Fix Stories: A Coma Sent Me to Another World. I Brought It Back With Me.
After a motocross accident left him in a two-week coma, one of The Orange Giant’s founders began sketching the world he remembered. Those sketches eventually became ZHAI.
Category: Indie
All things indie—news, reviews, features, and spotlights on independent games and creative teams.
Shape of Dreams Hits Consoles and Game Pass With Starless Path Update
Shape of Dreams has launched on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 alongside The Starless Path anniversary update and a Game Pass debut.
Mr. Sleepy Man Giveaway: Win One of Two Steam Keys
Win one of two Mr. Sleepy Man Steam keys. Visit the game on Steam, share the giveaway on Bluesky, join our newsletter, and enter by October 1.
Woodo Launches Today, Turning Handcrafted Dioramas Into a Cozy Puzzle Adventure
Woodo launches today, September 16. Tiny Monks Tales’ handcrafted diorama puzzler turns wooden scenes into colorful little worlds and is our Game of the Day.
Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker Review: I Had More Fun Messing With the AI Than Solving the Case
I spent roughly 2–3 hours with Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker. The AI conversations were genuinely fun, but the detective game underneath never made me want to finish the case.
33 Years Later, One of Robbo’s Original DOS Programmers Brought It to Playdate
Maciej Miąsik helped program Robbo for DOS in 1993. Thirty-three years later, he has rebuilt that version for Playdate with all 60 planets intact.
How One Ridiculous Simulator Idea Turned Into a Viral Hit
Needle In A Haystack Simulator takes the mundane-game trend to its logical extreme: five million pieces of hay, one hidden needle, and a viral response that sent the experiment across social media.
Shroom and Gloom Is Game of the Week #71: Two Decks, Edible Enemies and Fungal Chaos
Shroom and Gloom is Fix Gaming Channel’s Game of the Week #71, spotlighting its two-deck roguelike system, edible enemies, and fungal dungeon chaos.
Little Devil Steam Playtest: Play Free and Help Shape the Game
The Little Devil Steam Playtest is inviting more players to request free access, test the current build, report bugs, and give MI Pixel honest feedback ahead of its planned Q4 2026 release.
Fix Stories: Building a Match-3 Game Around One Promise: “No Ads. Ever.”
Aevryn Studios developer Ricardo Tavares Santos shares how removing ads from Aevryn Candy became more than a business decision and began shaping the game’s pacing, difficulty, scope, and identity.
PAX West 2026 Final Day: PAX Ends With a Long, Relieved Sigh
Jake Boyette wraps up PAX West 2026 with final-day demos, developer conversations, and indie highlights from the show floor.
5 Indie Games to Try This Weekend: Co-op Questions and Cyberpunk Chaos
Co-op questions, cyberpunk firefights, potion production and apartment gardening: five indie games and demos to check out for September 12–13.
What Is Fix Gaming Channel? A Website or a YouTube Channel?
The name can give the wrong impression. Fix Gaming Channel is an independent gaming website and media outlet, with YouTube, Rumble, TikTok, and other social channels supporting its news, reviews, interviews, and indie coverage.
Fix Stories: Why I Built a Grand Strategy Game I Could Actually Finish
Solo developer Colin Teberg shares why he built Iron Dice around shorter campaigns, readable systems, meaningful provinces, and the goal of letting grand strategy players reach the end.
PAX West 2026 Coverage Hub: Indie Games and Hands-On Reports
Follow Fix Gaming Channel’s complete PAX West 2026 coverage, with Jake Boyette’s Day 1–3 reports, indie discoveries, developer conversations, and Fugue Shot’s Game of the Week feature.