Who is Covering Indie Games? Lots of People

Last week there was some annoying discourse on social media about how no one makes innovative or experimental indie games anymore, but there’s actually a lot of greats folks pointing you to those games so I made a list of some.

This is going to be a very flawed list. I’m probably forgetting a bunch, unaware of others, I can only read English, and this is focusing on places and not specific people at places like PC Gamer and Rock, Paper, Shotgun who are doing great work and can be followed on social media, so I want to apologize to you all in advance since it’s incredibly frustrating to see people lament that “(type of game) isn’t being made anymore” when you’re yelling about them every week. I just needed to cut the list off at some point. Hopefully someone smarter sees this list and puts together an even better one on their own site. But I hope this will give you some cool things to add to your RSS feed reader of choice and maybe some new podcasts to listen to.

I’ll also add that since I am an adventure game nerd, this list is going to be leaning more on that genre. Some of these folks cover experimental games than others, but I think they’re all worth a look anyway. I also couldn’t be bothered to separate TTRPGs and video games but you know what, maybe consider giving something other than D&D a try. You deserve better.

Like I said earlier, I know I missed a ton. Please leave comments with links to who you follow!

Name

Format

Description

Adult Analysis Anthology Magazine Adult games
Adventure Game Hotspot Website Adventure games
Adventure Games Podcast Podcast Adventure games
Alpha Beta Gamer Website
Alphas and betas of games in development
Bobbins’ Olde Tomb Of Videogames Website
Roundup of smaller indie games
Buried Treasure Website
Reviews of indie games that John enjoyed
CalamityNolan Streamer indie computer games
ChoiceBeat Magazine
Free zine about interactive fiction and visual novels
Cressup Streamer
Adventure game streams and interviews with indie game devs
Debug magazine Magazine
Quarterly print magazine covering indies
Dirigitive Streamer Obscure and alt games
Find Nice Games Website Highlights indie games
Folio Podcast
Actual play podcast about solo & epistolary TTRPGs
Gamers with Glasses Website
Reviews, game crit, and interviews
Garden of Indie Streamer Variety of indie games
HauntedPS1 Anthology
Free anthology of demos by folks in the HauntedPS1 community
Heart of Neon YouTube
Frequent interviews with indie game devs
I Am a Rat Website
Games on Itch and Interactive Fiction
Indie Games+ Website Reviews
Indie Hell Zone Website Reviews
Indie Hive Website Reviews, news
Indie Mixtape Podcast
Highlights a batch of indie games each episode
Indie RPG newsletter Newsletter
Weekly newsletter about indie ttrpgs
Indie Tsushin Website Games from Japan
Indiepocalypse Monthly anthology
Monthly anthology of experimental games
KRITIQAL Website
KRITIQAL is constantly interviewing experimental game devs
LotusLovesLotus Streamer
K-Pop talk. Indie games and demos, often from Itch
Museum of Screens Website
Current and retro browser games
Party of One Podcast
Podcast that plays a different 2-player ttrpg each episode with a designer or actual play performer
Press Play Gaming Website
Does a giant GOTY series focusing on a variety of very specific genres and types
Pursuing Pixels YouTube
Focuses on indie arcade games
Sidequesting Website
Reviews, podcast. Often retro related coverage too
Six One Indie Website
Showcases and interviews
Sloanysoft Streamer
Streams modern ZX Spectrum games
SummerB76 Streamer
Streams adventure games
TacoAdventure Streamer
Split between new and retro adventure games
Thinky Games Website
Puzzle and adventure games
Three Moves Ahead Podcast
Every episode covers a new strategy game
Uncrank’d Magazine
Print magazine and community for Playdate devs
VillainyVS Streamer
Streams adventure games, including ones from game jams
Virtual Moose Website
I do regular roundups of recent indie games
Weird Fucking Games Website
Regularly highlights experimental games
Wraithkal Website
Reviews and ScreenshotSaturday roundups from Mastodon
Zelda 👑 (Tap-Tap) YouTube
Playlist of alt game playthroughs

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