Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

It's DECEMBER! Time flies!

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How was 2025 for you?

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I've been super busy as always, but no letting off the gas since it's Game of the Year Season!

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Stay tuned for previews of 2026 and the best of 2025, in addition to your regularly scheduled content

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​The Best Indie Games Winter Showcase 2025​

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Indie games of interest

1. ​Pathbreakers: Roaming Blades - They signed with Hooded Horse!
2. ​Core Keeper - Void & Voltage - + Switch 2 port!
3. ​DuneCrawl - Release date announcement for this co-op action-adventure title
4. ​GRIME II - Demo out now for the souls-like metroidvania sequel.
5. ​Hark the Ghoul - New Gameplay trailer
6. ​Wild Blue Skies - Re-reveal of this Starfox-like
7. ​Unboxathon - Another incremental title!

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​The Golden Age of Indie Games​

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My videos this week

1. ​7 Levels of Top-down Action Rogue-lites - Some of the best
2. ​Indie Gaming This Week: 24 - 30 November 2025 - Good week of releases!
3. ​Top 25 BEST Mech Indie Games - 2025 - BIG Robots

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News & Articles

1. ​The Makers of ‘Silksong’ Aren’t Done Just Yet - What's next?
2. ​‘Sales do not match our projections’: Paradox writes down $37 million of Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 dev costs - Unsurprising, given the many delays
3. ​Nintendo is acquiring Bandai Namco’s Singapore studio, will rename it Nintendo Studios Singapore - Interesting development locally here in Singapore
4. ​Epic's Sweeney says platforms should stop tagging games made with AI - Thoughts?
5. ​Coatsink to lay off half its staff due to "challenging co-development market" - Oof
6. ​Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead' - Developer was acquired by Krafton in July 2025 (who is in an ongoing dispute with the Subnautica 2 creators)
7. ​The Best Indie Games Winter Showcase will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd, 8AM Pacific - Be there!

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Indie Games of the Week

​SteamWorld Quest - This deckbuilding RPG is at a whipping 86% discount ($0.99) which is insane, where unfortunately, this might be a last ditch effort to stay flat, given Thunderful's current situation (tied to Coatsink news above)

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GIVEAWAY WINNER(S)

The winner of the newsletter giveaway for Clunky Hero is Michael Sidney

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Next week's giveaway is for Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland, an emotional tale about languages and chasing your dreams!

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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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