Indie Spotlight

Indie Spotlight is our dedicated column celebrating a new indie game that's recently released, or otherwise on our radar. Released every Friday, it's an exploration of exactly why these games need to be at least on your wishlist.

Of course, this isn't the only place we call out awesome indies here at GamesRadar+, but if you're looking for something new to play, our Indie Spotlight series is a great place to start.

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Spooky Express screenshot showing a small skeleton shaped train carrying a vampire passenger past a scared human

Spooky Express is an adorable puzzle game that has me mapping out tracks in Trainsylvania to help undead passengers, and it's perfect for Halloween

By Heather Wald published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | If you're looking for a puzzle game for the Halloween season, Spooky Express is just the ticket

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Strange Antiquities screenshot of a cat sitting on the store shelf

I'm just as obsessed with Strange Antiquities as I was with Blue Prince, and it's easily one of the best detective puzzle games I've played this year

By Sam Loveridge published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | The follow-up to Strange Horticulture is an even better puzzle game than its predecessor, and that was a high bar

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Jenny clasps a dollar bill in Consume Me with a wide and mischievous grin

With plate Tetris, dog-spinning, and limb-tangling smooching, Consume Me perfectly merges narrative and mechanic design to warmly tackle heavy themes

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Warm humor and Wario Ware-like mini-games makes Consume Me a perfect blend of narrative design and mechanics, even with heavy themes

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Gloomy Eyes

Gloomy Eyes is the perfect Tim Burton-esque scarytale to usher in October, and I was immediately charmed by its creepy yet chill puzzles

By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | A modern gothic zombie tale framing an environmental puzzler? Sign my Halloween-loving self right up

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Tiny Bookshop screenshot showing the small bookshop attached the back of a car on a beach where customers are heading in to purchase books.

Tiny Bookshop absolutely deserves its overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews, because I cannot stop playing this cozy management life sim

By Heather Wald published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Tiny Bookshop is letting me live out a lifelong fantasy

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Henry Halfhead Indie Spotlight image

There's nothing quite like Henry Halfhead, a possession puzzle sandbox where you can grow a tree, boil eggplant, and (allegedly) make toilet spaghetti

By Rollin Bishop published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | I said what I said

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Drop Duchy

The perfect video game still hasn't reached its final form, and Drop Duchy shows that "Tetris as a Civilization roguelike" is one heck of a twist

By Dustin Bailey published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | That "one more turn" feeling has quickly gone "one more run" for me

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Word Play screenshot of a typical match in the roguelike spelling game

Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of Wordle and it made me feel like an angry genius

By Will Sawyer published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | I've traded sprinting around with sword and shield for spelling words in Word Play

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Out and About screenshot of the player character forager who has purple hair and wears dungarees

Out and About is a very cozy foraging adventure that's taking me back to my fish obsession in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

By Heather Wald published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Out and About is making me nerd out about plants

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Discounty screenshot of the player character shopkeeper, who has long purple hair and a pink top, following their Aunt Teller through the harbor town of Blomkest

Life sim RPG Discounty has put me under the same "one more day" spell as Stardew Valley as I build my supermarket empire and get caught up in the drama of the locals

By Heather Wald published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Taking over Blomkest, one trade deal at a time

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