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Indie Game Releases of the Week: April 19 to 25, 2021

This week in indie games, we have the hack-and-slash Battle Axe, puzzle game World Splitter, jazz-punk adventure Don’t Forget Me, and more.

Our featured indie games this week range from cyberpunk psychological explorations to puzzle games and pixel-art hack-and-slash. We also have a turnip committing tax evasion, but don’t tell anybody.

Below, we’ve also got a range of original indie releases listed out, including management puzzle game Buildings Have Feelings Too!, VR adventure Maskmaker, and action-platformer Smelter.

And finally, our scouting of ports for the week include ScourgeBringer on PlayStation and the wider releases of Moon Raider and The Skylia Prophecy.

Don’t Forget Me

April 20 on PC, Mac, Linux

Don’t Forget Me is a cyberpunk adventure game with modern puzzle elements, in which you play as an amnesiac starting anew at a memory manipulation clinic. You’ll be diving into patients’ minds in this retro-futuristic world, and uncovering memories – both your patients’, and your own.

Silicon Dreams

April 20 on PC, Mac, Linux

Silicon Dreams is a cyberpunk interrogation game in which you play as an android tasked with rooting out other, deviant androids. Set in a dystopian future controlled by corporations, you must learn about your subjects, monitor their emotions, choose the right approach, and eventually, pick the right side in a brewing conflict.

World Splitter

April 21 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch

World Splitter is a “2D² puzzle platformer”, combining jumping and running elements from platforming with logic puzzles. Each level contains two worlds divided by a dimensional rift, and you can interact only with the visible part of each world.

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion

April 22 on PC, Mac, Linux, Switch

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an action-adventure game with a very self-explanatory premise, where you are evicted from your home for tax evasion, and must quest to pay back your dept to the mayor, an onion. Along the way, you will fight animals, solve puzzles, grow and harvest plants, and ultimately, destroy the vegetable government.

Battle Axe

April 23 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch

Battle Axe is a top-down hack-and-slash game inspired by action-adventure games of the 80s and 90s. You may pick one of three heroes – an Elf, a Druid, or a Marauder, in your quest to defeat a despotic sorceress. You must fight her minions and the bosses under her command, gathering gold along the way and upgrading your abilities and gear. The game features both solo and local co-op play.

Original Indie Releases

April 20

• Maskmaker (PC VR)
  • Adventure game
• Control: Override (PC)
  • Puzzle game
• Crash: Autodrive (PC)
  • Mystery adventure game

April 21

• The Door in the Basement (PC)
  • Horror adventure game

April 22

• Bamerang (PC, Switch)
  • Boomerang fighting game
• Smelter (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Action platformer
• Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (PSVR)
  • Puzzle horror game
• Crypto Mining Simulator (PC)
  • Simulation game
• Buildings Have Feelings Too! (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • City management / puzzle game

April 23

• Dungholes (Switch)
  • Arcade puzzle-action game
• Dungeon and Gravestone (Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Roguelike action RPG
• Night Wanderings (PC)
  • Top-down arcade shooter
• Dark Sheep (PC)
  • Sokoban-style puzzle game
• SJ-19 Learns To Love! (PC)
  • Metroidvania action-platformer
• Colorado Cocoa Club (PC)
  • Dating sim
• Underland: The Climb (PC)
  • Puzzle adventure game
• Rekindle (PC)
  • Sokoban-style puzzle game

April 24

• Junk: The Legend of Junichi Kato (PC)
  • Action platformer
• Haywire (PC)
  • 2D action-adventure game
• Katja’s Abyss: Tactics (PC)
  • Turn-based tactics game

Ports and Other Indie Releases

April 21

• Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room (Switch)
  • Escape room puzzle game

April 22

• Road Fury (Switch)
  • Endless shooter
• Escaping a Kid’s Room ～The Adventures of Nyanzou & Kumakichi: Escape Game Series～ (Switch)
  • Escape room puzzle game
• BraveMatch (Switch)
  • Match-3 RPG
• Skyland Rush – Air Raid Attack (Switch)
  • Side-scrolling shooter
• Infinite Adventures (Switch)
  • Dungeon-crawling RPG
• Mystic Fate (Switch)
  • Action-adventure game
• Devil Slayer Raksasi (Switch)
  • Top-down action game
• Touhou Hyouibana ～ Antinomy of Common Flowers (PS4, PS5, Switch)
  • Fighting game
• War Of Stealth – Assassin (Switch)
  • Stealth-action top-down shooter
• ScourgeBringer (PS4, PS5)
  • Roguelite action-platformer
• Golden Force (PC)
  • Action-platformer

April 23

• Little Mouse’s Encyclopedia (Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Educational adventure game
• EQI (Switch)
  • First-person arcade game
• Dead Dust (Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Action-adventure game
• Moon Raider (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Action platformer
• The Skylia Prophecy (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch)
  • Sidescrolling action RPG
• AntVentor (Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S)
  • Point-and-click adventure game

Also check out our round-up of last week’s indie releases, including Tasomachi, Rain on Your Parade, and Forgotten Fields.