{"id":1552,"date":"2025-06-28T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/puzzle-platformers-desktop-aquariums-and-other-new-indie-games-worth-checking-out\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:59:36","slug":"puzzle-platformers-desktop-aquariums-and-other-new-indie-games-worth-checking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/puzzle-platformers-desktop-aquariums-and-other-new-indie-games-worth-checking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle platformers, desktop aquariums and other new indie games worth checking out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the latest edition of our indie game roundup. We’ve got quite a bit on deck this week, starting with a few nuggets of news.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, the Steam Summer Sale is upon us, which means there are bargains galore on the storefront (we’ve rounded up some of the tastier deals). If you’re anything like me, you’ll end up buying a bunch of games that you’ll never end up playing but hope to get to some day. In any case, good luck with your deal hunting!<\/p>\n

I read an interesting story on Game Developer<\/ins><\/em> this week about Peak<\/ins><\/em>, a co-op climbing game from Aggro Crab (Another Crab’s Treasure<\/em>, which I absolutely loved) and Landfall (Content Warning<\/em>). A team of seven developers made the bulk of the game during a month-long retreat earlier this year. The two studios relied largely on their community managers — who’d done a fantastic job drumming up interest for their previous games — to hype up Peak<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A combination of factors such as smart marketing (that title is peak), the game’s ability to deliver funny moments that could go viral and a low price helped Peak <\/em>to sell more than 2 million copies in 9 days. This is a cool success story for a game that cost about $200,000 to make. Here’s hoping more small studios find ways to collaborate like this. As a comparison, Remedy says<\/ins> FBC: Firebreak <\/em>hit 1 million players after eight days, and that game is on PlayStation and Xbox subscription services.<\/p>\n

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News :<\/span><div>12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers<\/div><\/span><\/a><\/div>

Meanwhile, Microsoft has rubber-stamped a free, fan-made Halo-themed game in the vein of Vampire Survivors<\/em>. Spartan Survivors,<\/em> from JuanGGZ, is out on Itch.io<\/ins> and it’s coming to Steam and Xbox later this year.<\/p>\n