8 Indie Games Blowing Up in Japan Right Now (From Co-op Horror to a Free Desktop Aquarium)
Japanese outlet Game*Spark tracks what hardcore gamers are actually reading. Here are the 8 most interesting indie games from its latest access ranking.
Echoes of Aincrad Is Out Now — and This Time the Sword Art Online Hero Is You
The Sword Art Online action-RPG Echoes of Aincrad is out now on Steam, and it swaps Kirito for your own custom avatar, partner synergy combat, and an expanding world.
Lord of Mysteries MMORPG Is Officially Live — Unreal Engine 5, Six Pathways, and 2.1 Million Pre-Registrations
SPARK NEXA has launched its Unreal Engine 5 open-world MMORPG adaptation of Lord of Mysteries on PC, iOS, and Android. Here are the Pathways, systems, and the catch for international fans.
A Developer Built an Entire Elemental VFX Sandbox in Three.js With Zero Textures — and Open-Sourced It
No sprite sheets, no VFX textures, no baked effect meshes. @chirovisuals open-sourced a full elemental spell sandbox built in Three.js with hand-written GLSL, GPU particles, and 938 live sliders you can tweak while paused.
War Fantasy Preview: The Anti-Call of Duty That Wants You to Question Every Shooter
Pitched as Spec Ops: The Line meets The Stanley Parable, War Fantasy is a psychological-horror FPS built over nine years by a lone former Call of Duty developer.
Shady Job Preview: Burying a (Still-Alive) Body Is the Co-op Comedy of the Year
The pitch alone sells it: four construction workers, hired by the mafia to bury a body in concrete at the top of a skyscraper they have to build first. Oh,…
SHORE Preview: Physics-Based Raft Survival That Looks Genuinely Tense
Raft survival is a crowded genre, but SHORE leans hard into physics: every wave and every misplaced bit of weight tips your fragile platform toward disaster.
Emergency Buddies Preview: The Least Qualified Paramedics Are the Most Fun
One player floors the ambulance while the others fight to keep a patient alive in the back. Emergency Buddies mines the same overlapping-panic vein as the best co-op sims.
The Undergrowth Preview: A Survival MMO Where Betrayal Is the Ecosystem
Most survival games start you as a person. The Undergrowth starts you as a bug, and asks you to claw your way up an entire food chain full of other…
Dear Passengers Preview: The World s Worst Airline Is Exactly What Co-op Needs
Physics-based co-op comedies live and die on chaos, and crewing a falling-apart airline with illegal cargo is a premise practically engineered for it.