IndieGames Coming In August 2025
A sneak peek at the IndieGames dropping this August 2025!
The following IndieGames will be published in August 2025.
If you know of others, please add them as comments below. If I’ve made any mistakes, just let me know, and I’ll update the article.
Key
(EA) — Early Access
(MP) — Multiplayer
(CP) — Co-op
(FREE) — Free to purchase
My most anticipated will have a green background
Format
[INDIEGAME]
[DEVELOPER] // [PUBLISHER]
[Game Description]
August 1
Wander Stars
Paper Castle Games // Fellow Traveller
Unleash custom attacks by combining words in this Super! Anime! Turn-Based! RPG! Collect all 200 words, earn Pep Ups from honorable victories and become a Kiai master. Befriend your rivals, uncover dark mysteries, and seek out the pieces of the Wanderstar map in a wild race across the universe.
Cult Leader Simulator
Nhneno
Play strategy cards to expand your cult and turn it into a powerful organization. Every choice matters! Some moves will bring in new followers, while others might attract unwanted attention from the authorities.
You are the leader of your own cult!
The Warrior
ThornDuck
A unique platforming experience where the protagonist, story, and mechanics are constantly changing. Take control of legendary warriors, giant worms, greedy kings, and lazy demons, each with their own purpose.
August 4
Sands of Hope
Guateke Studios
Explore the sandy landscapes of Cydonia as you use your ancestral powers to build and attach magnetic cubes, find energy cores to restore the land's water flow and meet other villagers with the help of a loyal dog!
August 5
Voyagers of Nera - (EA) (CP)
Treehouse Games
A cooperative survival-crafting game for up to 10 players set in a vast ocean full of ancient ruins and diverse biomes. Nera is a magical ocean world full of beauty, magic, and danger. You are an Echo, descendants of the long-extinct protectors of this world. It falls to you to sail across the seas, defeat the monstrous creatures of the Deep, and awaken the spirits before they fade away forever.
Sizzle & Stack
Arvis Games
A fast-paced, card-based cooking simulator where deck-building meets restaurant chaos. Inspired by Stacklands, this unique twist on the culinary genre puts you in charge of a growing kitchen where every dish, upgrade, and decision is made with cards. Stack ingredients, combine tools, manage tight spaces, and serve up delicious meals to increasingly demanding customers.
One More Button
Tommy Kjær
Imagine the buttons popped out of your controllers and leapt right into the screen. That's the unique concept behind One More Button. You play as the adorable circle button. To move around, you have to press the arrow buttons scattered around the world.
August 6
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Solarsuit.Games // Polden Publishing
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
Ryder
Yellow Tree Games
A vibrant creature-collecting puzzle adventure. Play as over 60 creatures, each with unique traits, to solve more than 100 puzzles across four colorful regions. Explore a lively, low-poly world, complete your bestiary, and ascend the Sanguine Mountain to fulfill your destiny as a Ryder.
August 7
Tiny Bookshop
Neoludic Games // Skystone Games, 2P Games
Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.
Artis Impact
Mas
A fun turn-based RPG set in a future world of humans and AI. Play as Akane to explore vibrant locations, battle with simple yet fluid combat, and enjoy side quests full of charming surprises. With a playful, humorous style and clever details, this adventure is light, easy, and full of smiles.
MakeRoom
Kenney // Wholesome Games Presents
Decorate miniature dioramas, create your own furniture pieces, and fulfill design requests like a cozy room for cats, a moody hideaway for a vampire, and more! Then share a photo with family and friends!
Ritual of Raven
Spellgarden Games // Team17
A cozy story-based farming sim - but you don’t do the farming yourself! Enchant Arcana Constructs to grow a magical herb garden, befriend a cute bunch of weirdos and use your witchy skills to perform powerful rituals to stabilize the portals that are causing trouble for the village.
GUNTOUCHABLES - (CP)
Game Swing // Ghost Ship Publishing
The entire world has fallen and the surface has been overrun by a hostile and aggressively-evolving horde of mutants. You play as a gun-toting group of 'preppers' trying to reclaim the world as mutants constantly develop new unique ways to kill you. A 1-4 player co-op roguelike doomsday shooter where every second counts.
Egging On
Egobounds // Alibi Games, IndieArk
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
Paper Animal Adventure
Cuddling Raccoons Studio // Top Hat Studios Inc
A cute roguelike game where you can explore a colourful world, fight scary enemies, and relax with your friends at the campfire! Will you be the one to seal the timelines and find the missing king?
Inspired by and pays homage to the Paper Mario, Mario & Luigi as well as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.
The Lilliput Workshop
Cotton Game
A sandbox logic puzzle game with a nostalgic temperament. You can experience the endless fun of designing automata here. Lilliput's Workshop uses a nostalgic, childlike art style. Even if you're not interested in boring logical thinking, we hope you'll experience the same pure fun from this game as you did when you were a child building castles out of blocks.
1000 Deaths (Thousand Deaths)
Pariah Interactive Inc
1000 Deaths is a gravity-bending 3D platformer where your choices matter. What you choose defines the game's levels, mechanics, and story. Dash through platforming hubs and decide your character's fate while exploring surreal worlds. Speedrun, or don't!
King's Blade - (CP)
Alexey Suslin
Classic Beat'em up, inspired by the Conan the Barbarian universe and games like Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. Take on the role of a warrior of an elite royal squad and defeat the bloodthirsty Barganian Empire.
Wildwood Down
Crashable Studios
A charming point and click about a quirky high school senior with Down syndrome (Inspired by and voice acted by the Dev's childhood friend!) who embarks on a darkly humorous adventure along the boardwalk of Wildwood, New Jersey. With his sister's life on the line, he must unravel a murder mystery, navigating eccentric characters, unexpected twists, and his own unique perspective to crack the case before time runs out.
August 8
Loan Shark
Studio Carota
You are an angler haunted by huge debts. In the midst of yet another night working at sea, you catch something different: a fish which talks, and promises to make you rich... but at what cost?
A brief (around 30 minutes) fishing horror game about debt and hopelessness. Enjoy a twisted cautionary tale in one sitting.
August 11
Whisper Mountain Outbreak - (EA) (CP)
Toge Productions
Escape room meets co-op survival horror. The year is 1998, and an ancient curse has been unleashed, trapping everyone on Mount Bisik. Alone or with up to 4 players, you must explore, find clues, figure out a way to escape...and survive the horror. An isometric co-op PvE multiplayer survival horror game where you and your friends must work together.
Passant: A Chess Roguelike
Marc Makes Games
A chess roguelike, where the rules can be twisted and unique pieces can be used to change the game. Build your board by earning powerful pieces with unique rules, items to change the tide of battle, and badges that can twist all the rules to deliver victory. Beat match after match of increasing difficulty until you can beat the final boss and become a grandmaster.
April 12
Abyssus - (CP)
DoubleMoose Games // The Arcade Crew
Muster your fireteam, blast through the corrupted denizens of an ancient, sunken civilization, and wield godly powers in Abyssus – a fast-paced cooperative FPS and roguelite brinepunk adventure.
Will you survive to see the surface again, or will the abyss claim your life?
GUG
Martian Lawyers Club
Type anything, generate a creature. Outwit, outlast, and out-weird your enemies in a sandbox tactics battler with deep simulation systems, wildly varied combat and endless procedurally-generated chaos!
Super Farming Boy - (EA)
LemonChili Soft // Renxo Europe Limited
Your farm is under attack! Fly, harvest, grow crops & whack enemies with your shape-shifting one-button superpowers as you seek revenge from your evil nemesis, Korpo, who has captured your mom & friends! An action-puzzle farming sim featuring chain reactions and combos.
Fresh Tracks
Buffalo Buffalo
Jump, dodge, and fight to the rhythm of the gods in this thrilling music-action game on skis. Take on obstacles and menacing enemies as you ski further into the darkness that has befallen the snow-covered land of Norwyn. Meet the Mythics, the Gods of Norwyn, through story and song.
August 13
Metavoidal
Yellow Lab Games
You're a drummer that just failed your audition with a metal band. After coming to your senses, you realize that everything around you is being controlled and twisted by the band & their music. What's worse, they’ve got an army of countless corrupted fans… and now you must defeat all the band members to end this evil curse for good.
August 14
OVIS LOOP
LIFUEL
An Action Roguelite with Fluid Pixel animation and Skill-Deck Building. Step into and be a sheep armed with a sci-fi greatsword, carving a path through wolves. Modify your skills within the desolate worlds of a sci-fi apocalypse to create a unique combat style that is all your own.
Lord Ambermaze
Potata Company // HeroCraft PC
Time only moves when the hero does, and it is both your greatest strength and weakness. Use strength and cunning to overcome the challenges that await the hero. Be warned, only well-executed plans will ensure victory over the lord and his minions. Explore dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, and mind every step as the world moves only when you do.
August 15
OFF
Mortis Ghost // Fangamer
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Joey Drew Studios
Become Boris as he ventures deep into the endlessly generated corridors of Joey Drew Studios and beyond in search of supplies, weapons, and the dark truths that await him. Monsters and obstacles emerge from every direction as you journey into the rubberhose halls of the world's most evil animation studio. Every day is a challenge.
August 19
Sword of the Sea
Giant Squid
Surf across magnificent waves of sand and glistening waters on an epic quest to restore a lost ocean. From the visionary artist behind ABZÛ, The Pathless, and Journey, Sword of the Sea is an atmospheric surfing adventure with fast movement inspired by classic skateboarding and snowboarding games.
August 20
VOID/BREAKER - (EA)
Stubby Games // Playstack
Adrenaline-Fueled Roguelite FPS. Fight relentless machines driven by a hostile AI. Escape an endless cycle. Craft infinite weapon variants with deep gun modding. Forge deadly synergies. Carve your way out through enviro-destruction /BREAK THE SYSTEM /BREAK THE SEQUENCE /BREAK FREE
All Systems Dance - (EA)
Mighty Yell Studios Inc
Automation is not the answer; DANCE is the key to disruption! Help liberate citizens of a consumption-obsessed, corporate dystopia in All Systems Dance: an expressive dance battle adventure. Connect moves, express yourself, feel the music. Join The Movement. The revolution will not be choreographed.
August 21
Discounty
Crinkle Cut Games // PQube
Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?
August 26
Quartet
Something Classic Games LLC
A series of train robberies leads to evidence of a government conspiracy. A mysterious deck of cards gives a young girl a vision of another world. A fleet of deadly airships burns a path across the Imperial frontier. The world’s unlikeliest hero manifests tremendous magical power. These stories intertwine in the world of Quartet. Before it is all over, the eight heroes will uncover how a secret, centuries-old conflict literally reshaped the world. Then they will have their own decision to make about the destiny of magic.
August 28
Goblin Cleanup - (EA) (CP)
Crisalu Games // Team17
Have you ever wondered what happens after completing a dungeon, how it is restarted or, better yet, who is in charge of doing it? In Goblin Cleanup, you assume the role of a professional cleaner hired by the dungeon manager to clean and prepare the dungeon for the next adventure. You can perform this task alone or with up to three companions, cooperatively or maybe not so cooperatively!
The Knightling
Twirlbound // Saber Interactive
Sir Lionstone, the most powerful knight and protector of the great city of Clesseia, hasn’t returned from his latest quest. As Sir Lionstone’s trusted knightling, it is up to you and the legendary shield he left behind to become the hero the people need and find Lionstone before lurking threats endanger the realm. Explore the many regions and secrets of the lands of Clesseia, fend off bandits and monsters, and uncover the truth of the shield’s unparalleled power and the realm’s illustrious past.
Main Sources
- Gamespress [https://www.gamespress.com/en-US]
- Gematsu News [https://www.gematsu.com/browse]
- YouTube IndieGame Publisher Channels
And that’s a wrap on our sneak peek at the IndieGames dropping this August! Isn’t it exciting to see what these talented developers have in store for us? I can't wait to jump into these new adventures!
What about you? Which games are you itching to get your hands on? Hit me up in the comments below!
