The indie scene in 2025 is straight-up unhinged in the best way possible. One minute you’re arguing with a ghost judge in a cursed courtroom, the next you’re watching NFL legends duel it out on a badminton court powered by anime physics. And somewhere in between? Ducks, legal horror, and industrial-grade submarines. We’ve sifted through the noise and picked the 10 indie games you need to obsess over this month. Buckle up.

1. Bob McGoy’s Iron Lung Simulator

The most claustrophobic workplace simulator you’ll play this year—and somehow, it’s beautiful. No, not Iron Lung. This is Bob McGoy’s Iron Lung Simulator, a deeply specific, mechanically rich experience where you operate an aging life-support machine in the middle of a rusting ocean rig. Between calibrating pressure gauges, managing sanity, and dealing with Bob’s slowly unfolding backstory, this is a one-of-a-kind descent into industrial dread. Surprisingly emotional. Shockingly immersive.

2.  Eternal Laws

A gothic legal-horror RPG where you don’t fight with swords—you fight with legal loopholes. Play as an “Advocate of the Bound,” sworn to defend the cursed, the condemned, and the undead in a twisted afterlife court system. With branching dialogue, turn-based “argument combat,” and eldritch prosecutors trying to rewrite reality’s fine print, Eternal Laws is Ace Attorney if it was written by Edgar Allan Poe during a caffeine spiral.

3.  Duck’s Luck

A chaotic, physics-driven roguelike where being a duck is both a blessing and a curse. Every run in Duck’s Luck is a wild, quack-fueled fever dream. You slide into boss fights, eat breadcrumbs to upgrade stats, and navigate a world where luck affects everything from weather to enemy behavior. It’s fast, silly, and has more heart than you’d expect from a game where you can accidentally slip on your own egg.

4. NFL All-Stars: Badminton

Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s brilliant. Yes, Patrick Mahomes can backflip smash. This unholy blend of sports simulation and anime-level arcade chaos somehow works. You take famous NFL players, put them on futuristic badminton courts with over-the-top power-ups, and let the chaos unfold. It’s stupid fun with surprisingly tight controls and unlockable fantasy leagues. Come for the meme, stay because it’s actually… good?

5. Static Signal

A found-phone horror-puzzle game where the deeper you go, the less the game stays in the game. You find a phone. The messages are from someone who vanished in 2018. As you dig, reality begins to bend—both in-game and maybe, just maybe, outside of it. This one’s for fans of Her Story, Doki Doki Literature Club, and sleep deprivation.

6. King Meowgret’s Dungeon

A tactics roguelike where cats rule the realm and chaos rules the combat. Choose from various feline warriors (including a wizard with a tuna wand and a rogue who’s just a regular housecat with attitude) and dive into shifting dungeons filled with yarn traps, cursed litter boxes, and surprisingly deep tactical combat. Whisker-sharp strategy meets furball-fueled fun.

7. Plunge

A minimalist, no-combat roguelike where your only move is down. Every level of Plunge is a vertical puzzle—drop through floors, avoid deathtraps, and grab relics mid-fall. Think Downwell with a bit more Zen. It’s fast, brutal, and extremely satisfying when you survive by a hair.

8. Heartlink

The co-op rhythm game that will either bond you for life or ruin your friendships. You and your partner are literally synced by heartbeat. Every dodge, jump, and action must be timed together in rhythm—miss a beat, and the world collapses. It’s tense, emotional, and somehow makes you feel like a musical Jedi duo.

9. GLOOMSOFT 98

A haunted operating system that slowly uninstalls your sanity. Boot it up. Click around. Then start noticing the files that shouldn’t be there. A desktop horror experience filled with corrupted files, glitched music, and emails from people who shouldn’t know your name. Part nostalgia trip, part psychological tripwire.

10. The Last Video Store

A walking sim inside a memory that doesn’t belong to you. You’re stuck in a VHS rental store that stretches into infinity. Every tape you pick up sends you into a surreal, self-contained story that slowly reveals the truth behind who you are—and why the store won’t let you leave. Atmospheric, haunting, and unforgettable.