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Indie Games To Watch From Steam Next Fest Feb '26 YouTube video by Gaming In The Wild

The GITW community played over 150 #NextFest demos, and democratically narrowed it down to the ten that should definitely be on your wishlist.

Congrats Pelle! All of it was a genuine pleasure.

A booklet of cosmic poetry, resting among the leaves of a plant.

A booklet of cosmic poetry, open ajar.

I don’t know how common it is to get your poetry in print, even the smallest sample, but I’m truly grateful ❤️

Shipped together with the beautiful deluxe dissection of our Ultros from @gaminginthewild.com and @lostincult.co.uk.

Someday, there might be more 🌱

#gamedev #indiegames #ultros #poetry

Just here to be supportive of a chaotic room-soaking shower to break the place in

"Friendslop" is too ungenerous to be a genre name. "Hangout games" will do fine.

I'm really drawn to the art, the style, the sci-fi... but I wish it was in a less 'sweaty' game, I think.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Not that many of you are subscribed to GPT, I imagine.

"OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, donated $25m to Trump's Maga Inc; helped launch a $125m Super Pac to make sure no state can regulate AI. It wants Trump, and only Trump, to write the rules for AI."

This sounds like a line of dialogue — a moment of realisation from someone who's been kidnapped by masked men and held in a white room with just a strip light, a chair, a PC, and the intro screen.

Memorably good visuals

It's giving

Do you think that raccoon is edible?

Instead of

I have felt the pain of time

Great game. I think the "cat game" concept and reputation meant the incredible, vibey, vertical cyberpunk city environment didn't quite get its flowers. It's good sci-fi!

281: The Best of Steam Next Fest, Resident Evil Requiem YouTube video by Gaming In The Wild

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Your weekend pod:
✨ Esoteric Ebb nabs the "Disco Elysium spiritual successor" mantle
✨ Resident Evil Requiem might just be the best in the storied series
✨ The best demos of Next Fest, picked from 156 contenders played
🎧 gaminginthewild.com

Shooting from the hip, old to new.
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Nice picks. How are folks putting these images together?

281 (ad-free): The Best Of Steam Next Fest, Resident Evil Requiem | John • Gaming In The Wild Get more from John • Gaming In The Wild on Patreon

New pod: the best of #SteamNextFest, with reviews of the 20 demos I squeezed in, and a personal top five; then the patron community's top 10 picks. 30 people played 156 demos, and voted on the best.

It's up now—ad-free and early—for patrons. Everywhere else tomorrow.

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Gaming in the Wild's Indie Game Guide to March 2026 | So Many Games The month of March 2026 is looking stacked! But have no fear, as John is here to guide you through his top picks of the month.

Wrote a lil March indie game guide for @somanygames.co.uk.

Is "prick o'clock" an autocorrect or a think people really say? 🥲 that's a new one on me

Gaming in the Wild's Indie Game Guide to March 2026 | So Many Games The month of March 2026 is looking stacked! But have no fear, as John is here to guide you through his top picks of the month.

@gaminginthewild.com’s monthly Indie Game Guide returns, featuring over 15 games releasing in March ‘26.

somanygames.co.uk/articles/git...

All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.

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🔥 revenge against the epstein class
🤑 marxist-animist weirdness
🃏 card-based narrative
🇮🇳 set in alternate india
✨ dreams of dead gods
🍃 branching stories
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Script excerpt re: the #1348ExVoto nb characters backlash. We can't let the loud minority of "anti-woke" (see: racist, sexist, transphobic) elements own the games space. They have to know it's just not accepted. I know from the comments—and from experience—that there'll be some vitriol. But fuck it.

MIXTAPE | Release Date Trailer YouTube video by Annapurna Interactive

May 7th for #Mixtape!

Top New Indie Game Releases: March 2026 YouTube video by Gaming In The Wild

Some more extremely specific fantasies that gamers can tick of the list this month:
✅ Play as a raccoon gambling addict
✅ Play as a nonbinary knight errant in 1300s Italy
✅ Play as the gardener of an 1800s French abbey
✅ Play as a 10 year old child at the end of the world
🍿 youtu.be/dkNksga-Q4c

It's an odyssey, but the long and short of it is: three pivotal figures were controversially fired, including the guy who invented DE's world. There was talk of toxic behaviour, a dishonest power grab, and lots more. ZA/UM splintered. A majority of staff moved on. There are many sides to the story.

Yeah. For this game to so closely mirror the style of Disco Elysium — after all that has happened — feels like a very questionable choice. It invites direct comparisons to a lightning-in-a-bottle all-timer that will just never be matched.

It would be nice if it were good, and well received, ofc. Vindicating for the team, good for players. But because it's *so* stylistically close to Disco, it will inevitably live in its shadow, and be judged against it. And that is a tough spot for any game to be.

The #ZeroParades demo was an uneasy play. Here it was, finally: the Disco-like made by what remains of ZA/UM. It felt like examining a counterfeit painting. It's so close in style. Too close, and a bit off. A feeling of mimicry. That DE's wild confidence is not something that can be replicated.

Schumer is so depressing. The lobster that's been boiled in politics for so long, there barely anything left.

Yeah it's mouse & keys only for now, bafflingly. That's why it took me so long to review, I had to get a dock for my ROG Ally.

There's plenty of pickpocketing and back alley bargaining to be had, but little brute force... unless you decide to join the Lich Dealers. I think the biggest weapon in the end is maybe... working class solidarity, against the ruling elite? :)