ISSUE #69

Cover - Abby Cali Art

Hello and welcome to Indiepocalypse!

Indiepocalypse is a curated monthly collection looking to highlight the very best of the alternative 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

Pipe Dreams (Physical) by Lydia Addams

It's time to Sk8 or Die! 

Pipe Dreams is a table-top roleplaying game all about arcadey skateboarding action ala Tony Hawk's Pro Skater but with dice. A melding of mechanics from two of our favorite games has created a beautiful, high speed, rules lite experience jam packed into a 66 page zine for you and as many friends as you want to fight for the high score!

Get your board, get your friends, and fight for the top spot!

cell culture (Browser) by ribozone

a short reflection on work in a biomedical research lab

Blink (WIN) by Justcamh, Clockmaker

Every time you blink, you teleport somewhere new. Can you take control of this curse, and find loopholes to use it in your favour? An open world puzzle where you learn the rules as you play.

A soup of mind (WIN/MAC/Linux) by moonchild

Walk the world and move on. There is always a longer road ahead.

A short experience of about the end of the year.

Juggling Simulator (WIN/Web) by SillyGeeseGames

Juggling is like heroin. But better.

Shitty Wizard Installer (WIN/MAC/Linux) by AntonMakesGames

A fever dream of an installer

A nostalgia of not knowing how computer works

Shitty Wizard Installer is an idle game that respect time

Train Journey (WIN/MAC/Linux) by Meivuu

You wake up on an empty train.

None of its stops are your own.

How will you get home...?

Train Journey is a PICO-8 game about a train to which the player is bound. Travel between stops and meet unique characters. Can you free yourself and return home? Or will you ride the train forever?

Welcome to the Science Club (WIN) by HanwenXuMame

Welcome to the Science Club. You are here to learn, to discover, to transform.

Forbidden Psalms for the Wretched (Physical) by Yuri Runnel

This is a GMless game for 1-4 players, using tarot cards to take you on a sacrilegious journey through a strange world. It has aspects of card based prompt games, roguelikes, and dark fantasy, as well as folklore and religious struggles - especially those of small pagan religions in face of Christianity.

The game deals with some dark themes such as torture, death, and religious tyranny. If any of those might affect you strongly, caution is advised!

*NEWLY COMMISSIONED FOR INDIEPOCALYPSE*

deimos hotel (WIN) by deimos

explore rooms in the ever-expanding deimos hotel

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

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(interested in these games by find the price too high or just unappealing? follow the link's to each dev's page where the games are often cheaper (if not free). while it's nice when people get paid, the games being played is the most important part (you can also just pay individual dev if you want and should))