This week’s interview is about a team that’s consistently managed to surprise us with its inventiveness – whether it’s making you pack orders in a haunted warehouse or having you pretend to be human as a disguised alien at a gas station, their games never fail to intrigue. Today, we’re having a little game dev chat with Mike Coeck from Cybernetic Walrus, the development studio behind the warehouse horror game ORDER 13 and the freshly-announced Roadside Research.
If you’ve been following us here at GTOGG throughout the first half of 2025, you know we were quite fond of ORDER 13, a stealth-based warehouse horror game that came out this spring from developer Cybernetic Walrus. It used a simple but effective setup – become a warehouse worker, locate items by navigating the dozens of shelves and rows of the building… and avoid the bloodthirsty monster that stalks the shadows.
In case you missed it the other day, Sony held another State of Play broadcast to announce and provide updates on all the latest games coming to PlayStation 5 – and while numerous major titles and exciting reveals were indeed featured, the broadcast showed plenty of love to various indie projects as well. Have a look at our list below!
Our latest interview explores the combination of two genres: The Silent Kingdom blends the elements ofotome gameswith the fundamentals of the classic, retro-style JRPG. The project was brought to life by solo developer Lucky Cat, who’s been kind enough to have a brief chat with us about the ups and downs of making such an ambitious project on her own.
If you’re into retro games or grew up in the 90s or early 2000s, you’re likely intimately familiar with the phenomenon of trying to replay one of your childhood favorites, only to realize that setting it up on a modern PC is not always an entirely straightforward process. And that’s putting it mildly. The first hurdle is usually the simplest one: can the game even be purchased legally in Current Year? These days, plenty of retro oldies are available on both Steam and GOG, but the ocean is vast, and there are plenty of fish in it – by which I mean, this does not apply to every single game out there.
Part 3 of our Steam Next Fest coverage.
Part 2 of our Steam Next Fest coverage.
Steam Next Fest is back! It’s a sentence I always enjoy writing down. Why? Because Valve’s celebration of new and upcoming titles also means that there’s going to be a whole deluge of fascinating demos for us to preview.
Welcome to GTOGG’s June 2025 edition of Promising Indie Game Releases, where we highlight indie and non-mainstream titles that we believe deserve your attention – in other words, “look at all this potentially cool stuff you might’ve missed otherwise”. That would’ve been too long for a title, though.
Before I loaded up the demo build for the upcoming action-adventure game Mirage 7, I admit I did not fully realize what I was getting myself into. But that’s the beauty of starting games completely blind – they get to surprise you with their unique quirks.
