What if... I announced a new game. Is that the kind of thing people are into these days?

The sequel to The Red Pearls of Borneo is now up for wishlist on Steam. A demo will be available during the June Steam Next Fest: store.steampowered.com/app/4644870/...

New game, available next week! U.V.S. NIRMANA Set off on a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe. Stop by distant worlds and ancient civilizations, helping them as part of your pilgrimage with your companions, the Renunciants. store.steampowered.com/app/2536720

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! 🥂 Cut the cake and give us our presents because Lost In Cult is 5 years old! 🎁 🎂 In our first half-decade, Lost In Cult have processed over 100,000 of your orders that celebrate your favourite games in all their glorious physical forms.

Any disabled gamers / accessibility advocates interested in recording a short (90 ish seconds) on camera segment for this year's Access-Ability summer Showcase? We've got a few slots for folks to share their story of why accessibility is important to them, or to introduce some of our game trailers.

Ignore the hyperbole all-round. It's outright offensive to say it's worse than AI slop - real people worked on this, the worst art in the world is better than AI - but it is not a masterpiece. It's serviceable enough for families, visually brilliant, and Mario fans will obviously really enjoy it.

I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME. Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit! pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands... All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!

Puzzle Spy International launches TOMORROW on Steam for Win, Mac, and Linux! Grab some friends and work your way through fun, challenging wordplay, deduction and rules discovery puzzles. Talk to contacts and flirt with them (or not as you see fit.) Save the day! #indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame

I played a little bit of Heroes of the Seven Islands and genuinely adore it. A super charming and engaging point & click RPG.

Incredibly excited! We are now over 100 reviews within a week of launching. Thanks so much to everyone who made this dream a Nazi hunting reality!

There's a new "Bonnie and Pig" bundle with Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime + Hermit and Pig!🐻🐸🐷 If you already own one, the other is discounted. And the Steam Spring Sale is happening. So the timing is suspiciously good. store.steampowered.com/bundle/70427... #indiegame #steamspringsale

Celebrating 1500 units sold 🪇 THANK YOU! Some more numbers 👇 1000+ drawings on paper, scanned with my phone 37 original music tracks 5-10 hours long on a first playthrough 100% positive on Steam (124 reviews)

Oh my, a genuinely nice story: kotaku.com/tangy-td-cak...

The Ratline is out now! Hunt Nazis across the globe to the soundtrack of moody jazz and a snoring dog! store.steampowered.com/app/3756940/...

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Well not to be supportive wife on main, but my partner just released her game as a solo dev after working on it for about three years and did literally everything herself Literally no excuse to use AI when there's plenty of tools out there to make what you want store.steampowered.com/app/3247030/...

Really really (rhell-y?) enjoyed Rhell – such a unique game, excellent puzzles, excellent art, excellent silliness... It's all very creative and very smart, and makes you feel creative and smart* too! Go play it! *sometimes it makes you feel dumb but that's just as fun

Our favourite release of 2026 has come from an unexpected source: it's an entirely free game from hobbyist developer @bushmonkey.bsky.social. The Red Pearls of Borneo is a wonderful deduction game which everyone should check out! Read/watch here: 📝 indieloupe.com/red-pearls 📽️ youtu.be/n6kfVf4HWs8

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One month ago we launched Hermit and Pig on Steam!👴🏽🐷 The game was made by just the two of us over 5 years. We wrote it, programmed it, drew it, composed the music, and somehow shipped a full game. This pic's from launch day when it all got real🍄 #indiegame #indiedev

I'm happy to announce that we've now reached 10,000 wishlists for SCOPECREEP! When I started this idea in a game jam, I never thought I would make it this far. And it's all because of the support of all of you! I can't thank you enough! #gamedev #indiedev #incremental #godot #scopecreep

Apropos of something: It has long been my position that using your platform to make people aware of a tiny indie game they've never heard of before in order to tell them it's shit is just indecent. "Hey! See this thing you wouldn't have seen otherwise?! It's not worth knowing about!"

This week in The Daily Spell, a story from guest writer Mo about an eerie apparition! 👻 Thursday's article made me giggle out loud when I read it, I can't wait for people to enjoy it! Check out this week's puzzles at www.the-daily-spell.com You can find Mo's work at mostanton.itch.io

Script excerpt re: the #1348ExVoto nb characters backlash. We can't let the loud minority of "anti-woke" (see: racist, sexist, transphobic) elements own the games space. They have to know it's just not accepted. I know from the comments—and from experience—that there'll be some vitriol. But fuck it.

Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...

These are the important metrics that we need more people to be looking into

This is the world of Indie games. You see a game that just came out a few weeks ago with reviews like this one and you've never heard of it nor heard anyone else speak of it and I love that. The link's below in case you're interested. It's at $7.99. #IndieGame store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...

This just seems... bizarrely mean-spirited? The headline doesn’t read great, and the article itself is even harsher. There were 3500 demos this next fest, hundreds packed with AI slop, but you’re telling me these seven are deserving of being singled out and ragged on? Why? We can do better.

I owe a lot of my career to RPS journalists like John Walker and Alice Bell (John still supports my work). That’s why this piece is so disappointing. Not because I’m in it — but because it needlessly punches down at indie devs. You can do better. Please retract it and apologise to the developers.

We got to give a talk about Many Nights a Whisper at ENJMIN Games Conference last week and had the best time! Merci to all the students who welcomed us and came to our talk, we loved getting to meet you all. We can't wait to see what this next generation of talented gamedevs will make in the future!

Just played the demo of Duppy Detective Tashia from @spritewrench.com. I love the cast of characters, and am looking forward to learning folklore from somewhere I am ignorant of. It will be cool to see how the mystery unfolds on following days. store.steampowered.com/app/4222200

Hope you’ve cleared your weekend, because we’ve picked nine of our favourite demos from this edition of Steam Next Fest for you to get stuck into! Read (or watch!) the list below: 📝 indieloupe.com/next-fest-feb26 📽️ youtu.be/yburR-vJw6s #indiegames | #nextfest

I like the fact that classic RPGs with unconventional artistic direction are a thing. Hello to devs 🤗 A Kobold Story: Trenchcoat Adventurer @richardstampdev.bsky.social Monsters of Mican @skittzo.bsky.social Underkeep @rakeingrass.bsky.social (also Heroes of the Seven Islands)

Hey, that's me! I might've foolishly sabotaged my daily routine this week (turns out it's a little easier to solve the headlines when you wrote 'em), but it's also incredibly cool to see your own words in your favourite daily game. Huge thanks to Celia for trusting me with this week's story!

Narrative game devs & marketers! I want to talk to you about marketing narrative games for a video. I've already set up a couple of chats, but would love to hear from a few more ppl. If you're down to answer a few questions, on-cam or otherwise, DMs are open! So is my email exalclaw[at]gmail.com!

Creature Kitchen (from @therat.zone) combines cozy and cute with creepy and c... k... crazy? Can those categories coexist? Click to catch our contemplations and conclusions on that conundrum: 📝 indieloupe.com/creature-kitchen 📽️ youtu.be/-6x0J6oFCuY cool. #indiegames

I know I need to up my thumbnail game on YouTube but earlier this week I published my Tokyo Scramble review, so show it some love if you can! Any subs are appreciated.

Super interesting discussion in this week's Indie Council about whether being able to define games as 'indie' even matters – worth a listen!

Play the demo and wishlist Duppy Detective Tashia, from Sunken Stone creator @spritewrench.com today! store.steampowered.com/app/4222200/...

Roottrees-likes are really just Family-likes iykyk

🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨 All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life. Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

Hermit and Pig (Heavy Lunch Studio LLC, 2026)

"What's that, pig? IndieLoupe have a new review out?" "Oink!" Hermit and Pig (from @heavylunchco.bsky.social) is a heartfelt RPG featuring a reluctant hero and his trusty truffle-sniffing sidekick. Read (or watch) our review: 📝 www.indieloupe.com/hermit-and-pig 📽️ youtu.be/uv6F9Rr4eFo #indiegames

This thread is blowing up all over again, so if you want to support our work and perspective… Maybe buy Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, our new game, and leave a Steam review? It helps! store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

We've done a new game! If you like one or more of: * Tower defence * Scottish Space Dwarves * Retro vibes You should check this out right now!

"Don't worry, we do suck as much as you previously thought!" Did seem an odd one from the publishers behind Where Winds Meet.

Hey, I playtested this! Definitely one to watch if you're a fan of incrementals like Nodebuster or Digseum. Go try out the demo!

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Sorry not sorry to yr wallet, friends youtu.be/ma3p_h-FEow?...