5 Excellent Indie Games to Play This Month (September 2025)

September is a giant month for indie video games, particularly in case you’ve been ready for a sure “most awaited sequel of all time” to reach. We’ve additionally acquired roguelikes and slick motion galore, plus an more and more widespread co-operative journey that you simply and your mates are going to like.

Listed below are How-To Geek’s indie recreation picks for September 2025.

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VOID/BREAKER

VOID/BREAKER is a difficult first-person roguelite shooter the place your objective is to flee an limitless cycle of violence by the hands of the hostile AI who’s preserving you prisoner. This adversary will do every part it will possibly to stop your escape, sending all method of robotic enemies your approach. The way you take care of these threats largely relies on how good you might be at combining the instruments you could have at your disposal.

Chief amongst them is a deep gun modding system, in which you’ll mix modifications to make completely distinctive weapons. The extra you play, the extra mods you unlock, and the extra mixtures you possibly can put to the take a look at on future runs. The excellent news right here is that the capturing feels slick and exact and, mixed with a fast-paced motion system, makes you’re feeling such as you’re in management always (even once you’re turned to stick by a killer robotic).

On high of this stable basis, the sport incorporates a really fashionable destruction system that invitations you to tear down the partitions round you in pursuit of your objective. Not solely does it look nice and really feel satisfying to bury your enemies in piles of rubble, however it additionally works in synergy with the gunplay to create a frenetic but gratifying gameplay loop. Use this to create new paths by way of ranges and stagger or defeat enemies wherever you possibly can.

VOID/BREAKER is at present in early entry, with a full launch coming later in 2025. Regardless of being in an unfinished state, the sport is already surprisingly polished. That is an Unreal Engine 5 recreation that, based mostly on anecdotal person evaluations, appears to run nicely throughout the board. What makes this notably spectacular is the truth that it’s the fervour mission of a single developer.

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I Am Your Beast

From the developer of El Paso, Elsewhere comes I Am Your Beast, a classy first-person motion recreation that places you within the footwear of a lethal undercover agent. The sport chains collectively a collection of sandbox ranges, the place the purpose is to make use of something and every part you will get your fingers on to defeat the Covert Operations Initiative (COI) in a fast-paced and unpredictable struggle to the demise.

It’s like Superhot, Neon White, and Madjack Mullet had a cel-shaded child, with greater than 20 ranges to discover and ideal. You’ll be able to select your personal degree of engagement right here. Grasp every set-piece and swiftly transfer on to the following, absorbing the full-voiced story and cutscenes in between, or let the sport get below your pores and skin and rinse-repeat to experiment with technique within the final pursuit of the quickest time and S-rank.

Ammo is proscribed, so when you’ll be doing a good quantity of capturing, you’ll even be hurling weapons at your opponents, dropping in from above, triggering environmental hazards, and utilizing your naked fingers to carry out acts of exaggerated comedian guide violence towards your foes. The adrenaline-pumping motion is accompanied by a fierce soundtrack from composer RJ Lake, who additionally composed for El Paso, Elsewhere.

I Am Your Beast was launched a 12 months in the past on Steam for PC, with console releases arriving mid-2025. The rationale it’s captured my consideration now’s that the sport simply resurfaced on Sport Go for Xbox and Home windows, so it’s a good time to test it out in case you missed it the primary time round.

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PEAK

PEAK is a cooperative climbing recreation that may be performed solo or with three different associates. The purpose is straightforward: ascend the mountain, assist one another out, and ideally don’t fall to your demise. Although the sport has been out since June, PEAK has actually taken off over the course of the previous few months, with the variety of concurrent gamers on Steam steadily rising (with an all-time excessive of greater than 170,000).

It is a extremely social expertise, which has led to the sport turning into one thing of a magnet for streamers. The sport closely rewards working collectively, as you possibly can actually carry your mates to security or enterprise forward to position ropes and spikes that may assist them in getting up the mountain behind you. There’s additionally a survival side to the sport because you’ll must gas your journey and deal with or handle any accidents you decide up alongside the best way.

The opposite side of survival is coping with the perils that await you in any of the sport’s 4 biomes. Completely different zones have totally different obstacles that you simply’ll want to beat, and dealing collectively is vital to success. With a view to hold you coming again, _PEAK_’s map rotates day-after-day, so you could have a brand new journey ready for you every time you go surfing.

The multiplayer side is designed strictly for enjoying with associates, with no open matchmaking to stop your journey from being ruined by randoms. Discover meals alongside the best way, make intelligent use of the instruments out there to you, and roast marshmallows across the digital campfire together with your greatest buddies. There’s additionally a chance to stamp your personal mark by customizing your participant.

PEAK is at present solely out there on Steam for PC (however it additionally occurs to be Steam Deck verified, which is sweet).

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Mortal Sin

Mortal Sin is a first-person melee roguelike that lastly left early entry on August 30, 2025. The emphasis right here is on visceral fight that may have you ever portray the hallways pink as you hack, slash, bash, and dodge your approach by way of a procedurally-generated and endlessly replayable journey. Chain collectively combos so as to defeat probably the most steel of enemies and by no means cease transferring.

If the medieval-themed ultraviolence doesn’t get you, the range on provide right here will. There’s a broad vary of lessons to experiment with, every with distinctive skills and an arsenal of weapons to wield, from two-handed greatswords and mallets to ranged spears and weapons, and even magical spells. Whereas the sport generates new dungeons to maintain issues feeling contemporary, these are pulled from a library of hand-crafted rooms.

The visuals are unashamedly old-school, with distinctive customization choices that permit you to tune the look to your liking by way of a collection of sliders. As you progress, you’ll unlock extra lessons to play, which is able to pressure you to adapt your play model to succeed.

Although Mortal Sin has left early entry, the developer has famous that future updates are deliberate. The sport is at present solely out there on PC by way of Steam.

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Hole Knight: Silksong

Eight years handed between the discharge of the unique Hole Knight and its long-awaited sequel Hollow Knight: Silksong, however the time is lastly right here. The sport arrived with a bang on September 4, 2025, and has since torn up the Steam charts. On the time of writing, it’s at present the third most-played recreation on the platform, with an all-time peak of greater than 535,000 gamers (numbers which is able to most likely be outdated by the point you learn this). Each Steam and the Nintendo eShop suffered Silksong-related outages, with greater than 100,000 gamers leaping in on Steam inside 45 minutes of launch.

Silksong follows within the footsteps of the unique recreation, a closely stylized Metroidvania expertise that rocketed its developer Group Cherry to stardom. This time round, you play Hornet, a returning character from the primary recreation often called the princess knight and protector of Hallownest ruins. Although Silksong was initially meant to be downloadable content material for the unique, the scope of Hornet’s journey rapidly grew past the scope of a mere add-on.

Hole Knight turned recognized for its difficult but satisfying fight, rewarding exploration, and is even credited with serving to Nintendo’s Change earn its status as a house for all issues indie. Silksong follows in the identical footsteps, with the thrilling new kingdom of Pharloom at your fingertips. Fight has been refined, there are extra weapons and mechanisms to uncover and craft, plus the sport options greater than 200 enemies to come across and 40 bosses to defeat.

Group Cherry clearly put a variety of love into this, with facet content material to find within the type of quests, and a no-holds-barred orchestral rating that’s worthy of the franchise’s status. Whereas no critics’ evaluations have been launched as of writing (the builders apparently didn’t need critics taking part in earlier than backers or followers), early Steam evaluations are trying good. However then what did you count on from the most-wishlisted recreation of all time?

The cherry on the cake (sorry) is the truth that Silksong launched for simply $20 on all platforms, which incorporates PC, Nintendo Change and Change 2, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Sequence consoles. If that’s not sufficient, the sport additionally launched day one on Sport Go.

September additionally marked the arrival of IFA 2025, one of many tech world’s largest commerce exhibits. Don’t overlook to take a look at our protection of the occasion.