Going to buy for psvr2 for £4.79 and if I like it I will buy physical

Gotz (sorry about the o) looks quite interesting, as does the Airborne Empire game. My interest perked up when you mentioned the addition of RPG and Combat elements. Outstanding job with these as always! :)

I need to play your No.1 game so bad, it looks so pretty!

Great video! Most of the games in it I was not aware of 😅 Götz looks great and I can't believe Citizen Sleeper 2 is coming out at the end of the month!

What a marvelous job with this! I could see myself playing Botany Major because of my well known love for gardening. ;) And Neva looks spectacular too. I always enjoy your videos and this was a great way to start 2025! Look at those views too! Congrats!

I've had Citizen Sleeper 2 on my wishlist for a while. I'm not 100% sold on Airborne Empires. I make my own little top 10 games I played in a year and this year I did have Airborne Kingdom on there, but one of the things I liked about it was that there was no combat, the fact that they're adding that in Empires makes me want it less.

Great selection

What a great way to start the New Year with a episode from the Indie Queen Lile! Another great one Lile and loved the energy in this. Happy New Year my friend!

I missed the release of Pine: A Story of Loss, heading over to Steam to pick it up right now!

I am going to need to check out Closer the Distance! Some indie highlights for me this year have been Dungeons of Hinterberg, Dread Delusion, and Caves of Qud! More on the RPG-side of indies, but incredible examples of indie games that stole the show for me this year. Great video Lile! :)

Wow i wanna play all of these now!

My top 10 is: 1. Animal Well 2. Balatro 3. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes 4. Arco 5. 1000xResist 6. Minishoot Adventures 7. Crypt Custodian 8. Echo Point Nova 9. UFO 50 10. Neva

Great suggestions! I have only heard of Neva and i love playing indie game. Keep up the good work~

Pacific Drive, Dredge, Dave the diver, Roboquest, Core keeper

Thank you for sharing these, Lile! Happy holidays and I hope you have a lovely 2025!

That is a good list. I liked golden Idol a lot. Botany Manor and Neva are still on my pile of shame. My personal favourite this year was Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, but I don't know if that still counts as an indie game😅

Fantastic list here Lile and not surprised with your #1! Another great video.

My personal Indie top 5 this year are Thank Goodness You're Here, Tactical Breach Wizards, Animal Well, Neva and, on an indisputed first place, Nine Sols. Maybe the perfect Metroidvania. The Ending left me in shambles.

Such a great list! A couple of these were only blips on my periphery this year and I'm definitely giving them a second look! Thanks for the video.

oh this is a really wonderful list, pretty much had never heard of any of those titles! I will be checking through all of them :D

Minds Beneath Us is the first game i will get in 2025! My top 5 indie-games: Shapez 2, Return to Moria, Minami Lane, Exit 8 and Golf Club Wasteland. Thanks for the video and happy holidays.

I loved this list I need to try a few of the games in there!

I had never heard of Botany Manor, but that looks right up my alley! Thanks for the recommendations!

Ori and the Will of the Wisp and Spiritfairer were a couple of my favorite emotional games.

I keep hearing SinT reminds people of Disney's animation... which makes sense I get it... Does anyone know who Don Bluth is??? =P

WARNING! The version on the PC xbox store has broken achievements as at dec 2024. Enlightenment, Full House, Cannon Fodder, No Harm No Foul, Complete Collection. Greatest Toymaker In The Land are all broken for me at least. The study area is bugged so does not display the collected tin soldiers. The developer said the game would be patched but that was over a year ago. Overall I expected to love this game, but there is no save option. The levels soon become big and time consuming to solve. Personally I often had to quit a level and lost my progress many times. The rewind function does not rewind your actions. So you need to manually move all the blocks back to the last "safe position". So exploration & experimentation is very slow. It is very easy to over rewind and not notice so only much later do you realise a soldier died or a switch was missed. There are also glitches that force you to quit and lose all your progress. One example is getting your soldier to the exit door and the exit door will not open!

Woah, thanks for featuring 10 Dead Doves :) Love the video -Mark

Love the animation style of Stars in the Trash. Not sure about the voice acting, going by the trailer. But I'll definitely check it out.

PERFECT way to start my Sunday morning! Another awesome game preview video Lile!

Haha. Weird-o-Meter is such a fitting and cool concept for you. :) In addition to Loco Motive, Stars in the Trash caught my eye. I'm looking for some short games with some fun gameplay and that one looks interesting. Thanks as always for making these! :)

Lovely video! Followed.

Very cool, thanks for featuring Mythwrecked! 💙

Ooooh! I didn't know about Starts In The Trash! Thanks for the recommendation and I'm looking forward to hearing about your reviews of these games! I am also ESTATIC about Loco Motive! Woooooo!

Very interested in Mythwrecked! Been following the dev for a while and watching progress and love the exploration vibes 😊

Great review... made me decide to play it!

Went and hugged my dog after watching this. Please keep making videos, okay? Thanks. :)

Masterpiece! You had me almost crying when talking about your dog and I instantly went back to losing mine.

I've wanted to play Before Your Eyes since I first heard about it, but honestly I'm scared to XD idk if I'm ready to cry like that/get hit with all those emotions

I need a hug after watching this.

Love your presentation, and these games look excellent! I hope you get a lot of views for this!

I only did Endling out of those 5 but it indeed hits hard! It's a bit out there but emotional in a different way (not sad but more in the introspection side) The Talos Principal 1&2 would be on my list personally, it's been a few month and I'm still thinking about it.

I actually played Neva because of your video from last month. Totally worth it for the stunning visuals alone. My personal favorite for emotional games is To the Moon. Not much game in that one, but the story is amazing.

Wow, you’re not kidding when you say jam packed! That was a lot of cool games. I think my most intriguing titlrtwas Mirthwood, which pushed so many of my buttons. I also really felt myself drawn to Two Falls, given its cross-cultural theme, historical slant, and also that it was done in consultation with indigenous peoples. Very cool indeed. Thanks as always for putting this together, marvelous work!

Great video Lile! So many unique and awesome art styles in this month's games! Indie titles are popping off haha

Awesome to have you back! Some great looking options here Lile and I think I could lose countless hrs with Mirthwood. Two Falls also peaked my interest. Soooo many options!

This review was delightful and won me over. Definitely getting Tin Hearts!

Man. Many of these games and your reasonings, mainly in the case of Thirsty Suiters and the last two, get quite confronting. Seem like situations where looking at the world in black-and-white is a rare luxury and things are a lot more tangled from both the protagonists' side and the situation around them. Leaving some names before elaborating on them: Briar and Lute from Soulstice, Gretel from Magenta Horizon, Cherry and Regina from Cookie Cutter, Foam Gun from Zet Zillions, Globule from Decline's Drops, Even from Lost in Random. Although probably not an outright indie game, i want to mention Briar and Lute from Soulstice. Even if it gets a bit spoilery. Their game is in the genre of character action or hack-and-slash: think Darksiders, DMC, Bayonetta and stuff. The setting forces for certain people to have their souls tied together into one singular body, creating what is known as a Chimera. A Chimera consists of a Knight and a Shade. The Knight is one of the two "Supplicants' " bodies and mind, which navigates and fights physically and still retains the mind of that particular supplicant, while the Shade is immaterial and taps into the ether and magical powers, in order to make corrupted creatures and extradimensional ghosts vulnerable for the Knight to fight. Briar is the Knight, and Lute is her younger sister and the Shade. Briar's got a moody, stubborn and battle-eager disposition, a lot of frustration and resentment for the way Lute has ended up, stuck to her forever. She casts a lot of blame onto herself. Lute for her part is a very kind young lady, polite and receptive to the suffering of others. And she has never blamed Briar a single time for the way things have ended up. In certain parts we get to explore Briar's mind as Lute explores it, and we see the events that led up to becoming a Chimera. Firsthand we notice things that Briar has and has not told Lute about, from that anger and guilt that Briar still feels to this day. Instead of despairing or becoming angry, seeing this pain is all the more reason for Lute to want to be there for her older sister. Which she is, in both combat and words, and in their conversations with their few direct allies in a wraith-ridden mass grave of a city. It shows itself especially strongly in a moment near the endgame where personal revelations about their nature, and the direness of the situation, comes to a head. Briar believes it best to give up. Not just because of the overwhelming odds and a cataclysm nearing its climax, but because as a Chimera they are growing unstable and risking Transcendence: a transformation into a powerful, insane monster that would wreak more havoc and most likely undo their own personalities. And it is once more Lute, this young child, deprived of body yet full of warmth and wisdom beyond her years, that can reach out to her sister in the darkest of places. The entire game's got some themes of duality: some of the bosses are Transcended themselves and a reflection of how the intense bond required to make a Chimera, does not by necessity have to be a positive one. it's got its issues for sure and I love it a lot regardless. The others i'll leave for you to discover.