The best indie games of 2025 so far

Nearly 19,000 games were released on Steam in 2024. That’s a number that’s been only growing annually since 2019, making it impossible to play everything that’s been released — not to mention the many new games every year that aren’t released on Steam, either. While big, expensive games from massive publishers like Activision or Ubisoft tend to get the majority of media attention, some of the best video games independently released in a given year risk flying...