Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

It has been an absolutely insane year of indie games already, with Silksong & Hades 2 alone already dealing the deal for 2025, but we still have so many more great games such as Abiotic Factor, Slime Rancher 2, CloverPit, Expedition 33(?) and so much more!

Honestly pretty hard to beat, so if you can think of a better year, do let me know.

Reminder: if you're planning on buying anything, the Steam Autumn Sale is in the coming week, so maybe wait a day or two to see if it goes on discount.

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Indie games of interest

1. ​Palworld: Palfarm - Farming Spinoff!
2. ​Kingdom of Night - Try the Demo for this Stranger Things-like action-adventure game!
3. ​Possessor(s) - The next game from Heart Machine has a date!
4. ​Barkour - Demo out on Oct 2 for this stealth-action title where you play as a dog!
5. ​Tiny Metal 2 - Interesting announcement for this Advance Wars-like!
6. ​Dice Goblin's Den - A cute looking side scrolling Tower Defence game
7. ​Fading Serenades - Pixel art exploration game!

​BEST games of 2025 so far​

My videos this week

1. ​Another MASSIVE week of releases! | Indie Gaming This Week: 22 - 28 September 2025 - It's yet another insane week of new releases, with 50+ titles of note!
2. ​Top 25 Best Indie Games of August 2025 - Good month
3. ​Top 25 Upcoming NEW Indie Games of October 2025 - Pretty sweet month as well, punctuated with the Steam Autumn Sale & Steam Next Festival!

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News & Articles

1. ​Hades 2 tops Metacritic's PC game chart for 2025 - Chef's kiss
2. ​EA reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ over $50bn buyout with investors, including Saudi’s PIF - One of the big publishers going private...
3. ​Doug Bowser is stepping down as Nintendo of America president and COO - Unfortunately the person taking over does not share a name with any other Nintendo character.
4. ​Game Developer Conference rebrands as GDC Festival of Gaming: "the industry is changing and so are we"- I've only heard about the prohibitively high costs of attending for indie devs, so maybe this is a step in the right direction.
5. ​Developers report lengthy payment delays on itch.io - Payment delays are no fun, speaking from experience.
6. ​Starbreeze Entertainment launches Payday 2 subscription service on Steam - Interesting that they are going back to the well, given how Payday 3 is going.

Indie Games of the Week

​Lost in Random: The Eternal Die - The action rogue-lite follow up to Lost in Random is pretty good, with intense action and sweet graphics, so get this at 45% discount! Not bad for a 2025 release

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