I will eventually get sick of clowning on AI contradicting itself, but today is not that day. - No, Frostpunk 2 is not an indie game, having been made by 11 Bit Studios ——— but - Yes, 11 Bit is an indie game developer

Yo @kotaku.com these videos popping over text we're trying to read are pure enshittification. Could you please deenshittify?

For we who come after, Pixellated Playgrounds (@bsushi.bsky.social @jgalecki.bsky.social) just dropped a Clair Obscur episode. I love this show! www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/cla...

The #IndieGameAwards nominees are out, celebrating a whole bunch of amazing stuff that came out this year, and giving rise to a familiar question: what is indie, anyway? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUTM...

The #IndieGameAwards nominees are out, celebrating a whole bunch of amazing stuff that came out this year, and giving rise to a familiar question: what is indie, anyway? www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUTM...

Just lightly roleplaying a pair of careful raiders trying to salvage, extract, and only get into a manageable amount of trouble. youtu.be/1131ke-zDxo?...

#ARCRaiders has player challenges — find a certain piece of gear, do a certain amount of damage to ARCs, etc. I was dismayed to see a new one pop up for searching the bodies of 10 downed fellow players. It had been so chill & collaborative & fun, but incentivised PvP aggression is instant bad vibes.

So Many Games has gone from strength to strength since it started. It's a great little indie game site. No AI slop, no mandatory cookie crap, no half-baked SEO articles, no video popovers — just good reviews of interesting games. They're doing it right. I became a patron.

A week never goes by without #Spotify appearing more rotten. Your algorithmic, ostensibly listening-based recommendations include paid ads in disguise. This in addition to allegations of creating AI slop music, underpaying artists, AI war drone-gate, ICE ads-gate, etc. #BoycottSpotify

Sad robot parkour with vibes

#possessors is out today. I've been playing in the pre-release window and found it to be a sleek, dark metroidvania with plenty of that inimitable Heart Machine style. youtube.com/shorts/SbKTn...

The #ARCRaiders key art really like, got me. Part Star Wars, part Fallout, part Starfield, with that awesome C90-VHS-Polaroid vibe. And an Opencritic 93! Too tempting. So I jumped in, even though it's... you know. A word-salad PvPvE extraction-whatever—"and you won't believe what happened next."

I'm daft for getting sucked into ARC Raiders hype :') but hey I did have a couple of games of the old "run around a bit then die, confused", which is the entire story of me and online multiplayer.

Remember... Harvestella?

The new podcast covers "colouring-in-for-grown-ups" game #PowerwashSimulator2, creepy exorcist deduction game #Carimara, mega-queer sci-fi VN card battler #BattleSuitAces, and more. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... Browser: redcircle.com/shows/33888f...

I mean, The Game Awards has always been a glorified ad block that seems tangibly inconvenienced by honouring the people who make games. It's not a surprise that any gesture towards supporting the people or the culture around games is... well. Exactly that. A gesture.

The stuff so many former Games Awards "Future Class" alums are sharing is shocking. The organisation selected the brightest and brightest — then rudely demeaned them, making it 1000% clear they were *only* there to act as TGA "we're a nice brand, we love devs" window dressing.

Do folks have games they want to try/finish before the end of the year as "GOTY homework"? Or lesser-known 2025 Indies you think more people should play?

Stray Children is top of my list

My kingdom for the time to play more Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Do folks have games they want to try/finish before the end of the year as "GOTY homework"? Or lesser-known 2025 Indies you think more people should play?

A cute & classy lookin' cat metroidvania called #Bruma has launched in Kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bru...

Passed a big milestone today. Only 90,000 to go for that plaque from YouTube 😁

That thing where you show up to a party in the same dress as someone else, but games. Egg, out now: youtu.be/IuabEu7Uw1c Egging on, out Friday: youtu.be/ifzhTdpKR1I

Let's not forget when the @nytimes.com's mask slipped. Their take on the inspiring, humane, emotional Zohran: "uniquely unsuited to the city's challenges... he minimises the importance of policing." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/o...

Episode 9 of The So Many Games Podcast is out now! This month we had the honour to welcome @remysiu.com to the podcast to discuss the wonderful 1000xRESIST. Listen now at somanygames.co.uk or take a look at linktr.ee/somanygames for links to major platforms. @sunsetvisitor.studio

#TheSeanceofBlakeManor is currently sitting at an OpenCritic 96%, placing it above Hades II, Silksong, Blue Prince, Clair Obscur and... everything, basically.

GOTY '24, now available on everything.

The November #indiegame preview is out! This month you can play as: ✨ An egg ✨ The last human being in the year 10,000 ✨ A girl possessed by a demon ✨ A psychic monk ✨ A homeless mouse ✨ A homeful mouse 🍿 youtu.be/skEO-PmIadU

You know when you realise you've had lyrics wrong in your head for decades? I thought "How Soon Is Now" began "I am the sun, and the air, of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" — like he's an eco-system of loneliness, kinda. It's "son and heir". He's made of it, it's not made of him.

Phew, that was a heavy edit. There are so many games coming out this month the month-ahead preview video went from 15 mins to like, 29.

NYT's year in games is fun. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Graphic novels are bonkers. It's like, making your art means making 600-1000 small pieces of art.

Having a great time with Battle Suit Aces. It's a bracing JRPG-style road trip through the stars, with wonderfully presented VN/social section and fun mech-themed card battling. Trinket have a really high presentation and polish bar.

The new patron bonus podcast is out! It's a review of the *awesome* My Neighbour Totoro stage play, and a London travel diary, including some art, books, music, matcha, otaku stuff, & more :) Join the $3 tier to unlock it — and twenty more bonus pods! patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-in-142590920

So thirty fired employees who were in the process of unionising all just happened to also be carrying out gross misconduct, huh?

Any site that doesn't have video pop-overs, cookies-or-pay bollocks, or more ads than text gets my vote. Shout out to the people trying to deenshittify the internet.

The Steam curator page has been refreshed with the latest indie goodness. store.steampowered.com/curator/4345...

Slick direction. #Keeper

I absolutely missed the boat on stuff like Mass Effect, FO3/New Vegas, and Dragon Age. I wasn't playing during the PS3/360 era, so I lack rose-tinted memories or past-GOTY awe about them. It sucks to fire them up and be like... "Ugh. Super rough 20-year old games." I guess you... had to be there?

TikTok gives me an instant headache, but I made one anyway :') www.tiktok.com/@gaminginthe...

A small gaming pet hate: when you walk out of a screen going e.g. right, and the camera cuts to you moving e.g. down, and although you're now walking down, you're still pushing right, and have to weirdly adjust the stick to get back in sync.

The Golden Joystick Awards voting is open. www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti... Pure shade here, but how on earth did Sonic CrossWorlds get a Best Console Game nom? :')

The US pronunciation of aesthetic is so alarming to me. UK: eh-sthetic US: ass-thetic

I've been really enjoying seeing #Pyre having a lil resurgence lately. I think because #HadesII is Supergiant's most normcore game to date—as an action roguelike sequel—there's been a background burble of people remembering their big swings and wild ones. I'll thread a couple of Pyre things here.

Single-sitting indie horror games are my absolute mood right now. youtube.com/shorts/MQ448...

A year late, but on time for this Halloween season: a #Mouthwashing review. 🍿 youtube.com/watch?v=ClpZxUS8OuY

NUTS is the party cannon of the steam halloween thing lol

Does anyone have any lesser known indie horror reccos? I listed a few here but I'm lookin for more... youtu.be/DpBOmKk_BGg

I don't think of myself as like a *horror guy* by any means, but three of my most recent GOTYs turned out to kind of fit the bill. Making this video made me realise that horror-adjacent indie games are absolutely thriving, especially since Inscryption. My top 10: youtube.com/watch?v=DpBOmKk_BGg