Extreme Sports, An Fps From Former Blizzard Devs And Other New Indie Games Worth Checking Out

Welcome to our play roundup of what's going connected successful nan indie crippled space. There person been rather a fewer high-profile arrivals this week, arsenic good arsenic others that person near early entree and aliases arrived connected much platforms.

I person a agelong formation this play and I'm a small torn complete what to play while I'm successful nan air. I person my Switch 2, Steam Deck and Playdate pinch maine (excessive, I know). As such, location are galore ways I tin spell here. I haven't yet burrowed my measurement into Donkey Kong Bananza, truthful that's a beardown option. But past location are each nan Playdate Season Two games I've yet to cheque retired — Taria & Como is 1 I decidedly want to play — while my Steam Deck is bursting pinch games and is moving retired of retention space.

Decision paralysis is an all-too-common affliction these days, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to games aliases picking thing to watch. I consciousness for illustration nan smartest prime present is to play immoderate is taking up nan astir abstraction connected my Steam Deck that I've yet to play, truthful I tin conscionable scrub it if I'm not interested. I'll astir apt do that unless I do my accustomed point while flying: effort to drawback up connected sleep.

New releases

If location were a hallway of fame conscionable for mobile games, nan first 2 Monument Valley games would surely beryllium first-ballot inductees. While nan third introduction successful nan series possibly didn't rather deed those heady heights, it still has its fans and was well-received erstwhile it debuted connected iOS and Android via Netflix precocious past year. Just complete 7 months later, Monument Valley 3 has sailed onto much platforms. Ustwo Games' thoughtful and stylish M.C. Escher-inspired puzzler is now disposable connected PC, Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

RageSquid and patient No More Robots had a astonishment successful shop this week erstwhile they abruptly released Descenders Next during a showcase of that crippled and its downhill biking-focused predecessor. This is simply a multiplayer action sports crippled that, astatine nan outset, features snowboarding and mountainboarding. The developers scheme to adhd much utmost sports complete clip (the crippled is presently successful early entree and there's a two-year roadmap to nan 1.0 release). Descenders Next is disposable connected Steam, Xbox and Game Pass for Xbox and PC.

Wheel World seems overmuch much relaxing than Descenders Next, moreover though your ngo is to prevention nan world from complete collapse. The motorboat trailer for this open-world cycling crippled from Messhof (Nidhogg) has impeccable vibes. Between races, you'll beryllium capable to hunt for parts to upgrade your bike. Given its stellar way record, immoderate crippled that Annapurna Interactive publishes is worthy checking out, and I'll surely beryllium giving Wheel World a spin. It's retired now connected Steam, Epic Games Store, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, arsenic good arsenic Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

Wildgate is simply a multiplayer shooter from patient Dreamhaven's Moonshot Games division. Dreamhaven CEO Mike Morhaime is simply a co-founder and erstwhile president of Blizzard. Almost each of nan company's first activity of labor utilized to activity astatine Blizzard too. So it's possibly not excessively overmuch of a astonishment that Wildgate has a polished, colorful look. The squad extraction shooter — which is now disposable connected Steam, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S — has spaceship-based combat and a procedurally-generated representation to thief move things up from game-to-game.

Dreamhaven has had rather a engaged 2025 truthful far. It has released nan afloat type of nan enjoyable action RPG Lynked: Banner of nan Spark (by FuzzyBot Games), forged a publishing business pinch Game River for its tactical wargame Mechabellum and unleashed 2 games of its ain successful nan style of tabletop RPG statement crippled Sunderfolk and now Wildgate.

Supervive (previously known arsenic Project Loki) is simply a crippled we've had an oculus connected for a while and it's now retired of early entree connected Steam. Theorycraft has overhauled this free-to-play MOBA/battle royale hybrid pinch nan 1.0 update by introducing a larger representation that has much traversal options, a two-seater aerial vehicle, much playable characters, faster revives, an upgraded personification interface and overmuch more.

Upcoming

Agefield High: Rock nan School is simply a communicative escapade crippled that follows a precocious schoolhouse elder aft his parents move pinch him to a caller town. Sam Tatum wants to make his past fewer months of schoolhouse unforgettable, and if he feels nan request to skip people aliases mow lawns for a fewer bucks to make that happen, truthful beryllium it.

This task from Refugium Games, which is successful improvement for PC and consoles and slated to debut successful early 2026, already feels for illustration it's dripping pinch nostalgia, and that's conscionable based connected nan trailer and property release. It's group successful 2002 and is said to person a soundtrack filled pinch pop-punk tunes. Agefield High: Rock nan School has a branching communicative too, pinch respective endings to experience. The developers took immoderate inspiration from Rockstar's Bully and since we mightiness not ever get a due sequel to that game, Agefield High: Rock nan School whitethorn conscionable capable a definite void successful my millennial heart.

I rather for illustration nan artistic of Oceaneers, a survival-crafting sim from Barrel Smash Studios. It seems to tie from nan aforesaid good arsenic Don't Starve, but that's hardly a bad thing. You'll hop betwixt islands successful hunt of resources and ways to grow your colony. You'll besides conflict sharks and crabs, and possibly moreover observe hidden bunkers — possibly there's personification wrong who has to punch a series into a terminal each 108 minutes? Oceaneers is expected to deed Steam early entree successful 2026 pinch a demo dropping soon. Maybe I'll commencement a long-overdue Lost rewatch successful nan meantime.

Getting mislaid successful a fictional world for dozens upon dozens of hours tin beryllium rather appealing, and I do bask larger games successful that vein. But truthful galore games are excessively bloated these days and I do emotion shorter, much focused experiences. Catto's Post Office is said to return astir an hr to complete.

In this open-world title from In Shambles Studio and patient Cult Games, you'll play arsenic a Postcat who delivers packages to nan residents of a mini town. You tin do feline things for illustration hide successful boxes, sound worldly complete and meow whenever you for illustration pinch a dedicated button. It looks excessively dang adorable. Catto's Post Office will costs $5 erstwhile it hits Steam connected August 4, and location will beryllium a 20 percent motorboat discount.

You cognize how, successful Final Fantasy VII, Cloud has a monolithic sword? Well, what if you could person a limb for illustration that successful a puzzle-focused action platformer? Enter nan wonderfully titled Gigasword from solo developer Studio Hybrid and patient Akupara Games. Along pinch utilizing your limb to return retired unfortunate baddies and beastly bosses, you'll employment it to lick puzzles and thief pinch platforming. Gigasword is coming to Steam connected October 2, and there's a demo disposable now.

Speaking of games pinch awesome names, The Player Who Can't Level Up judge has 1 of those. This is an action roguelite that is based connected a webtoon that debuted past year. It has a slick, gorgeous trailer and — arsenic nan title suggests — you won't beryllium capable to level up your character. You can, however, prime perks to thief you hunt monsters. Tripearl Games is nan workplace down nan project, for which it's targeting a 2026 debut connected PC and consoles.