Game of the Week #35 goes to Fall Asleep, a free first-person nightmare climber built around limited visibility, committed jumps, fast retries, mounting tension, and a simple reach-the-top objective.
Trove’s RenewUs ’26 event runs January 1–14 with daily challenges, crafting tasks, new collectibles, rare tradable rewards, returning characters, and a short questline centered on RenewUs Butterflies.
Millennium Whisper won Fix Gaming Channel’s Community Choice GOTY 2025 with 30% of the vote, ahead of Last Outpost and Space Drilling Station.
Fix Gaming Channel’s Community Choice GOTY 2025 voting closed with Millennium Whisper taking first place on 30%, followed by Last Outpost on 15% and Space Drilling Station on 7.5%.
GOG was acquired by co-founder Michał Kiciński, with the DRM-free storefront reiterating its focus on game preservation, player ownership, classic titles, and continued support for indie developers.
Nekki confirmed SPINE still had no release date at the end of 2025, saying the game was entering its final development stages with polishing work continuing across content, animation, voice acting, and interface.
Cairn’s demo combines route choice, stamina, pitons, limited resources, and deliberate movement, while The Game Bakers explain how the team balanced realism, risk, accessibility, and rewind systems.
CloverPit developer Panik Arcade warned players about an unauthorized Nintendo Switch eShop listing called CloverPit Gamble and said the real game was not available on Switch.
Steam service instability eased during the holiday rush while Epic users reported login issues tied to Epic Online Services, highlighting how peak traffic can disrupt storefronts, downloads, and live features.
Game of the Week #34 goes to THE KULKA, a one-button arcade roguelite that mixes bullet-heaven chaos with simple controls, fast retries, ambient music, and a strong score-chasing loop.
Polyaris opens closed beta access for its first-person arctic survival game, set along the Norway–Russia border with temperature management, scavenging, dynamic weather, wildlife, and lonely post-nuclear exploration.
Indie game outreach starts with deliverability. Set up a credible domain, email authentication, a basic website, and verifiable links before pitching press or creators.
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a checkpoint-management survival sim where players inspect survivors, detect infection and contraband, and decide who enters, quarantines, or gets eliminated.
The Indie Game Showcase 2025 hub collects Fix Gaming Channel’s latest showcase coverage, giveaway entry, Community Choice results, and links to ongoing reviews, interviews, features, and first impressions.
THE KULKA earns an 8.5/10 first-impressions score for its one-button bullet-heaven loop, calm soundtrack, fast restarts, upgrade paths, and surprisingly relaxing take on neon arcade chaos.
