Category: Season 6

Dragon Age: The Veilguard came out on October 31, 2024, and received pretty good reviews from critics. However, it was kind of a mixed reception. That explains why the scores didn’t cross 85 on either of the two major review aggregator sites, which is usually considered to be the bare minimum for a game to be considered great. 

As for players, well, it was the same response. The game currently has a mostly positive rating on steam, with 70% of the more than 34,000 reviews being positive. But that is more or less the same as having a 7 out of 10 score, which is usually reserved for games which are good, but not exceptional.

Anyway, why am I talking about this game nearly four months after its launch? 

Abashed is a psychological adventure game that narrates the story of Isaac, who not only has to deal with the reality of his missing partner, but also has to constantly question reality itself.

I stumbled onto this game while making a list of Indian indie games coming out in 2025, and later the developer reached out and kindly offered me early access to the demo, which you can play right now on Steam.

The gamedev scene in India has come a long way since the days of making movie based tie-ins. These days, thanks to the wider availability of powerful game engines and other tools required to build high-quality games, there is a thriving indie game community in the country.

In this video, we will take a look at six upcoming indie games that are being made by Indian developers. The games in this list were chosen based on the release date currently displayed on their steam pages. Also, we can certainly expect a whole lot of other interesting games to come out from Indian studios later this year; it’s just that they haven’t finalised their release schedule yet. 

To keep track of these and other games being developed by Indian studios, I highly recommend that you follow the list curated by Gamedev.in on Steam.

The steam pages for the games featured in this video can be found below.

1. Abashed – https://store.steampowered.com/app/3116230/Abashed/
2. Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat – https://store.steampowered.com/app/3194550/Bao_Baos_Cozy_Laundromat/
3. Detective Dotson – https://store.steampowered.com/app/2450840/Detective_Dotson/
4. Frontier Paladin – https://store.steampowered.com/app/2804970/Frontier_Paladin/
5. Spook-A-Boo – https://store.steampowered.com/app/3154150/SpookABoo/
6. The Last King – https://store.steampowered.com/app/2307400/The_Last_King/

Bao Bao’s Cozy Laundromat is the third game developed by the one-person studio Destroyer Doggo. It is the latest in a series of desktop-focused idle games that were inspired by the success of Rusty’s Retirement. This isn’t just a 1:1 copy though. The developer has taken the core concept and come up with his own interpretation of it. And it involves pandas.

Before we proceed, I need to put in a disclaimer for something important. I have been playtesting this game since its early days of development, and am even listed in the credits as a tester, for which I am quite thankful to Prateek, the developer of the game. 

This means that my opinion about the game might be a bit biased, but if you have seen some of my older reviews, you might know that I always try my best to provide a balanced opinion, highlighting both the positives and negatives of a game. And that’s what I’ll try to do here as well. I will put up a review once the full game is out, and in this video I will mostly be showcasing gameplay from the demo version, which you can try out for yourself right now.