Just played Birth on steam deck and it was incredible. Reminded me very much of the Rusty Lake games. Definitely looking forward to whatever Madison makes next!

found your channel when frantically looking for meaningful 1000xResist content after finishing the game, and now enjoying your other stuff as well. I especially like hearing about some of your favorite indies and more obscure titles.

Thank you for including Ruffy and the Riverside! It means a lot to us :)

I'm very excited for offical Steam release of "The Roottrees are Dead", a game being described like mix of Her Story and Obra Dinn. Best of all its releasing in 2 days! And, The Mermaid Mask a detective game from the developer of Crow County and Snipperclips. It's the 3rd game in the Detective Grimoire series, was originally scheduled for last year but got delay because of its developer success with Crow County!

Hm.. Ngl, I'm somewhat disappointed from these picks of the current Annapurna publishers, they just don't seem like the bangers of their past picks.

Find the Horizon Zero Dawn video: this guy gets it! Found Starfield is a GOTY: oh brother, this guy stinks! lol😂 the whiplash was tremendous. Still subbing, we don’t have to agree on everything with everyone after all.

Great video! 1000xResist was my favorite game of the year and completely changed my perception of what a video game could be, thank you for talking about it!

Everdeep Aurora releasing in Q3

As a big fan of the movie moon i can't wait for alters, but citizen sleeper 2 will probably be unmatched

- "Mom, can we have Wandersong?" - "No, we already have Wandersong at home." - Wandersong at home: 3:20

Love this interview :-) wish there were more like these for all my favorite games

This is a really well-researched video, i appreciate all your work on this! Theres quite a few games ont his list inhadnt heard of but am now looking forward too- thanks for beinging them to light!

if you like celeste, you might be interested in tethergeist. im not really one for precision platformers but i found that the most recent demo they released was pretty accessible and made me wanna play it ^^

Couldn't try out The Usual June demo, b/c it required a controller. Probably my most anticipated game is Otherskin (Q2). which is a sci-fi 3rd person metroidvania, and also a biopunk game, where you mutate your body parts from killing enemies in order to gain more combat and traversal powers. I've been hankering for a good biopunk game for over a decade, and the demo was really fun, so I'm pretty stoked for it.

My top 4 are: Citizen Sleeper 2 Skate Story Airframe Ultra Rain World: The Watcher

Thx for putting the title screen of the games both at the beginning and the end :)

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I recently bought both Wilmot Works It out and the previous Wilmot game Wilmot's Warehouse. They're both really solid and cozy experiences.

Some additional games that I'm personally looking forward to which have release dates: None Shall Intrude (Jan 20)- A roguelite deck-builder with tile-based combat where you become a powerful Raid Boss. Manipulate the environment to make devastating combos! Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel (Jan 21) - a gripping roguelike horde-survivor game set in the dark realms of Norse Mythology Mandragora (Apr 17) - a 2.5D side-scroller action-RPG with deep Metroidvania and Soulslike elements. Light your Witch Lantern, enter the dark realm of Entropy, and tear reality asunder.

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Looking forward to Citizen Sleeper 2 😃

Ahhhh I don’t I’d I would call all of these indies/indies anymore. Still great video and thanks for sharing. Some of these titles really keen to follow up on 👍

I bought Ultros because of the song played in the beginning of this video. After I came back you gave it an incredibly glowing review. Excited to start it on my steam deck soon. Thanks for highlighting small and unique games!

Please stop saying "rock-hard".

Awesome video as always! You should check out Undergoes - a survival crafting game I'm really excited about this year

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First time watching one of your videos, high quality, straight to the point, and well thought out! Keep going, i'm confident your channel will grow! +1 sub :D

Ooooh flip yeah, so glad to see Ruffy and the Riverside as well as The Midnight Walk on here! Cool to see someone who also played Lost in Random and was fond of it! "Lumpy" is a new way to describe games for me. And great to see Phonopolis too! Other standouts for me that i discovered thanks to your video, include Mixtape, Soulitaire, Usual June and Nivalis. You're doing great work. Respect for the quality of these videos. If i may ask, have you heard of the likes of - My Familiar - IMMORTAL: And the Death that Follows - Pillory - The Dungeon Experience - Genokids - Enenra Daemon Core - Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo - The new game by the Papetura dev (i forgot the name) - Promise Mascot Agency - Kraino Rebirth - Yasuke: A Lost Descendant - Motorslice - Kings of Hell - The Eternal Life of Goldman and that's all i can rightly think of at the moment. There's some other games that i do want to mention. They have alerady come out, but either have gone under the radar and/or have more planned for the future. MORE PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE: - Cookie Cutter (a personal favourite). Hand-drawn 2D metroidvania. Nature of what is planned include new areas, story beats, weapons, NPCs, sidequests, bosses, full voice acting, a battle arena, new collectables. It's a big passion project of the dev who went over more than 100 possible interviews before he found a publisher that was comfortable with not interfering in the vision at all. He really wanted Cookie Cutter to be a thing of its own. Lead dev described the protagonist as somewhere between a female Wario and inspired by girls he saw in raves in Italy through his life. The entire game is kind of the culmination of his tastes in media, from comics and games to manga and music, etc. - Decline's Drops. Hand-drawn 2D action platformer. Lead dev of this one describes it a bit as Yoshi's Island meets Smash. I can personally see a bit of Rayman Origins or Legends in there too. About a wooden gardener puppet that sets out to beat up corporate dragons for ruining her garden. Nature of what is planned include new areas, bosses and different playable characters. A recent update added time attack and boss rush modes. UNDER THE RADAR: - Magenta Horizon: Neverending Harvest For fans of high-paced action games like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Bayonetta, Ninja Gaiden and DMC, this is an absolute *must* to check out. Really striking art style with around 60 enemies and bosses to offer, solid story and players are incentivized to play aggressively thanks to multiple "projectiles" to use (like summoning a big ghostly arm, an electric cloud parry, throwing a boomerang that bounces of surfaces) and healing grenades. This is the one that is especially horribly going under the radar. - Zet Zillions Pretty striking deckbuilder roguelike by Ota Imon Studios. Good time in gameplay and presentation, even though it took me a while to realize it's more helpful to have smaller decks than keeping on building them. - Loco Motive Very solid point-and-click - PRIM Likewise a very solid point-and-click - Harold Halibut Bit conflicted on actually recommending it as a game, but as a story it is something very special. Presentation too, shares The Midnight Walk, Phonopolis and the Papetura dev's medium of stop motion/physical assets. - Judero Also a stop-motion/physical asset-made game! But much stronger on the area of gameplay. And a quick mention to other personal favourites from recent years: - No Straight Roads - Soulstice - Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. Hope this list was interesting, and wish you a good new year! Hope that your videos will be of good help in bringing more attention to all these cool games.

I don't comment enough on your videos, John, but always a pleasure to catch them.

Wanderstop is on top of my wishlist. "Peripetia" comes out in February (although i guess it launches in early access, so maybe not applicable for such videos), seems like a sci-fi dystopian immersive sim with polish & anime vibes. Speaking of polish games i wonder if Holstin (indie survival horror akin to HollowBody from this year) comes out in 2025. Great video.

What about Isle Goblin?

Another year full of bangers

Great list great games coming👍👍

Great video! I played Beastieball in Early Access and it is incredible. Really looking forward to both Heart Machine games, I also hope Wanderstop has an unexpected twist, and downloaded the demos for Soulitaire, Cairn, and The Alters, so thanks for the heads up on those. Some others I’m looking forward to/hoping launch in 2025 are Everdeep Aurora, Tears of Metal, Love Eternal, Building Relationships, We Kill Monsters, and The Lost Wild just to name a few.

Nice video, my top 5 most-wanted indie games for 2025 would be: Deltarune Chapter 3&4 Rune Fencer Illyia Angeline Era Ratatan Psycho Patrol R

I'm really excited for a recently-announced game Travelling at Night, from the people behind Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours. This looks to be the studio's go at a more traditional rpg but still filled with that lovely lore juice this time set in an alt-history cold war. I'm hoping maybe I can recapture how I felt playing Disco Elysium all over again

Really hoping Dead Static finally releases in 2025 but I’ve about given up on it.

Oh how i long for a new Playdead game..

Got my wishlist ready!

I'm really looking forward to Urban Myth Dissolution Centre, which comes out in about a month. I played the demo during next fest and found it super interesting 😊

Can’t wait for Lost Records! Has Life is Strange meets Yellowjackets

Grimoire Groves, Beastie Balls, Mixtape, Star Birds, Big Walk, Blue Prince, Soulitare, and Morsels look pretty cool, and I'm definitely hyped for Wheel World, Nivalis, and Ruffy and the Riverside. I'm also excited for VideoHole: Episode II, BOOM! Buster, and This Is Fine: Maximum Cope. They look really cool!

Great video. So glad I found your channel :)

You hit so many games already on my wishlist, so excited for this year! What incredible games coming! 💜

Grateful for this interview, its the best one I've found with Sunset Visitor. Im glad the game is finally getting its flowers, a friend told me about it and I agree its a difficult game to market but it is one the industry needs.

Love Ultros! Amazing...

My love for 1000xResist led me to your channel and now I’m a big fan. Great list. Great video. Hekki Allmo

Hekki, sister

Found you thanks to your 1000x resist video, i even listened the entire dev podcast (so underrated a must if you enjoyed that game and i still laugh remembering the story behind hekki grace) Congrats on finishing the year with another cool video. Im definetly checking out Ultros.