Indie Recommendation: The Séance of Blake Manor From out of nowhere comes one of 2025's best games - a murder-mystery set in 19th Century Ireland with outstanding writing, smart investigation systems, ravens, ghosts, druids and more. WATCH: youtu.be/0WQlXo0hjlY (by @spookydoorway.bsky.social)

I reviewed The Seance of Blake Manor by @spookydoorway.bsky.social and absolutely adored it. Interesting procedural detective work, folk horror, Irish mythology, colonial subtexts and jump scares!! 👻 www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

If you, like me, are a fiend for deductive narrative games (Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, etc) then you must check out the tremendous The Seance of Blake Manor (out today), which has become one of my favorite games of 2025. Only caveat is that I ran into a few nasty bugs www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATH_...

Ouch but.... Not false. We need people to drop the excel sheets and get in early, get in and take risk instead of just being fucking middlemen. If you're taking revenue % - fucking earn it.

This is tomorrow!

The pressure is on! Let's see if I can cook something without saying bad words and get us taken off the air... Let’s find out at Charity Cook-Off! 📅 13 October, 11:00AM (GMT+7, Bangkok time) 📺 Streaming LIVE on Zlapped’s Twitch: twitch.tv/zlapped

Demo is live on #Steam! 🎉 Its taken me 2 years to get this far. Its been a long journey with a lot of learnings and now I'm finally ready for #NextFest What are you waiting for? Go play! s.team/a/3919240/ #GameDev #IndieGame #MadeWithUnity #SteamNextFest

This year has had a ton of indie bangers.... But what about next year? Post your steam page/trailer/site below and show us what you're releasing in the next 12 months! Reskeeeeeeeeeets welcome!

For those interested I'm doing a slow ama on LinkedIn today www.linkedin.com/posts/jtores...

GDC has always been ass, and GDC now trying to further impose control outside moscone to strangle out side events is a sure sign that it's not going to get better. If you're a dev, this sheet is free and will have a higher impact than paying money to go to sf docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you like your mystery games with a big fuckin bag of actual deduction based detective work... Get in! Scratch your head and get your nice pens out folks! Time to take notes!!!

Sequel to No, I'm not a human: It's just a face mom, I'll grow out of it

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Again, if you're a games publisher/investor scout (or do scout work for relevant funding sources), let me know. Retweets appreciated! bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you see me in Köln next week after 1900, yes I'll probably have a kölsch if it's close by and I'm not running late to a dinner.

Today I am Keith @geographyofrobots.bsky.social

I'm off for vacation. See you in Köln. I'll delete my inbox around that time as well!

sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

Yo I just found a potential GOTY this year, you're going to love it It's a small french game and it was made by essentially one and a third person without any money or maybe 50M Here are five things this teaches us about thought leaders, recycling and recruitment practices in the games industry

Here are our SPILL THE TEA Panelists! 🔥 No NDAs. No filters. Just raw, real talk—We'll be discussing industry deals and current trends related to publishing deals, royalties, recoup, deals structure, up ownership, and more... 👇

If you like tower defense and micro strategy games like Kingdom or Thronefall, definitely give @adriaan.games and crews newest game Rift Riff a spin! store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

Yo @dogubomb.bsky.social youtu.be/nqtG-IPhp-A?...

10+ years of resilience making indie games — featuring special guests @greyalien.bsky.social @shawndoublea.bsky.social and @readgraves.com In our Knowledge Share this week... we got vulnerable. The recording is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Vp...

IS GAME CURATION DYING? We think it just needs somewhere to flourish. Here's how Ludocene 0.1 helps people find amazing games like Blue Prince, 1000x Resist & Still Wake the Deep. Please share this post to support game discovery. Any pledge gets early access: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

Business Dummies who don’t understand the culture of the creative businesses they run are always going to make the wrong business calls, and they will swiftly be proven to be dummies when they are abandoned by the accrued audience, destroying the business. None of it’s new, But it is exhausting.

This assbag now owns polygon

It’s absolutely vital that we support independent media. Please seek out sites like @aftermath.site, @404media.co, @remapradio.bsky.social, and @rascalnews.bsky.social and, if you can, sign up for a paid subscription. Pick up a paid sub for your favourite podcast or newsletter. Media is dying.

Have a meta quest headset and want a stunning 6 hour story experience? Why not try Ghost Town this weekend? Written by yours truly and conceived and designed by the extreme geniuses at @fireproofgames.com it is out now: www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

Good things come to those who wait, so we'll be patient. On June the 23rd, prepare for Post Trauma: The Re-Release - Except We're Not Un-Releasing It First, and It's Pretty Much the Same. #PostTraumaTheReRelease #PleaseNoShadowDropThisTime

Ok so, let's argue: why is curse of monkey island the best in the series?

We love to see it

IT HAS BEEN AROUND 135 HOURS AND I AM ON DAY 233 HOW THE HELL ARE WE STILL SOMEHOW DOING SICKO ACTIVITIES

As promised, here is the first week of Vaporwave pinball's performance. Shown are sales for week 1, and wish lists up to launch day.

The blue prince experience vs the experienced blue princer

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

The world of Might & Magic III was huge. [ map via shrines.rpgclassics.com/pc/mm3/ ]

Rolled credits on Blue Prince at about 20 hours. About 28 hours in now and I'm fully unravelling

I am like 100 hours in Blue Prince and I'm still constantly surprised by this game's capacity to severely fuck with me.

A new essay from me on @blueprincegame.bsky.social is now available! As I've continuously said, I think it's a masterclass in puzzle design where the game continuously rewards you and gives you multiple avenues to push forward, rather than stump you at one specific puzzle.

heads up horror devs, i bothered to look up the eternal darkness sanity system patent and apparently it expired in 2021 go wild patents.google.com/patent/US693...

Without spoiling anything: I got to a post game puzzle in Blue Prince that is probably the most intensely stressful experience I’ve had with a game since Alien Isolation. I’m in awe.

Remember, reviewing a game you like is almost as impactful as buying it! (Review Blue Prince and Promise Mascot Agency please)

“This is ultimately a game about people making assumptions, and having expectations, and finding out over time that their assumptions are wrong, and then their expectations are surpassed,” Tonda Ros says of Blue Prince. www.inverse.com/gaming/blue-...

Just found something in Blue Prince that recontextualised the entire game and made me realise something obvious I should have noticed earlier and AAAAAAHHHHHHH

Rolled credits on Blue Prince. Realizing now how much more game there is to be had. Holy shit what a game!

Blue Prince man holy crap

Join @peachsaliva.bsky.social and I tonight at 4pm for Split Fiction! Also! Tomorrow we'll be checking out the Marathon reveal and I guess having our own little Summer Games fest with all these cool indies I got sent. See you then! twitch.tv/patstaresat

This review of Blue Prince by Johnny Yu is a perfect companion to the game -- even though I haven't fully "solved" either.

This. Is this broken? Maybe... but this is reality today. Please give positive reviews to indie games to help other find them. If you have issues or questions, please don't use reviews for that but the steam forums instead.

The beautiful thing about Blue Prince is 55 hours in I'm still having moments that make me feel like a puzzle genius, and then I watch someone complete that same task 20 minutes into the game. The sheer variety of ways to tackle this puzzle box continues to amaze me.