Now, I don't play a lot of beat-'em-ups as I often find their gameplay to be as repetitive as those fake mobile games ads YouTube probably forced you to watch at the start of this video. But occasionally, ones like Absolum or Big Helmet Heroes will be great enough to tickle my fancy and earn a recommendation, genre misgivings aside. Is Lost Castle 2 such a game?

Crushed in Time is a sort of spin-off of the developer’s first game, There is No Game: Wrong Dimension, where you traverse different video game universes in a point-and-click adventure. One of these universes included Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, and the team must have loved them so much that they decided to give them their own game.

Does Voidling Bound, a twist on the monster-taming genre, work? Or is it just another monstrosity?

Solarpunk is your run-of-the-mill survival game with not a lot that makes it stand out from the swathes of other titles that spew out every month.

Superhot meets Hades out on the final frontier, and its final form calls itself Enter the Chronosphere, put together by developer Effort Star.

So does Yerba Buena, a narrative-focused puzzle platformer that challenges you to literally copy-paste the movement of its environmental objects, stick the landing?

Thrifty Business is a shop management simulator developed by Spellgarden Games. If that name sounds familiar to you, it's because they released Ritual of Raven in 2025, which was one of my favourite games of last year.

RoadOut has you playing as Claire, a walking cliché of a tough, snarky mercenary who survives, if perhaps not thrives, in a desert wasteland called The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is populated by three rival factions that all have work to dish out for anybody willing to put themselves in harm’s way.

Deadhaus Sonata is a self-described, “narrative-driven action RPG” that, alongside the leadership of Dyack, is being created by a small indie team of around 10 called Apocalypse Studios.

In MOTORSLICE, you’ll control P, and no, that is not a reminder to clench; it is, in fact, the name of our mysterious lead character. Now that we’ve established this section of the review is going to sound awkward, P is cute, bubbly, funny, and extremely acrobatic, while also sometimes referred to as a Slicer.

Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege is what you cool kids would call a “Classicvania.” There are 21 linear stages to spear your way through, stiff movements and controls that reek of NES design philosophy, knockbacks (if you so wish), annoying enemy patterns, tough level design, and of course, sub-weapons and screen-clearing power-ups.

Mouse: PI for Hire places you in the shoes of Jack Pepper, not only the game's gruff, hard-boiled detective fantastically brought to life by renowned voice actor Troy Baker, but just one of many, MANY cheese-themed jokes the game has to offer.

AI is notoriously bad, kind of sloppy, and also a bit dumb, but not in Morbid Metal as you play as the last AI created by an all-powerful and kind of bossy entity known as the Operator, a being who aggressively sasses you the whole time, instructing you to take down the rogue AIs that inhabit this mysterious collapsing simulation.

Is Collector's Cove the next cozy game worth playing?

Much like the first game, Planet of Lana 2 is a puzzle platformer, with a bit more emphasis on the puzzle side of that. The 2.5D side scroller has a plethora of different environmental puzzles to solve to progress through the story. There are a few similar puzzles from the first game; some require you to use Mui to take out cameras or androids or need you to run away from attacking robots or animals.

This review of Lost and Found Co. will tell you everything you need to know about this adorable indie!

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, which probably explains why 3D platforming with my bad depth perception makes me feel CRAZY, so color me surprised when I find myself bouncing, gliding, and climbing around the world of Demon Tides with a smile on my face.

Cairn’s journey puts you in the shoes… or rather… bandaged bare feet?... of Aava, a famous mountain climber embarking on her biggest challenge yet – ascension of the notoriously treacherous Mount Kami.

Morsels is a frantic and, quite frankly, bizarre action roguelike that feels a bit like Binding of Isaac had an illegitimate child with Pokémon. Players control a small mouse that blasts through disturbingly beautiful and increasingly odd landscapes, taking down monsters and entering mouse holes as they battle against their one true enemy—CATS (would you expect anything else?)

Now I know what you’re thinking, Ashton, PowerWash Sim 2 isn’t an indie; the first one was published by Square Enix… and while you are right, you are also WRONG because PowerWash Simulator 2 has been developed and published by FuturLab, and therefore I am allowed to review it, and BOY HOWDY was I excited about it! This cleaning simulator absolutely baffles those who don’t play it as to how it can possibly be fun, but does the sequel live up to the hype of the original? Or is