Awesome. No, really, perfect. Seriously… it's great. Everything about the video game industry right now is great, ID@Xbox director Chris Charla tells GamesRadar+ at the Game Developer Conference 2026, and especially when it comes to indie games.
That latter point is inarguable – indie games seem to keep outperforming the most megalithic budget, with titles like Mewgenics, which acted as the highest-rated game of 2026 at one serendipitous point, or Slay the Spire 2, which destroyed its release date competition on Steam the way a mouse destroys a block of Swiss cheese. The rest of the games industry doesn't seem quite as lucky.
