Heather's Indie Pick

I’ve been covering indie games here at Kotaku since 2016 and sharing all sorts of fantastical worlds with readers.…

There are plenty of big name video games to play right now. You can relive old memories (or make new ones) with Final…

Stories often have strength because we fill in the gaps. Whenever there’s ambiguity, there’s a chance to speculate…

Your mission in Tales From Off-Peak City Vol.1 is simple: find and steal a precious saxophone from a pizza shop…

There are a few key ways to increase the difficulty of a puzzle game. You could add new rules that limit player…

At this point “Charming Game Where You Play As An Animal” has become something of an indie game staple, but there’s…

I’m not a puzzle game person. It takes a pretty special combination of visual flair and brain-teasing to get me…

Chess is a game of seemingly endless complexity, each new match expanding into an intricate weave of strategies,…

Sometimes, you look around at games today and say, “Gosh, I need some more Sega Dreamcast vibes.” CROSSNIQ+, a…

When it comes to first person shooters, my preferred style is super fast and acrobatic. As much as I love throwbacks…

Video games tend to give players tons of control and information, allowing them to tackle dangerous enemies or…

When I was young, I remember being enraptured by the stark vector graphics of tank-shooter Battlezone. The green…

Ritual of the Moon technically takes 28 days to play. The story is broken up into five to ten minute segments; you…

In the new indie game File://maniac, there’s a killer on the loose. Your job is to hunt them down. But instead of…

Before I moved to New York, I used to walk in the woods a lot. Sometimes, I’d drive with friends to mountains or…

Video game players have been jumping over pits and collecting keys in platformers for a long time. Mobius twists the…

The Glass Staircase, released last week for PC and Mac, tries to capture the feeling of classic horror games like Cl…

Devil Engine feels like a game I dug out of my attic. The side-scrolling shooter, which released on PC and Nintendo…

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust isn’t releasing until May, but it’s been quietly dominating my thoughts so far this year.…

Like many kids, I used to explore the woods and get into all kinds of make-believe adventures. Often, that meant…