Your Backstage Pass to Indie Games
Exclusive interviews, dev insights, fresh releases, and all the indie game buzz, straight from the source.
Out now
Released 19 Oct
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher
See the game
Out this week
All releasesWhat's Coming
Full calendarOctober 2026
AKIBA LOST
Going Gold
20 Oct, 2026
We Were Here Tomorrow
Going Gold
20 Oct, 2026
Crypt Survivor
Going Gold
20 Oct, 2026
THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival
Early Access
22 Oct, 2026
Life of a Thug
Early Access
23 Oct, 2026
CHAINSPIRE
Going Gold
23 Oct, 2026
Night Plane
Going Gold
26 Oct, 2026
Die Severed
Going Gold
26 Oct, 2026
Fresh from the devlogs
Playable right now
599 games have a free demo up. Sorted by the ones that landed this week.
Open the demos hubStay in the loop
Never miss a game worth playing
Get the newsletter
New games and demos, what is releasing, and the giveaways that are open. Just an email address — confirm it and you are in.
We’ll email once to confirm your address, and nothing more until you do. Every issue has an unsubscribe link.
Recently Released
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
Blightstone
Unfinished Pixel
Blightstone is a strategy roguelike in which players protect the Earthglass Crystal and deliver it to the Infernal Rift to defeat the demon overlord Korghul. It is now fully released.
Elsewhere
Four White Cats
Elsewhere is a massive sandbox crafting game where you go from stone tools to fusion power and particle accelerators, with magic, monsters and castles thrown in for good measure.
Fire and Water: Spirits of the Forest
IQ Games
A cooperative puzzle platformer for two players, or one playing both characters, featuring forest spirits with different elemental abilities and physics-based levels.
Pixel Washer
Valadria
Pixel Washer is a cleaning game in which the player controls a pig with a power washer, removing dirt from pixel art levels and earning coins to upgrade equipment.
Chicks In Trouble
Creamative
Chicks In Trouble is a 3D farm adventure in which a father rooster searches for his missing chicks. It has separate single-player and co-op campaigns, plus four mini-games.
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction
Gilded Rune Games
Dupery: A Game of Solo Deduction is a noir roguelite in which the player is a detective. Using clues from characters who may be lying, they arrest syndicate members in procedurally generated cases.
Good Heavens!
Nowhere Studios
Good Heavens! is a survival RPG set on procedural floating islands. Players explore, build a home, restore cities and fight bosses, solo or online with up to 8 players.
Projects with Demos
DualVerse86
DualVerse86 is a 2D retro-futuristic parkour platformer in which players switch between two virtual worlds in real time to avoid traps and complete timed levels.
Fantasy Bird Woods
Fantasy Bird Woods is a desktop game in which small chicks grow and evolve into legendary fantasy birds while the player goes about their day.
SmashCore
SmashCore is a short physics-based incremental game in which you break apart asteroids with gravity powers, gather the dust and feed it to a core to earn upgrades.
How Asian Parents went to School
A co-operative platforming game for one to four players about making the difficult journey to school, featuring mountain climbs, a flamethrowing bear in a cat mask and an insulting bully character.
Soggy Beans
Fish will come, fish will go. Take photos, collect beans, decorate your seascape, then relax or do other things while your friends swim by in this calming side-idler.
Drill Rift
Build and manage a remote drill outpost in this unforgiving turn-based strategy game. Upgrade strategic machinery and level up your dwarfs. Balance resource management, strategic upgrades, and madness. If you drill too deeply, you may awaken what should not be awakened.
Hazard Pay
Hazard Pay is a pixel-art, grid-based block-pushing puzzle game set in a dystopian world, in which the player works alone to destroy evidence in abandoned and contaminated facilities.
I Need to Fix My Dream Car (But I Work at a Junkyard)
A junkyard game in which you break down piles of scrap, earn money, rebuild a rusty old car, complete customer orders and rescue dogs hiding among the junk.
Waterpark Simulator
Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Future Knight
Future Knight is a 2D action shoot 'em up in which a robot and a sentient tumour travel eight hours into the past to stop a cult leader from wiping humanity's memories.
Mythmon: Mythic Monsters
A hack-and-slash strategy game in which you assemble a party of up to five monsters, equip them and set formations before battles that play out automatically.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is a run-based action game in which Queen Aleksandra fights through four biomes using weapons, cards, relics and a die companion named Fortune.
Swordcery
11 Aug, 2026
A colossal blade has pierced the world of Armorial, unleashing a storm of enchanted swords from the heavens. Collect and wield an arsenal of these spellbound blades, turning them against the very force that summoned them. In this roguelike ARPG, you will defy the Celestial evil consuming the world!
Indie Demos
SUSHI CHESS
Today's Special!
SUSHI CHESS is a turn-based board game where players move sushi pieces that each carry a price. Capturing a piece costs the capturer its price. It offers puzzles, CPU opponents, and local or online play.
The Tally
Olivia Gonsher
The Tally is a life simulation set in Corvid City, where everyday choices are recorded and totalled on a receipt when the player's life ends, deciding where they are sent next.
Apocalypter
SawyerK Games
Apocalypter is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in a procedurally generated open world, where players build and customise cars, scavenge, trade with factions and fight warlords.
BABELOMANIA
Team JPDE
BABELOMANIA is an episodic technogothic horror adventure combining visual novel storytelling, point-and-click puzzles and light survival elements, set at a wedding in France.
Monitor State
Artur Pukhavoi
Monitor State is a game set in a retro-futuristic dystopia. The player works as an operator who watches citizens through cameras, enforces laws and makes decisions that affect the story.
Corpus et Spiritus
Arpentor Studio
Corpus et Spiritus is a roguelite deckbuilder with no combat, in which the player, bound by a pact with a Homunculus, practises alchemy in a workshop while trying to escape the pact.
Big Dig
Dan Schumacher, Hjalte Tagmose
Big Dig is a short incremental narrative game in which you dig up historical artifacts to clear the way for a highway across the Animal Republic, then display your finds in a museum.
Mystery Egg Shop Simulator
Rocinante Games
A first-person shop simulation in which players run a store selling collectible mystery eggs, open them to find action figures, and build themed dioramas to sell.
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale
LEON GAGIN
Stella Supernova: The Astral Vale is a 2D action-platformer with boss battles and animated cinematics. It can be played solo or in local co-op for up to 8 players.
Nomori
Enchanted Works
Nomori is a physics-based puzzle game in which the player controls Kiko, using portals to change the direction of gravity across a spirit world divided into four seasonal domains.
Telly No Vision
TheMysticSword
Telly No Vision is an action game set in a virtual space where the surroundings are invisible and must be navigated by watching floating TVs that show the world from other perspectives.
TrailRush
Lyncornis Games
TrailRush is a 2D platformer built around speedrunning, with seasonal modes, worldwide leaderboards and biomes that each have their own physics.
Noir
Bœuf Musqué
Noir is a 2D platform game in which the player controls a small ball that sticks to platforms, collecting orbs in each level to open an exit portal. A controller is required.
Stellar Embers: United Fleet
SOT烈
A 2D real-time space combat game in which you pilot a flagship, command escorts and starfighters, customise your fleet and progress through randomly generated routes with roguelike elements.
Bait Soul
Bold Fish
Bait Soul is an action roguelite with a cultivation theme. Players arrange Soul Orbs and Support Items in a loadout while the character attacks automatically and the player handles movement.
True Vikings
Hamsters Gaming
A narrative Viking game set from 849 AD in which a warrior from a Northern village follows one of three paths through raids and battles across Europe, leading to more than 20 endings.
Important People of History: Presidents - Abraham Lincoln
Sunny Demeanor Games
Learn all about Abraham Lincoln in this visual novel biography containing rare photos of Lincoln’s hat the day he was shot, the Lincoln Memorial, where he gave the Gettysburg Address, and much more. Lawyer, President, Emancipator - this is Abraham Lincoln! Proudly made in the Washington DC area
Dash Dot Die
Iron Interactive Games
Dash Dot Die is a first-person horror puzzle game where the player decodes Morse code to survive a maze of corridors, rooms and vents, in a retro PSX and VHS-inspired style.
Monarchs at Play
MixedMoonGames
Monarchs at Play is a turn-based 4X strategy game built around placing buildings, with matches lasting around an hour and support for solo and multiplayer play.
PSI: Pressure Climbing
Lorenzo Ametrano
PSI: Pressure Climbing is a movement-based climbing game in which players use a jetpack to scale an underground hydropower grid on a mission to save an amphibian cargo cult.
Little Ghost
Alan Abbadessa, Law Jun Yan, Eduardo Alexandrino, Leaf Riifuneko
A 2D puzzle-platforming metroidvania in which you play an inch-high ghost exploring a collage-style home office, using movement abilities and a float mechanic instead of combat.
Dig Too Deep
Punch Up Games
Dig Too Deep is a 2D side-scrolling action roguelite with tower defence elements, in which players throw goblins to mine resources, craft defences and fight waves of enemies.
Jarred Defense
Jarred Cat Studios
Jarred Defense is a tower defense game in which players place towers anywhere to shape the enemy path. It includes a story campaign, Endless Mode with leaderboards and a level editor.
Cards, Blades & Fine Print
Crooked Seal Games
A dryly funny single-player card adventure with turn-based battles, 170 enemies, 583 illustrated equipment items, 60 collectible sets, and three freely mixable talent paths – in a fantasy world full of dangerous administration.
Released Indie Games
Dear Journey…
Dear Journey... is a cosy card-based game in which you run a travel agency, reading traveller letters and pairing activity and destination cards to plan trips that meet each traveller's stated needs.
PLUG IN
Observe and experiment on containment subjects. PLUG IN is a simple yet skillful sokoban puzzle game. Carefully guide the anomalies through complex test chambers, ensuring they complete their designated trajectories and ultimately fulfill the observation objectives.
Voidling Bound
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
The Event
A first-person psychological horror game set in an asylum, where an amnesiac protagonist pieces together the past from clues and notes with no weapons, only the option to run or hide.
Date Everything!
Date Everything! is a dating simulator in which household objects become dateable characters after the player receives a pair of magical glasses.
HITLESS
HITLESS is a dodge-only bullet hell game with no attack button, in which each stage is cleared by surviving for 15 seconds and the stages continue without end.
LEGRAND LEGACY: Tale of the Fatebounds
A turn-based JRPG set in the hand-drawn fantasy world of Legrand, where players lead the Fatebounds through tactical battles and a story of war, vengeance and redemption.
Aaero2
Tune into Aaero2 - a heart-pounding rhythm-shooter with 20 stunning alien worlds, each powered by a legendary Monstercat track. Trace ribbons of light, unleash devastating firepower, and conquer colossal bosses! Play solo or co-op and feel every beat as you fight to the soundtrack.
Late Order
Late Order is a supernatural horror game set in a fast-food restaurant. The player works a first night shift, cooking orders and obeying rules set by an entity that inhabits the restaurant's mascot.
Debt of Life
Debt of Life is a short narrative game about a wealthy man in his final weeks, who must decide each day what to sacrifice to afford a weekly life-saving treatment.
Save Mom
Save Mom is an action game in which players protect Mom on an RV journey across a post-apocalyptic United States, playable alone or in co-op with up to three others.
The Excavation: Beneath The Cathedral
A first-person horror game in which the player falls into hidden depths beneath an abandoned cathedral and must find a way out while avoiding a presence in the tunnels.
Discover Indie Games Worth Playing
Rob’s Game Shack is an independent games publication focused on discovering and highlighting standout indie games across PC and console. We cover new releases, Early Access launches, demos, and upcoming projects on platforms like Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, with an editorial approach that values accuracy, context, and genuine enthusiasm.
Our coverage includes indie game news, hands-on previews, feature articles, and curated game pages that bring together trailers, release details, and ongoing updates in one place. We aim to surface interesting and creative games early, helping players stay informed while giving developers meaningful visibility.
Updated regularly with the latest indie game announcements and releases, Rob’s Game Shack is built for readers who enjoy discovering new games, following emerging studios, and exploring the wider indie games scene.