I’m so extremely happy to welcome you to the fifth—fifth!—annual celebration of unknown or under-known indie video games, Indie-Penance Day. It’s the day Kotaku completes the sacrament of forgiveness for AAA protection by dedicating giant quantities of house to smaller video games. It’s additionally pun.
How is that this distinction to Thanksgaming, you ask? Shush. It’s a good pun. Not like “Thanksgaming.”
As ever, I solicited submissions from unbiased builders through social media, which has resulted in a whole bunch of emails (239 as I begin penning this), from which I’ll select completely at random. After which use a degree of discretion. I implore you to look via all of them, and wishlist something that grabs your curiosity—doing so makes an enormous distinction for the builders, as a result of it impacts the mysterious algorithms operating beneath Steam, and helps these video games get extra consideration. Additionally, it’ll remind you to purchase the sport when it’s out!
Given most of those might be unreleased video games, I clearly haven’t performed them, so inclusion right here isn’t a sign of their high quality—we’re happening vibes, people. However something that may assist get eyes on any of the roughly 20,000 video games that might be launched on Steam this 12 months makes a giant distinction.
Final little bit of enterprise: I’ve compiled this as a slideshow, and it’s important to simply suck that up. It pays the payments, and it’s how I can get this on the positioning. (However prime tip: in case you’re shopping on desktop, simply slender your browser window to a portrait width and it’ll unfurl into one lengthy article.)
