Since the mainstream press is unforgivably stupid, what are some good places to read/hear about indies? Here are a couple to start.
Best Indie Games - mostly list-based content. Covers quite a lot of games, including genre-specific videos. Focused on commercial releases, but manages to dig up a lot that I haven’t heard of yet.
I Am A Rat - short-form recommendations. Focused specifically on Itch and IFDB games.
warpdoor.com is great! large variety of game, quality niche and experimental games featured very regularly
terrysfreegameoftheweek.com was nice while is lasted
you can follow like-minded creators and players on itch.io, that way every time they rate a game or add one to a public collection you’ll get a new feed entry:
its hard to get going at first, but after a while you’ll have a nice feed. there’s a lot of games on itch, and this is one of the best ways to discover new games on the platform
if you don’t know where to start, look for players on itch that curate large quantities of games in a qualitative way. for example, i saw alienmelon recommend one for horror games yesterday: gavengelthegrim.itch.io. if you published some games there, you can start by looking at the users that added your games in public collections
