A MEGA week of new releases!


Best Indie Games Newsletter

By Clement • 19 July 2026

Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

After all the doom and gloom of the past couple of weeks, it's nice to see video game still coming out, where the future, as always, is indie, and it's great to see smaller games thriving!

Plenty of previews for the 2nd half of the year on the channel, so do take a look and tell me, what game are you most looking forward to in the 2nd half of 2026? (you can reply directly to this email)

Get the list of games from my Summer showcase.

​Upcoming Games of 2026

Indie games of interest

  1. ​Roguecraft DX - What can I say, I love me some pixel art.
  2. ​Worming from Home - Work from home in this job sim, only where your co-workers don't know you are a Worm!
  3. ​Wilderdark - First person survival horror with mutant dinosaurs!
  4. ​Dog in the Machine - A cute looking tactical rogue-lite where you train an AutoDog
  5. ​Arms Dealer - Check out the art style in this strategy game
  6. ​Farming Camp - A pixel art farming game that looks kind of neat!
  7. ​Grim Dawn: Fangs of Asterkarn - Release date revealed for this expansion!
  8. ​Agent 64: Spies Never Die - Release date revealed for this GoldenEye 64 inspired title.

​God Tier Indie Games​

My videos this week

  1. ​100 Upcoming Pixel Art Indie Games for 2026 & Beyond - Love pixel art games?
  2. ​Top 25 HIGHLY ANTICIPATED Indie Games of H2 2026 - Exciting upcoming indie games to look forward to
  3. ​25 MORE Massively Anticipated Indie Games of H2 2026 - More indie games for the rest of the year
  4. ​MORE Pixel Art Indie Games you NEED to see | H2 2026 - More pixel art indie games for the rest of the year
  5. ​Indie Gaming This Week: 13 - 19 July 2026 - HUGE week with so many games!

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News & Articles

  1. ​A Note from Bethesda Game Studios - Fallout 5 in pre-production, new Fallout game from Obsidian, Fallout 3 & New Vegas being remastered. Expected given the changes as Xbox.
  2. ​'The entire thing is going to fall apart:' Inside the latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox - Worth a read, time will tell
  3. ​ZeniMax Online Studios leadership included in Xbox mass layoffs - Oof
  4. ​Marathon's Game director departs Bungie - Not look good my dudes
  5. ​Dead Space creator Glen Schofield is retiring after 35 years - End of an era
  6. ​ZA/UM Studios to lay off up to 32 workers two months after releasing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies - Oof
  7. ​The Alters and Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios is laying off 20 employees - Oof, strange though since those 2 games seems to have sold tremendously well, but they "chose to downsize as they enter a new production cycle."

Indie Game of the Week

​Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles - A very unique dice-building rogue-lite with an Astrology theme, where you use both Purification and Corruption in combat, so if interested, get this at is 40% discount!

Do you have any feedback or comments? You can reply directly to this email and I'll see it! Let me know your thoughts on the news and games above, as well an anything you would like to see!


My name is Clement and I love indie games! As such, I make videos on indie games big and small, highlighting my favorites & supporting developers so that they can make more cool stuff.

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