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Issue #28

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SHOWCASE

This Month’s Top Picks

Carefully curated indie releases that deserve your attention from April, 2025.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sultan's Game

Draw cards, survive cruel trials, and outwit a sadistic king in a brutal resource management sim where every choice could cost your soul—or save it.

Gnomes

Move your gnome crew, grow your crops, and build defenses in a turn-based survival game where every night the goblin horde gets bigger—and every run tells a new story.

Out Of Hands

A horror card battler like no other—wield organs as weapons, fight your emotions, and escape a dreamworld stitched together from flesh, memories, and live-action collage.

LONESTAR

Pick a spaceship, build your squad, and dive into chaotic shockwave battles as a bounty hunter across a galaxy packed with treasures, dangerous criminals, and high-stakes upgrades.

Promise Mascot Agency

Turn a failing mascot agency around as a disgraced yakuza, befriend chaotic mascots with wild demands, and survive a cursed town full of secrets, disasters, and unexpected heroics.

↓ HIDDEN GEM ↓

PEPPERED

Save the world or screw it up completely in this existential platformer where every failure sticks — one shot, no do-overs, only chaos (and a surprisingly spinny office chair).

Crashlands 2

Return to a weirder, wilder Woanope—build a home, befriend aliens, raise chaotic pets, and craft bizarre gadgets as you piece together what’s tearing the planet apart (again).

Blue Prince

Explore a manor where you decide what’s behind each door—but every day the layout resets. Draft rooms, uncover secrets, and chase the elusive Room 46 before Mt. Holly’s shifting halls swallow you whole.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

A gorgeous, painterly RPG set in a doomed world, where each year a deadly painter wipes lives from existence—and your rebellion might be the only hope.

Old Skies

As a time-travel agent, it's your job to keep seven eccentric travelers in line as they hop through history — and make sure none of them break it. A sharp point-and-click adventure where every mistake (and death) is just a chance to rewind and try again.

Bionic Bay

A fast-paced platformer built around a wild “swap” mechanic and a reactive physics system, letting you trade places with objects and enemies in a gritty, biomechanical world tailor-made for speedrunning.

Sunderfolk

Turn your phone into a controller and dive into a shared couch co-op tactical RPG where every decision shapes your adventure. Rebuild a threatened village, battle across magical lands, and customise your hero’s skills—all from the palm of your hand.

Lab Rat

A sharp, satirical puzzle game where a mischievous AI watches your every move as you solve over 100 mind-bending challenges. Outsmart the machine, survive its snark, and help shape its hilariously wrong ideas about humanity.

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