series
Vampire Survivors, the addictively casual indie game, is getting an animated television series. Known for its rich and cinematic backstory to the same degree as narrative-driven classics Space Invaders, BurgerTime and Dig Dug, Vampire Survivors is a pick-up-and-play casual game with simple 2D character sprites. Media company Story Kitchen will partner with the game’s creator, Luca Galante (founder of developer poncle), to make the series.
Build tarot decks and seduce a god in 'The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood'
The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood is a layered narrative experience about a witch, an asteroid and revenge. Build tarot decks, summon a god and manipulate your friends on PC and Switch later this year.
'Hades' leaves Game Pass on August 31st
One of the best games of 2020 is leaving Game Pass.
'Rollerdrome' preview: Twitchy dystopian bloodsport is my new favorite genre
Rollerdrome challenges players to shoot their way through enemies while completing ridiculous roller-skating tricks, unraveling a dystopian mystery along the way. It comes from Roll7, the studio behind OlliOlli — it just has four more wheels and a lot more guns than those games.
‘As Dusk Falls’ review: A sluggish small-town soap opera
As Dusk Falls is an ambitious narrative adventure game that fails to execute its grandest ideas, hemorrhaging tension along the way. It attempts to tell a mature, action-packed story about family and loss, but repeated missteps in logic and emotion strip the story of its power.
'Time Flies' turns the life of a housefly into a cute game about existential dread
I didn’t expect to laugh while playing Time Flies, but I did, out loud on the Summer Game Fest show floor. It’s a deceptively simple game with monochromatic, MS Paint-style visuals and a clear premise: You’re a fly and you have a short time to live a full life in a random house.
PlayStation indie darling 'Bugsnax' heads to Xbox, Steam and Switch on April 28th
After nearly two years of PlayStation and Epic Games Store exclusivity, indie darling Bugsnax is making its way to additional platforms.