Indieventure

It’s time for another episode of Indieventure EXTRA, our bonus series where we chat with key members and peers in the games industry. In this episode, Rachel chats with fellow indie game podcast pal AJ Fillari about some of the demos they've been playing during Steam Next Fest, October 2026! Fantastic demos are shared, AI slop is lamented, and the two end the episode with some hyperfixations. If y...

It's another Steam Next Fest! In this episode, the gang rummage through the AI slop of October Next Fest 2026 to find some indie gems. Rachel loved surreal fishing sim About Fishing , puzzle roguelite Night Hike , and the strange, ethereal Nonolith . Liam's picks are the stakes-and-slow-mo action game El Paso Elsewhere 2 , winner of the most bland game name Elta: Defy All Gods , and the whimsical...

In this memetically numeralled episode, it's back to your regularly scheduled nonsense with the Indieventure trio, as we meet back up for our first recording all together in six weeks. And since we've been apart for a little while, what better topic to tackle than what games we've all been playing in the meantime? This episode's line-up consists of banger after banger, if we do say so ourselves. L...

Truly, it has been a while. It’s me, Ed, the guy who adores orange and mango squash.  And it’s my pleasure to announce that Liam and I sat in front of some microphones and ejected noise into them, which should’ve produced an episode you can listen to. Why did we do such a thing? Because it’s Q2 now and we had to submit a quarterly report to our corporate overlord: Gregg demands and we supply (no I...

Welcome back to our intermittent spin-off concept Side Quest, where we focus on something other than indie games but like, on purpose. This episode is the second in-person recording from August's Indieventure IRL hang, and it's a double feature as we make the incredibly sensible decision to watch some bad video game movies, and then chat about them while drinking Buzzballz just because none of us...

We are Liam-less this week, so instead Rachel and Rebecca have decided to deep-dive into the recent heaping serving of games announcements and news courtesy of the end of the summer events season. This year was Rebecca's first time attending Gamescom, so – after the obligatory round-up of the latest Nintendo Direct that we'd only just watched at the time of recording and were still pretty hyper ab...

It's that time of year again when your host trio take some time to get together in person and natter until we all lose our voices – luckily, a lot of the time we at least remember to be around our microphones while we do so! We recorded a couple of episodes (this one and a Side Quest you can look out for in a couple of weeks' time), so expect us to be extra crisp and way, way more unhinged than us...

So far, 2026 has been a busy old year for some of our favourite genres here at Indieventure! You may remember Rebecca's deep dive into life sims a few weeks ago, and now Rachel's here with her own focussed topic: detective games. To celebrate the recent releases of The Mermaid Mask, The Incident at Galley House, and Desktop Explorer, your intrepid hosting trio are here to have a good old natter ab...

It's baaack. That's right – a mere 20 months later, we're revisiting one of our most chaotic episode ideas, and it's one where our listeners get to play along! If you weren't here yet in November 2024, you can go back and listen to Episode 27 to familiarise yourself with our totally-original-we-swear indie game draft picking process; or you can just take my word for it that it's basically fantasy...

The gang are all back together at last after our various summer hols, and we're happy to welcome the return of Liam after his absence from our last episode. Naturally, our first order of business is to get him all caught up on what he missed during the mid-year check-in, so we begin with a quick-fire chat that takes in Mina the Hollower, El Paso Elsewhere 2, Denshattack!, Truck-kun is Supporting M...

Ahhh, how is it June already?? In this episode, it’s just the gals having a chat as Liam is feeling under the weather and is resting, but fear not, our sweet Geordie boy will be back next episode. Rachel and Rebecca get gabbing about their favourite indie games of 2026 so far, a general vibe-check of gaming this year, and what games they're looking forward to in the second half of the year.  The t...

And so we're back from outer space (or wherever it is Indieventure hosts like to go on holiday). Yep, after our little recording hiatus – seamlessly covered for with pre-recorded Pokémon chat, bet you didn't even notice that was a weird one – your intrepid trio is back together for the first time in a month, and naturally we all have one question on our minds: what have we all been playing while w...

So due to how everyone's holiday schedules have lined up this month, there was no way we were recording enough regular episodes to cover the gap. But this is Indieventure, where we love an excuse to go on a sidequest, and we hate leaving you without an episode if there's any way around it so… Look, we wanted to talk about Pokémon, alright? Yes, I know, I know, tiny indie franchise Pokémon, maybe y...

Video game awards season 2025 is over, which means it's time once again for the annual Indieventure round-up of the year that was… surely, in 2026, this can only mean glad tidings and good vibes…? Okay so it's not our most cheerful yearly debrief, but just because our podcast is 75% scatalogical humour and barely-concealed thirsting over fictional characters doesn't mean we can't get serious when...

Hey kids, remember me? I'm Clive, the ostrich Indieventure forces to write episode descriptions when Rebecca is otherwise indisposed. What's been going on with me, you ask? Not much. Liam recently transferred me from the large glass cube that served as my prison into his guest bedroom after the RSPCA kicked his door down and tasered him in the throat. Thanks to the threat of further legal action,...

Before we begin, let's take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate our new podcast art! This is something we've been wanting to do for a while, and we've had the great good fortune to be able to collaborate with the extremely talented friend of the podcast Simon (@simonwl.bsky.social) for our shiny new banner and logo! Let's just sit here and take it in for a few more moments because it's awesome!...

Thanks for bearing with us listeners! After various real life events necessitated we take a month-long hiatus, we're happy to be back with a new episode, and what better way to kick off season whatever-we're-on-now than with a visit to the prestigious Indieventure Vault? The theme this time around is extremely simple: all three of us got a free pick of whatever favourite indie game we felt was the...

It’s time for another episode of Indieventure EXTRA, our bonus series where we interview key members of the games industry. In this episode, Rachel chats with fellow podcast pal Robin Bea about some very good Steam Next Fest demos! The duo discuss three of their favourites, then end with two honourable mentions. Rachel also forgot to ask Robin her hyperfixation, so Robin will have to come back as...

Being firmly children of the '90s, all three hosts of Indieventure are at least passingly familiar with Blind Date, the British dating game show that ran from 1985 to 2003 which was iconically hosted by Cilla Black and Paul O'Grady. Look, I promise this is relevant. When we realised we couldn't do our originally planned topic for this episode and needed to come up with something else at short-noti...

There's still officially six weeks of winter left – seriously, look it up, the groundhog saw his shadow this year and everything – but here at Indieventure we've been bundled up cosy playing so many lovely games that we figured we'd just talk about them right now! In keeping with our general commitment not to force ourselves to always play brand-new stuff, this episode's line-up is a respectable m...

Happy New Year, Indieventurers, welcome to 2026! What's new, what's good? Well that's what we're here to tell you of course! Last year may have been a bit of a washout for AAAs, but the indie game scene is still going strong, despite the many obstacles presented by the modern games industry and… our contemporary world in general. Happily, this year looks set to continue the indie gem trend; even t...

Ring out those solstice bells, the longest night of the year is now behind us! But we've still got weeks and weeks of winter left to go, so if you're looking for some indie games to help pass those cold and dark nights, you're in the right place: it's the third (or maybe fourth, depending on how you count) annual Indieventure GOTY episode! This is our smallest GOTY cohort ever, with just 12 games...

The festive season is well and truly upon us, which can only mean one thing! …Actually that's not true, it means loads of things to all sorts of different people. But to an Indieventure listener, it means our increasingly established tradition of putting together a two-part end-of-year round-up! Tune back in for our Game of the Year list discussion on December 22nd, but first, it's time for a more...

It’s time for another episode of Indieventure EXTRA, our bonus series where we interview key members of the games industry. In this episode, Rachel chats with award-winning indie developer Lucy Blundell! Lucy is someone the Indieventure gang have wanted on the podcast for SO LONG, so we are very honoured to have her insights on what it’s like creating semi-autobiographical stories, the challenges...

The title says it all really: the Indieventure podcast is celebrating a couple of milestones, and you're all invited! Hope you like parties where three people indulge in absolute bullshit banter at length because that's what we've got for you today as we mark both our 50th episode and our podcast's only ever-so-slightly belated second birthday. You really do deserve to hear some of this without be...