2025 was an incredible year for indie games, with a huge variety of genres getting a lot of love with some truly unique and refreshing game design. Indie games continue to be where the experimental is ...

With the start of a new year comes a whole crop of new games to look forward to. We’ve already covered some of the biggest games launching in 2026, and now we’re focusing in on the indie games that ...

The 2025 Indie Game Awards have drawn significant attention: Two of the top honors for the RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Sandfall Interactive were revoked after the fact. The reason? The use of ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have been debating the meaning of the term "indie game" for years. What is an indie game? On paper, Hades 2 and Hollow ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If one thing has been made clear at the 2025 Game Awards, it’s that indie games are making huge ...

However, just around the time the game was honoured at the Indie Game Awards, an older interview with Sandfall resurfaced, in which the studio had confirmed the use of generative AI in the game's ...

Indie developers have proven over the years that you don’t need a multi-million budget to create something memorable. Some of the best titles out there have been created by a handful of people, or in ...

The Indie Game Awards has stripped Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 of both its Game of the Year and Debut Game awards, citing the roleplaying game's use of generative AI. Run by Six One Indie, the annual ...

The company says it was only for placeholder textures that were later removed, but a few squeezed past the QA process and made their way to the final game and, as such, the internet. The Indie Game ...

A day after The Indie Game Awards 2025 ceremony, where Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won the coveted Game of the Year award, the team behind the show, Six One Indie, has announced that it has since ...