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Best Indie Games Newsletter

By Clement • 20 April 2025

Hello Indie Game Fan!

Indie games continue to chug along with an interesting week of releases, such as Erenshor, Chains of Freedom, White Knuckle and the early releases of Tempest Rising, representing quite the range which is why I love indie games!

Managed to get 3 videos up on the channel, despite having a busy week in terms of personal life commitments, so I'll take the small wins where I can get them!

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Indie games of interest

  1. UNBEATABLE - This Rhythm Adventure game looks to be something special, demo available now!
  2. Mutant Hunter - A sick looking twin stick shooter
  3. Neon Abyss 2 - Early access date announced!
  4. Summit: Steps of Solace - 2D pixel art precision platformer!
  5. Mind Keeper - Interesting hand sketched art style for this rogue-lite tower defence platformer
  6. Deckline - Depressing war card game
  7. DREADMOOR - DREDGE but first person

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My videos this week

  1. BEST NEW Indie Game Trailers April 2025 - An above average number of monster tamers along with some great looking pixel art games, rogue-lites, shooters and more!
  2. A HUGE Souls-like Metroidvania and more! | Indie Gaming This Week: 14 - 20 April 2025 - Good week, but controversy abound re: Mandragora's EULA and Privacy Policy
  3. Top 25 Must-Play Indie Games of March 2025 - Great games and hidden gems!

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News & Articles

  1. How Balatro publisher Playstack delivered a marketing masterclass - Game devs read this
  2. Palworld dev fights Nintendo lawsuit - It will be interesting to see how this plays out
  3. "Rocket League with Feet" Rematch hits huge playtest numbers on Steam - 124,000+ concurrent players, probably helped by Rocket League being a Epic Games Store Exclusive
  4. Niantic Spatial is laying off 68 staff following the acquisition of its games business by Scopely - Oof, but expected
  5. Dwarf Fortress sells 1,000,000 copies on Steam! - Nice
  6. Media company Gamurs Group reportedly lays off more staff - Traditional games media continues to wither

Indie Game of the Week

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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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