IndieCade Members and Horizons schools are invited to join tomorrow's "Third Thursdays" session with Game Feel author Steve Swink at 11am PST! Learn more: bit.ly/4qPgcDH There will also be a 6pm PST re-airing that is open to all! bit.ly/4693XKQ

SAVE THE DATE: The Playable Theatre Symposium is returning to the University of Cincinnati in LIVE ACTION on March 23rd and 24th, 2026! Hosted by the amazing UC Game Lab and Taft Research Center. Learn more on our website here: www.indiecade.com/playablethea...

More from today's spotlight: The Sentient Severed Arm from @harperferry.bsky.social wins the Developer's Choice Award at the 19th Annual IndieCade Festival! nullandvoidgames.com

Our final IndieCade Award Winner Spotlight is our Developer's Choice Award, The Sentient Severed Arm by Null and Void Games @harperferry.bsky.social! What story will you tell when you've been reduced to just an arm? www.nullandvoidgames.com

@nathanleigh.bsky.social and @nicoleorabona.bsky.social, creators of LabRats, give an acceptance speech and tell us about what makes their experience so special. (Spoiler: they created a bespoke programming language just for this project!) Make sure to check out cirquesaw.com for more info!

More from today's spotlight: Watch LabRats win the Live Action Award, and learn a bit more about the experience! @nathanleigh.bsky.social @nicoleorabona.bsky.social Get your tickets to upcoming performances of LabRats before they sell out! www.tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...

Today’s daily spotlight is CirqueSaw's LabRats, winner of the Live Action Spotlight Award! This interactive story of collective action will change the way you see your fellow rodents. @nathanleigh.bsky.social @nicoleorabona.bsky.social Get tickets to LabRats here: tickettailor.com/events/cirqu...

In honour of @indiecade.bsky.social, my game is currently on sale for a mere 65% of it's True Price! Buying it now will therefore give you a better than 50/50 chance of being spared during the Undead Uprising.🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...

[Part 1] More from today’s daily IndieCade spotlight: Uncanny Alley: A New Day from @ferrymanvr.bsky.social wins the Performance Spotlight and Innovation in Interaction Design awards! Feat. @erinyvette.bsky.social Check out all the award winners at www.indiecade.com/festival-202...

Today’s daily spotlight is @ferrymanvr.bsky.social's Uncanny Alley: A New Day, winner of the Performance Spotlight and Innovation in Experience Design Awards! This cyberpunk VR experience brings interactivity and immersive storytelling to new heights! ferrymancollective.com

More from today’s daily IndieCade spotlight: Beacon Patrol from @shapesanddreams.bsky.social wins the Tabletop Design Spotlight award at the 19th annual IndieCade festival! Check out the fest on steam at store.steampowered.com/sale/IndieCa...!

Today’s daily spotlight is Beacon Patrol, a game by @shapesanddreams.bsky.social, winner of the Tabletop Design Spotlight Award! This innovative tile-laying board game can be played both on PC and tabletop! beaconpatrol.com

More from today’s daily IndieCade spotlight: watch the award-winning game Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson win the Audio Design Spotlight award at the 19th annual IndieCade festival! This game is super awesome, so go play it on steam!! @ritualstudios.bsky.social @iamdovetail.bsky.social

WHAT THE GOLF? @whatthegames.bsky.social is a silly physics-based golf parody where every golf course is a new surprising type of golf, some brilliant or hilarious, others so absurd you will ask yourself: WHAT THE GOLF? Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/785790/W...

The Path is a game about growing, about changing, about making choices, about accepting the consequences of these choices. A game about playing, and failing, about embracing life, perhaps by accepting death. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/27000/Th...

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is a game where you enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/40930/Th...

Starseed Pilgrim by @droqen.bsky.social is a game about tending a symphonic garden, exploring space, and embracing fate.You are a gardener, tending to empty noise and empty space to fill them both with color. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/230980/S...

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator by @strangescaffold.bsky.social is a game where you buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1507780/...

Patrick's Parabox by @cwpat.me is a mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1260520/...

Osmos is a game where your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/29180/Os...

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/94400/Ni...

Mutazione is a mutant soap opera where small-town gossip meets the supernatural. Explore the Mutazione community as Kai as she cares for her ailing grandfather. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1080750/...

I Expect You to Die 2 is an escape-the-room game where you become an elite super spy ready for espionage, explosives, and gadgets galore. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1499120/...

Home Improvisation is a game where you can build beautifully precise or wildly creative furniture, and even decorate an entire house with your creations. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/357670/H...

Everyday Shooter is an album of games exploring the expressive power of abstract shooters. Check it out on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/16300/Ev...

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is an anti-adventure game about picking up trash in an alien bazaar. Check is out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/436500/D...

Detention is an atmospheric horror game set in 1960s Taiwan under martial law. Incorporated religious elements based in Taiwanese/Chinese culture and mythology, the game provided players with unique graphics and gaming experience. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/555220/D...

Cryptmaster by @akuparagames.bsky.social is a bizarre dungeon adventure where words control everything. Fill in the blanks with text or voice to uncover lost abilities, embark on strange quests, and solve mindbending riddles. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...

Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/26500/Co...

Boyfriend Dungeon by @kitfoxgames.com is a “shack-and-slash” dungeon crawling adventure where you date your weapons! Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/674930/B...

Botanicula by @amanita-design.net is a humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/207690/B...

Analogue; A Hate Story by @christinelove.bsky.social is a dark visual mystery novel featuring transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/209370/A...

Balatro by @localthunk.com is THE poker roguelike. Play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos. Check is out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2379780/...

Antichamber by @demruth.bsky.social is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Check it out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/219890/A...

Crypt of the NecroDancer by @braceyourselfgames.com is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Check is out ON SALE on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/247080/C...

Gone Home is a story exploration game set in 1995, after you get home to find your house is mystery empty and your family is gone. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/232430/G...

Her Story is a game where you must search a video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover the story of a woman interviewed seven times by the police. Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/368370/H...

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by is a 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure where you explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship! Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/252110/L...

Machinarium by @amanita-design.net is an award-winning independent adventure game. Help Josef the robot save his girlfriend Berta kidnapped by the Black Cap Brotherhood gang! Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/40700/Ma...

Mini Metro by @dinopoloclub.bsky.social is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. Check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/287980/M...

N++ by @metanetsoftware.com is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape. Play it on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/230270/N...

Papers, Please by @dukope.bsky.social is a timeless game where you play as an immigrant inspector tasked with controlling the flow of people into your country. Check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/239030/P...

Papers, Please by @dukope.bsky.social is a timeless game where you play as an immigrant inspector tasked with controlling the flow of people into your country. Check it out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/239030/P...

In addition to our daily spotlight, today we're looking back at some of the incredible games that have been featured at IndieCade throughout the years! How many of the games in this retrospective do you recognize? Which are your favorite? Comment down below! Starting with... The Stanley Parable!!

Today’s daily spotlight is Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, a game by @ritualstudios.bsky.social, winner of the Audio Design Spotlight Award! This is a turn-based RPG where you wield powerful instruments and fight musical monsters! store.steampowered.com/app/2429050/... @iamdovetail.bsky.social

Check out our interview with Hao from Safe Flight Games, creator of Some Goodbyes We Made, our Narrative Spotlight Award Winner! Their game is on sale right now! Check out their website at safe-flight-games.github.io for the scoop!

More from today’s daily IndieCade spotlight: watch the award-winning game Some Goodbyes We Made win the Jury Prix award at the 19th annual IndieCade festival! The game is on sale on Steam right now, so go check it out!! store.steampowered.com/app/2705820/... #indiegame #indieawards #gamedev

Today’s daily spotlight is Some Goodbyes We Made, a game by Safe Flight Games and Joey Schutz. This touching and visually stunning game won our Narrative Spotlight award, and we highly encourage you to play or wishlist it on Steam (where it’s currently on sale!)

Why do I make games? Check out this clip from the @indiecade.bsky.social 2025 Winners Roundtable!

Watch our interview with Pierre from the team that made Wednesdays – an incredible game that won our Jury Prix Award this year! 🩷 We have 4 GIVEAWAY CODES for today’s daily spotlight, Wednesdays! To win, all you need to do is leave a comment down below! @wednesdays-game.bsky.social