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Issue #38

HOUSEKEEPING:
LET’S GO.
SHOWCASE

THIS MONTH’S TOP PICKS

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

Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson

The Wandering Village

Build a self-sustaining township on the back of a roaming colossus, juggling crops, research, and symbiosis while toxic spores nip at beast and settlers alike. Every choice steers your wandering sanctuary’s fate.

ISLANDERS: New Shores

Zen city-building distilled to serenely colour-popping tiles: drop farms, temples, and festivals across minimalist islands, chase high scores, then sail on when space—or ambition—runs dry.

The King is Watching

Your royal gaze is the only resource that matters—look at farms, mines, or barracks to make them work, juggling expansion and defence in a roguelite city-builder where blinking is a luxury.

Atomic Owl

Become the last Bladewing, slicing techno-birds with a possessed katana in a neon sky-dojo. Air-dashes, parries, and shapeshifting feathers turn every screen into a hyperkinetic, feather-flecked bullet ballet. 

✦ KILLBEAT

Guns groove to the BPM in a rhythm-shooter roguelike loaded with weapon synergies, freestyle reload solos, and sinkhole arenas that pulse beneath your boots, turning firefights into room-scale dance breaks. 

One-Eyed Likho

Slavic folk horror done in stark greyscale. Pick your way through a freezing 19th-century Russia, lighting matches to solve burn-puzzles while the one-eyed curse from an old fairy tale stalks the tree-line.

Raining Blood: Hellfire

CoD-Zombies chaos meets bullet-hell ferocity: scavenge mid-onslaught upgrades, kite demon hordes, die, repeat, and inch ever closer to that late-night, screen-melting, leaderboard-chasing ultimate power trip.

✦ Hellkind

Awaken in a Galician forest where forbidden rites leak into reality; explore candle-lit ruins, solve folk puzzles, and decide whether to finish—or foil—the summoning dripping ash into your veins.

The Drifter

A hitchhiker’s wrong place, wrong time spirals into body-horror time loops and sweaty ’70s Ozploitation vibes; click, twin-stick, or just white-knuckle through crunching pixel set-pieces and a synth-soaked mystery. 

and Roger

Spend an hour in a young girl’s shifting psyche, piecing half-glimpsed scenes into meaning while reality flickers like a jammed VHS; perception is narrative, doubt the only map.

Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson

Turn-based guitar-PG where deck-built riffs trigger rhythm QTEs; jam legendary axes, stomp pedals, and shred corporate metal goons to restore harmony—hit the notes or face flat, bruising silence.

✦ A Chamber of Stars

Trip through surreal six-track realms where rhythm duels and adventure puzzles remix a fallen rock star’s story; off-beat choices literally rewrite the album and warp the very stages you fight on.

Gaucho and the Grassland

Tend cattle, lasso spirits, and strum camp-fire songs as a Latin cowboy drifting between pampas, beaches, and pastel dream-realms where every favour plants new roots for your homestead.

✦ Misc. A Tiny Tale

Wholesome 3-D collect-a-thon starring pint-sized robots Buddy and Bag Boy. Scrub messes, recycle trash, and platform across milk cartons and rulers to restore joy to a backyard-scale post-human world. 

DOGWALK

Lumber through snowy campgrounds as a golden goof, dragging your pint-sized human to find trinkets for a snowman. Be a menace or a good boy—either way, winter’s sandbox wags back.

Astro Prospector

Blast cofferoids for caffeine ore, pump profits into bullet-hell turrets, and flip an idle grinder into a swaggering star-miner—all to deliver humanity’s next cup of AstroCoffee.

Hell Clock

A diabolical mash-up of Diablo loops and Hades speed set in 1896 Brazil: slaughter zealots, reroll cursed builds on the fly, and race a ticking hellfire clock through dynamic dungeons.

Logic Bombs

160 grids of pure deduction ask you to trace chains, mark detonators, and defuse bombs with nothing but logic; complexity escalates gently, then mercilessly, until your brain sparks harder than the fuses. 

✦ CIPHER ZERO

Toggle hexes, chase glyph logic, and let a reactive chill soundtrack bloom as 300+ minimalist puzzles teach rules by revelation; every solved board subtly reshapes the world around you.

MORE INDIE GEMS AWAIT

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Happy gaming!

The Indieformer Team