Indie games — titles made by smaller teams with often equally small budgets operating outside the AAA publisher system — have been around almost as long as the medium of video games has existed.

Top Steam games 2026 list features must-play single-player epics, multiplayer hits, and artistic indies shaping PC gaming this year.

Windswept is a game that could have easily gotten by many of us this year. It didn’t have the star power of something like Silksong, but it was quite an enjoyable title all on its own. Thankfully, ...

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TearyHand Studio is a Japanese developer that specializes in games with strong narratives. Its 2025 release, and Roger, certainly fits within the studio’s motif. The game is filled with emotive ...

We are living in an era when there are some gorgeous indie games releasing this year and beyond. These games are not isolated to a particular genre and are way too many to even list down in one go. So ...

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2025 was an eventful year for indie and AAA gaming alike, but what were the most-played new releases of 2025 per actual data? Sales and Steam charts can only tell so much of the story, but Alinea ...