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Celebrate Indie-Penance Day With 10 More Incredible Unknown Games!
4.7.2025
Earlier today we told you about 10 fantastic-looking unknown games that really deserve your attention. But that’s not enough penance! We’ve done so much wrong. So here come another 10 indie games that are going under the radar, this Indie-Penance Day.Read more
Happy Indie-Penance Day! Here Are 10 Amazing Indie Games You've Never Heard Of Before
4.7.2025
I’m so incredibly pleased to welcome you to the fifth—fifth!—annual celebration of unknown or under-known indie games, Indie-Penance Day. It’s the day Kotaku completes the sacrament of forgiveness for AAA coverage by dedicating large amounts of space to smaller games. It’s also a good pun.Read more
16 Extraordinary Games You Need To Wishlist This Indie-Penance Day!
4.7.2024
Astonishingly, this is the fourth year in a row Kotaku has celebrated Indie-Penance Day, since the holiday was invented to mark the liberation of gaming from the cruel rule of the British monarchy. To mark the occasion, we’ve picked a selection of some of the most interesting, enticing, unknown...
14 Amazing Games To Celebrate Indie Penance Day 2023
5.7.2023
Hello! It’s Indie Penance Day once again! The day that all Americans put aside their differences and unite in celebration of the joy of independent games development. Ever since the founding fathers played their first game of World Of Goo, the celebration has been observed by every American by law....
Indie-Penance Day: We Did It, We Bloody Did It
6.7.2021
With this fourth collection, that makes 44 indie games covered on Kotaku today! I committed, and in all seriously, each one of them contains just extraordinary-looking games that you’d never have read about anywhere else. No difference here. Another collection of fascinating projects you’ll likely...
Indie-Penance Day: A Retrospective
5.7.2021
Of course, by now Indie-Penance Day has become such an institution in the games industry since its inception this morning, that people are starting to get nostalgic about the whole thing. To meet that need, here are ten indie games you likely haven’t seen before that evoke eras of gaming past.Read...
Indie-Penance Day: Resurgence
5.7.2021
Iiiiiii Deeeeeee Fiiiiiiiive. That’s what the cool kids are already calling the first annual* Kotaku Indie-Penance Day. They’re all wishlisting amazing-looking indie games, and then high fiving and having all sorts of interesting sex with each other. Don’t miss out.Read more
Happy Indie-Penance Day!
5.7.2021
Shhhhhh, all the grown ups are distracted. Kotaku’s proper employees are all off doing whatever it is Americans do on Independence Day, and in a woefully ironic act, have allowed a Brit to take over the site. So aside from leaving crates of tea everywhere and graffitiing “Long Live King George...
The Nevers Is Entertaining But a Tad Overstuffed
5.4.2021
Watching The Nevers—HBO’s new epic fantasy series created by Joss Whedon, who’s no longer involved with the show—can be overwhelming. “Victorian ladies with superpowers” is already a high-concept idea, but The Nevers, while entertaining, somehow finds a way to make things even busier. Read more