Indie GamesNews2026-10-30 18:00The official October newsletter for Steam’s chaotic roguelike Elin has been released. “Shearing” Forest Putits yields Big Leaves. What even counts as fur?AUTOMATON WESTNews (Japan-related)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-29 18:18Cosmic horror investigation game The Colour Beyond: A Zeroth Kind gets Steam playtest. Prevent your own death with the power to infiltrate mindsAkira SadaNews (Global)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-28 18:50Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remake developer ILCA’s latest indie experiment turns a Kafka novel into a surrealist Sokoban gameAkira SadaIndie Games / News (Japan-related)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-28 17:02Doomed Otaku, a dark comedy about an impulsive otaku girl who embezzles $5,000 in fan money, launches on Steam with “Very Positive” ratingEmmett HarrisNews (Global)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-27 18:35My Dad is a Femboy short visual novel out on itch.io. A dark humor sci-fi where men over forty must choose between death and becoming a femboyAmber VNews (Global)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-27 18:20Re.dive Wonderland, an otome visual novel where you get isekai’d into an RPG, to release in English on November 10Carlos "Zoto" ZotomayorNews (Global)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-26 18:43Sci-fi military visual novel Torch and Trigger follows two child soldiers forced to pose as a family and raise a five-year-old geniusCarlos "Zoto" ZotomayorNews (Japan-related)
Indie GamesInterviewsNews2026-10-23 22:00Yume Nikki creator Kikiyama created all of the game’s pixel art and music solo, drawing inspiration from their actual dream diary, according to RPG Maker producer Đorđe PIndie Games / News (Japan-related)
Game DevelopmentIndie GamesNews2026-10-21 18:55Japanese indie dev fixes “unnatural” running animation in response to feedback, only to be told the original one had more soul. Opinions split between “realism” and “originality”Genki HashimotoIndie Games / News (Japan-related)8
Indie GamesNews2026-10-20 21:00Anime-style post-apocalyptic third person shooter Alien Entity Hal-09 follows a pair of clone girls exploring submerged citiesCarlos "Zoto" ZotomayorNews (Japan-related)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-20 11:11Fish Them All!, a Japanese fishing action game about catching 100 million fish, gets Steam demoCarlos "Zoto" ZotomayorNews (Japan-related)
Indie GamesNews2026-10-19 16:26Girlfailure Art Club, a Japanese visual novel in which you romance “cringey” otaku schoolgirls, launches crowdfunding campaignCarlos "Zoto" ZotomayorIndie Games / News (Japan-related)
