The real Blue Prince was the friends we made along the way :-)

Thinky Awards 2025 nominees!! Let's goooo

There's so much amazing work going on in the thinky space. If you are looking for a game to play, check out some of these titles nominated for the 2025 Thinky Awards!

New Indieventure🙂‍↕️

1 HOUR REMAINING FOR COCOON: DESIGN WORKS DELUXE EDITIONS 🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲🪲 GO! GO! GO! GO! This is NOT a drill! 🔗⤵️

It's the last day to pre-order the super slick deluxe edition of Cocoon: Design Works!! The marble white looks GORGEOUS, and you get lots of extras too ✨ www.lostincult.co.uk/cocoon ✨

Looking for some 2025 indies that are under 2 hours? I wrote about five of the best for GR+✨ www.gamesradar.com/games/year-i...

Last one for the day ahead of the Big Geoffs: @rachelwatts.bsky.social with this year's best games under 2 hours.

Had such an amazing chat with @kinmoku.bsky.social for Indieventure! We talked about emotional media, the challenges (and rewards) of putting your personal life into your work and being ace! Thank you for coming on the pod💜💜

HELL YEAH

Most people resort to therapy. But you chose the brave option. 🔨 Virtue and a Sledgehammer 🔨 WISHLIST NOW!

Meet Inkblood, our grimy detective game! All around Inqburg, the air is heavy with blood. Inquisition must intervene. Explore these roads in your carriage, solve cases and get to the bottom of this. Find out what happened to your predecessor. WISHLIST N⛻W: store.steampowered.com/app/4114100/...

If you want to directly support a publication founded on elevating new voices and providing space to folks who otherwise might never be able to tell that story because it doesn't align with the SEO chasing overlords, subscribing to @unwinnable.com is a really easy way to do it!

Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...

Indieventure is 2 years old!! WILD. I am so proud of the podcast like it's genuinely the best thing I have ever been part of. Our weird gremlin creation is officially a toddler wtf @sevenoutoften.co.uk @greenlady17.bsky.social 😭

The climb of a lifetime starts on January 29, 2026! Set out to conquer the legendary Mount Kami. Find your route, uncover lost history, and survive the ascent. Every encounter and discovery will test your resolve. Warm up with Cairn's demo: bit.ly/Cairn-PS5Demo

You can nominate Is This Seat Taken? and your other favourite thinky games of 2025! ✨ I will nominate Öoo for sure! What other games deserve a nomination? 🧩

Introducing Thinky Dailies!! Daily puzzles! Hell yeah!💛

Nominations for the Thinky Awards are open!! We're accepting public nominations so get in there and nominate your favourite thinky games from 2025! Go go go!

Eclipsium looks like all of my worst nightmares (complimentary)

Just finished The Séance of Blake Manor, it's SO GOOD. I could not put it down. Brilliant detective game.

Me when I get myself a paper clip

I've been waiting to play Demonschool for so long and it did not disappoint! My review is up on GR💜 www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/de...

🚨ED WORDS ON INDIEVENTURE KLAXON🚨

My strategy game, MORSE released this week! MORSE teaches you Morse Code through timing, tactics and telegraphy. Learn a secret language, build your own telegraph and jump head first down the rabbit hole of ham radio. 🔥⚓️⚫️➖ #hamradio #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #morsecode

Had a lot of fun revisiting Pentiment for GR✨️ It really is one of the best detective games of the past decade

Some absolutely stellar talks happening today at ThinkyCon✨️

Happy new episode day!! Anyone feeling déjà vu? Ep. 54 covers the time loop RPG In Stars and Time by @insertdisc5.com! Huge thanks again to @rachelwatts.bsky.social for joining us for an incredibly fun chat!! 💜 Listen below or wherever you get your pods 🎧 nosmallgames.com/2025/11/ep-5...

I had such a lovely time with @aspecificegg.bsky.social and @katerblossom.bsky.social on No Small Games! They made me feel so welcome and we had such a great chat about In Stars and Time! 💜💜

Leaf by Leaf (Amir B Jahanbin, Ian ER Ballantyne, @at-the-tone.bsky.social) "Clean up the leaves! You've got a lot of work ahead of you, try not to get distracted..." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/11/01/l...

New from the makers of KIDS & CARS: EGGS

ThinkyCon 2025 next week!!

ThinkyCon is a week and a day away, so stay tuned for the schedule and more info about the game jam that's right after the event!

The Séance of Blake Manor is OUT NOW! Can you discover what has become of Evelyn Deane and uncover the secrets of Blake Manor itself? store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

Loved Easy Delivery Co. A chill, atmospheric driving game with cute lofi visuals and a quiet story. Totally recommend it 🚚

PEAK RHYTHM GAME JUST DROPPED

Sushi For Robots released on consoles today, and we celebrated by hosting a press presentation at the Nintendo offices in Madrid. Massive thanks to the Nintendo team for having us. @mameshibagames.com did an amazing job porting the game. Hope you all enjoy it!

We launched Cocoon: Design Works last week & I wanted to highlight a few things, as it's been one of my fav projects to work on! Firstly, shout out to the author @rachelwatts.bsky.social who has done an incredible job compiling hours of interviews & had already written the entire book before launch!

If you'd like to learn more about ✨️COCOON: Design Works✨️ I had a gab with @sevenoutoften.co.uk about it for a bonus episode of Indieventure

This was so much fun to record!! @katerblossom.bsky.social and @aspecificegg.bsky.social are amazing hosts and we had such an amazing chat about a very special game💜💜

HYPERBEAT is OUT NOW!

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃 All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet! spooky.express

I have once again helped put together The Indie Horror Showcase, which goes out on Thursday the 23rd. Genuinely some of the coolest, more interesting games on the horizon in here, of every kind, so you should absolutely tune in

Cocoon pen sketches! Work-in-progress renders! Unused concepts! A peek behind the scenes of this lil gem, beautifully bound by the design wizards of @lostincult.co.uk ! 🪲🪲🪲🪲

I wrote this! A BOOK! Ahh!! LOOK AT IT✨️

Wrote a lil' thing about Ball x Pit, which has consumed me over the last few weeks. What a thing!

I've published the date and Pepper Odyssey is coming out November 5th 2025. On a Wednesday three weeks from now! 🙌 store.steampowered.com/app/3622840/... #indiegame #wishlistwednesday #rpg #turnbased #pixelart

🏐BALL x PIT🏐 OUT NOW on PC, Switch, PS5 and Xbox. A brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. But be warned: it’s seriously addictive. Watch the trailer for real-time proof.

📢 Exciting news! 📢 VIDEOVERSE will be coming to consoles on... ✨November 14th✨ The port includes all post-PC launch updates plus new Japanese localisation 🇯🇵 Please share! ❤️ #indiegame #visualnovel #gaming

What demos are we all playing this Next Fest gang? I need some recs! ✨