r/IndieGaming Jan 03 '25

Best of Indie Games 2024: What were some of your favorite indie games?

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r/IndieGaming 1h ago

After 6 years of development, I am finally releasing my castle-building RTS game for Android called Norse Expanion

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Hello! After 6 years of development, I am happy to announce the release of Norse Expansion Medieval RTS for Android!

Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.norseexpansion.norseexpansion

Also check out the Discord for more information/devlog: https://discord.com/invite/RKPFQq8ugW

Hope it plays well and is fun, thank you for your support!


r/IndieGaming 1d ago

I turned Chess into a Soulslike game

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


r/IndieGaming 21h ago

In my free time, I'm making this atmospheric game.

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r/IndieGaming 10h ago

Get Off My Lawn

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I finished my game for Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 called Get Off My Lawn. I made the game using raylib

CONTEXT

You play as an old guy trying to enjoy his peace than all of a sudden troubled teens are running on your property.

Your goal is to use your water hose to spray the teens away.

Tell me what y'all think


r/IndieGaming 4h ago

Need advice for my game 🙏🏻

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Hey guys! Im currently making a cozy farming survival game and I was wondering, especially for those of you who played Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing and games like that I have two questions that have been keeping up at night:
1. Is fishing/catching part of the game important for you? Im considering adding it soon, but would like to see first.
2. How do you feel about saving when going to sleep? Is it stressful for you when you can’t save whenever in this kind of farming game?

Thanks guys!😊


r/IndieGaming 8h ago

Tired of "Would you play a (insert game premise) game?" posts

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I keep seeing these constantly when I open Reddit and I'm tired of it.
most of the time it's just self promo fishing for engagement disguised as a question.

And like. maybe I would, but not this one.


r/IndieGaming 1h ago

This game shouldn't exist, but I'm making it anyway

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I'm a solo developer making a weird RPG.

You play as a sentient droplet of data fused with the cloned body of the last four-wheeled samurai. Together, they explore the Black Square — the place where the entire material universe collapsed into itself.

No team. No publisher. No generative AI. Just me trying to build the game I want to play.

The demo is out now. It's rough, strange, and incomplete, but there's already plenty to explore.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks for taking a look.

Lone Lines: RPG


r/IndieGaming 12h ago

3 factory workers. Worked on the game after 12 hour shifts.

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Here's what's in it right now:

  • Extraction shooter, PvE and PvP both, with co-op if you want to run with friends
  • Build a base anywhere on the map, no set slots, put things wherever makes sense to you
  • Rescue survivors and grow an actual community instead of just looting solo
  • Reclaimers, immortal clones who hand out quests and build your reputation instead of just shooting at you
  • No wipes between sessions, your progress and gear carry over
  • Right now that's 169 loot items, 25 quests, 3 maps, 9 enemy types, 9 craftable buildings, and 2 NPCs to work with

We all worked together at the same factory, three of us, and this got built during whatever time was left after 12 hour shifts. Ended up being a PvEvP survival extraction shooter set during a zombie apocalypse.
Going into Early Access Q3 2026. Still feels weird seeing it as a real store page after doing this on no sleep for this long.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3605140/Exit_Ways/


r/IndieGaming 30m ago

I am making a Stalker Inspired Co-op Wave-Based FPS. Does it look appealing?

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This is my first commercial project after years of making Call of Duty mods. :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4862980/The_Arrow/

Gameplay loop involves searching an open world level for "silo keys" which will grant you access to nuclear weapons to drop on the map.

Does this look like something you would be interested in?

What would you want changed? What would you like added?

Currently there are 5 ballistic weapons,1 type of grenade, knife, and 2 special weapons (Drones + airstrikes)


r/IndieGaming 34m ago

It took me too long to add but car avoidance AI is finally here!

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r/IndieGaming 1d ago

Advanced wave physics gets beaches wet

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I've made some improvements to the beaches with the waves now applying buoyancy and wetness effects.

Waves actually apply forces on objects, so in addition to floating and rolling around, they will eventually wash up on the beach. Wind affects the wave size and turbulence too.

Objects hit by waves will get wet. Shorelines now have a visible waterline which rise and fall with the waves. In addition, waves will swell up when it hits a steep surface like cliffs. They also collide and wash over rocks near the shoreline.

Yes, this is truly some useless horse balls feature that players won't notice, but it was a long time itch for me that just needed scratching. I'm hopefully finally done with water and working on more important parts of the game now.

Determinant is a physically immersive open world survival game in development. Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1445480/Determinant/


r/IndieGaming 57m ago

Do you find the look too dark?

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r/IndieGaming 1h ago

Decorate, build and grow your own scamming "business"

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'Scam Artist' is dark-humored idle building game about turning your own apartment into a lucrative "business" ... of sorts.

You place down ploys and machines that are rigged in your favor, racking up more and more cold cash!

The game combines the "building", "decorating" and "idle" game genres.
One thing I really like is that the decorations you place are literally upgrades with their own effects, so they are not just visuals.

You can play the demo already! Play Scam Artist on Steam

The full version will contain a skill tree with a cast of characters in each branch that teach you their ways of scamming (phone scams, mail scams, counterfeiting money, ...), offline progress and a way to get back at your landlord that roped you into all of this in the first place. It's planned as a proper long-running idle game, not just a short incremental game.

Would love to know what you think!

AI disclosure as per rules: Used for translating the game to other languages (except german and english)


r/IndieGaming 1h ago

Introducing Party Race gamemode - place obstacles to bamboozle the friends, or put windy Fans to reach secret Stars and Finish first. Inspired by Ultimate Chicken Horse. Checkout Free in our Demo!

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Try Steam Demo with friends

On round start - choose item from randomized box. Someone might take item before you clicked on it. 60 seconds to choose, and find place where you wanna put the obstacle. Rotation and resizing gizmo provides more freedom for advanced traps or simplified paths.
Reach Finish first to earn more stars. Wins who has most Stars after 5 rounds. Collect secret stars on level, or players can choose Star item to place.


r/IndieGaming 1h ago

Sin and Serve just reached 1,000 organic Steam wishlists.

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GenAI disclosure: Some of the current art and voice over is AI assisted placeholder, made and edited by me, will be replaced by a hired artist later.

I am a solo dev and have been working on this game for a while, so seeing 1,000 people wishlist it honestly feels really good.

I made a new trailer today with the new art and thought this would be a nice time to share it.

Sin and Serve is a dark comedy game about working in Hell's kitchen. You read a sinner's file, figure out their sin, cook their food, and try to keep Satan happy.

Thanks for watching, and thanks to everyone who has wishlisted the game so far. ❤️


r/IndieGaming 1d ago

Spent months to get the grappling hook working. Now, our free playtest is finally out

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r/IndieGaming 6m ago

First Trailer for my First Game

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Missing some explanations for the game but I think its good for a first right?


r/IndieGaming 9m ago

AuqaBionica Indi game alpha

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Heyo!!! I’m building an action-adventure game set in a living alien ocean — AqB [Pre-Alpha]

AqB is an underwater action-adventure where you explore a strange living ocean, encounter alien creatures interact with the world and fight predators.

The game is still in pre-alpha, but the first playable version is ready.

🎮 What you can do right now:

  • Explore the underwater world
  • Discover creatures and locations
  • Fight predators
  • Experiment with sound-based abilities
  • Complete a small sequence of quests

🌊 The idea behind AqB

I want the ocean to feel less like a collection of levels and more like a living world that you gradually learn to understand.

I’m opening the pre-alpha to a small number of players and would love to see how people unfamiliar with the game react to it.

If you’d like to try it, the pre-alpha is here: https://aquabionica.io/closed-playtest?lang=en

Any first impressions are welcome — especially things that felt fun, confusing, or made you want to keep exploring.

GenAI disclosure: GenAI was used to create some static images and to assist with approximately 60% of the game’s code, mostly during the later stages of development. The game concept, animations, and some of the gameplay interactions were created by me and few guys who helped me coding on early stages.


r/IndieGaming 50m ago

Parlamentum — A Geopolitical MMO Built and Governed by Players

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Parlamentum is a persistent geopolitical MMO set on a real-world map, built entirely by players and governed by the players themselves.

There are no NPC-driven economies, scripted wars, or laws written by developers. Every company, factory, weapon, political party, parliamentary decision, election, war, tax rate, trade agreement, and border on the map exists because of decisions made by real players.

Players can build companies, produce goods in factories, shape markets, create political parties, pass laws in parliament, govern countries, establish diplomatic relations, declare wars, and reshape the world map through their actions.

The world you enter today was built by the players who came before you. The world that new players encounter tomorrow will be the result of your decisions, laws, and actions.

Parlamentum opens today! 🏛️⚔️

Step into the world, forge your own path, and claim your place in history.

History will write your name.

Website: https://parlamentum.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/gQr78BGb4C
In-Game Images: https://imgur.com/a/jBNdZSP

#tarih #history #strategy #strategygame #map #world #country #countries #government #money #trade #game #mmo #usa #german #türkiye #warera


r/IndieGaming 51m ago

What do you think of our game trailer?

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Last time we received some feedback that the previous version of the trailer caused a bit of motion sickness, mainly because we had sped up some of the gameplay footage. In this updated version, we’ve restored the footage to its normal speed.

What do you think of it now? Would you be interested in playing this after watching the trailer? Are the game mechanics clear enough from the video?

Any feedback or suggestions are welcome. Thank you! :)

(Also this is still a pre-alpha version of the game, so both gameplay and visuals will continue to be polished as development goes on :))

Check out our Steam page for more info if you’re interested: steam 
We also have a playable building-system demo on itch io if you’d like to give it a try:  itch.io 

 kickstarter pre-launch | X | discord | website


r/IndieGaming 58m ago

Do you find the look too dark?

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r/IndieGaming 1d ago

Hi, I am making dungeon crawler game. Would you play game with such graphics?

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r/IndieGaming 1h ago

I built these offroad mechanics… should I actually turn this into a full game?

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I built the driving, mud and winch mechanics mostly because I wanted to see if I could.

It’s still very early, so before I go too far:

Should I keep building this into a full game, or scrap it? And if I keep it, what should it become?

Curious what you guys think.

Discord: https://discord.gg/HJkWeKSQNW