15 Indie Games To Be Excited About During February 2025
Barely shaking off the dust from my 2024 indie games backlog, I am back with a whole bunch of titles to bring in the new year. 2025 is looking to be as big as ever in terms of its releases, with indie games once again proving to be the cream of the crop.
From level-breaking fantasy RPGs to car-fixing lo-fi RPGs to breaking and then fixing your dice sci-fi RPGs, that’s a lot of Gs to roleplay in. The list is eclectic as ever and I can’t wait to get into them, so without further ado here are 15 indie games to be excited about during February 2025.
Cat Detective Albert Wilde by beyondthosehills – 24th January 2025
Formerly known as Quantum P.I., Cat Detective Albert Wilde is a noir detective game full of humanoid animals. The game is set in the 1930s as you play as the titular Albert Wilde who’s on a murder case. You can probably put a cat in any game and I’d likely give it a playthrough, but sticking them in a suit and solving crime sounds like my kind of Dreamies.
The developer compares the genre of the game to a walking sim with some visual novel stylings as it has a focus on its comedic storytelling more than a whodunnit mystery. Boasting an authentic 30s noir look with stop-motion animation, Cat Detective Albert Wilde sees you deducing, interrogating and suspecting a slew of anthropomorphic characters. The game is out now on PC.
Eternal Strands by Yellow Brick Games – 28th January 2025
Eternal Strands is the ambitious debut from Yellow Brick Games. It’s an action fantasy RPG-lite that’s brimming with physics-driven spell casting. Utilising fire, ice and gravity to conquer giant monsters, you can use the world’s environment as well as climb onto the beasts to defeat them in Shadow of Colossus meets some Red Faction Guerilla action.
You play as Brynn, a weaver on a mission to recover her people’s cultural home. You won’t be alone, however, as your band of friends follow you on this journey through Enclave to unlock all of its secrets. Our own Toby reviewed this one which you can check out here. Eternal Strands is out now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Citizen Sleeper by Jump Over The Age – 31st January 2025
Citizen Sleeper shot up to being one of my favourite games of all time a couple of years back. Inspired by tabletop RPGs and set in a sci-fi dystopia, CS boasts a tenderness in its writing and demands connection as you operate a malfunctioning body across the muck and desperation of an equally malfunctioning capitalistic endgame.
You have your dice rolls and with it bad luck, as well as introspective monologues on what it means to exist, resulting in a perfect mesh of a visual novel and a risk-reward RPG. The sequel, Starward Vector, looks to expand every facet of the original by creating new ways to disrupt its TTRPG roots as you go out on contracts, manage your dice rolls from breaking or glitching and escaping a tyrannical gangster. You become the captain of a ship as you recruit a crew along your journey in the hopes of living a better existence together. Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is out now for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To by Soft Not Weak – 3rd February 2025
The lo-fi beat genre is expanding with Spirit Swap, a match-3 adventure full of witches. You play as Samar, a young witch working the spirit-swapping night shift in Demashq. With an uptick in spirits trying to enter the town from another dimension, there’s also a popular band holding a concert at the end of the week – could the two be related?
You’ll be meeting and helping your friends across the visual novel-style narrative, making relationship decisions as you progress. The game also features an option to customise the soundtrack to feature your own songs, as well as earn trinkets to decorate your room. Match-3, be queer and get lost in the music in Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 to, out now for PC.
Blood Bar Tycoon by Clever Trickster Studio – 4th February 2025
Miles’ thirst for blood in Tycoon style will finally be quenched with Blood Bar Tycoon. The game is a tongue-in-cheek – or tooth-in-neck – casual management sim that sees you running a bar for Vampires. You’ll be customising the building itself, adding decorations to make the coffins bump at night, creating blood factories to harvest blood, as well as luring humans to serve them to your vampiric clientele.
Discover crazy blood cocktails, design the bar of your afterlife and micromanage the finer details to be the blest Blood Bar to sink your teeth into. The demo during the last Steam Next Fest really impressed the team here and are looking forward to it. Blood Bar Tycoon will release 4th February 2025 for PC.
Rift of the NecroDancer by Brace Yourself Games and Tic Toc Games – 5th February 2025
They say you never lose rhythm and for the NecroDancer that reigns true as they are back with Rift of the NecroDancer. Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence will have to rhythmically fight her way through the Rift. Every beat is a battle, with every creature you encounter having different abilities to shake it up. With four difficulty levels, an original soundtrack featuring Danny Baranowsky as well as your own custom beats and daily challenges, the fighting fretwork can be endless. Rift of the NecroDancer will release 5th February 2025 on Nintendo Switch and PC.
Keep Driving by Y/CJ/Y Games – 6th February 2025
Talk about a hard left turn. After Y/CJ/Y’s blistering release of Post-Void, it appears the team are taking things slow by hitting the road in Keep Driving. The game is an atmospheric management RPG that sees you driving through the open roads in the ’00s. Along your multiple journeys, you’ll pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs and customise and repair your car as you travel across country.
With unlockable skills to overcome challenges and multiple endings to discover, each playthrough will take a few hours. The game features a procedurally generated pixel art world, traditional turn-based combat for untraditional scenarios and CDs/Mixtapes to find of Swedish indie bands. Keep Driving will release 6th February 2025 for PC.
Big Helmet Heroes by Exalted Studio – 6th February 2025
There’s nothing big-headed about being a knight in shining armour for someone. Unless, of course, your disproportionately sized helm warrants a literal term of phrase. In Big Helmet Heroes you are that literal big-headed knight, taking on the forces of evil to save the princess of your kingdom. The game is a 3D beat ’em up that can played solo or with a co-op partner, as you explore the cinematic and varied realms to be the hero.
Featuring 4 distinct classes with their own combat style, you’ll be taken on an epic journey to go in swords blazing or be more strategic with your unique superhero abilities. Big Helmet Heroes will release 6th February 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
SWORN by Windwalk Games – 6th February 2025 (Early Access)
A gritty reimagining of the Knights of the Round Table story, Sworn is a co-op roguelike that sees you fighting Arthur and his Knights as you discover the source of the darkness spreading through Avalon. You are Soulforged knight, sworn to restore Camelot from the corrupted clutches of Arthur and his Round Table, meeting and learning from figures such as Merlin and Nimue, creating unique builds to take into battle, and upgrading your knight to overcome the darkest forces.
With over 200 blessings to find on your runs, transforming your playstyle and abilities, as well as unique characters that change your combat style there’s a plethora to uncover and overcome. Featuring a comic style inspired by Mike Mignola, SWORN looks to be the Shadow of Hades’ Sonic in the best way possible. SWORN will release on Steam Early Access 6th February 2025.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center by Hakababunko – 12th February 2025
Ever since I was enamoured by World of Horror, I’ve always wanted more occult-centric pixel art games to go mad over. Urban Myth Dissolution Center looks to be doing just that, as you’re tasked to dissolve and deal with cursed relics, monstrous oddities and dimensional anomalies. The game is an episodic visual novel that sees you sleuthing for clues and making decisions to evolve the story.
You play as Azami Fukurai, a new employee of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center, who has the unique ability to see other peoples’ intentions and residual thoughts through her glasses. This makes for a great way to gather pieces of each mystery and solve them your way, whilst basking in its striking pixel art style. Urban Myth Dissolution Center will release 12th February 2025 for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip by snekflat – 13th February 2025
Simpson’s Hit ‘n’ Run is a core gaming memory for me growing up, so if there’s a game that uses that as a comparison, I’m immediately on board. Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip has already had a successful PC launch with a current Overwhelmingly Positive score on its Steam page. However, it’s now time for Terry to take a trip onto consoles as he tries to build his car to be suitable for getting to space.
It’s an open sandbox game full of intuitive moments that get those free roam “what will this do?” type moments as you gather TURBO JUNK to upgrade your car. Glide, drive or leisurely walk through the densely packed sandbox and enjoy the soundtrack from Wuppo in a wholesome short story. Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip is out now for PC and will release on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 13th February 2025.
Date Everything! by Happy Chap Games – Delayed!
After losing your job to AI, you’re homebound and begrudging to take a step outside while you recover your feelings. Your feelings may do more than recover though as a strange gift is left for you by a friend – a magical pair of glasses known as ‘dateviators’. The dateviators transform your home into a household meet cute as ordinary objects in all your rooms become datable people.
With 100 people to meet, all fully voiced-acted, you can create friendships and break hearts with a toaster, coat rack or even a hoover, all of which have three possible endings to experience. It’s a delightfully strange concept and one that’s ambitious in its delivery. Date Everything! will release 14th February 2024 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Editor’s note: This game has been delayed till Summer this year, we usually curate these lists ahead of time and hadn’t seen the delay before this went live! Please check out Happy Chap Games’ homely dating sim at a new date.
Afterlove EP by Pikselnesia – 14th February 2025
Afterlove EP is a slice-of-life adventure set in urban Jakarta. The game is a blend of visual novels, narrative adventures and rhythm games from the creator of Coffee Talk and What Comes After. You play as Rama, a young musician struggling to move in with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta. With a year behind Rama, he’s still neglecting his music and mental health, and with a crucial gig coming up in a month, he’s hearing Cinta’s voice in his head, unsure whether it’s her spirit or his imagination.
Featuring side-scrolling exploration of Indonesia, rhythm games using an original soundtrack by L’Alphalpha and artwork from manga-inspired artist Soyatu, Afterlove EP is the last game from Mohammad Fahmi, as he sadly passed in 2022 at the age of 32. Friends and fellow devs wanted to finish his work on the game and have done so, bringing his vision to fruition. Afterlove EP will release 14th February 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Stories From Sol: Gun-Dog by Space Colony Studios – 20th February 2025
I covered this a couple years back now for Debug Magazine as a preview and was immediately struck by the game’s visuals. Much like the art style, the game utilises its love of everything retro to create a visual novel-style game with point-and-click adventure sensibilities. You are on board the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space, four years has passed since the end of the Solar War. Our war-scarred protagonist joins the crew of the Jovian as a new danger looms across the open space.
After discovering a mysterious signal that grabs the attention of the crew, an unknown quantity threatens not just the Gun-Dog but the whole crew. As a security officer, you attempt to save the crew from an assailant lurking in the midst of the ship, creating paranoia and outbursts of chaos. This is the first main instalment in the Stories from Sol series and uses era-accurate visuals and mechanics to create a retro romp for the modern era. Stories From Sol: The Gun Dog will release 20th February on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC.
Die In The Dungeon by ATICO – 21st February 2025
The second game to implement dice as a gameplay element on this list, Die in the Dungeon isn’t just a great double etendre but a statement of what you’ll be doing a lot of in-game. Die in the Dungeon is a turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler that’s also a deck builder, but instead of cards, you build dice. Each dice represents a different action, from simple attacks to boosting other dice or replicating their action.
You can improve the quality of your dice by combining them or finding powerful relics, all in the name of defeating the dangers that reside in the dungeon. It’s a game that looks to reward those who experiment with different syngergies and creating builds, as it bolsters your progression to the end – not to mention it has a cute pixel art style to offset how potentially dire your luck of the dice may be. Die in the Dungeon will release February 21st 2025 on PC.
Let us know what indie games you’re excited to pick up from this list. It’s worth mentioning that every game’s release date is subject to change, and as always you can reach out to us at hello@fingerguns.net, or on our socials if you have indies to showcase for March. Until next month!
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