EMPULSE is out now in Early Access! - A 6v6 movement shooter from the Splitgate team: wall-runs, grapples, and mechs. - Twenty dollars flat, no store, no battle pass & no microtransactions. - A Titanfall-shaped hole in our hearts, now accepting applicants.

Dimhaven - The Lost Source is out now! - A first-person mystery from the Quern team, set on a fog-drowned island. - Use a camera and notebook to solve your uncle's vanishing through tangled puzzles. - Bring a notepad and the patience of a manual-reader.

Deer & Boy is out now! - A wordless cinematic platformer about a runaway boy and a fawn crossing the wild together. - The fawn grows up as you play, and so does the weight of every choice. - Looks like we'll leave needing a tissue.

Moldwasher is out now! - A cosy cleaner where a tiny piece of sushi blasts mould from a forgotten fridge. - Swap between a pressure washer, leaf blower, and flamethrower on the grime. - The most relaxing thing we have done to a fridge without snacks involved.

BA's Radar is up for the week! This week's games include: - A first-person puzzle mystery from the Quern team. - A wordless platformer about a boy and his fawn that will wreck you. - Five launches in 72 hours, from fridge mould to war mechs. Which one are you playing first?

SAND: Raiders of Sophie is out now in Early Access! - A PvPvE extraction shooter: build a walking mech and raid a dieselpunk desert. - Grab the loot and escape before rival raiders blast it off your back. - A house with legs and a loot problem, which to me is deeply relatable.

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is out now! - Team Asano's HD-2D action RPG - Real-time combat, fairy support abilities, and an open world to explore. - A millennium to fix one thing instead of spiralling at 3am.

The Last Salvage Squad by Waku Waku Games is out now! - 2.5D FPS - You're twelve-metre robot girl holding the line on a planet humanity already lost - Twenty-five missions with scarce ammo and weapons you scavenge mid-fight - Being enormous and still broke. I know her.

Stellaris: Nomads is out now! - The expansion for the empire that never colonises a planet and keeps its whole civilisation on a moving Arkship - Your Arkship can be a flagship, mobile lab, or roaming factory - Commitment issues but make it intergalactic

BA's Radar is up for the week! This week's games include: - Stellaris: Nomads, the expansion for empires that ditch planets forever. - Dave the Diver swapping the ocean for a jungle lake and a grill. - a hotel where your guests are crocodiles. Which one are you playing first?

Witchspire is in Early Access! - Co-op witch adventure - Conjure a forest when short on wood or send magic pickaxes to mine for you - Outsourcing chores to enchanted tools is the only way I'll be farming from now on

Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker is out! - Standalone D&D visual novel set 36 years before the original - Run a tavern, mix fate-altering drinks, and stop dreams from turning into nightmares - You can pet the cute lil bee familiar!

Voidling Bound is out now! - Sci-fi action RPG where you directly control your creatures in third-person - Evolve Voidlings through branching DNA paths - Spore meets Warframe (the crossover you didn't know you needed)

BA's Radar is up! This week's games include: - Solarpunk: a cosy sky survival game - STARSEEKER, the Astroneer follow-up - A haunted tavern where nightmare prevention is bartending - Way, way more! Which game are you most excited for this week?

We covered 20 indie games across 4 showcases during SGF week (SO FAR) and I have not recovered. Here's a thread of everything that broke my brain:

House Flipper Remastered Collection is out now! - Every DLC ever made for the original - Rebuilt with global illumination and full voice acting for every client - Returning owners can get it for as low as $16

Sister Ray is out now! - 2D RPG survival set in the 1990s - You play an artist managing addiction while hiding it from her little sister - Every hour costs something and the game tracks exactly what that cost is doing to both of you

BA's Radar is up for the week! This week's games include: - A 2D RPG about managing addiction in the 1990s - An entire open world built on the back of a creature hand-sculpted from clay - A factory automation game where the machines make curry Which ones are you playing?

Arcane Merchant by Findie Studios is out now! - Medieval fantasy shop-keeper sim from a debut studio of three based in Istanbul - You set the prices, watch the margins, and try not to go bankrupt trusting strangers

Mina the Hollower by is out now! - Top-down gothic action-adventure six years in the making - You play a mouse inventor with a whip - Yuzo Koshiro and Jake Kaufman on the soundtrack

Scale the Depths is out now! - You are a robot. You fish, fillet, and serve mythological creatures with dining standards - Started as a jam project, got 210,000 players and a wave of AI knockoffs before it even launched

LumenTale: Memories of Trey by is out now! - Monster collector RPG from an Italian studio set in an Italy-inspired world - 140 creatures called Animon to catch, battle, and trade - Emi Evans, the voice behind the NieR: Automata soundtrack, sang the launch trailer

Enter the Chronosphere by is out now! - Bullet hell where time stops until you move - Bullets hang in the air mid-flight, enemies freeze mid-lunge - Early Access at $14.99

BA's Radar is up for the week! This week's games include: - A life sim seven years in the making, finally out of Patreon purgatory - A bullet hell where time stops until you move - A Loch Ness fishing robot with a Michelin-star attitude and way more. Which one will you be playing?

Paralives is out now! - Seven years of Patreon-funded development, finally in Early Access - Open world town, no loading screens, character creator that respects you - Seven years of waiting and they said no paid DLC ever

Coffee Talk Tokyo is out now! - The café series moves from Seattle to sweltering summer Tokyo, with a new cast of humans and yokai - Returning lo-fi soundtrack, new latte art tools, and an in-game social feed - I have had the demo on my hard drive for three months and I am ready

Luna Abyss is out now! - A first-person bullet hell set inside a brutalist megastructure beneath a moon that is watching you - You play as a prisoner; an AI warden named Aylin monitors every move - Day one on Game Pass

We reviewed Luna Abyss! It's of the stranger debut games we've played in a long time, made by under twenty people over seven years.

Thick as Thieves is out now! - A stealth heist game set in a magic-laced alternate-history 1910s Scottish city - From Warren Spector (Deus Ex) and Paul Neurath (Thief) - $4.99 on Steam, which is apparently a price Warren Spector is allowed to charge

Phonopolis is out now! - A puzzle adventure in a dystopian city controlled entirely through loudspeakers - The entire world is built from real hand-crafted cardboard, photographed and animated - The Steam demo hit Overwhelmingly Positive with 98% of reviews

BA's Radar is up for the week! This week's games include: - A cardboard dystopia from the Machinarium studio - A 90s thrift shop sim, a $5 heist game, and a bullet hell set inside a watching moon - A Tokyo café where the customers are yokai and the playlist is immaculate

Thrifty Business by is out now! - A cozy management sim where you run a 90s thrift shop - From the studio behind Sticky Business & Ritual of Raven - I have been personally victimized by how much I want to reorganize a stranger's belongings

Out now: Call of the Elder Gods A first-person Lovecraftian puzzle adventure from the Call of the Sea studio. These puzzles have my attention.

Out now: Directive 8020 A colony ship crashes on a planet 12 light years from Earth and the crew discovers something that can perfectly mimic whoever it kills. I want to see what Supermassive does with actual stealth!

Out now in Early Access: Besmirch One person built this entire pixel-art survival horror farming sim. I love that it exists.

Out now: Outbound An empty van, a colorful open world, no enemies, no threat. I don't know what that says about me right now, but I'm in.

Five games this week: Outbound, Besmirch, Don't Panic! It is Just Turbulence, Directive 8020, and Call of the Elder Gods ... and I genuinely cannot find a common thread between them.

Out now: Mixtape Three teenagers. Last night of high school. A playlist that keeps pulling them into dreamlike versions of their own memories. Joy Division, The Cure, Iggy Pop. On Game Pass today. We want it to be as good as it looks so badly.

Out now: Alabaster Dawn A pixel art action RPG inspired by Devil May Cry and Kingdom Hearts, which is either the most clarifying sentence you have ever read or the most confusing, and we have been waiting years for it. Early Access today with 10 hours of content and a two year roadmap.

If you're unsure what to expect of Mixtape, the best place to look is backwards. I spent my whole weekend doing homework on Beethoven & Dinosaur's last game so you don't have to.

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Out now: Farever A colorful open world co-op RPG where you climb cliffs, glide off them, and dive into underwater caves, and we are completely in.

Out now: Wax Heads I wrote about the demo and then I wrote about the full game, which tells you everything you need to know about how I feel about a record store sim with 80 fictional albums and a mystery about where Mimi went.

Out now: Dead as Disco You play a dead rock drummer crashing his own tribute concert, and every punch lands on the beat. Load your own music in and it lands on YOUR beat. We need someone to talk to about it.

Mixtape, Dead as Disco, Alabaster Dawn, Wax Heads, and Farever are all dropping this week and all five are on our list. Which one are you playing first?

Riftbound: Spiritforged is heating up, and we have a new card to share! Bubble Bot is crashing onto the scene as a new unit in the upcoming expansion, and it will aid anyone looking to get Mechs out and into play! #Riftbound #PlayRiftbound

Looking to see what the best pulls in #Riftbound are?

The Pokémon TCG Phantasmal Flames set is absolutely stunning! #Pokemon #PokemonTCG

Redbull and Tetris surprised us with the coolest little gift! Talk about energetic stacking!

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