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Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Oh, look, we’re back. For the third time. You’d think after meticulously curating fifteen stellar indie game soundtracks across two previous posts, we might have exhausted the topic. But no. The indie gaming scene is apparently a bottomless pit of auditory genius, a veritable clown car of composers […]

Hello everyone and welcome to another blog post. When Nobody Wants to Die dropped in July 2024, the collective gaming community did a double-take. Here was a narrative-driven detective game from a 20-30 person Polish studio that somehow managed to visually outclass AAA blockbusters with ten times the budget. The question on everyone’s lips wasn’t “Is the

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. If you’ve ever looked at a 9-to-5 job and thought, “You know what this needs? More unpaid overtime and crop blight,” then welcome to the world of indie farming sims. These games are digital quicksand—you step in thinking you’ll have a relaxing evening, and next thing

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve just booted up a 16-year-old game. A game that’s in black and white, stars a kid who can’t talk, and features a tutorial that’s basically “just try not to get decapitated.” Welcome to Limbo. And no, before you ask, this isn’t a guide on how

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, we all know the drill. You’ve got a library of 400 untouched games from the last summer sale. You tell yourself, “Tonight, I’ll finally finish that critically acclaimed 80-hour JRPG.” Then some pixel-art crime spree or a game about organizing a garage full of garbage

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be real for a second. You’ve probably got 47 unfinished Terraria worlds, a Minecraft server that’s been abandoned since the last admin drama, and you just rage-quit No Man’s Sky because a sentinel drone clipped through a trading post. And now you’re looking at Starbound. The space sandbox where you can literally

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Oh, wonderful. You read that other list. The one with the silent travelers, the anxious mountain climbers, and that lamb with a surprisingly robust cult management system. You probably felt things. You probably cried a little. You probably added seventeen games to your backlog you’ll never actually

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So, you’ve started Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. You’ve seen the beautiful Belle Époque landscapes, you’ve heard the haunting score, and you’ve immediately tried to parry the first basic enemy only to eat a full combo to the face. Welcome to the club. You might be tempted to

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Oh, look. Another “top 10” list. Because the internet desperately needed more of these. But before you click away to watch a 47-minute video essay about why a pixelated rock is actually a metaphor for capitalism—hear me out. These are the Top 10 2D Indie Games

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. If you played the first Blasphemous and thought, “You know what this pixel-perfect, guilt-ridden nightmare needs? More spikes. And even less emotional stability,” then congratulations. You are exactly the kind of person Blasphemous 2 was designed for. The Game Kitchen somehow looked at the unholy lovechild of Dark Souls and Catholic guilt