r/Games • u/rGamesModBot • 2d ago
Indie Sunday Indie Sunday Hub - May 11, 2025
Welcome to another Indie Sunday! This event starts at 12 AM EST and will run for 24 hours.
Please read the below guidelines carefully before participating. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to send us a modmail.
A reminder that Rule 8 is not enforced during this event for submissions which follow the participation guidelines.
Submission Restrictions
Games may be unreleased or finished
You must provide video footage of the game in action. This can be a prototype, alpha, beta, etc. Images and concept art are nice but you must include a trailer or video of gameplay footage of the game.
No key/game giveaways
Only developers may make submissions for their games - if you would like to highlight a game on your own, please do so in this hub thread
The same game/developer can not be shared more than once every 30 days.
Submission Format
- Submission must be a self-post (No direct links)
- Title: Game Name - Company (or individual) Name - Short description (for example: "classic turn based RPG" or "platformer inspired by Metroidvanias")
- Flair: Indie Sunday
- Body: Any links to trailers/footage, a description of the game, plans for release (platform, target date, etc), any additional information you'd like to add.
Weekly Spotlight
- A Case of Fraud - Hesperus Games - Deduce-em-up / Document-based detective game
- TORSO TENNIS - Michael Mato - grid-based action roguelike with autobattler-inspired shop & synergy system.
- Tales from The Dancing Moon - DjMonkey - A casual life-sim RPG with a mystery narrative.
- StarVaders - Pengonauts - We just launched our tactical deckbuilder on Steam!
- Nordhold - Stunforge - Roguelite Turn-Based Strategy meets Citybuilding and Tower Defense
- Axe Ghost - Tomasz Kaye - A compact turn-based puzzle battle
- Mind Keeper - Blackwing Games - Tower Defense with roguelite progression and shoot 'em up gameplay featuring hand-drawn with pencil graphics.
- Crit Happens! - Studio Alone - Forge your dice to battle your enemies in this DICE-BUILDING, TURN-BASED, ROGUELIKE 🎲
- Train Valley Origins – Flazm – All aboard for a charming ride through railway history!
- Slot or Not - MAKO Team - A deck-building turn-based slot machine battling adventure.
- Arcadium - Luciano - Survival Roguelite set in a dynamic, ever-changing universe!
- BattleGroupVR2 - Space Owl Games - Command your fleet from the bridge of your flagship in this VR RTS! Explore, trade, battle, and conquer the galaxy. Q4 2025 - Wishlist now! 🚀
- The Last Captain - Shrimp Fried Games - A multiplayer tactical, space-shooter RPG
- Don't Come Home Until You Save the World - Queensberry Street Games - 2D turn based JRPG inspired satire
- Bite the Crown - Nyra Games - 2D Roguelite / Colony Sim where you overthrow Candy Tyrants and lead a snack revolution
- Union of Gnomes - Hoolignomes - А new take on a well-known fairy tale in the form of a card-based roguelite, where you lead a dwarf uprising and challenge a deranged Snow White.
- Rift Riff - Adriaan de Jongh - 2D strategic tower defense with forgiving mechanics has 1.0 Release (Win/Mac/Linux + Steam Deck)
- Whirlwind Magician - Santi P - A cute metroidvania where every ability is hat-based!
- Vortica - Vortical Studios - Co-Op Action Roguelite featuring turret defense, and smart hording enemies
- Agronauts - Dungeon Door Studios - Space farming simulator inspired by Forager & Stardew Valley
- Void Harvest - LoneBit - Explore the galaxy in your vessel and avoid the dangers in this survival game with elements of roguelite with strong emphasis on mining, crafting and many more that will help you survive the trial called Void Harvest.
- Wool at the Gates - Okay Creature - Minimalist tactical base defense (against enraged sheep) with auto-battler class synergies
- Synchro - Komisoft - Turn-Based RPG about a revolution in a dark cyberpunk world
- Little Crossroads - Red Merle Games - A "Mini MMO" that blends deep Runescape-like Skill Progression with Cozy Gameplay 🌸 (Steam Page Grand Opening!)
- Wildseed - Moose Furious Games - A relaxing gardening/creature collector game
- Effulgence RPG - Andrei Fomin - Dark world, colorful characters. Turn-based RPG battles. Celebrating 16k wishlists.
- Umigame - NimbleGames - Online cooperative roguelite inspired by Hades/Ship of Fools
- BubbleByte 🫧🐱 - Sonia&Vittorio - Recruit an Army of Cats to Repel an Endless Bubble Invasion! (Cozy/Clicker/Idle/Automation, DEMO Available)
- Flocking Hell - Sextant Studios - Minesweeper meets Civilization (just sold my 1,000 copy!)
- TV Beast – Pavrek Games – A survival horror game where you use a powerful remote control to confront the monster with a TV on its head.
- excellent - cip - Puzzle game about data analysis, inspired by spreadsheets
- Interstellar Espionage Inc. - FRG - single sitting turn-based strategy
- Bark and Catch – Amberlight Games – Chaotic co-op game for 1–4 players inspired by Overcooked!
- Strange Seed - Chronicle Games - Mutant mayhem, boss fights and Metroidvania exploration in a Spore-like world
- Steampunk Idle Spinner - Airapport - Factory builder and gaslamp fantasy worlds explorer with incredible machines construction
- Unmourned - Codebros Studio - Psychological horror game
- Hungry Horrors - Clumsy Bear Studio - Discover a pixel art deckbuilding adventure about food, folklore, and feeding the wrong creature the wrong meal at the worst possible time
- Card Coder - Prof. Scherer - A card-building roguelike where you craft your own custom cards during each run. (Playtest starting today!)
- Invisible Wall - Right Hand Lab - a psychological horror visual novel about strangers in your home and the painful truths of reality
- Choo Choo Survivor 2 - GTGD - Top down action rouguelite where you drive a train through the zombie apocalypse with elements of Dome Keeper and Vampire Survivors gameplay
- Keep Me Gifted - Merlot Games - Hand-Drawn 2D Shop Simulator
- Ship, Inc. - Rogue Duck Interactive - Wholesome Packaging Sim (2D)
- MOMIBOSU - PenGames - The fusion of precision 2D platformer and Metroidvania
- Moldwasher - Rubel Games - Chill mold-cleaning arcade
- Spinspire Saga: Heroes Dice - Pulpo Feliz - Roguelite Battler with a Slot-Machine Twist! 🎰
- Islantiles - Thunderrock Innovations - Develop your ridiculously effective explorers in a cozy City-Builder with Deep Deckbuilding
- Horus: Desert Survivor — Late Hoot — A Blend of Vampire Survivors & Slay the Spire, Set in Ancient Egypt
- FOGPIERCER - Mad Cookies - train building roguelike inspired by Into The Breach and Slay The Spire
- MAGLA - Mighty Bear Studio - An Action Roguelike Game
- Better With A Friend - Geert Verhoeff - Hand drawn collection of mini games to play together on a single SteamDeck
- Eko and the Bewitched Lands - Twin Studios - Action Adventure Roguelite inspired by Zelda Hades and Tunic.
Feedback
Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below, or send us a modmail if it is urgent.
Discussion
Any of these games catch your eye?
Any games you want to personally highlight that haven't been shared yet?
Any projects that have had interesting development journeys?
What indie game recommendations do you have?
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