Tag Archives: Indie

My Dream is a Lost Memory is beautiful. Visually, its simple two-tone, sepia-soaked, hand drawn art style penned by developer LeJunes is gorgeous. Thematically, it’s relatable, weaving a short interactive and semi-autobiographical narrative about an overworked, city-living woman struggling to juggle the myriad responsibilities tied to adulthood. Its soundtrack is …

During my Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals hands-on, I accidentally broke the demo build. Obsessed with a canary trapped in a cage in a coal mine, I ignore the game’s prompts and try desperately to find a way to free it. “The bird’s dead,” Night Schoolers studio director Sean Krankel tells …

Upcoming indie Lost in Play looks like a Cartoon Network spin-off game but in a really good way.  The point-and-click adventure game is currently in development at Israel-based studio Happy Juice Games and is due to release on PC and Nintendo Switch in ‘Summer 2022’, so we really won’t have …

The clone wars, it seems, are far from over. The practice of copying the essence of a popular game and repackaging it for financial gain has been around almost as long as videogames, but it’s become a particular problem in recent years on mobile platforms.  Not only can this be …

In Pupperazzi, you play as a sentient camera on legs in a world full of very, very good dogs. It makes complete sense, then, that as this walking photo machine, you spend all your time taking endless snaps of puppers riding skateboards, wearing tiny party hats, and dancing next to …

I don’t know much about fishing, but neither does the protagonist of Moonglow Bay. Despite their last name being Fisher, the person you inhabit in this fishing simulator isn’t an expert angler, so the protagonist and the player learn all about lures, lines, and rods in tandem. In Moonglow Bay, …

Noguchi’s Bell, an ongoing film series created in Dreams, has launched a Kickstarter to fund an entire series as announced at the Future Games Show today.  Cyber Sheep Film announced their intent to develop the project, based around the first episode which launched in February. You can watch the 20-minute …

Twelve Minutes, an upcoming thriller by Annapurna Interactive, got a behind-the-scenes documentary that highlights the cast’s performances.  Released via Collider Exclusives (opens in new tab), the nine-minute-long documentary gives a brief glimpse into the inner workings of the video game development process, as well as some backstory into how Twelve …

The dust has just settled on the Future Games Show Powered by WD_BLACK, but if you couldn’t catch it live, don’t fret. We’ve collected all of the critical information for you to dig into right here. So make sure to read on if you want the rundown on every trailer, …

Esports Boxing Club is an upcoming boxing game for PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC from indie studio Steel City, and the alpha footage above is a visual knockout.  That alpha footage looks so good, I initially had to do a double-take. The line of sweat trickling in between shoulder …