If one thing has been made clear at the 2025 Game Awards, it’s that indie games are making huge strides in the industry. That’s not entirely new, but their prevalence and success appear to be growing. We’ve decided to highlight some of these best indie titles published in 2025. We pored through all of the nominations for the Indie Game Awards 2025 and decided not to choose a single one! This way, we’re highlighting the games that haven’t gotten as much attention, but are most definitely worth your time. All five of these indie titles are excellently programmed games that any player should check out, and we have arranged them in no particular order.
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1) Nubby’s Number Factory
Nubby’s Number Factory is a plinko-style roguelike strategy game developed by MogDogBlog Productions and released in March 2025. In the game, the player controls a factory where Nubby, a living ball, must be launched onto a pegboard to produce successively higher numbers. Each peg is worth a different amount, and the rounds require a certain point threshold to proceed. It includes a shop where the player can purchase upgrades, as well as a perk system. The game is a bit unusual in appearance and concept, but it’s good for hours of mindless fun and is incredibly addictive.
2) The Beekeeper’s Picnic
Afoot Games’ The Beekeeper’s Picnic is a point-and-click adventure game, reminiscent of the genre’s best from the 1990s. The game is set in a small village called Fulworth in the 1920s and centers on Helen “Jabbage” Greetham. It’s based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, and features a retired Holmes as well as Dr. Watson. When Homes decides to host a surprise picnic for Watson, a series of seemingly connected mysteries upsets his plans. The Beekeeper’s Picnic includes a series of puzzles that must be solved to advance. They have multiple solutions and outcomes, so each playthrough is often different from the last.
3) A Game About Digging a Hole
In what has to be the most apt title in video game history, A Game About Digging a Hole is about … digging a hole. Of course, it’s more than that, but it starts that way. Cyberwave developed the game, which focuses on the player who is all about digging the biggest hole they can. As this happens, the player uncovers ores they can sell to a barn, allowing them to purchase upgrades, explosives, and a jetpack. It uses randomly-generated ores, so every playthrough is unique, and it only took two weeks to design. Despite the ridiculously short time invested in its creation, A Game About Digging a Hole has become wildly popular, selling more than a quarter of a million copies upon its February 2025 release.
4) Rosewater
Rosewater is another point-and-click adventure game released in 2025 that deserves a great deal of attention. Grundislav Games released it in March 2025, and it didn’t take long for gamers to take notice. Rosewater focuses on freelance writer Harley Leger, who travels to the town of Rosewater in the American Frontier, though the game is set in an alternate history. Regardless, the look and feel of the game is very similar to what you’d expect of the Old West. It’s the same world the devs created for their 2018 point-and-click adventure game, Lamplight City, though it’s not a sequel.
5) Bionic Bay
Mureena Oy and Psychoflow Studio’s Bionic Bay is a physics-based 2D platformer, where the player controls a scientist who’s been transported to a strange world following an accident in the laboratory. The world of Bionic Bay is beautifully depicted, with stunning perspectives of its biomechanical environs. The game’s mechanics include slowing time, using telekinesis to manipulate objects, flipping gravity, and more. Bionic Bay is both visually stunning and well-balanced, making it an ideal platformer. It does have a creepy vibe, which either enhances the gaming experience or upsets it for some players.
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