Indie Gaming

This is a collective place for every bit of content relating to indie games on this website, including all of the categories below. If you would like more specific topics each has their own page.

Indie Reviews – A place for all of my reviews of indie games.

Indie Impressions -If I have written any impressions of an indie game they will be in here.

Indie Lists – All lists that I have posted that contain indie games.

Game Festivals – Live and past coverage of game festivals including Steam Next Fests.

Anything else – Everything not pertaining to the above categories but still relating to indies will be posted here.

Indie Showcase – LudoNarraCon 2025

Here you can find all of my coverage of the games taking part in LudoNarraCon 2025. Check back often to see the latest posts! More from previous Festivals

Noob’s Top 10 Games Experienced in 2024

2024 was undeniably an incredible year for games. I don’t often tend to play new releases, so it is to my complete surprise that four games from the current year have made it to my top 10 list this year. Four! As primarily a backlog and PS Plus gamer, I often don’t even experience that…

Noob’s Top 10 Demos played in 2024

Demos have not only made a comeback, they have firmly solidified their place in the gaming world. Sometimes playing a demo will show that a game is not what you expected, is not for you, or simply that your device cannot handle what is required to run the game smoothly. However, sometimes you stumble upon…

The Depths

Beyond Blue.

12 Days of Epic Games 2024 Round Up

My 12 Days of Epic Games series is complete! In this second season of my 12 Days series we took a look at 12 different games that I have received for free during Epic Games giveaways, trying them out for an hour or two, or a chapter or two, whichever came first. I then decided…

10 games I must play from 2024

After previous years of following game release dates and witnessing delay after delay, I heavily lost interest in keeping track of what games are releasing and when. Admittedly, this is also in no small part because I rarely buy or have time for new games immediately. My philosophy is, once they are out, I will…

Indie Showcase – Summer Game Fest 2024

Here you can find all of my coverage of the Summer Game Fest 2024, including shows like Guerrilla Collective, Wholesome Direct and Steam Next Fest June 2024. Check back often to see the latest posts! More from previous Festivals

Noob’s Picks – Guerrilla Collective 2024

The Guerrilla Collective was a cracking start to the indie coverage of Summer Game Fest 2024. Here, I am highlighting my 10 favourite trailers from the showcase! Some of them have demos available right now. I haven’t played any yet – this list is based off of first impressions alone – but if I end…

Indie Showcase – LudoNarraCon 2024

Here you can find all of my coverage of the games taking part in LudoNarraCon 2024. Check back often to see the latest posts! More from previous Festivals

Indie Showcase – Steam Next Fest February 2024

Here you can find all of my coverage of the games taking part in the Steam Next Fest February 2024. Will be continuously updated throughout the festival. More from previous steam next fests

10 Games I Must Play From 2023

I haven’t played many 2023 games yet, but I hope to change that in the future. The year is going to go down in history as a certified banger and it is going to take literally years to catch up with the crazy amount of great releases. What a feeling! I have narrowed down a…

Noob’s Top 10 Games Experienced in 2023

As always, since I don’t tend to play new games, I can’t really join in the game of the year discussions. And honestly, as the years go by, keeping up with the latest releases seems like more and more of a mammoth task. For context, this year I experienced 5 2023 games- Tchia- King of…

12 Days of Game Pass – One year on

This time last year I was living my best life. Driven mad by my backlog and the continually rising number of games on my Game Pass ‘play later’ list, I gave myself a beautiful gift. That gift was permission. Permission to dive into said list. 12 games, 12 videos, 12 impressions – maybe I should…

Indie Showcase – Steam Next Fest October 2023

Here you can find all of my coverage of the games taking part in the Steam Next Fest October 2023. The Next Fest is over but I still have more demos to try! I will update when I am done but for now, keep an eye out for more impressions. To see coverage from previous…

10 PlayStation 5 Demos – August 2023

While you need PS Plus Premium to access certain game trials, that doesn’t mean every demo on the console is gated by a paywall. In fact, as I was doing some exploring in the PS Store I found an entire section dedicated to demos. In this age of Steam Next Fests providing lots of opportunities…

Indie Showcase #51-#100 – Top 10

My Indie Showcase series has reached its 100th video! That is a milestone worth celebrating and what better way than to shout out the stand out games from the latest 50 videos. Making this list was difficult to say the least. We have played some absolute gems over the last year and I couldn’t be…

Indie Showcase – Steam Next Fest June 2023

The Steam Next Fest of June 2023 was a big one. One week, MANY demos! I didn’t actually plan on covering the festival this time as life has become pretty busy, but who was I kidding? It should be clear by now that I can’t resist the allure of the demos, especially when so many…

Secarral Snaps

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure.

A Noob’s Review – Pupperazzi

Based on what I had seen of Pupperazzi, this game wasn’t high up on my ‘to play’ priority list. I thought it was going to be a ‘meme’ game and not much more. I am very happy to report how wrong I was about that. This game is an absolute delight through and through. I…

A Noob’s Review – SUPERHOT

SUPERHOT broke me. It tried to break its way into my mind, but instead, it just broke it. Let me explain. In case you don’t know, Superhot is a first person shooter. Anyone that knows me will be thinking ‘Noob? Playing a first person shooter? Wut?’. As it turns out, there is a little more…

Indie Showcase – Steam Next Fest February 2023

It is Steam Next Fest time! That’s right, it is once again time to celebrate the indie games being created day in day out, all around the world! I love to take this opportunity to play as many demos as possible, trying out as many as I can in my never ending quest to see…

10 Games I Must Play From 2022

2022 has been a phenomenal year for games. I personally rarely play games as they release, which means I am going to be feasting for years to come. Since my 2022 games post was a celebration of games both past and present, I also wanted to make a post specifically about games that released this…

12 Days of Game Pass 2022 Round Up

Last month I sat down to start my first Let’s Play since Exit/Corners. I was so excited to get back to recording. Just me, the game, the freedom of recording whenever felt good, and the flexibility of being able to take a moment and edit it out. What I didn’t anticipate was the colossal struggle…

A Noob’s Review – Moonlighter

Moonlighter is a game in which you hunt for treasures by night, and sell them by day. Both of these jobs create two different modes which construct the daily flow of the game. The dungeons you pillage are randomized in a rogue-like fashion. The further you get into a dungeon, the more valuable loot you…

Introducing ‘Indie Showcase: Magazine Edition’

Remember the Steam Next Fest that took place one month ago that I said I would make some content for? It’s here! I played so many great demos and I am very excited to finally share them. One night I had an idea – which then became a personal goal – to create a magazine.…

Indie Game Festivals – 2021 Releases

I recently made a post about a bunch of the Indie Games that have released this year, of who’s demos I had played over the years. Since I didn’t cover all the Indie Game Festivals as comprehensively as I would have liked at the time, I decided to do the same thing again except this…

Indie Game Festivals – 2022 Releases

Over the last couple of years since the very first Steam Game Festival, I have spent a lot of time playing the demos of Indie Games. The idea of these festivals was fantastic to me. Games get the chance to showcase what they are, and I get the chance to try games that I may…

Indie Showcase #1-#50 – Top 10

It is slightly late but upon looking back over my Indie Showcase so far, I thought it would be fun to pick out some favourites. I originally planned to do this when I reach 100 videos, but picking out the 10 best is already proving to be difficult so I am going to go ahead…

A Noob’s Review – Stray

This year I have been blessed with the amount of ‘me’ games that I have been able to play. Stray, I am pleased to admit, is one of them. Without playing it, it is easy to think of it as nothing more than ‘that cat game’. That is how I thought of it before. I…

A Noob’s Review – My Time at Portia

My Time at Portia is a game with many flaws, but if you can look past them then it can be an absolute delight. I feel like Portia is ideal for the people who love Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon type games but find the farming tedious after a while. These aren’t the only type of people…

Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition 2020

The Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition 2020 is here! Usually I play many demos, record them for YouTube and make a video of my highlights and top pics. I’m extremely disappointed that – due to technical reasons – I will not be able to do that for this season. So instead, I am going to…

Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition 2020 – Top Game Picks

I tried something a little different this time. Since I have now played so many of these demos, I thought it would be helpful for anyone new to the festival to have a guide to know where to start. So this time I have made a more comprehensive quickfire guide of games that I think…

Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition 2020

The Steam Game Festival has well and truly grown, as shown at the Summer Edition 2020. Now containing hundreds of demos, the event has become something that everyone should mark on their calendar. With the event now spanning over 7 days, not only indie games are being showcased but AA and even some AAA titles.…

LudoNarraCon 2020 – 6 Indie Narrative Games to Watch out for

For my highlight video of the LudoNarraCon 2020 I only included the games that I played for the first time during this festival. Meaning, I didn’t want to repeat games from my Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition 2020 video. Instead, I hand picked my top 6 experiences from the new demos I played. Here are…

LudoNarraCon 2020

After covering the Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition 2020 I was looking forward to the Summer Edition. Little did I know that the LudoNarraCon 2020 was just around the corner. Basically, it is the same type of event as the Steam Game Festival, except this one is solely focused on narrative games. It’s like it…

Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition 2020 – Top 10 Demos

Of the 20 demos that I tried I during the Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition 2020 I managed to narrow it down to my top 10! All here for different reasons, I am confident there are some gems. I am going to be keeping my eye on them all to see how they do during…

Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition 2020

The first Steam Game Festival that got my attention was the Winter Edition 2019, where around 8 game demos were available to try for a couple of days. I didn’t make any content about them at the time but I tried 4 of them – Spiritfarer and The Drifter being stand outs – and had…

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