Author: Jonathan Bolding

Take a half hour or so out of your day, because though it’s now November the truth is that spooky season never ends. So here’s a bit of spoopiness for you: Indie whodunit detective adventure Tommy Gun Witches is a free game you can grab off of itch.io and it’s a pretty good time. Created…

Tiny people in a big world survival game Grounded has got a heck of an update on the way: Make It and Break It will hit on November 13th, bringing in a creative mode called Playgrounds that lets you make custom game maps and modes using tools that seem pretty dang close to whatever the…

The latest game in the first-person puzzler legacy of Portal, The Talos Principle 2, is getting pretty positive reception. Developed by Croteam and Devolver Digital, the game inevitably cribs some design logic and concepts from Portal and Portal 2, seeing as they’re in the same genre. Normally you’d just acknowledge the giants on whose shoulders…

Newly released cooperative horror indie game Lethal Company is getting a lot of buzz from early players. It’s a simple setup: You and your crew of three other scavengers drop on to an abandoned moon station, get as many valuables as you can, and get out. If that seems simple, well, there are a lot…

A free passion project from a team of game devs has released on Steam after a few years in Early Access, and it’s entirely free. Planet S is a game where you’re dropped, with your single colony ship, into an uninhabited solar system either alone or alongside others with their own ships. From there, it’s…

Players that devour games like Resident Evil and Control alike, not to mention the just-released Alan Wake 2, should keep their eyes on an indie that popped up on Steam recently: Crow Country. It’s an indie horror game with that vague aesthetic of the PSX era that channels the likes of not just the early…

Cities: Skylines 2 has announced that eight new regional building themes will come to the city builder via the Paradox Mods distribution platform. Created by a variety of well-known modders from the Cities Skylines modeling scene, the new packs will be Japan, UK, East-coast USA, West-coast USA, China, France, East Europe, and Germany Spread across…

A new flight sim from an indie studio is picking up attention: In Nuclear Option you’re piloting tough, diverse aircraft on a near-future battlefield in singleplayer, cooperative, and competitive scenarios. It boasts realistic flight systems but isn’t slavishly devoted to realism, falling somewhere nearer a more arcade flight sim in its objectives but still caring…

Chill survival game Outpath released this past week and has picked up some buzz and a quite positive reception from early players. Describing itself as “an experimental clicker base building game,” Outpath’s release is a lot like a first-person version of Forager. Though it does feature more in-depth base building and less automation. Outpath also…