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Backpack Syndicate (Demo Impressions)
The Backpack Syndicate demo is a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon-style crawler with a clever backpack-grid loadout, and it’s an easy wishlist ahead of 2027.
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Bills Must Be Paid
Bills Must Be Paid is a cheap, satisfying incremental game about smashing piggy banks to clear your debt, let down only by its depth.
Charlie Harper
Charlie Harper is a sharp, sincere romance that is one rewrite away from greatness.
Finding Emily
Finding Emily is a charming, female-forward rom-com revival undone by a third-act conflict too heavy for the genre to reconcile.
News Tower
News Tower looks like a simple newspaper tycoon and hides three great games inside: a sim, an HR game, and a Factorio-style optimizer.
Obsession (2026)
Obsession is a sharp horror film with a breakout performance from Inde Navarrette, undone by a final act that breaks its own rules.
7 Standouts From the Tribeca Games Showcase 2026
Hands-on with seven unreleased indies at Tribeca's 2026 Games Showcase, from a paper-airplane elegy to a sound-driven must-play. Which one stole the show?
Union County
Union County is a powerful Sundance standout. Will Poulter delivers a career-best performance in this gripping blend of documentary and fiction.
Winter Burrow
Winter Burrow is cute and has a great visual style, but falls just a little short in Quality of Life features and depth of features.
Retrowave World
Last year we talked about Big Ambitions which, in a lot of ways, is very similar to Retrowave World. Both were independent
Sea of Stars
Within the last few weeks, there was a news story saying that someone at Sega made a comment about how the pixel
Venba
Tons of indie games come out every day, and it feels like a good amount of them end up on Game Pass.
Review: Last Call BBS
Last Call BBS is a fun nostalgia trip that is worth playing as a minigame-playing simulator.