Best Surprise Bonus Indie Game Releases of January 2025

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Indie Game Lover The Headliners

Indie Game: The Headliners
Links: || Steam

"Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 4 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one."
At a glance categories:
Action, Online Co-Op, Horror
Indie Game Lover The Headliners


Indie Game Lover My Summer Car

Indie Game: My Summer Car
Links: || Steam

"My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine."
At a glance categories:
Automobile Sim, Simulation, Driving
Indie Game Lover My Summer Car


Indie Game Lover ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

Indie Game: ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Links: || Steam

"Decades after the events of ENDER LILIES, Homunculi — sorrowful, artificial life forms — roam the land. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania, face formidable enemies and explore a bewitching post-apocalyptic world. Humans and Homunculi — what awaits at the end of the quest for their salvation?"
At a glance categories:
Metroidvania, 2D, Singleplayer
Indie Game Lover ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist


Indie Game Lover Threefold Recital

Indie Game: Threefold Recital
Links: || Steam

"Threefold Recital is set in an oriental fantasy world where the metropolis of Bluescales faces turmoil after a long golden age. The mix of magic, modern, and ancient technologies challenges governance, while tensions between humans, beastlings, and dragons grow. In the shadows, a crisis looms..."
At a glance categories:
Drama, Mystery, 2D Platformer
Indie Game Lover Threefold Recital


Indie Game Lover Foundation

Indie Game: Foundation
Links: || Steam

"Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management."
At a glance categories:
City Builder, Medieval, Simulation
Indie Game Lover Foundation


Indie Game Lover Streamer Life Simulator 2

Indie Game: Streamer Life Simulator 2
Links: || Steam

"In the second game of the series, competition has increased and now everyone wants to be a streamer. Are you ready to stream until your cpu burns out?"
At a glance categories:
Early Access, Simulation, Life Sim
Indie Game Lover Streamer Life Simulator 2


Indie Game Lover Into the Emberlands

Indie Game: Into the Emberlands
Links: || Steam

"Venture out into the Emberlands and uncover an ever-changing world filled with surprising encounters and mystical creatures! Save villagers who got lost in the Miasma, collect resources and rebuild your village to create a safe haven for your people."
At a glance categories:
Cozy, Wholesome, Cute
Indie Game Lover Into the Emberlands


Indie Game Lover The Roottrees are Dead

Indie Game: The Roottrees are Dead
Links: || Steam

"A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation."
At a glance categories:
Puzzle, Mystery, Detective
Indie Game Lover The Roottrees are Dead


Indie Game Lover The Last Flame

Indie Game: The Last Flame
Links: || Steam

"Recruit a party of unique heroes, fight deadly encounters, loot and craft powerful gear, discover and create thousands of synergetic builds! The Last Flame is an endless roguelike auto-battler in which you guide a righteous party of heroes through many challenges."
At a glance categories:
Roguelike, Auto Battler, Roguelite
Indie Game Lover The Last Flame


Indie Game Lover Settlements Rising

Indie Game: Settlements Rising
Links: || Steam

"Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas."
At a glance categories:
City Builder, Colony Sim, Strategy
Indie Game Lover Settlements Rising


Indie Game Lover NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net

Indie Game: NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net
Links: || Steam

""NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net" is a typing game in which you enter internet lingo in a call-and-response format with a girl (OMGkawaiiAngel) who has a strong need for approval."
At a glance categories:
Typing, Rhythm, 2D
Indie Game Lover NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net


Indie Game Lover FlyKnight

Indie Game: FlyKnight
Links: || Steam

"Explore, fight, loot and fish! Solo or in co-op mode in this Old School First Person Dungeon Crawler. Earn your knighthood as you oppose the evil witch Lunamoth and stop her curse which prevents everyone from growing wings."
At a glance categories:
Dungeon Crawler, First-Person, Online Co-Op
Indie Game Lover FlyKnight


Indie Game Lover Click Mage

Indie Game: Click Mage
Links: || Steam

"Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics."
At a glance categories:
Simulation, Clicker, Casual
Indie Game Lover Click Mage


Indie Game Lover Age of Darkness: Final Stand

Indie Game: Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Links: || Steam

"Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world."
At a glance categories:
Action RTS, Tower Defense, PvE
Indie Game Lover Age of Darkness: Final Stand


Indie Game Lover Little Lighthouse of Horror

Indie Game: Little Lighthouse of Horror
Links: || Steam

"A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?"
At a glance categories:
Minimalist, Horror, Resource Management
Indie Game Lover Little Lighthouse of Horror


Indie Game Lover Mika and The Witch's Mountain

Indie Game: Mika and The Witch's Mountain
Links: || Steam

"Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island. Explore every cranny and soar through the sky with your magic broom."
At a glance categories:
Magic, Cozy, Female Protagonist
Indie Game Lover Mika and The Witch's Mountain


Indie Game Lover Dreamcore

Indie Game: Dreamcore
Links: || Steam

"Step into the surreal with Dreamcore, a body-cam styled psychological horror game that plunges you into the eerie beauty of "liminal spaces." Unravel the mysteries of Dreamcore’s non-linear worlds and uncover its hidden secrets. Can you discover what lies beyond the edge of reality?"
At a glance categories:
Exploration, Walking Simulator, Nonlinear
Indie Game Lover Dreamcore





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Highlights: Best Surprise Bonus Indie Game Releases of January 2025 - curated games: The Headliners, My Summer Car, ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, Threefold Recital, Foundation, Streamer Life Simulator 2, Into the Emberlands, The Roottrees are Dead, The Last Flame, Settlements Rising, NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net, FlyKnight, Click Mage, Age of Darkness: Final Stand, Little Lighthouse of Horror, Mika and The Witch's Mountain, Dreamcore....

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Highlights: Best Upcoming Indie Games of January 2025 Not to Miss - curated games: Hyper Light Breaker, Dreaming Isles, Tyrant's Realm, Space Engineers 2, Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter, Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel, Eternal Strands, Aloft, Airborne Empire, Sea Fantasy, The Stone of Madness, Pairs & Perils, Chocolate Factory Simulator, Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, CRUEL, Yield! Fall of Rome, S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH, Jumping Jazz Cats, Techno Banter, Builders of Egypt....

Highlights: New Indie Games You Missed ❤ February 2025 Week 3 - curated games: Blood Typers, Ale Abbey, Microtopia, Cinnabunny, Machinicide, Die in the Dungeon, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Mini City: Mayhem, Bachelairs, Peripeteia, Gunforged, Cabernet, Necrocat, The Silent Kingdom, BrokenLore: LOW, Sodaman, SNO Ultimate Freeriding, Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog, Tiny Pasture, Never Second in Rome....

Highlights: New Indie Games You Missed ❤ February 2025 Week 2 - curated games: Dawnfolk, Mayhemers, SteamDolls - Order Of Chaos, METAL SUITS: Counter-attack, Novus Orbis, Astronomics, Museum No.9, PROJECT TACHYON, JUMP KING QUEST, Afterlove EP, Panelka, Urban Myth Dissolution Center, Guns of Fury, Code Reactors, The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon, Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand, Weirdo, Reality Break, Slime Heroes, Recall: Empty Wishes....

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