There's still time to submit your game to Tiny Teams 2026! We wanna see what all you talented solo and small team devs are working on 😈

#gamedev #tinyteams #indiegame

Promotional poster for Debug Games Festival, featuring Super Spelling Ducks artwork. Saturday 25th April 2026 Norfolk Events Centre - GamesFestival.co.uk

Hi everyone! I'm finally bringing the Super Spelling Ducks out again! Come along to Debug's first games festival this Saturday (25th April) and see how they're getting on!

Steam's best festival is back once again - if you're a tiny team making a big impact, please do consider joining us.

Card Crawl 2 the official sequel to the beloved original is

✨ OUT NOW! ✨

Download for free on iOS and Android!

🍏 apps.apple.com/us/app/card-...
🤖 play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Once again, you’ll face Hoerni and his friends in clever solitaire-style card battles. See you in the taverns!

🍻

The Quizard's Domain - Gameplay Trailer (2026) YouTube video by Calm Pewter Games

Been sitting on some version of this trailer for uh... Half a year now, wow. No showcase ended up wanting it, soooo guess this will be its big debut instead, to celebrate today's chonky 1.0 demo update!

Enjoy~

#indie #gamedev #gaming

Exark on Steam Exark is an engine builder about building a city aboard a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, staff them with crew members, and maximise your ark's resource production by exploiting powerful syner...

Sign up for the playtest here: 🎲https://store.steampowered.com/app/3435610/Exark/

Check out some great games in this year's #TurnBasedThursday Fest lineup here: store.steampowered.com/sale/turnbas...

Exark is featured in #TurnBasedThursday Fest '26, and to celebrate, we're releasing an open playtest! 🎉

Take the helm as captain-general of Great House Arioch and lead your ark to the lands beyond the Rim of the world. 🗺️✈️🔥

The 35% launch discount for Hold The Mine is still running for few hours!

Go nuts while you can! Link below 👇

Announcing: TOPDECK AUTOMAT 🤖🖨️👽

The roguelike auto-battler where your deck prints itself! You are a brave printer robot, hacked and reprogrammed to fend off alien invaders. Hundreds of cards, free-form upgrades, stackable modules, broken builds!

Wishlist on Steam, playtest soon!

👇 Link below 👇

Heroes Against Time is OUT NOW!

🧙‍♂️ Build a powerful team
⏳ Short & Challenging runs (5-10 mins!)
🎨 Unlock palettes as you win

Help me share the news! 😊
(Link in the description)

#indiegame #indiedev #pixelart #roguelike #majorupdate

Exark is participating in this year's #GDoC Expo Steam Event! 🎈🥳

Check out the Steam Event at store.steampowered.com/sale/gdocexp..., and the packed schedule of talks, panels, and interviews at the expo between 16-19 September at gdoc.events/2025schedule!

The Game Devs of Color Expo full schedule is out NOW! 🙌🏾

We've got some fabulous speakers for our 10th year, so check them out!

gdoc.events/2025schedule

In addition to the virtual program, in‑person watch parties are returning this year in New York City and Pittsburgh!

#gdocexpo

I'm honored to be part of a truly stacked lineup of #indiedev #roguelike and #roguelite gems via @humblebundle.com! If you're remotely interested in the genre, this is amazing value for money! 👀

👉 www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...

We just reached 5,000 wishlists on Hold the Mine in 14 days!

This is huge and feels incredible, thanks a lot everyone for playtesting the game on steam and sharing the game around, it helps us a lot 🥰✨

Hold the Mine - Official Announcement Trailer | Mining-Focused Roguelike Survival Indie Game YouTube video by Goblinz Publishing

⛏️ Just revealed at #Gamescom Awesome Indies: Hold the Mine by Hookaria Games!

A mining-focused roguelike survival game, now part of our publishing line-up. 🙌

🔗 Wishlist and join the playtest today: store.steampowered.com/app/3164960?...

#gamescom2025 #indiegames

Hold The Mine on Steam Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes t...

Here we are! Hold the Mine is officially announced!

Hold the Mine is a unique rogue-like survival game where you explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters!

And you can try the playtest version right now!

Wishlist & Playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/3164960/

Nice To Yeet You - Sign up for our Gamescom Playtest! - Steam News Nice to Yeet You is heading to Gamescom. But you can still join in the fun from home!

What a year it's been!

After a year of hard work we can finally let you try Nice To Yeet You!

#gamedev #indiegame #fightinggame #brawler #nicetoyeetyou #ntyy

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Tiny Teams 2025 has started, and we’re glad to see Exark in this year’s selection!

The event runs until Aug. 14, and maybe you’ll catch some gameplay live on Twitch! 👀
🔗 twitch.tv/yogscast

@tinyteamsfest.bsky.social @robotcatgames.bsky.social #indiegames

Tiny Teams 2025 starts... TOMORROW!!!

Who's ready to fatten up their wishlists and feed their indie game soul?

#gaming #indiegame #gamedev

#tinyteams is easily the best and biggest Steam event I've personally seen. Passionate event staff digging up some truly hidden gems, to be played and boosted by the lovely @yogscast.com

Don't miss this one!!

#gaming #indie #gamedev #tinyteams2025

We're excited to announce that Exark is part of this year's #TinyTeams2025 selection, hosted by @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social! 😀

Join us for this fantastic celebration of indie games by tiny studios from 7 to 14 August. 🔥🎲🕹️

My home country isn't always perfect, but damn I'm proud to represent #germany in this stacked event, alongside a bunch of AAA veterans and other #indie devs making awesome stuff 😍

So many great #games I didn't even know were from good old Schland. Peep this!

store.steampowered.com/sale/Games-F...

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Astrolabe Games Asia Summer Event Reel 2025.

See you at Bilibili World/BitSummit/ChinaJoy/BIC/TGS 2025!

2025年アジアイベントキャラバン、起動。

アジアの夏、我らの遊び場。

Publisher Page: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ASTL

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Celebrate Indie-Penance Day With 10 More Incredible Unknown Games! Another wonderful mix of indie games from genres science cannot explain

Here's the second part of Indie-Penance Day 2025. The fifth year I've done this on Kotaku!

kotaku.com/indie-penanc...

As ever, I feel horribly guilty for the 280-ish games submitted that I couldn't cover. But wow, the 20 I could represent such an incredible spread of inspired inventiveness.

7 Years of Development! Netherguild Devlog #0 YouTube video by DavidCodeAndArt

I just released a devlog about Netherguild's 7 years of development! from inception to Early Access release to the present day, narrated by yours truly.

youtu.be/FZiQTq6pU2E

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelite #devlog #indiegame

Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here Are 10 Amazing Indie Games You've Never Heard Of Before We've got the most incredibly eclectic list of unknown indies to add to your wishlist

Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here is the first batch of unknown indie games as Kotaku completes the sacrament of Indie-Penance. 10 incredible-looking games, an incredibly eclectic mix! 10 more to come later today.

kotaku.com/indiepenance...

Tomorrow is Indie-Penance Day on Kotaku! If you have an indie game in development, or a recent release that's been ignored, email me: botherer@gmail.com, with the subject line "INDIE PENANCE 2025".

Please include a store link and a YT link (if possible).

Rules next...

Still time left for #SteamSummerSale to grab some great games in our line-up for historically low prices!

#indiegame #Steam

A flier for the Secret Sauce showcase announcing the participation of the game Gemporium. The flier says "Secret Sauce Showcase with offbrand games July 19th 2PM ET (11AM PT)." The showcase is a partnership with Open Sauce Live, with a physical event taking place July 18-20th 2025. The graphic showcases a mole lifting up a diamond in front of a crowd of animals, with other gems scattered in the background and the title "Gemporium" displayed at the top.

We're excited to announce that Gemporium is going to be featured in the Secret Sauce showcase by @offbrand.games
and Open Sauce Live!!

Make sure to catch the showcase on July 19th and if you're going to be at Open Sauce in person, come find our booth and say hi 💎✨

Exark is in the inaugural Secret Sauce Showcase, hosted by @offbrand.games and Open Sauce Live! 🔥🤖

Tune into the showcase to check out our exclusive new trailer on Sat 19 July at 2pm ET / 11am PT. 📺