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The latest edition of Indiepocalypse (the monthly alternative game anthology I run) is now out! If you don't know what Indiepocalypse is I wrote a starter guide!
The games in this month issue (as seen in the trailer) are
Trail of the Wretched by Xavier Bell, Jason Reagen, Khoa Ho
A visual novel about the journey of a photographer stumbling through the worst week of his life. It's hard to capture the beauty of the world with a gun held to the back of your head.
CRUSHCRUSHCRUSHCRUSH by Lex Kim Bobrow
CRUSHCRUSHCRUSHCRUSH is an interactive abstract horror experience/interactive poem dealing with themes of sexuality, emotional abuse in romantic relationships, religious trauma, and mental health.
let the lights bleed by @ednaarel
A short exploration of the effects of being objectified and the way you can lose yourself to please others out of fear of being alone.
I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE GAME | machina carerulea by manonamora
"Come aboard the struggle bus..."
I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE GAME is a interactive exploration of a writer's block.
"Hello, Blanche... Do you remember what happened? No... Well... That's fine"
machina carerulea is a short sci-fi retelling of Bluebeard
estherbunny444 by mumupoque
A 3D, highly surreal adventure game about a sad trans girl named Sue falling in love with her two-headed friend Esther.
Wherein She Completely Cuts Herself Off from Reality; A Parabolic Emotion from Recovery into Despair by Kimera Royal
Explore forms of alienation, grapple with repetition, microwave a sandwich. Features three small poetic games and three small poetic poems.
Cow Life Sim RPG by @pajamaBeeVegan, @politepigeon, Vince Alan, Jaco, Kristyn_Art, Kusabii
You've set off on a voyage to Snoutsville and the world is before you! Explore the area, embark on quests, or make your own adventures! Level up unique and innovative skills and experiment to find the best training methods. Collect and create cool items! You can do anything when you are a cow!
After the Janazah by @obsidiancastle
The Adhan is calling - it's time to visit your Baba. A 5 minute interactive fiction set at an Islamic funeral. Written with the constraint of 500 words.
Slot Waste by Vinny Roca (pickpanpuck)
Slot Waste is a 3D first-person simulation of a mysterious factory production line. In this episode-length art game, navigate linearly through a series of 10 mini-games and discover what actions will move the production process forward. Complete each sequence and be rewarded with detailed real-time animations that connect each stage.
Alongside grotesque creatures and strange machines, take on your role as the spirit of the factory and bring the production process to completion…but will it really ever end…?
And newly commissioned for Indiepocalypse!
In Sun-Drenched Gardens by @dumplingsquid & @far
A narrative maze. Lost in Her Sun-Drenched Majesty’s verdant and terrible gardens, with only the dubious guidance of flowers, a sole reveler seeks to escape. In a crowded train car, two strangers meet, talk a while, and then part.
a pseudo-puzzle game poem about the futility of the inbox
An experimental text-based puzzle game where words fail you as you're confronted with a monster from your past.
Extended Sabbatical is a game about how I don't want to make a game. Now that it's finished, I will be going back to taking a break from making games.
The scattered fragments of the timepiece are littered throughout memories of various conversations. Explore to make it whole once again, piece by piece.
It was Oscar Wilde who once said that "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
The year is 2999. The galaxy hungers. You heard their cries and you bought the foodtruck. Now you have 40 weeks to establish a thriving mobile restaurant business and begin paying back your creditors, or have your mind erased by the dreaded Repos. Along the way you will meet the many and varied citizens of year 2999, including terrorist frogs, time travelers, fad dieters, intergalactic jetsetters, gravy fiends, judgmental rats, honest robots, and plants that have developed into some evolutionarily questionable shapes.
DOGMAN95 (a 3-minute Dogman RPG 🐕⚔️)
Welcome to the first virtual gallery of the future!
ColorBlend FX: Desaturation is a 2.5D puzzle-platformer metroidvania that weaves a tale of glow, courage, and creativity. Join the Splatians, as they unite to restore the stolen essence back to their world, while trying to find a way to shut-down Lord Ashen, a government project that led to the extinction of the humanity.
Scientist Benjamin Holloway has, in body and mind, created a perfect duplicate of himself. His double looks like him, talks like him, and acts like him. But is he the same? Air Gong presents an interactive collage built in Decker: Daisy Chain, a story of identity and actualization.
Two Kinds of Timeless is a Twine story about the pervasiveness of everlasting love and how it affects a man who would rather be forgotten by it. Explore the perspective of two spirits trying to find each other again, their reunion interrupted by an eccentric peddler of curses.
Make GOD happy and get three coins from your neighbors by using your very limited communication skills of Hitting, Crying, Imitating Micael or Repeating the last thing the person said.
Traintracks Combat is an indie fighting game that takes place on the Chicago transit system. Choose your commuter and duke it out at the California Blue Line stop! Features 4 unique characters, free-form juggle combos, agile universal movement, and a parry!
A chill real-time passenger-sim all about vibes, silly interactions and being physically trapped in your seat for 3 hours.
Worthy Undone wakes up in the apartment of a woman who reincarnates people for a living, and has to deal with the world she created. Killing God is as easy as a baseball bat to the head and a lifetime of guilt afterwards; it's even easier when She stays dead, but Worthy isn't quite that lucky.
Lead a party up a mountain as a gastromancer trail guide!
You know how to cook, but do you know how to cook for other people?
Make friends and hard choices as you try to get your team to the summit!
A kinky walking-sim for the pop icon of the century.
