If YOU would like a free list of my favorite weird indie games I played in 2025 I have compiled the best of the best of my monthly game recommendation newsletter I write for @pigsquad.com!!

Hear ye hear ye, @marlowedobbe.com's "best of" Truffle Hunter Newsletter is now available to view! Check out an awesome curated list of indie game goodness, gathered from 2025's newsletters: 🏆 bit.ly/trufflehunte... 🏆

Happy Holidays, everyone! We'll get some more events on the calendar soon. Until then, have a great end of the year :) If you want to keep chatting with community friends in the meantime, feel free to say hi in discord.gg/pigsquad 🌲

And that's a wrap, thanks so much for the great game! You can catch the VOD at www.twitch.tv/videos/26475... Learn more about @harkforsooth.bsky.social's Haste at harkforsooth.itch.io/haste and about Ragon's art at ragonia.com

They always make me run a holiday adventure, what if I want to do a DUNGEON? nobody cares what I think (I'm kidding, this is always fun and you should come watch it!)

They’re letting me draw again for better or for worse

Tonight, it's our last stream of the year! Join us in twitch.tv/PIGSquad at 7pm PT 🌟 We're playing Haste, a TTRPG locally made by @harkforsooth.bsky.social with live doodles by @ragonia.bsky.social and random weird polls throughout the evening 🌲 Woo!

I've only recently discovered @pigsquad.com and I love playing and reviewing indie games, so I'm checking out this town hall. Go give them a view and a follow! #indiegames

Starting shortly, chat with you soon!

It's Town Hall tonight! Pop into twitch.tv/PIGSquad at 7pm PT to chat with the nonprofit organizing team, ask questions, and learn more about cool plans for next year (like PIGCON)!

Our last stream of the year is on Thursday! Community members will be playing and live doodling the events of a role playing game, and our supporters get to decide what the theme is. If you want to help, pop on in and make a suggestion! www.patreon.com/posts/146010...

We're hosting PIGCON next year with @pigsquad.com and we want to know what you want out of that if you are a pdx gamedev or want to join the community, even just for a sweet delicious magical weekend next year. Fill out the form here if you have ideas and thoughts: forms.gle/4zJcy6sW2YFb...

Had a blast with everyone for our Year End Showcase! Thanks for supporting fellow devs and raising money for the children's hospital 🤩 Next week, we're doing Town Hall and our TTRPG game live on Twitch, Wednesday & Thursday! twitch.tv/pigsquad See ya soon >:)

TODAY'S THE DAY: ✨OFFICIAL LAST DAY OF SHIPPING ✨OFFICIAL LAST DAY OF OUR END-OF-YEAR SALE - 20% OFF W CODE HOLIDAY20 ✨NATIONAL AMBROSIA DAY, THE "SALAD" MADE OF CANNED FRUIT AND MARSHMALLOWS (I dunno, announcing three things just felt better) knaveofcups.com

TONIGHT! At Urbanite in SE Portland ~ It's our Year End Showcase 🎊 We'll be hanging out with tons of games to play and pals to meet from 7pm-11pm, you can RSVP at pigsquad.com/yearendshowc... and bring a game you worked on this year if you'd like!

NEW FOR THE HOLIDAYS: MYSTERY BOARD GAMES! ✨ Let us choose a board game for you! We added TONS of new titles to our lineup this year, from even more artistic, humorous Oink Games to tiny barbecues, tiny mint trucks, and tiny versions of BIG board games like Risk and Betrayal at House on the Hill

In addition to the Year End Showcase next week on Monday, we have a few more close-the-year events this month! We'll be discussing big plans for 2026 during our Town Hall on December 17th, and we're finishing the year with a silly TTRPG stream on December 18th! Both on twitch.tv/PIGSquad 😊

Portlanders, come see me and my friend Naty’s art show opening on Dec. 5th: Cat People 🐈🐈‍⬛ at @sonnyshouse.bsky.social It’s gonna be 12 new paintings of cats in costumes/outfits: mermaids, angels, jesters, goths, cowboys, and MORE!

Are we really already only 5 days away from Wholesome Snack 2025? 🗓️🥳 As your calendars fill up with winter season get-togethers, to-dos, and errands, hopefully this bite-sized showcase will be a joyful and relaxing respite! ✨See you on December 9th at noon PT / 3 pm ET! ✨ 🔗 wholesomegames.com

These items (and more) were just added to the auction, too 😏 Check it out at bit.ly/pigsquadauct... and support charity!

The OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital & Extra Life silent auction is live! Items provided by our community will be available on this site through the evening of our Year End Showcase on December 8th, ending while we're at the event 🎉 Check out the auction here: bit.ly/pigsquadauct...

Congrats to everyone who submitted a project!! Very excited to check everything out and then see you with games at next week's Year End Showcase :) If you barely missed the deadline or didn't FINISH your game, hit us up and we can help you get a late submission in. We want to see your progress 🧼

Doing an impromptu hangout tonight to hear people's thoughts about ideas & plans for PIGSquad in 2026 if you wanna pop by..! Tonight at Black Water (off NE Sandy), drop in in the 5pm-9pm range :)

Stumptmas 2025 begins Wednesday Dec 3rd! Watch live at: www.twitch.tv/stumptgamers and www.youtube.com/@stumpt

How we all doing on "Finish Your Game" Jam? This is our last weekend! Again, you can of course finish a project, but progress pages, devlogs, and updates are welcome! You can submit your project update here: itch.io/jam/finishyo...

🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨 For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction. Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale itch.io

Happy holidays, everyone! Note that we're talking about lots of cool stuff coming up in 2026 via the virtual PIGSquad Town Hall event Wednesday, December 17th at 7pm! Details online now :) pigsquad.com/events-list/...

“Make a Thing, Make it Now” Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation about Molly Moon, David Lynch and more! www.tcj.com/make-a-thing...

@johnriggs.bsky.social has published 6 games for NES, GBA, Dreamcast, Genesis, Steam, and Switch. Here is his story on how he was able to make it happen without knowing how to code. Panel recording at youtu.be/Pb4uyOchtoY #prge #prge2025 #retrogaming

See ya'll in a sec :)

Hello, fine folks! We have a surprise special announcement stream tonight at 8pm PT to announce something really big. Feel free to hop in and hang then 🌟 www.twitch.tv/pigsquad

See you tonight! Come by to play games, meet devs, and give feedback on the games you play! You can bring your game to get feedback on it, too >:) Details here! pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Refactored the battle logic and figured out a better way to handle 2D sprites in a 3D world with rotatable camera. The neat thing is I only need 2 versions of each animation: front and back facing. I can flip either of those horizontally to account for the other two angles #godot #gamedev #indiedev

See you tonight! Come by to play games, meet devs, and give feedback on the games you play! You can bring your game to get feedback on it, too >:) Details here! pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Oh! Tomorrow night we're also going to be distributing some flyers for our Year End event if anyone wants to help post them around town! Hit us up if you want the file to print >:)

Oh! Tomorrow night we're also going to be distributing some flyers for our Year End event if anyone wants to help post them around town! Hit us up if you want the file to print >:)

Tomorrow night! Come out and play some games, everyone needs your feedback 😍

The shop closes tonight! Get your Cubepig Castle shirt here: pigsquad.com/store/cubepi... Huge thanks to everyone who picked one up - you're supporting the nonprofit in a ton of ways (and also making yourself look really 🆒)

The shop closes tonight! Get your Cubepig Castle shirt here: pigsquad.com/store/cubepi... Huge thanks to everyone who picked one up - you're supporting the nonprofit in a ton of ways (and also making yourself look really 🆒)

time to work on the dang burger game www.twitch.tv/freedrull_

last day to get your own!!!

This Thursday! It's Feedback Night! 🗣📝 Bring your game out and set it up or just pop by to leave some notes to help along the development of awesome local games. All ages / free / wooooo! Details here: pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December. Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍 pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...

Really happy with this article! Great to see more interest in game making at local events and see tons more people exposed to what's possible now!

Taking a break from making my game to work on a little fan project. Any theories as to what it might be?

Really happy with this article! Great to see more interest in game making at local events and see tons more people exposed to what's possible now!

Last chance for you to get your Cubepig Castle shirt, designed by @marlowedobbe.com and printed locally! Sales end next week Tuesday and we're shipping first week of December. Pick it up before it's gone and support the PIGSquad nonprofit 🏰⚡😍 pigsquad.com/store/cubepi...

Hey everyone! I wrote about @pigsquad.com, indie game development as both a job and a calling, and took a photo of a busted Mario costume for the @portlandmercury.com! Check it out! www.portlandmercury.com/photo-essay/...

And we're off! The "Finish Your Game" Jam is pretty long so feel free to pop in at any time to make progress on your projects 😍 itch.io/jam/finishyo... If you want to do a more traditional jam, the theme is "Second Wind!" First time we've broken a tie with applause at the event and it was fun >:)

PLAYTEST IS LIVE! Feed mama, find bugs and play Mama's Sleeping Angels RIGHT NOW!!!