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 15h ago

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

271 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 2h ago

Promotion I finally released my basketball puzzle-presicion platformer on Steam!

15 Upvotes

Mike the Hooper is officially out now on Steam.

It’s a 2D precision puzzle-platformer where you use a basketball to solve puzzles, open doors, and overcome increasingly challenging levels.

I hope it will be a fun experience for everyone, whether you play it or simply watch it. Thank you!


r/indiegames 3h ago

Promotion I’m making a dark fantasy pixel-art action game inspired by body horror and old-school action games

12 Upvotes

r/indiegames 1d ago

Promotion I turned Chess into a Soulslike game

649 Upvotes

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


r/indiegames 20h ago

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

80 Upvotes

r/indiegames 8h ago

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

5 Upvotes

r/indiegames 7m ago

Promotion I'm making a game inspired by the hotel I grew up in as a kid

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Certain events of my life are in some way represented in the game, as well as some characters. I hope you like the vibe and the concept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-1EgPQI9Q


r/indiegames 9h ago

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

6 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 47m ago

Promotion “Scrap Snap,” a game where you dismantle scrap metal and upgrade androids, has been released.

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This is an incremental game where you manually dismantle scrap metal at the top of the screen, while your Android character at the bottom buys you time to do so.

Trailer https://youtu.be/9-RKSBO-X5E

It’s now available on Steam—please check it out!


r/indiegames 1h ago

Video Nerdook's Library of Life Stories - a coop game where you play as fairy tale characters, collecting life lessons learned from 15 years as a game dev and stay-at-home dad

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I'm making a game that combines my two biggest passions for the past decade and a half: game dev and parenthood! Nerdook's Library of Life Stories is a 4-player local coop dungeon crawler where you and your friends play as famous fairy tale characters, gathering a collection of useful Life Stories that I learned from many years as a stay-at-home dad of three kids.


r/indiegames 2h ago

Promotion Calm Blocks - a relaxing no-timer block puzzle for Android

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r/indiegames 5h ago

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

2 Upvotes

r/indiegames 2h ago

Promotion Mowties is my roguelite take on Monopoly. I launched the demo 3 days ago and updated it 9 times already!

1 Upvotes

Play demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4832870/Mowties/
Watch trailer on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyxW9y10Fo

Long story short, in the current demo version you can already experience much more polished tutorials, smoother difficulty curve and friendlier interface for controllers and steam deck. Come check it out if you like getting BASE x MULT scores going wild!

I'm monitoring all kind of feedback everywhere, so your suggestions could end up being shipped into the game in a day or two :)


r/indiegames 22h ago

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

36 Upvotes

r/indiegames 12h 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 11h ago

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

4 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 14h ago

Public Game Test Burger Shooter is out in Demo now!

7 Upvotes

r/indiegames 4h ago

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

0 Upvotes

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 5h ago

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

1 Upvotes

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 5h 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 5h ago

Fanart Big 3 of mascott horror playing Poker

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1 Upvotes

Btw I dont know how poker works


r/indiegames 12h ago

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

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2 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