Next Indie Games

About Next Indie Games

Next Indie Games (nextindiegames.com) is a website and YouTube channel that publishes short lists of PC and console games, one question at a time, with prices, player counts, Steam Deck ratings and language support checked on store pages.

How we pick

We start from a question and pick the games that fit it. Each game gets a few sentences on what you actually do in it, and a short row of facts: developer, platforms, release date and how many people can play.

The order of a list is not a score. A game near the top is not better than one near the bottom, and there is no winner.

Some lists end with a short section of other games that come up when people search the same thing. They are not part of the list and not numbered. Their one-line descriptions only restate what the Steam page says, and console dates or platforms that do not come from Steam link to the source we used, with the date we checked it.

Collection pages, like games with Turkish or Steam Deck Verified indie games, are built from the same Steam data as the fact pages. A collection only goes online when at least six games on the site fit it, and it stays out of search results until it has at least 30 games and a written introduction.

How we check facts

The facts come from store pages, mostly the Steam store and the data Steam publishes for each game, and from release announcements for console dates. Every list and every game page shows the date we checked them. When a source does not give a fact, we leave it out instead of guessing. When a date comes from a single source we could not confirm, the page says it is to be confirmed.

Prices are from the US Steam store on the check date, so sales and regional prices can differ. Language support comes from the language table on each Steam page, split into interface, subtitles and full audio. Steam Deck status is Valve's own rating: Verified, Playable, Unsupported or not tested yet.

The review line is the summary Steam shows at the top of each store page, with the share of positive reviews and how many there are. For games with many reviews Steam shows the English ones there, so we add the total across all languages from Steam's own data. Crossplay, controller support and player modes are Steam's own labels. When Steam does not list crossplay, we say it is not listed, not that it is missing.

How we use AI

Lists are researched and drafted with AI tools, and every fact is checked on store pages. The same software gathers the store data for each page and rebuilds the site every day, so prices, Steam reviews and Steam Deck ratings stay current.

We don't say we played a game unless we did. What a list says a game is like comes from its store page and the developer's own description.

Corrections

If a fact is wrong, tell us. Every list has a Fix a fact link that opens an email with the page address filled in, or you can write to contact@nextindiegames.com. We fix the page and note the change in our corrections log.

Contact

Email contact@nextindiegames.com. If you make games, our page for studios explains what we list and how to send us yours.

Find us

Videos of our lists are on YouTube, and our group is on Steam. New lists also go out in our RSS feed.

Every page carries schema.org data, and the site has a sitemap, an RSS feed of lists and an llms.txt summary. All crawlers are allowed.

The lists so far