{"id":22179,"date":"2026-03-03T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/five-of-the-most-interesting-upcoming-indie-games\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:37:40","slug":"five-of-the-most-interesting-upcoming-indie-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/five-of-the-most-interesting-upcoming-indie-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the ghostly Shutter Story to road trip adventure Outbound and strategy puzzler Titanium Court, here are the titles we enjoyed the most from this year\u2019s Steam Next Fest showcase<\/p>\n<p>These days, it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every new indie game is either a co-op extraction shooter or a roguelike deck-builder \u2013 fortunately that\u2019s not quite the case. Each February, the week-long <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/nextfest\">Steam Next Fest<\/a> is a vast and varied showcase of forthcoming titles, all with downloadable demos, and only a minority of them adhere to those dominant genres. It\u2019s a lovely chance to dig into the sometimes bewildering Steam store and pick out interesting treats \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve been doing. Here are five of my favourites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/mar\/03\/five-of-the-most-interesting-upcoming-indie-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6f3999bcd9de527c3141e61d2100fb50f6abc9a\/352_0_1350_1080\/master\/1350.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d8c1ab9fb00aee93020f3cb0334174b8\" title=\"Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games\" \/>From the ghostly Shutter Story to road trip adventure Outbound and strategy puzzler Titanium Court, here are the titles we enjoyed the most from this year\u2019s Steam Next Fest showcase<br \/>\nThese days, it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every new indie game is either a co-op extraction shooter or a roguelike deck-builder \u2013 fortunately that\u2019s not quite the case. Each February, the week-long Steam Next Fest is a vast and varied showcase of forthcoming titles, all with downloadable demos, and only a minority of them adhere to those dominant genres. It\u2019s a lovely chance to dig into the sometimes bewildering Steam store and pick out interesting treats \u2013 and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve been doing. Here are five of my favourites. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the ghostly Shutter Story to road trip adventure Outbound and strategy puzzler Titanium Court, here are the titles we enjoyed the most from this year\u2019s Steam Next Fest showcase These days, it\u2019s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every new indie game is either a co-op extraction shooter or a roguelike &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/five-of-the-most-interesting-upcoming-indie-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five of the most interesting upcoming indie games<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}