Indie developers dropped some of the year's best games, including some offbeat insta-classics. Here's what you might have ...

Unable to restrain our list to a top 10, we've rounded up the Shacknews top 25 indie games of 2025.

The year 2025 has been the year of indie games. Check our list of the 10 best indie games of 2025 to learn about all of them.

On April 21, 2015, Jónas Antonsson and two fellow Paradox alums – Gordon Van Dyke and David Martinez – revealed Raw Fury. In ...

Another indie hit that took everyone by surprise was Megabonk, a 2025 roguelike survival game developed and published by solo ...

We're here to shine a light on the best Switch indie games around right now. So, if you find yourself looking through the ...

The Day of the Devs 2025 showcase featured dozens of new indie video game reveals Wednesday, including the announcement of a never-before-played Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game that will be ...

The AAA game studio development cycle is floundering in the face of economic headwinds and bloat. Long development cycles, inflated headcounts, and soaring budgets mean that major studios are ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Happy Thanksgaming, Kotaku readers! It’s especially happy because, while all the full-time staff are off worshiping a giant effigy of a turkey (I’ve yet to quite figure out what Thanksgiving is), I’m ...

Connecting the dots: Pricing has always been a tricky topic for indie developers, and new data suggests that multiple factors are putting downward pressure on how much shoppers are willing to pay on ...

Indie devs are using anti-gen-AI statements to make their games stand out. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is a reporter who covers ...