Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

Summer continues to roll along so things are muted on the gaming front, with the usual (depressing) news of layoffs and kerfuffles in the game industry.

The good news is that games are kind of back? After the busy summer showcase season and the Steam Sale, we had a full week of releases, so let me know what you have been playing! (You can replying directly to this email)

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Indie games of interest

1. ​Back to the Dawn - This Prison Escape RPG just hit 1.0 and added a whole new character and storyline!
2. ​The Royal Writ - A rogue-lite deckbuilder with a fantastic art style!
3. ​Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson - A music themed deckbuilding JRPG that is doing pretty well!
4. ​Alabaster Dawn - Demo out in September for the follow up to CrossCode!
5. ​Verho - Curse of Faces - New trailer for this King's Field-like!
6. ​Berserk B.I.T.S - New trailer for this bottom of screen idle game!
7. ​Ex Sanguis - New trailer for the follow up to OTHERCIDE

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​Summer Announcements & Releases STILL to come in 2025​

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My videos this week

1. ​AWESOME Releases & Updates you might have missed! | June 2025 - Some big patches!
2. ​Indie Gaming This Week: 14 - 20 July 2025 - Amazing week of releases, some together with the Steam Automation Fest!
3. ​Top 25 Best Indie Games of June 2025 - Catch up on a busy month!

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News & Articles

1. ​'Krafton decided to go nuclear:' Unknown Worlds founders claim Subnautica 2 is being held hostage in lawsuit - Ongoing saga, messy, messy stuff
2. ​Krafton responds to Subnautica founders’ lawsuit: ‘We look forward to defending ourselves in court’ - The response
3. ​Report: Nearly 8,000 games on Steam disclose GenAI use - Thoughts?
4. ​Laid off King staff set to be replaced by the AI tools they helped build, say sources - One one hand, it is Candy Crush, but still, AI job displacement is here.
5. ​Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam - Payment processors control the world

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Indie Games of the Week

​Chained Echoes - One of the BEST JRPGs in recent memory, get this at 45% off in anticipation of the DLC dropping soon.

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