It's been a busy week for me! In between videos, GOTY plans and the day job, I've been getting ready for the Best Indie Games Winter Showcase as well.
One more big hurrah previewing 2026 before the holidays and award season, so save the date if you love indie games!
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Kentum - Craft, Survive & Rebuild in the year 10,000!
Play as a clone named Kent, who awakens after a 7,000‑year long nap, now having to rebuild civilization alongside your robot companion ORB, in this 2D “craftervania” adventure.
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Explore exotic locales, scan ecosystems and classify flora, fauna and minerals. Knowledge is your greatest tool!
- Harvest raw materials like wood, bone and scrap to build production chains, craft machines and automate production systems that keep working while you explore.
- Hunt for food, build farms and vivariums, survive climate events and fight hostile creatures while you expand your operations & explore!
- Traverse using hoverboards, grappling hooks and gliders through vibrant jungles & desolate ruins, unlocking new areas with Metroidvania‑inspired progression
Kentum is available right now on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch! Buy it today!
Indie games of interest
- LORT - It's kind of like Risk of Rain 2 meets Megabonk? (also, apparently this means poop in Danish, according to a YouTube comment, so you know what they're going for!)
- Gods, Death & Reapers - Closed playtest live, sign up on Steam (From the developer of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem)
- UNBEATABLE - Delayed until December 9th.
- Apes Warfare - Advance Wars but monkee
- Pluto - Creepy rogue-lite Deckbuilder
- Deorum - Creepy Incremental Game
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My videos this week
- A HUGE week of releases | Indie Gaming This Week: 27 October - 02 November 2025 - SO MANY games!
- MASSIVE Updates & Indie Game Releases | October 2025 - The Beheaded is back!
- BEST NEW Indie Game Trailers November 2025 - Upcoming games to look forward to.
- Top 25 Best Indie Games of October 2025 - BEST games
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News & Articles
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- GTA VI delayed to Nov 19, 2026 - Was previously in May 2026.
- Rockstar claims it fired dozens of workers last week for leaking company secrets, not for trying to unionise - Kind of par for the course?
- 4 years into its ’10-year plan’, Halo Infinite is officially ending major updates - 😬 Roadmaps
- Square Enix announces more layoffs as part of US and Europe restructuring - Oof
- Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 - Hm.
- Subnautica owner Krafton outlines plans to transform into an 'AI First' company - Another one
- Japanese game studios tell OpenAI to stop pilfering their work - Weird eh? Given the above
- Yet another NetEase studio has closed, this time Watch Dogs devs’ Bad Brain - NetEase sure did fund a lot of studios which are all closing one by one without having ever released a game.
- 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study - Not surprising, but it would be interesting to see what a Post-Gabe Valve would look like
Indie Games of the Week
The Banner Saga - One of the best (and most beautiful) tactical RPGs is 80% off! The gorgeous hand drawn art still holds up after all these years, so give it a go, and pick all 3 up if you love it.
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Next week's giveaway is for Royal Revolt Survivors, a bullet heaven rogue-lite spinoff of a mobile title!
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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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