ISSUE #34

Sponsored by Ranged Touch

Cover - Val Hal

Hello and welcome to Indiepocalypse!

Indiepocalypse is a curated monthly collection looking to highlight the very best of the indie game scene. 

Each month features games by 10 different developers, including a newly commissioned game exclusive to the bundle-zine. The games cover a wide variety of styles, genres, and themes as they fight against any definition of "indie game" as a genre.

Also, and this part is very important to me and should truly be taken as given, each contributor is paid and developers are paid royalties on all future sales.

This Month's Games

Duty Hare! (Physical) by Kyle Tam

Duty Hare  takes place in the realm of Simulare, a world of swords, magic, and strangely high levels of personal debt. Unfortunately you have been shackled by the chains of that great beast known as capitalism, forcing you to become a Leporid - a taker of odd jobs that will force you to wander from dungeons to palaces to pubs.  

Built in the Down We Go OSR engine, Duty Hare is a cheeky little game poking fun at Task Rabbit and the Souls games in equal measure. This download includes the base rules, the Marketplace (for items to use), and a d20 table of Strange Encounters.

GAG (WIN) by Joshua Roland

An interactive, dialogue-based psychological horror drama following the adventures of New York comedian Andy Barr and friends.

Contains references to sexual abuse.

The Yoyo of Zonk (WIN/Source) by kdx & Masséna

The Yoyo of Zonk is a local multiplayer zelda-like, where one player controls the main character (Zonk), while the other player tries to kill the first using various traps and enemies (The Mind). The Yoyo of Zonk can pretend to be a massively solo multiplayer visual novel farming sim if you ask nicely, it'll try it's best. Don't feed the game.

Factory Hiro (WIN/MAC) by belbeeno

Factory Hiro has you playing as Hiro Kikuchi as he oversees an assembly line. Each day is a new puzzle that will test your reflexes, patience and quick thinking right as it all goes horribly wrong...

the only other sound's the sweep (WIN/MAC/Browser) by Jessica Le

the only other sound’s the sweep is a Bitsy exploration of memory. in this world, memories are accessible through the MEMPlayer technology, which allows people to revisit and reenact their memories in their sleep. you are Ranger, a delivery worker for a memory fluid corporation. features:

✨ 1,500+ words of prose
✨ deliver your packages to customers in the daytime, plug into your MEMPlayer at night and visit a lush world of memories
✨ about 15-20 minutes of gameplay

Quinn & Flynn (WIN/Browser) by Stanley W. Baxton

Semi-linear gay romance/mystery VN. Catch a criminal; pursue a poet. You /will/ get both of them. You have to.

Magic Jump (WIN) by Corey Hardt

A short game in which you'll experience 3D platforming like never before.

A God Who Lives In Your Head (WIN) by Yuen Hoang

"no matter what you do, 
god still lives in your head. 
because to save your soul 
they removed some part of you 
and replaced it with the holy spirit"

A God That Lives In Your Head is an interactive zine, constructed of multiple digital collages and soundscapes. It is interested in exploring queerness and Christianity, the impacts of being "born saved", of having Christianity be chosen for you before you even had a choice, and the experience of having been shaped by those ideologies. 

INFINITE REVOLUTION (Physical) by Gwen Clark

INFINITE REVOLUTION is a LIGHTSPEED EXOSUIT DOGFIGHTER RPG designed for 2-4 players and a GM

FLY at nearlight speeds in bleeding-edge exosuits, with core turbines driven by your own FIERY SOUL

FIGHT in fast, deeply-customizable SPACE COMBAT

PIERCE the tide of energy-devouring paracausal aliens and TAKE BACK YOUR SOLAR SYSTEM!

*NEWLY COMMISSIONED FOR INDIEPOCALYPSE*

Sylvie Lime (WIN) by Love ♥ Game (Sylvie & Aria)

💗 Sylvie Lime is an absurdist girls' love exploration platformer.
🥑 Turn into a lime and collect different items in a lovely open world.
🖥️ Meet various girls in the computer and try to help them.

*BONUS*Electric Zine Maker (WIN/MAC) by alienmelon

Launcher Courtesy of MM Bundle Launcher

Indiepocalypse zine contents

COMICS
The Next Generation by Sam Pender

Friend of the Month - Sword and Kettle Press

Guess the Game Claimed! (It was Koudelka)

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