Even in the endlessly varied indie space, you don’t see a lot of first-person shooters like Metal Eden.

The Knightling sets you off on a journey around the world of Clesseia on the hunt for your lost master, Sir Lionstone, and to stop the ‘Earthborn’ from harming your civilization.

In comes Abyssus, a roguelite shooter aiming to combine a unique brinepunk setting evoking hints of Bioshock with the fast-paced baddie-murdering gameplay of modern Doom and the ability to play with your friends.

Off is a game that has been floating around the astral plane for the better part of the last few decades. Some of you may not be familiar with this peculiar title that began as an RPG Maker project for developer Mortis Ghost, though many now recognize it as one of the inspirations behind the infamous Undertale and many other games to follow.

You could call Artis Impact a turn-based RPG, but honestly, its RPG mechanics—while present—seem to take a backseat to its narrative-heavy focus and greater message. The story, which conveys those messages, goes places—LOTS of places.

Make Room is a cozy room builder that has you creating dioramas of varying sizes that either meet the requirements of the ‘guided requests’ or let you run wild with the sandbox.

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound calls back to the series’ beginnings, not only in how it looks but in how it plays. With gameplay once again taking place on a 2D plane, you’ll slice and dice your way through an endless slew of adversaries on a quest to seal away a clan of demons who managed to bust through a mystical barrier and now threaten to put an end to humanity.

Heartworm tells the tale of Sam, a young woman who recently lost her beloved grandfather. Desperate to reunite with him, Sam does what many of us do and turns to the internet for advice, where she is tempted down one particular rabbit hole that leads her to an isolated home in the mountains.

Primal Planet, just as its title implies, is set in a prehistoric world, and while that’s true, it also mixes in elements of science fiction. I bet you didn’t see that one coming, did you!?

Annapurna Interactive's newest indie drops this week in the form of the bicycle racing game Wheel World, a game all about saving the universe using pedal power! With its speedy cycling, colorful world, and fast-paced races, this could be a great addition to the racing genre. But does Wheel World race into first place, or is it lagging behind the pack? 

In The King is Watching, you are tasked with running a kingdom, naturally, and defending it from relentless waves of intruders. Most of the gameplay unfolds on a grid located on the left side of the screen, divided into squared plots of land. These plots are where you are able to place various resources, buildings, fields, and more, in order to expand, further enhancing your chances of survival. Your main goal is to survive enough waves to take down an end area boss.

I know I harped on P.T. in my intro, a clear inspiration for Luto, but it certainly isn’t the only one. In fact, it borrows a great storytelling mechanic from another Silent Hill game, sometimes wrongly labeled as the black sheep of the series: Silent Hill 4: The Room.

In The Drifter, you play as Mick Carter, the titular drifter, who is heading back home to attend his mother's funeral. Hitching a ride on a boxcar, Mick suddenly finds himself on the wrong end of gunfire as the train is ambushed by mysterious masked soldiers.

Fretless – The Wrath of Riffson is a turn-based RPG where you’ll play as Rob, a musician capable of wielding and controlling an assortment of powerful weaponized instruments, including an acoustic guitar, synth keyboard, bass guitar, and my favorite—the brutally low-tuned 8-string guitar for those epic death metal riffs!

Eriksholm’s namesake is the fictional city it takes place in, a gorgeous slice of 1900s Scandinavia bustling with life and yet teeming with the tension wrought by not only the rise of industrialization and the class divides it’s created, but also a sudden deadly plague referred to as Heartpox.

Ruffy has the ability to SWAP – swap textures, that is – a video gamey-sounding power as I’ve ever heard, but one with unique practical implications in the game’s world of Riverside.  What if you could texture-swap to replace a waterfall with climbable vines so you can reach the top of it?  What if you could switch out metal boxes for wooden ones so they can be broken apart to clear a path through them?  And what if you could swap ocean water for lava to burn that hungry shar

Outrider Mako could be described as a 2D action game, but that would be oversimplifying things as it blends many different genres together. Where do I even start? Well, there are deliveries to make, a bonkers battle system to master, bosses to take down, loot to collect, items to purchase, shops to shop in, nectar to bathe in—phew, you name it, it’s here!

The Gex Trilogy is a collection of all 3 original Gex releases based on their PlayStation versions. Players will receive the original 1995 release, which is more of a traditional 2D platformer, along with its 3D sequel, Gex: Enter the Gecko, and finally Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, the follow-up to Enter the Gecko that continues the franchise's foray into 3D platforming.

The Alters brings a new perspective to this question.  It not only imbues 11 Bit’s themes with fresh and fascinating new ideas, but creates a dynamic, reactive framework from which emerges some of the most creative science fiction I’ve ever experienced.

Date Everything is much like other dating sims out there, only the sexy beings you’re chatting to are all the personification of various household objects, pieces of furniture, food, and maybe even the very concept of electricity.