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Best Indie Games Summer Showcase

Tuesday, June 3rd 2025, 8AM Pacific!

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The BIGgest Summer Showcase with a ton of indie games! Save the date!

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Indie games of interest

1. ​Nightmare Busters Rebirth - This re-make of a SNES era run & gun action platformer easily blew past their Kickstarter target, being fully funded in just 6.5hrs with plenty of time to go, so check it out for stretch goals and rewards, with physical cartridges being made as well!
2. ​RATSHAKER - As described
3. ​Bad Cheese - A release window for essentially, a first person horror Mickey Mouse game
4. ​Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy - The next CRPG from the developer of WH40K Rogue Trader (and also the Pathfinder CRPGs)
5. ​Castle of Heart: Retold - A medieval side scrolling action platformer that looks pretty alright?
6. ​Night Swarm - A cool look vampire survivors-like with an art direction inspired by tabletop miniatures

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​See what's coming up in 2025​

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My videos this week

1. ​THE BEST Run-and-Gun Games you MUST play - Metal Slug-likes, Contra-likes and more!
2. ​A MASSIVE week of new games! | Indie Gaming This Week: 19 - 25 May 2025 - So many games!

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News & Articles

1. ​Lost in Cult launches EDITIONS a physical editions label - First up, IMMORTALITY, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow and Thank Goodness You're Here!
2. ​Embracer Group to be split in two - Coffee Stain Group (Coffee Stain, Ghost Ship Games, Tuxedo labs and more, makers of Goat simulator, Satisfactory, Valheim, Teardown, Deep Rock Galactic and more) as well as Fellowship Entertainment (Crystal Dynamics, Tarsier Studios, Gunfire Games, Plaion, makers of Tomb Raider, Little Nightmares, Remnant: From the Ashes etc). Looks like they will be ramping up M&A again
3. ​Fortnite is back on the App Store after 5 years - Big win for Epic
4. ​Former PlayStation boss (Shuhei Yishida) says 'stupid money' crippled the game industry - There was A LOT of money sloshing around post 2020
5. ​Morale is in “free-fall” at Bungie over make-or-break launch of Marathon - 😬 Good luck to the team

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Indie Game of the Week

​Star Renegades - One of the prettiest sci-fi rogue-lite turn based RPGs is at a massive 83% discount!

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GIVEAWAY WINNER(S)

The winner of the newsletter giveaway for Lonesome Village is Siddarth S (sy*********@gmail.com).

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Next week's giveaway is for Metal Unit, a pretty sick pixel art mech based rogue-lite platformer!

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