Includes any articles focused on indie-developed titles or projects.
Google has announced its competitor to the just-released Apple Arcade, the Google Play Pass. Android users will be able to subscribe to the Google Play Pass service starting this week for an introductory price of $1.99 a month. Subscribers gain access to a catalog of over 350 games and apps that are “completely unlocked.” So…
The upcoming PS4 adventure game Spirit of the North had a new gameplay trailer debut on Monday. According to the developer, the game will “send players on a quiet journey as a fox through a beautiful and mystic world. After awakening the slumbering Spirit of the North, players are drawn into an adventure of discovery…
Bus Simulator just launched this week on PS4 and Xbox One. After firing it up and playing a few routes, my first impressions are unexpectedly positive. To be quite honest, I expected that I would loathe Bus Simulator. This is a game about driving and picking up passengers on a mass transit bus, after all….
Apple’s new game subscription service, Apple Arcade, is now available for iOS 13 Beta users. The service officially goes live for all users on Thursday, offering up an all-you-can-game smorgasbord of games to play on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV for $4.99 a month. So far, there are nearly 60 games available, and…
Canadian indie developer Lillymo Games is bringing the 16-bit arcade-style space shooter Habroxia to North America on PS4, PS Vita, and Nintendo Switch later this month. Habroxia is an homage to classic Konami space shooters like Gradius and Life Force (known as Salamander in Japan). Players blast their way through fifteen levels with boss fights, rescue…
Every Sunday we highlight the top game deals of the week from our sister site, Game Deals 365. This week you can save on a number of racing games like Wreckfest and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, several Nintendo Switch titles, and older AAA titles like The Witcher 3 and Grand Theft Auto V. Game Deals…
Epic Games Store is giving away the indie game Conarium. It is free until September 19. Once you claim them, they’re yours to keep. Conarium is “a chilling Lovecraftian game, which follows a gripping story involving four scientists and their endeavor to challenge what we normally consider to be the ‘absolute’ limits of nature.” The game…
Yooka-Laylee is getting a follow-up in the form of The Impossible Lair. The developers livestreamed nearly an hour of gameplay to give fans a taste of what’s to come. The developer livestream focuses on the game’s tonics system. Tonics are game-modifying potions that were first encountered in the original game. Team 17 has confirmed that…
The hack-and-slash action-adventure Blasphemous is out now on PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One. Blasphemous features Metroidvania gameplay as players take on “a punishing journey through the cursed world of Cvstodia.” It comes from Spanish developer The Game Kitchen. Here’s more background on the game’s story directly from the indie developer: Blighted by a foul curse known…
The latest expansion for the free-to-play Path of Exile is out today on PC. Console players will get to play Path of Exile: Blight on PS4 and Xbox One this coming Monday. Grinding Gear Games says that Path of Exile: Blight “merges the exciting action combat of PoE with the strategy of classic tower defense…
Team 17 has announced that Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair will be released on October 8. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is a follow-up to the 2.5D platformer Yooka-Laylee, which was released back in 2017. According to the developers: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair sees the duo unite in order to rescue members of Queen Phoebee’s Royal Beettalion Guard from the dastardly Capital B, in a…
Redeemer has the same relentless, cheesy, cathartic energy as a Steven Segal flick from the ’80s. Unfortunately, it plays more like one of those bootlegged Chinese knockoffs in the Village Pantry bargain bin. Don’t get me wrong: just like hosting a terrible movie night, there is a time and place for something like Redeemer. I…
Slay the Spire launched in June as a digital download on Nintendo Switch. Now you’ll soon be able to get a physical copy too. An Amazon product page revealed the physical edition. It will launch on October 25 and retail for $29.99. It’s available now for pre-order. Slay the Spire is a roguelike card game…
Bandai Namco just released the first trailer for Little Nightmares 2, which is coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. If you’re unfamiliar, Little Nightmares was released back in 2017 as a puzzle-platformer horror adventure game. Tarsier Studios developed the game, which fairly proved popular with fans and critics alike. Critics praised the…
No one likes to move. It’s time-consuming. It can be back-breaking work. But in video game form, Moving Out looks like a real joy. Moving Out is a new physics-based moving simulator that looks like a cross between Animal Crossing and Overcooked. It was already announced for PC and was just confirmed for PS4, Xbox…
Yacht Club Games revealed a new Shovel Knight adventure today called Shovel Knight Dig. “As a joint development project between Nitrome and Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight Dig has been in development for more than a year!” Yacht Club Games announced on YouTube. “It’s got quite a ways to go still, but we wanted to…
The Nintendo Switch is about to get another zany indie title. What the Golf? is coming to the system. The game was announced for PC back in 2018 as a physics-based golf parody. The project won backing from fans through crowdfunding site Fig, raising over $60,000. Now the indie developers at the Danish studio Triband…
I’m often on the look-out for games that are different. Bee Simulator fits that profile rather nicely. In it, you see the world through the eyes of a bee. You play as one of nature’s most important pollinators as you set up a home with the rest of your colony in one of Central Park’s…
