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2023 Indie Video Game Release Schedule

This year looks to be another stellar one for indie games, and I can’t wait to play as many as I possibly can. To that end, I’ve rounded up a list of my anticipated titles, indie and indie-adjacent, set to release in 2023. If you know of a project coming out this year not represented below, please reach out!

Image: A Space for the Unbound

January

Release Dates

9

PC

Children of Silentown

11

PC

12

Switch, PC

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

12

PS, Switch, PC

13

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

17

PC

Makis Adventure

18

PC

Definitely Not Fried Chicken

18

PC

19

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

19

PS, Switch

Rain World: Downpour

19

PC

A Space for the Unbound

19

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

20 (EA)

PC

Shoulders of Giants

26

Xbox, PC

26

Switch, PC

26

PC

26

PC

Devolver Tumble Time

26

Mobile

Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree

27

PS, Switch, PC

30

PC

8-Bit Adventures 2

31

PC

31 (EA)

PC

Season: A Letter to the Future

31

PS, PC

31 (EA)

Xbox, PC, (Switch)

Image: Blanc

February

Release Dates

Deliver Us Mars

2

PS, Xbox, PC

Tails: The Backbone Preludes

2

PC

2

Xbox, Switch

Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

2

PC

Fashion Police Squad

2

PS, Xbox, Switch

2

PC

Endling – Extinction Is Forever

7

Mobile

14

Switch, PC

Boyfriend Dungeon

14

PS

14

PS, Xbox, PC

Pharaoh: A New Era

15

PC

Plan B: Terraform

15 (EA)

PC

16

PC

16

PC

17

PC

A Weekend in Puzzleburg

17

PC

22

PSVR2

Cosmonious High

22

PSVR2

Moss and Moss: Book II Bundle

22

PSVR2

The Last Clockwinder

22

PSVR2

Sons of the Forest

23 (EA)

PC

The Pale Beyond

24

PC

Kerbal Space Program 2

24 (EA)

PC

Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire

27 (EA)

PC

28

Switch

Card Crawl Adventure

28

PC

Phantom Brigade

28

PC

28

Switch, PC

28

PS, Xbox, PC

Image: Dredge

March

Release Dates

King Of The Castle

2

PC

Meg’s Monster

2

PC

Bonfire Peaks – Lost Memories

2

PS, Switch, PC

Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania

6

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Ultimate Chicken Horse: Shellebration

7

PS, Xbox, Swich, PC

Oni : Road to be the Mightiest Oni

8

PS, Switch, PC

8

PC

Figment 2: Creed Valley

9

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

9 (EA)

PC

9

Switch

9

Switch

Before Your Eyes

10

PSVR2

10

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

13

PC

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Forest Cathedral

14

Xbox, PC

14

Xbox

21

PS, PC

Have A Nice Death

22

Switch, PC

23

Switch, PC

23

PC

9 Years of Shadow

27

PC

28

PC

28

Xbox, PC

30

PC

30

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Last Worker

30

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC, VR

30

Switch, PC

Citizen Sleeper

31

PS

Image: Mail Time

April

Release Dates

Meet Your Maker

4

PS, Xbox, PC

Road 96: Mile 0

4

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

5

PC

6 (EA)

PC

Curse of the Sea Rats

6

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories

6

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Library of Babel

6

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

10

PC

12

PC

12

Switch, PC

13 (EA)

PC

DE-EXIT: Eternal Matters

14

PS, Xbox, PC

Beyond the Long Night

17

PC

Suffer The Night

17

PC

18

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Desktop Dungeons: Rewind

18

PC

19

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Coffee Talk Episode 2

20

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Mr Sun’s Hatbox

20

Switch, PC

20

PC

Homestead Arcana

21

Xbox, PC

Cult of the Lamb – Relics of the Old Faith

24

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Shadows of Doubt

24 (EA)

PC

24

PS, Xbox, Switch

24

PC

25

PC

25

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Cassette Beasts

26

Xbox, Switch, PC

Desta: The Memories Between (Dream Team Edition)

26

Switch, PC

Bramble: The Mountain King

27

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Last Case of Benedict Fox

27

Xbox, PC

Ash of Gods: The Way

27

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Dungeon Drafters

27

PC

27

PC

27

PS, Switch, PC

28

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Minabo – A walk through life

28

PS, Switch, PC

Image: Darkest Dungeon 2

May

Release Dates

1

PC

We. The Refugees: Ticket to Europe

1

PC

3 (EA)

PC

3 (EA)

PC, Mobile

3

PS, Xbox, PC

4

PS, Xbox

Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider Of Lanka

4

PC

These Doomed Isles: The First God

5

PC

Darkest Dungeon 2

8

PC

8

Switch, PC, Mobile

Duru – About Mole Rats and Depression

8

PC

8

PS, Xbox

9

PC

9 (EA)

PC

9 (EA)

PC

11

PS, Xbox, PC

Cook Serve Forever

15 (EA)

PC

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

16

PS, PC

Super Bunny Man

16

PC

Castle Of Alchemists

17

Switch, PC

17

PC

18

PC

Glitch Busters: Stuck On You

22

PC

22 (EA)

PC

23

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

23

PS, Xbox, PC

23

Xbox, PC

Sunshine Shuffle

24

Switch, PC

25

Switch, PC

Protodroid DeLTA

25

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Case of the Golden Idol

25

Switch

The Shape of Things

26

PC

29

PC

Return to Grace

30

PC

30

PC

To Hell With The Ugly

30

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Friends vs Friends

30

PC

31

Switch, PC

The Tartarus Key

31

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Image: Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

June

Release Dates

1

PS

1 (EA)

PC

Killer Frequency

1

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

5

PC

Amnesia: The Bunker

6

PS, Xbox, PC

7

PS, Xbox, PC

8

Switch, PC

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

8

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

13

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Smushi Come Home

10

Switch, PC

Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow

14

PC

Fall of Porcupine

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Last Hero of Nostalgaia: The Rise of Evil

20

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Mars First Logistics

22 (EA)

PC

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

22

PS, Xbox, PC

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Kingdom Eighties

26

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

27

PC

A Little to the Left: Cupboards & Drawers

27

Switch, PC

27 (EA)

PC

Shogun Showdown

27 (EA)

PC

28

PC

A Long Journey to an Uncertain End

28

PC

28

PC

30

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Crime O’Clock

30

Switch, PC

Image: Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

July

Release Dates

6

PS, Xbox, PC

6

PS, Xbox

Citizens: On Mars – Prologue

10

PC

OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

12

PS, Switch, PC

Gravity Circuit

13

PS, Switch, PC

14

PC

Sticky Business

17

PC

18

Xbox

My Friendly Neighborhood

18

PC

18

PC

18

PS, PC

Let’s! Revolution!

19

PC

Lakeburg Legacies

20

PC

20

PC

Ducky’s Delivery Service

20

PC

Crime O’Clock

21

Switch, PC

24

PC

The Banished Vault

25

PC

27

PC

Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara

27

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons

27

PC

Puzzles For Clef

27

PC

Rightfully, Beary Arms

27 (EA)

PC

28

PC

The Master’s Pupil

28

Switch, PC

Mega City Police

28

PC

31

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Image: Sea of Stars

August

Release Dates

Verses of Enchantment

1

PC

2

PC

A Guidebook of Babel

2

PC

2 (EA)

PC

3

Switch, PC

Sushi For Robots

3

PC

Super Space Club

4

Xbox, PC

4

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Strange Horticulture

4

Xbox

7

PC

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival

8 (EA)

PC

9

Switch, PC

9

Switch, PC

9

Switch, PC

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

10

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

10

PC

10

Xbox

Verne: The Shape of Fantasy

14

PC

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Astronaut: The Best

15

PC

15

PC

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

16

Switch, PC

16

PC

Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition

17

PS, Xbox

Vampire Survivors

17

Switch

17 (EA)

PC

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

18

Switch, PC

Whisker Squadron: Survivor

21

PC

22

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

22

PS, PC

Chicken Journey

22

Switch, PC

Virgo Versus The Zodiac

23

PS, Xbox, Switch

24

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

24

Mobile

25

PC

28

PC

28

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Goodbye Volcano High

29

PS, PC

30

Switch, Steam

31

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC, Mobile

Skator Gator 3D

31

PC

Image: Chants of Sennaar

September

Release Dates

1

Mobile

1

PC

Chants of Sennaar

5

Switch, PC

5

PC

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo

7

PS, Switch, PC

8

Switch, PC

Hauma – A Detective Noir Story

11

PC

11

PS, PC

[I] Doesn’t Exist

12

PC

12

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Heretic’s Fork

13

PC

13

Xbox, Switch, PC

13

Switch, PC

14

PS, Xbox, PC

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

19

PC

19

PS, Xbox, PC

20

Xbox, PC

Moonstone Island

20

PC

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

21

PC

Relic Hunters Legend

25

PC

These Doomed Isles

25 (EA)

PC

El Paso, Elsewhere

26

Xbox, PC

26

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Mineko’s Night Market

26

Switch, PC

My Time at Sandrock

26

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Fortune’s Run

27

PC

28

PS, Xbox, PC

28

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

29

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Image: Slay the Princess

October

Release Dates

Bilkins’ Folly

2

PS, Switch, Steam

The Lamplighters League

3

Xbox, PC

Station to Station

3

PC

A Tiny Sticker Tale

4

Switch, PC

The Fabulous Fear Machine

4

PC

4

PC

Cassette Beasts: Pier of the Unknown

4

Xbox, Switch, PC

5

Switch, PC

The Godfeather: A Mafia Pigeon Saga

5

PC

My Little Universe

5

Switch, PC

[I] Doesn’t Exist

5

PC

6

PC

10

PC

10

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Saltsea Chronicles

12

PS, Switch, PC

Windy Meadow: A Roadwarden Tale

16

PC

16

PC

16

PC

Legendary Creatures 2

17

PC

Wizard with a Gun

17

PS, Xbox, PC

Hellboy Web of Wyrd

18

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Leaf Blower Man

18

PC

Laika: Aged Through Blood

19

PC

19

PS, Switch

Cavern of Dreams

19

PC

WORLD OF HORROR

19

PS, Switch, PC

Slay the Princess

23

PC

Manitas Kitchen

23

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Three Minutes To Eight

23

PC

Vengeance of Mr. Peppermint

23

PC

Scene Investigators

24

PC

25

PC

Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery

26

PS, Xbox, Switch

Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire

26

PC

26

PS, Xbox, PC

26

Switch

Mineko’s Night Market

26

PS, Xbox

Headbangers: Rhythm Royale

31

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Little Goody Two Shoes

31

PC

31

PS, Xbox, PC

Image: Worldless

November

Release Dates

This Bed We Made

1

PC

Back to the Dawn

2 (EA)

PC

For The King II

2

PC

Thirsty Suitors

2

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot

2 (EA)

PC

The Talos Principle 2

2

PS, Xbox, PC

Ebenezer and the Invisible World

3

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

The Silent Swan

3

PS, PC

6

PS, Xbox, PC

The Elephant Collection

6

PC

Salt and Sacrifice

7

PC

9

PC

13

Xbox, Switch, PC

14

Switch, PC

14

Switch, PC

14

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

14

PS, Switch, PC

Lake: Season’s Greetings

15

PS, Xbox, PC

15

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

15

PS, Xbox

American Arcadia

15

PC

15

PC

Checkmate Showdown

15

PC

Dredge: The Pale Reach

16

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

16

PC

In Stars And Time

20

PS, Switch, PC

21

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Knuckle Sandwich

23

PC

29 (EA)

PC

29 (EA)

PC

29 (EA)

PC

Image: SteamWorld Build

December

SteamWorld Build

1

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

4

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

Extremely Powerful Capybaras

4

PC

A Highland Song

5

Switch, PC

While the Iron’s Hot

5

PC

5

PS, Xbox, Switch, PC

5

Xbox, PC

5

PC

Outer Wilds: Archaeologist Edition

7

Switch

House Flipper 2

14

PC

14

PC

18 (EA)

PC

Image: Animal Well

TBA

Release Dates

The Garden Path

TBA

Switch, PC

TBA

PC

TBA

PS, PC

Way to the Woods

TBA

Xbox, PC

Songs of Glimmerwick

TBA

PC

She Dreams Elsewhere

TBA

Xbox, Switch, PC

TBA

PC

Jill Grodt

November 27, 2023

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