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 a great pun.
How is that this distinction to Thanksgaming, you ask? Shush. It’s a great pun. Not like “Thanksgaming.”
As ever, I solicited submissions from unbiased builders through social media, which has resulted in tons of of emails (239 as I begin penning this), from which I’ll select solely at random. After which use a stage of discretion. I implore you to look via all of them, and wishlist something that grabs your curiosity—doing so makes a large distinction for the builders, as a result of it impacts the mysterious algorithms working underneath 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 will likely be unreleased video games, I clearly haven’t performed them, so inclusion right here is just not a sign of their high quality—we’re occurring vibes, people. However something that may assist get eyes on any of the roughly 20,000 video games that will likely be launched on Steam this yr makes an enormous distinction.
Final little bit of enterprise: I’ve compiled this as a slideshow, and it’s a must to simply suck that up. It pays the payments, and it’s how I can get this on the location. (However high tip: should you’re searching on desktop, simply slim your browser window to a portrait width and it’ll unfurl into one lengthy article.)
