I’m so extremely happy to welcome you to the fifth—fifth!—annual celebration of unknown or under-known indie video games, Indie-Penance Day. It’s the day My metropolis completes the sacrament of forgiveness for AAA protection by dedicating massive quantities of house to smaller video games. It’s additionally a great pun.
How is that this distinction to Thanksgamingyou ask? Shush. It’s a good pun. Not like “Thanksgaming.”
As ever, I solicited submissions from unbiased builders by way of social mediawhich has resulted in a whole bunch of emails (239 as I begin penning this), from which I’ll select totally at random. After which use a stage of discretion. I implore you to look by means of all of them, and wishlist something that grabs your curiosity—doing so makes a large distinction for the builders, as a result of it impacts the mysterious algorithms working beneath Steam, and helps these video games get extra consideration. Additionally, it’ll remind you to purchase the sport when it’s out!
Given most of those can be unreleased video games, I clearly haven’t performed them, so inclusion right here just isn’t a sign of their high quality—we’re occurring vibes, of us. However something that may assist get eyes on any of the roughly 20,000 video games that can be launched on Steam this 12 months makes an enormous distinction.
Final little bit of enterprise: I’ve compiled this as a slideshow, and it’s important to simply suck that up. It pays the payments, and it’s how I can get this on the positioning. (However high tip: in the event you’re looking on desktop, simply slim your browser window to a portrait width and it’ll unfurl into one lengthy article.)
