Ignore the hyperbole all-round. It's outright offensive to say it's worse than AI slop - real people worked on this, the worst art in the world is better than AI - but it is not a masterpiece. It's serviceable enough for families, visually brilliant, and Mario fans will obviously really enjoy it.
I'm currently working on my SECOND GAME.
Please support real 100% human-made weird fucking shit!
pls share and give us a follow and together with me wonder where this one fucking lands...
All the weird is lovingly hallucinated in my human brain!
In Rome's Museo di Neo Geo (a fictional museum of geology), Agent Epsilon raises here hands exultantly as she smiles. Museum Director Stefania Plinth stands behind her, looking shocked. The art is cartoony mid-century modern style with strong line art, bold colors (the background is all purple nd gold) and paper grain showing.
Puzzle Spy International launches TOMORROW on Steam for Win, Mac, and Linux!
Grab some friends and work your way through fun, challenging wordplay, deduction and rules discovery puzzles. Talk to contacts and flirt with them (or not as you see fit.)
Save the day!
#indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame
A charmingly hand drawn screenshot of a role playing game, in which a rhino, a reptile(?), a strange blobbly thing and a duck attack an angry mouse with a sword and a pink skivvy.
I played a little bit of Heroes of the Seven Islands and genuinely adore it. A super charming and engaging point & click RPG.
Incredibly excited! We are now over 100 reviews within a week of launching. Thanks so much to everyone who made this dream a Nazi hunting reality!
There's a new "Bonnie and Pig" bundle with Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime + Hermit and Pig!🐻🐸🐷
If you already own one, the other is discounted. And the Steam Spring Sale is happening. So the timing is suspiciously good.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/70427...
#indiegame #steamspringsale
A partial screenshot from 'Creature Kitchen' with a raccoon sat in a red rocking chair on the front porch of a house. It's night time.
Celebrating 1500 units sold 🪇 THANK YOU!
Some more numbers 👇
1000+ drawings on paper, scanned with my phone
37 original music tracks
5-10 hours long on a first playthrough
100% positive on Steam (124 reviews)
is it too late to change my review score
The Ratline is out now! Hunt Nazis across the globe to the soundtrack of moody jazz and a snoring dog!
store.steampowered.com/app/3756940/...
facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 OFF” label graphic
facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 ON” label graphic real world photos of Tom Welling and Anne Hathaway have replaced the game’s characters
Nah, that's just British English as well; where US English would use an em dash we'd typically use a spaced en dash.
Spaced em dashes are weird tho
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
Cheers James! Thought your coverage of it was great too –really do love it so hopefully we've turned a few eyes in its direction!
Well not to be supportive wife on main, but my partner just released her game as a solo dev after working on it for about three years and did literally everything herself
Literally no excuse to use AI when there's plenty of tools out there to make what you want
store.steampowered.com/app/3247030/...
Really really (rhell-y?) enjoyed Rhell – such a unique game, excellent puzzles, excellent art, excellent silliness...
It's all very creative and very smart, and makes you feel creative and smart* too!
Go play it!
*sometimes it makes you feel dumb
but that's just as fun
Our favourite release of 2026 has come from an unexpected source: it's an entirely free game from hobbyist developer @bushmonkey.bsky.social.
The Red Pearls of Borneo is a wonderful deduction game which everyone should check out!
Read/watch here:
📝 indieloupe.com/red-pearls
📽️ youtu.be/n6kfVf4HWs8
oh this is cool
One month ago we launched Hermit and Pig on Steam!👴🏽🐷
The game was made by just the two of us over 5 years.
We wrote it, programmed it, drew it, composed the music, and somehow shipped a full game.
This pic's from launch day when it all got real🍄
#indiegame #indiedev
I'm happy to announce that we've now reached 10,000 wishlists for SCOPECREEP!
When I started this idea in a game jam, I never thought I would make it this far. And it's all because of the support of all of you!
I can't thank you enough!
#gamedev #indiedev #incremental #godot #scopecreep
Apropos of something: It has long been my position that using your platform to make people aware of a tiny indie game they've never heard of before in order to tell them it's shit is just indecent.
"Hey! See this thing you wouldn't have seen otherwise?! It's not worth knowing about!"
This week in The Daily Spell, a story from guest writer Mo about an eerie apparition! 👻 Thursday's article made me giggle out loud when I read it, I can't wait for people to enjoy it!
Check out this week's puzzles at www.the-daily-spell.com
You can find Mo's work at mostanton.itch.io
Script excerpt re: the #1348ExVoto nb characters backlash. We can't let the loud minority of "anti-woke" (see: racist, sexist, transphobic) elements own the games space. They have to know it's just not accepted. I know from the comments—and from experience—that there'll be some vitriol. But fuck it.
Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...
These are the important metrics that we need more people to be looking into
This is the world of Indie games. You see a game that just came out a few weeks ago with reviews like this one and you've never heard of it nor heard anyone else speak of it and I love that. The link's below in case you're interested. It's at $7.99. #IndieGame
store.steampowered.com/app/3097300/...
This just seems... bizarrely mean-spirited?
The headline doesn’t read great, and the article itself is even harsher. There were 3500 demos this next fest, hundreds packed with AI slop, but you’re telling me these seven are deserving of being singled out and ragged on? Why?
We can do better.
I owe a lot of my career to RPS journalists like John Walker and Alice Bell (John still supports my work). That’s why this piece is so disappointing. Not because I’m in it — but because it needlessly punches down at indie devs. You can do better.
Please retract it and apologise to the developers.
We got to give a talk about Many Nights a Whisper at ENJMIN Games Conference last week and had the best time! Merci to all the students who welcomed us and came to our talk, we loved getting to meet you all. We can't wait to see what this next generation of talented gamedevs will make in the future!
