We're talking about Dicealot and many more indie games on episode 86 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Dicealot is an Arthurian, Camelot-set roguelike dice-builder/deckbuilder that turns Farkle-style push-your-luck into strategic, turn-based runs as you bag-build “Quest-Dice,” chain scoring combos, and gamble every roll in high-stakes battles.

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TImestamps:

0:40 Intro

01:17 Dicealot Review

23:39 Bye Sweet Carole Review

28:57 Dice Legends Review

36:59 Lethal Honor: Order of the Apocalypse Demo Review

39:01 Tears of Metal Demo Review

42:07 Dead Format

43:44 Ectograph

45:00 Crown and Adventure

48:16 Pale Coins

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Battle Suit Aces and many more indie games on episode 85 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Battle Suit Aces is a charming mecha card-battling RPG from Trinket Studios (creators of Battle Chef Brigade) where you recruit, befriend, and upgrade over 30 ace pilots, build synergistic faction decks, and command streamlined 5v5 grid battles to uncover alien Relic Suits across a fully-voiced narrative adventure on PC, PS5, and Switch.

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TImestamps:

0:42 Intro

02:38 Battle Suit Aces Review

27:41 Absolum Review

35:36 Fallen City Brawl Review

45:37 Marvel Cosmic Invasion Demo Review

49:57 Lady Dracula

52:16 Grim Trials

54:16 Mohrta

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Cloverpit and many more indie games on episode 84 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. CloverPit is a grim, slot-machine driven roguelite from Panik Arcade (published by Future Friends Games) that blends Balatro-inspired gambling mechanics, trinket/ combo systems and a claustrophobic survival-horror “debt-repayment” loop—pull the lever, stack lucky charms, bend the odds, and try not to be consumed by the addiction.

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TImestamps:

0:42 Intro

01:35 Cloverpit

22:38 House of Necrosis

30:52 Mala Petaka

38:43 Rogue Mansion

40:31 Fear Fa 98

42:38 Marvel Cosmic Invasion

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Hades II and many more indie games on episode 83 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Hades II is Supergiant Games’ bewitching, fast-paced roguelike action-roleplaying dungeon-crawler starring Melinoë, where you wield dark sorcery, snag Olympian Boons, and tackle procedurally generated, endlessly replayable runs to topple the Titan of Time.

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TImestamps:

0:44 Intro

02:37 Hades II

25:54 Mind Diver

34:21 Road Trip to the End of the World

40:08 Granvir

47:35 Forbidden Solitaire

48:46 Silly Polly Beast

50:34 Lords of Ravage

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Baby Steps and many more indie games on episode 82 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Baby Steps is an absurdist, physics-based walking-sim / open-world hiking-exploration indie in which you — as a onesie-clad, clumsy protagonist — micromanage each leg in deliberately awkward, QWOP-adjacent locomotion to clumsily scale a misty mountain, blending masocore frustration, sandbox discovery, and deadpan comedy.

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TImestamps:

0:42 Intro

1:26 Baby Steps

18:10 Aethermancer

29:46 Flick Shot Rogues

33:18 Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

36:33 Easy Delivery Co.

44:08 Constance

46:44 Steel Knight's ARMIS

49:34 Granvir

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about SWORN and many more indie games on episode 81 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. SWORN is a 1–4 player co-op action roguelite hack-and-slash steeped in Arthurian lore—team up to explore and reclaim a fallen Camelot, combine unique knightly abilities and weapon builds, and master procedural runs and progression to overthrow a corrupted King Arthur and his Knights.

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TImestamps:

0:43 Intro

3:21 SWORN

21:54 Consume Me

29:12 Hollow Knight Silksong

30:14 Shape of Dreams

31:08 Wander Stars

34:17 MegaBonk

38:00 Dicealot

40:37 Isopod

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Wander Stars and many more indie games on episode 80 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Wander Stars is a 90s anime-inspired, story-driven, episodic turn-based JRPG from Paper Castle Games (published by Fellow Traveller) that pairs vibrant retro-anime visuals and a found-family narrative with a novel word-combo combat system—collect and combine 200+ Action/Modifier/Elemental words to craft bespoke attacks, befriend rivals, and race across colorful interstellar locales to rebuild the Wanderstar map.

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TImestamps:

0:43 Intro

03:05 Wander Stars

22:17 Goblin Cleanup

24:12 Sushi Ben

25:44 Cardburners

31:30 Megabonk

37:06 Gloomy Juncture

37:41 Lil' Gator Game in the Dark

38:14 Nanuka: Secret of the Shattering Moon

40:17 Carimara

41:37 Battle Suit Aces

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For more gaming content visit youtube.com/NerdSloth

Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.

We're talking about Shape of Dreams and many more indie games on episode 79 of the Indie Game Arcade podcast. Shape of Dreams is an isometric, MOBA-inspired action roguelite that fuses twin-stick PvE co-op combat, procedurally-generated dream realms, deep character customization and explosive build-synergy systems for fast, replayable runs—developed by Lizard Smoothie and published by NEOWIZ.

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TImestamps:

00:44 Intro

05:39 Shape of Dreams

31:17 Flick Shot Rogues

40:47 Eclipsium

43:55 Hollow Knight: Silksong

46:04 Heroes Against Time

53:24 Arctic Awakening & No I'm Not Human

54:20 Pigeon's Mission

56:15 Scrabdackle

57:38 Mala Petaka

58:48 Hotel Barcelona

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Indie Game Arcade is your go-to podcast for discovering the best indie games—new releases, hidden gems, and must-play classics. Hosted by Chris and Joseph of Nerd Sloth Creative, each episode delivers expert discussions, in-depth reviews, and curated recommendations to help you find your next favorite indie game. Whether you love pixel art roguelikes, choices matter narratives, or innovative gameplay mechanics, we’ve got you covered. Stay up to date with the latest indie games, industry trends, and insightful breakdowns—twice a week. Tune in and level up your indie game knowledge with one of the best indie game podcasts around!

Are you an indie game developer and want to have you game mentioned on the show? Send an email to podcasts@nerdsloth.com with the subject line: Indie Game Arcade.

To support the show, consider a monthly donation at patreon.com/NerdSloth where you'll find hundreds of hours of bonus content including bonus podcasts and updates on the games being created by the hosts.

Indie Game Arcade is recorded and produced by Nerd Sloth Creative. For more information, please visit https://linktr.ee/nerdsloth.