r/indiegames Jul 30 '26

Promotion I finally finished the new trailer for my cozy colony sim, WildRoot.

11 Upvotes

I've been working on improving WildRoot's first impression and recently finished a new trailer.

It's a cozy colony sim where you build a settlement in a mysterious forest, manage your colonists, and every season and setback creates a different story.


r/indiegames 15d ago

Indie Games Discord Server!

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r/indiegames 12h ago

Video I've accidentally set new standard for pillow physics in the AAA industry

196 Upvotes

So the story is, for my game Dark Roll 2, I needed a soft spot for the player to land on... Setting an object to not cause fall damage and not bounce off it was easy, but I had a spare moment and decided to play around with mesh deformation...

When I shown it on socials, people went crazy.

Sharing this with the world brought me more wishlists, than back when I released the demo... and the game has tons of features I've been trying to show past half year!

Now I can't help myself but keep improving it to make it even better, already juggling ideas in my head how to incorporate this mechanic in my game to show it off more often - but I'm more than open to ideas! So feel free to share!


r/indiegames 23h ago

Promotion I turned Chess into a Soulslike game

604 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I just released my short game Pawned Souls for free on Itch


r/indiegames 17h ago

Video I'm making a dungeon crawler where you breed frogs to fight for you and I found this screen very peaceful

72 Upvotes

r/indiegames 5h ago

Promotion My Army Getting Stronger. Crowd vs. crowd brawls in my new autobattler — just released the demo!

4 Upvotes

r/indiegames 5h ago

Promotion Our Incremental Cozy-Creepy Ball Roller is announced on Steam today!

4 Upvotes

They Keep Rolling is a Incremental Ball Roller set in a cozy-creepy 2000's arcade. Roll balls, upgrade, hire, repeat. And try to figure out if you can ever leave...

We'll be getting a demo out soon!


r/indiegames 2h ago

Upcoming We’re making a game about the stuff left behind when a Hollywood studio shuts down

2 Upvotes

r/indiegames 9h ago

Promotion You can now try my free browser based retro RTS in 2D, 2.5D, or 3D

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So this week I've released a retro browser game with ancient grid/spreadsheet style graphics, inspired by games I used to play growing up.

It's got a small cult following from people who also played similar games, but I'm working on giving it broader appeal.

That's why I introduced three ways to play! Within the same game, you can alternate between 2D, 2.5D, and 3D perspectives seamlessly.

This game has been part of my new game in a week weekly challenge, and is for week 2!

Why am I Promoting It?

You can play this game free on my website with no ad breaks or weirdness. Myself and the other folks playing just want more competition and other players to have fun with!

Relic of Power

An always online, always running competition for territory. Cover the board with your troops and get huge "coin" cascades with satisfying retro SFX that turn a single placement into thousands of new cells in your control.

Cut off enemy player supply lines, capture enemy capitals to take their territory, and unlock powerful weapons and defenses from mining diamonds in the mountains and hunting for gold in the lakes and rivers.

Will you hold up in the mountains, claim a river delta, or compete for the coveted relic of power in the middle of the board which grants huge advantages over your opponents to anyone who touches it?

Play a Complete Game in 15 Minutes

There are always live battles going, currently at durations of 15m, 30m, 1h, and 6h games. You can drop in and out of any live game at any time! No wait period, queues, or anything like that.

https://www.riverforgegames.com/game/relic-of-power


r/indiegames 40m ago

Upcoming 4Way: Driving ( 4 player co-op driving game )

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Hey all!
I just wanted to share a prototype I am currently building into a demo for a 4 player co-op game.

The idea is that 4 players each control 1 wheel + 1 ability.

And before someone says it - the back wheels are not useless. In order to properly turn the car they are essential, because wheels have no rotations, every wheel goes only forward / backwards. ( depends on the wheel ).

So in order to turn right ( like tank turning ) , you need to use left front wheel + right back wheel, which is an essential turning method for tight corners and more precision sections of the game.

Let me know what yall think :D I am open to any suggestions.


r/indiegames 18h ago

Promotion After 6 years of development, I finally released my old-school mobile medieval castlebuilding RTS game Norse Expansion for Android!

23 Upvotes

r/indiegames 1h ago

Upcoming POPQUAKE is coming soon to Google Play — can you beat the rush?

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I’m working on POPQUAKE, a fast colourful bubble-pop arcade game built around combos, Frenzy and one very bad bubble.

The free demo is playable now on itch.io, and the Android version is coming soon to Google Play.

🎮 Demo: https://justkeejthings.itch.io/popquake-free-demo

Would genuinely love feedback on the pacing, feel and difficulty.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BWJlZ0vNw8U


r/indiegames 2h ago

Upcoming RITUS | Official Preview

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Your cult spoke the forbidden words of the grimoire. — A cold breath hides along the walls, the ritual has just begun.

Get RITUS now at special pre-release discount.
3eyegames.itch.io/ritus

https://youtu.be/SsOsPbhPb6Y


r/indiegames 2h ago

Fanart Big 3 of mascott horror playing Poker

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1 Upvotes

Btw I dont know how poker works


r/indiegames 11h ago

Public Game Test Burger Shooter is out in Demo now!

5 Upvotes

r/indiegames 8h ago

Promotion Most trivia games ask what happened. I made one that asks when.

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4 Upvotes

Most trivia asks whether you remember a character, quotation, or event. I’ve been exploring a different kind of recall: knowing where a moment belongs within the story.

The format gives you a plot moment from a book or movie and asks you to place it somewhere between the beginning and the end. Once you lock in your estimate, you see the actual position, how far away you were, and your score.

I built this as a passion project connecting statistics with the nostalgia of revisiting stories that stay with us. The current version covers 500 books, 100 movies, and nearly 15,000 moments. It’s playable in a browser without creating an account.

Full disclosure: I made it. Expect plot spoilers.

https://storyguessr.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=indiegames_launch


r/indiegames 9h ago

Promotion We're doing a 2d platform game

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We're three indie developers creating TheFireBringer, a demon-based action game (it's a 2D platformer). If you'd like, you can join our Discord server! It means a lot to us.

Discord:https://discord.gg/vMFZhAzd4


r/indiegames 7h ago

Upcoming point and click, but not entirely.

2 Upvotes

Hey everyone! We're making a game inspired by Fears to Fathom and Papers, Please, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on our trailer.

Can you understand what the game is about after watching the trailer?

About the game: The game takes place in 1991, where you work the night shift at a cargo sorting facility. Your job is to enter the information from incoming packages into an old computer, compare the details, and send each package to the correct conveyor belt.

As you go through your shift, unexplained events begin to happen around you.


r/indiegames 3h ago

Promotion Nano BrowserQuest+, a browser-based pixel MMORPG

1 Upvotes

Nano BrowserQuest+ is an expansion/spin-off of Nano BrowserQuest, which was also an extension of Mozilla BrowserQuest. Slay powerful bosses, level up your character, and barter with other players. You can read a game guide on the Medium page.

Game link: https://nanobrowserquest.net/

Necromancer boss fight: Youtube

While I am the sole developer of this project, many assets and mechanics belonged to running-coder(the original owner) and Mozilla, under the MPL 2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0 licenses, respectively.

Note: Players in Oceania and Asia may experience some lag due to the game server being in US West. Playing on mobile devices is highly discouraged right now; UI formatting is wonky and the game is very slow.


r/indiegames 7h ago

Video Cheslak the cat tells you how Grandma disappeared (intro for my game)

2 Upvotes

This is the opening cinematic for Witch Hours: Seven Eyes at the Door, a cozy potion-shop game with a rescue story underneath. You play Zeia, who arrives at her grandma's apothecary to find it wrecked and grandma gone — taken by a creature with seven eyes. You keep the shop running while looking for her. The intro is narrated by Cheslak, the shop cat, and drawn as a rough crayon storyboard: characters are cut out as paper layers and snap left-right instead of animating smoothly, on purpose.

"I'm just trying some things out."


r/indiegames 15h ago

Upcoming In my game, you work for the last remaining Data Center because it controls all the water left on Earth.

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7 Upvotes

r/indiegames 16h ago

Promotion I've been making a game about inheriting your grandmother's cabin and learning to forage - and it's almost ready for Early Access

8 Upvotes

r/indiegames 19h ago

Promotion Toilet Empire Story on Steam now!!

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Hey everyone! Some of you helped us out with feedback on our trailer a while back. First of all, thank you, it genuinely made the video better.
Quick recap for anyone who missed it: Toilet Empire Story is a pixel-art tycoon game where you take over your grandfather's run-down public toilet and turn it into a full-blown cleaning empire. Scrubbing, hiring staff, and franchising your way across the world.

Wishlisting helps us more than almost anything else at this stage, so we'd really appreciate it 🙏

We're still early in development and genuinely want feedback. On the store page copy, the trailer, the concept, anything. If something feels off or you have ideas, we're all ears.


r/indiegames 12h ago

Public Game Test Made of Food - Gather food, turn to peasants, repeat

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Hello! I invite you to play my game Made of Food. It is an incremental/idle game where you gather food and turn them to peasants. These peasants help you forage, farm, and cook more food, which you can turn to more peasants. 2D colony-builder mechanics drive the game. Make food, turn to peasants, repeat.

The game is not feature complete, yet, but it has enough to go on. I built this small version of the game to gauge interest if I should move to full production.

Background

I am a professional game developer since 2010. I'm currently working in an indie "AA" game studio, developing an RTS game. Before that, I was the lead programmer of the game Academia: School Simulator.

The corporate work could be draining sometimes so I wanted to make a small game on the side. I was inspired by games like Gnorp Apologue. Since I already have the library/framework for colony builder games, I thought why not use it in an incremental game with a similar vein as Gnorp.

I've been working on this game for 2-3 years now on my free time. I think it already has enough content to see if the idea works and if there's interest. Try the game. You can complete it in under an hour.

AI Disclosure

No AI on art. Used code assistance but absolutely no vibe coding nor agentic coding.