They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, which is just fun way of saying it’s good to be prepared. Having said that, as some of our most anticipated games of this year started to slip into 2025, we wanted to take a look at all of the other titles that are coming next year that have piqued our interest.

We tried to rank these games rather than just list them and we did this with combination of how good the game actually looks, the likelihood it will be good and our genre preferences.

TLDR these games will range from all different types of Indies from teams with a handful of devs to triple-i level studios and some studios that might even have publishing deals with bigger companies, which doesn’t make them less independent, they just were fortunate enough to secure a publishing deal and alleviate some stress for their next release.

Let’s not get to caught in the weeds of the definition of what an independent game studio is. Instead lets just try to have fun and get excited for some Indies together