Indie Game Round-up - Week of June 24-28th 🕹️
Your round-up of every notable and under-the-radar indie game release from each day. Plus, new indie game announcements, trailers, updates, & relevant industry news - for gamers + devs. 🎮
Welcome to the June 28th edition of the indie game round-up newsletter - your ultimate one-stop shop for all things indie!
After a brief absence, here’s your big round-up of the week’s indie game launches, announcements, trailers, and more. Please consider checking them out, purchasing them, or wishlisting them - it all helps indie devs! ❤️
As a reminder, these round-ups are now set to be weekly update newsletters, with some other indie related posts sprinkled here and there. Most of them will be set for paid subscribers - these are just a lot of work in the little free time I have, but the main thing is getting attention for indies, so threads will still continue on Twitter. I’m keen to keep hearing your feedback as this format continues to be tweaked!
Indie game launches for Monday, June 24th
Dragon Eclipse is a roguelike deckbuilder, mixed with a Pokémon-like monster-catching and raising mechanic. Catch, train, and build a team of Mystlings, with a team of three different synergies ideal for battling opponents.
🔗 Out June 24th in Steam Early Access
DeathJack is a blackjack gambling sim with a twist, where your life is the wager and you face getting shot by a revolver if you lose a hand. Obviously inspired by the breakout indie hit Buckshot Roulette.
🔗 Out June 24th on Steam and itchio - 100% free
Unread Messages is a retro-inspired, cyberspace-themed puzzler game where you deliver messaging by connecting via cell towers. Accompanied by an AI helper (not that kind of AI), obtian resources, avoid hazards, and uncover the secrets of Simullect Inc’s computers.
🔗 Out June 24th on Steam
The Dungeon-Dungeon Awaits is a very traditional roguelike, inspired by the original Rogue itself. Every enemy and weapon has a unique shape and moves, despite its traditional grid-like nature, with over 130 items, and accesible to different playstyles and difficulties.
🔗 Out June 24th on Steam
Mini Reaper is a retro 3D platformer, inspired by classic creepypasta stories, where you collect souls for the Grim Reaper in a mysterious old video game your found on a sketchy file-hosting site that definitely isn’t haunted.
🔗 Out June 24th on Steam
BLOODSAINT is a top-down, retro-hardcore arcade ttle, where you battle aganst creatures while performing a ritual for a ruthless syntetic deity.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2998040/BLOODSAINT/
🔗 Out June 24th in Steam Early Access
RollerPunk is a competitive ball-and-racing game, inspired by Motorball, where you rush at full speed to snatch the DrillBall from competitors. Includes up to 4 player local multiplayer options - made as a student project for a Master’s degree.
🔗 Out June 24th on itchio - 100% free
Symbiosis is a surreal first-person adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where you awake as a hollow experiment in a lab, stripped of your organs, and must navigate your way to reclaim your humanity and expose the horror behind the experiments. Created as a student project.
🔗 Out June 24th on itchio - 100% free
BadDool is a dungeoncrawling deckbuilder, where you battle in first-person card battles against goblins, steal loot, collect unique cards, and explore randomly-generated labyrinths to meet an extensive array of NPCs.
🔗 Out June 24th on itchio
This Week’s Indie Games News
Prune & Milo, a pixel-art turn-based puzzler with a brother-and-sister duo protagonists, has been announced for a July 11th release on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
Ultra Mega Cats, an arena-based, co-op, roguelike third-person shooter with cats, from the studio behind last year’s space-thriller Fort Solis, has been announced for conolses + PC in Q4 2024.
Cattle Country, a hybrid between a farming life sim and Wild Western, has been announced by publisher Playtonic. Described as a mix of Stardew Valley and Red Dead Redemption, and by the developer of the Blossom Tales games, its reveal trailer is fittingly voiced by Red Dead's Arthur Morgan (Roger Clark).
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
The Surgeon Simulator franchise - one of the early break-out indie hits that took YouTube by storm - has been acquired from TinyBuild by Infrogrames, the newly-revived label under Atari.
🔗 Announcement news article (GamesIndustry)
Little Big Adventure: Twinsen’s Quest, a remake of the 1994 original adventure game, has had an Autumn release window announced for its release on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC.
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
Tako no Himitsu, a GBA-inspired JRPG with music from Golden Sun's composer, from the developer of Save Me Mr Tako, is coming to Kickstarter on July 10.
CLICKOLDING, a dark, incremental clicker narrative game from the developer behind El Paso, Elsewhere and I Am Your Beast has been announced, launching on July 16. It’s weird as fuck and exactly what it looks like.
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator, a 2.5D platformer inspired by 80s adventure films, has been announced for consoles and PC.
Mika and the Witch's Mountain, the extraordinarly pretty, Kiki’s Delivery Service-inspired fantasy adventure game, has had its August 21st release date announced for the Nintendo Switch and PC.
Starlair, an ever-expanding metroidvania with player-built planets and social elements, has been announced. In development for Switch, "Switch 2", PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, it has a Kickstarter live now.
Arashi Gaiden, a 2D turn-based action game, set in the same universe as Pocket Bravery, has been announced by Wired Dreams, set to launch in 2025.
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
DROS, a dark-fantasy adventure game where you play as a gooey creature in the shell of a human bounty hunter, has been announced for a release on the Nintendo Switch.
🔗 Wishlist it on Nintendo Switch
Sky Dust, a side-scrollng metroidvania in a cyberpunk setting with a 2D and 3D visual blend, from the developer behind Retr0o Machina and Ebenezer and the Invisible World, has been announced, with no release window yet.
🔗 Wishlist it on Steam
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