This week's Indie Game Round-up (July 15th-19th) 🕹️

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!

Apologies for the slight delay - but here’s your big round-up of last week’s indie game launches, announcements, trailers, and more. Please consider checking them out, purchasing them, or wishlisting them - it all helps indie devs! ❤️

Indie game launches for Monday, July 15th

Fallen Leaf is a retro-style, side-scrolling action-platformer, with over 70 stages, a vibrant 8-bit palette, and 4 expansive world maps. Retro platformers inspired by the likes of Shovel Knight come thick and fast, but this is a top notch quality one I’ve kept my eye on for quite a while now, so if you’re a fan of those types of games, you won’t go wrong picking this one up.

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

Galactic Glitch is a twin-stick roguelike shooter with wacky, physics-based combat, where you use a gravity gun to slingshot rocks andmines off arena walls, and dash through goopy arena boundaries.

🔗 Out July 15th in Steam Early Access

Darkest Dungeon II is the acclaimed, hit roguelike turn-based dungeoncrawler - a sequel to one of the past decade’s most successful indie breakouts. Stylised, moody, dark, and undeniably genre-defining, the very highly-reviewed sequel launched on consoles this week (if you didn’t already play it on PC!)

🔗 Out July 15th on Switch, PS4/PS5, XB1/XBS (previously Steam)

Galactivore is a retro action-platformer run-and-gun, a bit of a mix between Mega Man, Metroid, and the original Duke Nukem, with an all-female cast. Its pixel art style looks straight out of Microsoft Paint - and I mean that in the nicest way possible, as it gives off an early 2000s, nostalgic indie scene vibe not often seen anymore.

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

Heart of the Abyss is a soulslike with top-down, hack-and-slash gameplay, where you explore the underwater depths and fight big ol’ crabs and other corrupted sea creatures. A pretty impressive, free student game!

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

REVEREND is an old-school “boomer shooter” FPS, inspired by the likes of Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, and Rise of the Triad, as opposed to the more DOOM, Quake, or Heretic inspired FPS’ you more often see recently. Complete with retro scanned-in hand animations and religious undertones.

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

Stolen Hearts: Wolf Knight is a precision action-platformer about defeating the evil Wolf King, with a focus on 100%ing via three-star level rankings, collectibles, and hidden secrets.

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

Astro Looter: Survivor is a hybrid roguelike, survival, and tower defense game, with top-down shooter, wave-based gameplay and mining elements to boot. It’s a big melting pot of ideas, which is something that always intrigues me and pulls in my interest.

🔗 Out July 15th on Steam

This Week’s Indie Games News

koROBO has been announced by Chibi-Robo's director and key team at Skip under their new indie studio, Tiny Wonder Studio, as a spiritual successor to the beloved absent Nintendo character. Coming to Kickstarter on July 22!

🔗 Support on Kickstarter

45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND’s first trailer has been revealed. The upcoming cyberpunk active-time action game from the devs behind VA-11 HALL-A, inspired by Parasite Eve, looks tiiiight as hell.

🔗 Wishlist it on Steam

C-Smash VRS: New Dimension, a non-VR version of the PS VR2 futuristic sports action game, is coming to PS5 on September 26.

🔗 Wishlist it on the PlayStation Store

Forestrike, a roguelike tactical kung-fu fighting game from the studio behind Olija, has been announced by Devolver Digital.

🔗 Wishlist it on Steam

Retro Revengers, a retro platformer with music from Shovel Knight's co-composer, is coming to consoles on July 23.

🔗 Official game website

Luna-3X, a rhythm-action indie game, is coming to the Nintendo Switch on September 26.

🔗 Official game website

Xenospore, a turn-based puzzler about destroying alien fungus infecting tile-based cities, is coming to Steam.

🔗 Wishlist it on Steam

GRIME: Definitive Edition, a fast-paced action-adventure metroidvania, is getting limited print physical Switch + PS5 releases on July 25.

🔗 Super Rare Games store

Please note, some news is missing due to my absence in the first half of the week - I scrape indie game news actively every day, and it is quite tricky pulling it all together after the fact.

Paid subscribers will be able to see round-ups of Tuesday-Friday indie game launches below (35+ more indies) - please consider supporting! ❤️