Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 13 September 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Heart Machine has laid off nearly everyone at the studio after a publishing deal fell through. That is the developer of Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, Hyper Light Breaker and Possessor(s). Studio head Alx Preston announced it on LinkedIn: "without this key income, any other immediate prospects or other funds, nearly everyone at the studio had to be laid off. It's devastating." He is not saying the studio...
12 days ago • 6 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 13 September 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Hideo Kojima's Physint has moved from PlayStation to Xbox, but the fallout could be huge. rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac goddamn. sony kills the kojima relationship, likely bc sales flagged on last exclusive, tries to say “don’t worry we still love each other” kojima posts tweet that basically all but says “fuck yall” xbox says “we love kojima san!” thank christ his new game still gets made 3:53 AM • Sep 10, 2026...
19 days ago • 4 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 06 September 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! 720 games launched on Steam in a single week. This is the first time it's ever crossed 700, but it is not all doom and gloom Of those 720, 530 have somewhere between zero and nine reviews. 190 got ten or more. 95 got past fifty, and ten games surpassed 1,000 reviews. For you young'uns, it's the Steam Greenlight / Direct issue all over again, this time amplified by AI, where the great games get surfaced but...
26 days ago • 4 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 30 August 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Mimic | Ryan Laley @RyanLaley My #gamescom cut short. Our equipment was stolen last night from the booth. Police reports have been filed. At a loss for words to describe the feeling. Just defeated. Gonna do my best with what's left of the week. But a huge blow financially and mentally 10:12 AM • Aug 28, 2026 2016 Retweets 23602 Likes Read 756 replies Indie developer Ryan Laley turned up to his gamescom booth...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 23 August 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Two of the studios Xbox cut loose in July have finished walking out the door, and they took their games with them. Compulsion Games confirmed a completed management buyout on 20 August. They own Contrast, We Happy Few and South of Midnight again. CEO Guillaume Provost on why he did the deal: "I asked the team, 'Do you want to stay together?' The team told me we would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline rather...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 16 August 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Netflix has shut down Night School Studio, the team behind Oxenfree (its sequel and Afterparty), and just six weeks ago, Netflix was calling their newest game (Unhinged, streamable on Netflix only) as one of its most successful debuts. Night School was Netflix's first studio acquisition, bought back in 2021 when the plan was to build a real games arm. They shipped Oxenfree II under Netflix, but as the...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 26 July 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! Something a little different this week. I came across this quote/clip on Monday and have been thinking about it ever since. “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.” A lot of life is about perspective, so a little intentional gratitude practice once in awhile can really help. It's the small things in life that, well, make up your life so it's good to take a...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 19 July 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! After all the doom and gloom of the past couple of weeks, it's nice to see video game still coming out, where the future, as always, is indie, and it's great to see smaller games thriving! Plenty of previews for the 2nd half of the year on the channel, so do take a look and tell me, what game are you most looking forward to in the 2nd half of 2026? (you can reply directly to this email) Get the list of games...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Best Indie Games Newsletter By Clement • 12 July 2026 Hello Indie Game Fan Reader! This is the big one. Weeks after a new CEO was put in place, the expected "corporate restructuring" has occurred, which has seen a huge number of layoffs and previously acquired studios spinning off, either back to being independent or was sold to some yet unnamed buyers/funding. Among some of the biggest cuts were at id (which is gross since those DOOM games are great and stood against the trend of...
3 months ago • 2 min read