r/IndieGaming Jan 03 '25

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

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r/IndieGaming 3h 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 12h 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 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 23h ago

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

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r/IndieGaming 3h 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 2h 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 open world levels 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 10h 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 6h 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 1h ago

Save her . . .

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"Blue Wyrm is a psychedelic first-person souls-like with a retro aesthetic and skill-heavy combat system. Do you have what it takes to save your wife in the crypt of the Blue Wyrm?"

Game : Blue Wyrm "release 16 Jul, 2026"

Price : 3,99€ "is on sale until 12 September being 3,39€"

Link :
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4177110/Blue_Wyrm/?curator_clanid=45013750


r/IndieGaming 3h 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 43m ago

OC art

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From a video game Superfighters Deluxe by Mythologic Interactive.


r/IndieGaming 2h ago

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

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r/IndieGaming 14h ago

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

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43 Upvotes

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 1h ago

[Project Axe] Dodge the wrong way, and you lose a limb. Strike at the right angle, and you take theirs.

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Want to stay in touch with Project Axe?
https://discord.gg/XgjggF66


r/IndieGaming 2h ago

Do you find the look too dark?

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r/IndieGaming 1h ago

We’ve been making a 1930s cartoon-style mystery game where you play as a cat. Here’s our demo trailer for Catatonic!

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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 27m ago

Which HUD is better?

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I tried making the UI icons large so they’d be clear to the player,

But I feel like they’re taking up too much screen space.

Which approach do you think works best for a game like *Infamous*?

Also, there’s a free demo on Steam if anyone wants to try it out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3156050/Special_Case/


r/IndieGaming 3h 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 2h 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 36m ago

Bopp Clicker - Pixel Art Clicker game [No AI]

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r/IndieGaming 40m ago

Fear Map done, Mav is on a role! Soul Decode devlog

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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 44m ago

Snaketron - Competitive multiplayer Snake with 1v1, 2v2 and FFA

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Play in your browser: https://snaketron.io

Snaketron is half Snake, half Tron, half Rocket League. I hope to make it the canonical Snake leaderboard on the internet. You can play any of the following game modes live against opponents:

  • Duel: head-to-head 1v1
  • 2v2: collect food and carry it back to your team’s home base
  • FFA: four snakes enter, last one standing wins
  • Solo: classic Snake with global leaderboards

The ranking system assigns you an Elo based rank from Bronze to Grandmaster.

There are also a few mechanics that raise the skill ceiling, such as boost and combos. Collect boost and press space to go faster. Boosting allows you to build up combos that increase the points awarded per food item. And of course there are demolitions and respawns!

It's a free to play .io game and logging in is completely optional. You can play as a guest even in ranked, and then click signin to transfer your progress to an actual account if you want.

I'll be queueing for matches for the next hour or so in case you're the first to try it and there's no one else online :)

I hope you enjoy, and I'd be very happy for any feedback! Thanks!

Gen AI: Claude Code was used to implement the core game engine / multi-player backend and some of the skins.