Rote but engaging, Stela is a lovely experience bolstered by an incredible score.
Indie
For an indie developer, staying independent and releasing your first game is the dream. But for this group of young developers, they chose their health and friendships instead.
While Neon City Riders is clearly a love letter to indie throwbacks like Hotline Miami, it needs more care if it wants to compete with them.
Half-baked, boring, and incomprehensible Vasilis wastes a powerful premise and interesting visual-style. Do not play this game.
The mystical cleverness of LUNA is yet another feather in the cap for a genre that’s healthier than it’s ever been before.
Long-awaited Twitter darling Garden Story just released its first demo. Here’s what we learned after playing through it twice.
The Nintendo Switch has quickly become the preferred platform for some of the most talented indie studios in the industry. Its pick-up-and-play form factor and Nintendo’s concerted effort to court…
Under the Radar
‘Kind Words’ succeeds in being one of the increasingly rare online spaces where people can safely relate and be kind to one another.
Vibrant designs and slick 2D animations can’t hide the fact that beneath the polished exterior lies a mediocre game.
We love indie games here at Goomba Stomp – after all, they can offer some of the most groundbreaking, creative experiences out there. However, with so many coming out every…
PAX West 2019 continues to chug along! There are way too many indies for me to cover, but this batch of three packs a lot of personality and rises above…
Day 1 of PAX is down, and with it comes a slew of indie game impressions. Whether it’s with cozy spirit bonding or pinbrawl action, PAX West’s indie showing this…
It seems like cats are at the heart of many a media project as of late. The Lion King is close to breaking a billion at the box office and…
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Indie Snippet: ‘The Swords of Ditto’ Is the Colorful, Lighthearted Roguelite for the Rest of Us
With so many games tethered to murky shades of gray and brown, The Swords of Ditto was a pleasant surprise when it joined Devolver Digital’s rock-solid stable of indies. The game is an ambitious…
Katana ZERO is a thrilling, narrative-driven action game that makes a strong case for the possibilites of sidescrolling storytelling.
As the indie genre has grown, so has the tendency to overfill games with stories that either don’t match the game’s theme, or whose own self-importance is heavily overblown. Every…
When VA-11 Hall-A (pronounced “Valhalla”) released back in 2016 it was met with a general sense of curious intrigue. With a distinctive pixelated art style, a somber color palette reminiscent…
The way I see it, there are three types of party games: those that rely on skill, those that rely on luck, and those that split the difference. Astro Bears Party,…
The King’s Bird is an aesthetic precision-platformer that suits the Switch’s handheld form factor well. But is the port up to snuff?