Hello Indie Game Fan Reader!

The releases are coming hot and heavy, with a stacked week (and more to come), including MIO: Memories in Orbit, Hungry Horrors, Weird RPG 2, LORT and more!

On a programming note, I did my first let's play in awhile! Let me know what you think and if you want to see more like this.

​Upcoming Games of 2026

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Indie games of interest

1. ​Crisol: Theater of Idols - Release date announcement for this Horror FPS.
2. ​Annulus - Dark fantasy tactics title!
3. ​The Great Hatch - Cute looking incremental title about goblins fighting a giant floating egg. What's inside?
4. ​FIRESTARTERS - Movement FPS goodness!
5. ​Meaningless Random Numbers - A very weird incremental horror title
6. ​Idle Gods - Play god in this rogue-lite incremental title.
7. ​Resonant Q - Cosmic Horror Survival Action
8. ​VANRAN - Dark Fantasy ARPG, looks like a souls-like
9. ​33 Immortals - This co-op action rogue-lite from Thunder Lotus Games is coming to Steam!
10. ​Fossilfuel 3 - Did someone say dinosaurs?

​The God Tier Indie Games​

My videos this week

1. ​Top 25 Best Indie Games of November 2025 - No, I didn't forget, the monthly recaps are still a thing. Just got insanely busy at the end of the year.
2. ​Some real beautiful games! | Indie Gaming This Week: 19 - 25 January 2026 - A great week of games, including some unexpected entries which have really blown up in popularity!
3. ​Pulling off a Heist because EARTH MUST DIE - My first Let's Play in awhile!

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News & Articles

1. ​Ubisoft details ‘major company reset’: 6 games canned, 7 delayed, and 2 studios closed - This is after a minority sale to Tencent. Cancelled games include the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake (which you would think would be a layup, but alas). Shares dropped 37%
2. ​Former Assassin’s Creed boss sues Ubisoft for more than $1.3 million, alleging ‘constructive dismissal’ - Adding to Ubisfot's woes
3. ​Xbox Developer_Direct - Fable, Forza Horizon 6, Beast of Reincarnation, Kiln and more!
4. ​Layoffs at Starbreeze - Oof. Payday 3 really has not hit for them
5. ​Wildgate developer Moonshot Games confirms layoffs - Oof. Again, the game didn't seem to hit.​
   ​Megami Tensei author says devs must take inspiration from other media if they want to invent new gameplay systems - True
6. ​New Deadlock Update - Valve's new game

Indie Game of the Week

​Gravity Circuit - Get this melee Mega Man-like at 55% discount!

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