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#44 – Our 2025 Indie Game Favorites & 2026 Picks – Sarah & iV – openindie – your indie game podcast

Sarah & iV sit down once again for a cozy chat about the indie games they really enjoyed playing in 2025 and the games they're most looking forward to in 2026.If you're looking for great indie games to play, give the ones mentioned here a shot. We're pretty sure you won't regret it.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━EPISODE TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TypInc.: 0:25Blue Prince: 10:03Keep Driving: 20:48Dredge: 29:46Vikings on Trampolines: 37:51Shroom and Gloom: 41:50Outro: 46:52━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━GAMES FEATURED━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌨️ TypInc.Developer: Game Game GamesGenre: Deckbuilder Typing Gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3230090/TypInc/👑 Blue PrinceDeveloper: DogubombGenre: Strategy Roguelike Puzzle Adventurehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1569580/Blue_Prince/🚗 Keep DrivingDeveloper: Y/CJ/YGenre: Management RPGhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2756920/Keep_Driving/🎣 DredgeDeveloper: Black Salt GamesGenre: Mystery Fishing Strategy Adventurehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/🛝 Vikings on TrampolinesDeveloper: D-Pad StudioGenre: Co-op Party Gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/748810/Vikings_On_Trampolines/🍄 Shroom and GloomDeveloper: Team LazerbeamGenre: Card-based Roguelike Strategyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/Shroom_and_Gloom/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━What were the games you loved in 2025? Did our recommendations help you discover your next favorite game? We'd love to know!If you like what we do, tell your friends (and enemies) about our show!
  1. #44 – Our 2025 Indie Game Favorites & 2026 Picks – Sarah & iV
  2. #43 – Cryptmaster (Mini Review #1) – Sarah & iV
  3. 42 – Cryptmaster – Paul Hart & Lee Williams – UK & New Zealand
  4. #41 – qualia – CMY2K – USA
  5. #40 – Skogdal – Kirkebøe Brothers – Norway
  6. #39 – Desktop Explorer – Recurring Dream – Mexico
  7. #38 – Lily's World XD – SonderingEmily – USA
  8. #37 – The Old One – Creative Waste – USA
  9. #36 – Keep Driving – YCJY Games – Sweden
  10. #35 – Favorites & Wishlists 2024 – with Sarah & iV

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