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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Key art for Rue Valley showing Eugene Harrow hanging upside down with a digital clock display showing 20:47 over his eyes, in front of the Rue Valley Motel above a highway

Rue Valley is a time looping RPG that's best off leaning away from Disco Elysium comparisons, and getting Monkey Island with it instead

By Oscar Taylor-Kent published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Can you escape the valley?

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Winter Burrow artwork showing the protagonist mouse looking out over a snowy landscape towards the burrow. The GamesRadar+ Indie Spotlight logo is in the top right-hand corner of the image

Winter Burrow is like a very cozy, laid back Don't Starve with a bittersweet edge that tugs at the heartstrings

By Heather Wald published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Winter Burrow had me knitting clothes, baking pies, and contending with the cold

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Looking at a radio and a typewriter while holding a walkie-talkie in Radiolight

Radiolight channels Twin Peaks and Alan Wake for a late night walk in the woods, and I'm amazed a solo developer crammed so much atmosphere into this secret horror game

By Andrew Brown published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | There's something very, very strange in these old woods

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No I'm Not a Human screenshot featuring the Indie Spotlight Logo that shows an unsettling figure saying "the only thing you can stop is a heartbeat"

The most unsettling horror game of the year is the Mouthwashing publisher's No, I'm Not A Human – Junji Ito meets Papers, Please with a monstrous twist

By Ashley Bardhan published

Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Mouthwashing and Buckshot Roulette publisher Critical Reflex has another crusty, narrative horror hit on its hands, and it's all I want to play this Halloween

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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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