As if the previous fifteen indie games weren’t enough for you, here’s another collection of interesting looking indie projects in development that you should most likely add to your wish list. Keep scrolling to at least discover it some that will catch your eye (wallet).
Whenever I’m out the indiebat signal, I always get about ten times more emails than I could ever have covered. Which means I feel guilty. My method is to randomly click between hundreds of emails, which seems just as fair as any other method. But I still feel guilty. At least those guys got lucky, I suppose, but the point remains: there are too many games. Stop it. Stop making all these games. think of my guilt
Wait no, don’t stop making the games below because they’ve got my interest now. These can be manufactured. And all the others that are going to be great – those can be done too. Just the bad games, okay? Stop making the bad games. Glad we cleared that up. I am tired. Continue reading.
Developer: Clockwork Pile
Release: 2022
OMG, it’s a cross between Project Zomboid and XCOM. Shardpunk: Minfall is a survival squad-based strategy game that appears to be a combination of wandering RPG, tactical turn-based combat, and survival resource management. Which both intimidates and seduces me. Be sure to check out the trailer above because the more I watched, the more I wanted to play.
Developer: SmoothBrainDev
Released: Fall 2022
Yes Yes Yes. Make as many 90’s style shooters as possible, please, indie game industry. Since DUSKi can’t eat enough of it. incision looks exactly how I’m looking for it, with its grotesque gibbers, creepy build-like graphics and heavy quake vibrations.
The great thing about this so-called boomer shooter genre is that they are like us remember First person shooter games of the 90’s, more than what they are was. Nostalgia smoothes all rough edges, and games like this cater to that. This one will come out in three episodes, each consisting of seven maps, and will hopefully start this fall. Can not Hardly Wait.
Developer: 502 Studios
Release: 2022
This is such a beautiful concept! Initial developers 502 Studios are creating a collection of arcade games to be played in an in-game arcade, with the intention that players rush between them and try to reach the high scores. Aside from that, these leaderboards not only recognize whoever stumbles into your local arcade, but all other players in the rest of the world as well.
The games aren’t all old-school arcade games either, which is certainly overcrowded country. Instead they seem to have very different ideas, little action rogue-lites, complicated Puzzle bobble-Puzzle games, single screen shoot ’em ups… My only concern is the name as “502” won’t catch anyone’s attention. The arcade of the world may be? I do not know. You don’t pay me a consulting fee.
Interesting tidbit: 502 say when this comes to Switch it will be the first-ever Guatemalan game on a Nintendo platform!
Developer: Selva Interactive
Release: 2022
OR WILL IT? (see above) Because illuminaria is also a Guatemalan game! There’s no word yet on if it’s coming to Switch (I’ve asked), but I really hope it is so this can become an official race. My personal idiocy aside, this looks like a really fun time, a game where you control a swarm of robots with the intention of gathering resources and building bases, along with some tower defense combat. Check out the trailer because it looks like there’s a lot to do.
Developer: Noisy Head Games
Release: 2022
Well, this game better have some good sound –Beyond the Long Night is created by a team of three former Frontier audio developers. It’s a twin-stick roguelite in which you float through a beautiful pixelated world on a bunch of balloons, with what looks like some really interesting boingy attacks. It’s successfully Kickstarted itself and aims to be “uplifting” and “charming,” which may be right up your alley.
Developer: Triheart Studio
Released: Now (Early Access)
There is a law that states that all game genres must be traversed with deck building before the Great Curse can be lifted from the land, and Metroid Prime 4 can be released. golfie fight the good fight here, combining deck building with… golf. yes gulf A “run-based roguelike mini-golf deck builder” says its Steam blurb in case you thought I lied.
It’s been in Early Access for a few days and it looks so utterly crappy that I can’t resist taking a look.
Developer: Cyberpooch Studios
From: TBA
A love letter to freelancer is probably something that a lot of people want to read. That’s the pitch for Solara: Starlight Horizonwhich intends to offer players the opportunity to “trade, mine, hunt for bounties or smuggle illegal goods”.
“I feel like freelancer‘ explains the developer, ‘more than any other space sim they made space ‘alive’ through the way they handled travel within and between systems, and I want to recapture that feeling.”
Developer: ub4q
Release: 2023
A visual novel with all the sexy times you could expect but with an atypical art style and a focus on things that go wrong. Or actually “train accidents, trysts and betrayals”, as the description says. Eight years in development, this is the work of solo developer Ruqiyah, dubbed ub4q, with intentions of releasing it sometime next year.
According to Ruqiyah, if you go on a road trip to “take down a bully,” you have “the ability to befriend, bonk, betray, or boost” four party members. I really like the darker tone on it.
Developer: KodoLine
Release date: September 15, 2022
I’ll argue that when I see it it’s a good sign a first screenshot from Stardeus and catch myself saying, “Oh Impressive“, noisy. A “wow” that includes both “that looks tremendously impressive” and “my brain will never get through this”. Luckily you’re not an idiot like me, so you’re much more likely to love the idea of such a complex shipbuilding and resource management space game where you explore a procedurally generated universe.
Take a look at the trailer above to get an idea of the scale. Lithuanian indie team Kodo Linija plans to bring this to Early Access in September.
Developer: 9FingerGames
From: TBA
Well, that looks and sounds delightfully repulsive. A Metroidvania Me-Do in which you play a hivemind alien monstrosity that murders enemies, absorbing their consciousness and memories, then wears their skulls. Meanwhile, it slurps and creeps creepily about its levels. You’re trying to find a cure for a virus, so it’s okay for you to be like this. It is in order.
I love the animation details in the trailer, like how your alien’s tentacles are holding the wall or how it morphs into different shapes while jumping and gliding. This really reminds me of two favorites, carrion and MO crazy.
Developer: Vertical Reach
From: TBA
Ooh, give me the PS1 horror vibes. Alex Young is trapped in a strange old mansion, and wouldn’t you know, it’s packed with traps, puzzles, and all sorts of ways she can die.
It’s more brain-focused than combat, but with a seemingly constant sense of danger lurking and a bunch of other prisoners trying to rescue you as you go. It’s really cool to see a PS1 horror game made into a full length game and I’m really interested in following the progress of this game.
Developer: Excellent Rectangle
Release date: December 30, 2022
Like everyone no, there hasn’t been a good hockey video game since NHL 97. Don’t @ me, Puckfaces. Maybe band to band can break that truth by combining the noble sport of smashing ice with… roguelite elements. Seriously, check out the trailer above because I need you to have that “I’m sorry, what the fuck?” too. moment at the very end.
It’s in the middle a kick starterbut has always iced his goal (that’s like a hockey ball term, isn’t it?), with more than a week to go.
It doesn’t matter how good this game ends up being because it’s already a winner in my heart thanks to the developer’s name. look up, look at it
Developer: Psychic Software
From: TBA
I’ve typed “RPG” many times today, but not yet in relation to what comes to mind spontaneously when I read the term. For me, these three letters mean Baldur’s gate, Planescape: Agony, this kind of business. and The Story of the Necromancer evokes the same vibes.
It has spells and characters with circles on their feet and Skellingtons to hit with swords. you know, a correct ROLE PLAYING GAME. It also features 150 NPCs to chat with, a whole story full of quests, and the turn-based combat your grandmother used to do.
Developer: DirectDoggo
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There’s not much science behind what I’m including in these lists, but starting an email with the words “A game about dating phones and laying eggs” will do the trick. No phone dating sim, a phone dating sim.
Dialtown came out in February and I can’t understand a universe where I haven’t heard about it. As its own store page says, this is a game where “most people have phones for heads”. Oh, and dogs have gramophones for heads, while cats have replaced theirs with keyboards. It’s a visual novel, of course, and you’re looking for that one cute phone to settle down with because of a desire to “find a dank pit to lay your eggs in.”
Developer: Dapper Dog Digital
Release: 2022
And of course we end with a game about playing a vaccine based on pig DNA injected into a dog’s body.
Bio Gun is a metroidvania pop that takes place in your dog’s super cartoonish inner life Host, with some twin-stick shooter action and neat old-school 2D frame-by-frame animation. All in the name of saving the canine species.
