A French JRPG is GOTY?


Best Indie Games Newsletter

By Clement • 27 April 2025

Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

This week saw the shadow drop of the long rumored Oblivion Remaster, which has absolutely taken over the conversation this week (to the detriment of some indie games) and seems like it is doing justice to the game, but unfortunately might explain exactly why we are getting so many remakes and remasters instead of new titles.

Meanwhile, a turn based JRPG from a 30ish person French team is now the best rated game on Metacritic so far in 2025, punching above it's weight, and could we indeed get it into the GOTY conversation?

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Summit: Steps of Solace - ​​Embark on a challenging ascent in this 2D pixel art precision platformer that will test your reflexes and determination!

Armed with dual pickaxes, you'll scale a treacherous mountain, with hazards such as spikes, pits, ice, and wind! Master additional equipment like a grappling hook to navigate over 70 meticulously designed levels, with optional collectibles and a speed run mode which offer extra challenge!

Originally released on the Playdate handheld, this has reviewed well, with special mention going to the emotional side of things, as you uncover the reason as to why your character is determined to make this ascent.

The Steam release includes new content and revamps visuals, so if interested, try the free demo and add it to your wishlist on Steam today.

Indie games of interest

  1. Outrider Mako - Finally! A release date for this action-adventure title
  2. Skateboard Knight - A fun looking runner title
  3. Roulette Hero - The next symbol builder rogue-lite of interest!
  4. MotionRec - A cool looking puzzle game
  5. Grifford Academy - A magical coming-of-age turn based RPG
  6. Amanda the Adventurer 3 - The viral horror game just keeps coming back for more!
  7. Frostpunk 1886 - A remake of the original Frostpunk

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My videos this week

  1. Some exciting sequels! | Indie Gaming This Week: 21 - 27 April 2025 - An above average number of monster tamers along with some great looking pixel art games, rogue-lites, shooters and more!
  2. Top 25 INSANELY GOOD (Largely) Turn-based Rogue-lites - Best strategy Rogue-lites!

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News & Articles

  1. Devolver Digital cuts 40% of staff at subsidiary studio Nerial- Oof. Nerial is known for the Reigns series, with layoffs alongside Artificer, and Good Shephard / Big Fan, an internal studio and sub-publishing arm respectively.
  2. Is Blue Prince's success due to 'social play?' - Good read regarding one of the indie games of the moment.
  3. Square Enix, Capcom, Taito, and Sega commit to "archiving past development materials" - Good
  4. Discord CEO and co-founder Jason Citron steps down - Uh oh. They also installed former a King / Activision-Blizzard executive as CEO
  5. Toronto-based developer Mighty Yell lays off unconfirmed number of employees - Oof. This is the developer of The Big Con, and is making the upcoming All Systems Dance which is unaffected
  6. IGN and Eurogamer owner Ziff Davis is suing OpenAI for content theft - Of course, but I'm guessing it will result in some deal that sees Ziff Davis getting paid millions

Indie Game of the Week

Zombie Night Terror - One of the secret best games is this action strategy title, where you transform innocent character into zombies to clear the level, having fantastic pixel art and is at a whopping 90% discount!

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