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The best hidden gem indie games of 2025 you probably missed

Finished Hollow Knight: Silksong? These overlooked games deserve some love.

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For the creators of Baby Steps, one of 2025's best and weirdest games, there's no room or reason to surrender creativity to AI: "The player is in communion with a human designer"

Year in Review 2025 | "It feels like a very pivotal time right now in terms of what games are gonna look like going forward"

GamesRadar

No half-assed performance: how playing with a live crowd turns video games into performance art

Spending eight hours in a theatre with 70 people playing through political donkey epic asses.masses was gruelling – and a tribute to gaming’s shared joy

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When does difficulty become un-fun? Dev says their game has moments of "intentional bulls***" but the trick to difficulty is making the player feel it's their fault they failed

Interview | Baby Steps gives you full control over your own failures

GamesRadar

Skipping all Baby Steps' cutscenes unlocks a secret, 28-minute punishment cutscene

Eat your heart out, Hideo Kojima.

PC Gamer

Baby Steps is funny, but it's also a depressing, confrontational horror game about thwarted modern masculinity

It's a masterpiece, obviously.

PC Gamer

Baby Steps review

Everything's open world now, even QWOP.

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Baby Steps review roundup: 'Is it possible to love and hate a game at the same time?' (The answer, clearly, is yes)

The new Bennett Foddy-style flailing simulator is "infuriating," "frustrating," "stupid," and most people seem to love it.

PC Gamer

'Baby Steps' Is As Frustrating And Hilarious As You'd Expect

'Baby Steps' is an infuriating, boldy designed romp that won't be for everyone, but manages to intrigue nonetheless.

Inverse

Baby Steps review: "If you craved a tougher hiking challenge than Death Stranding, this is for you – though prepare to get dropped from many great heights"

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"I'm definitely in the camp of not having an easy mode": As Silksong crushes players and Team Cherry nerfs it, veteran designer says some games have to be difficult because that's the whole point

Baby Steps co-developer Gabe Cuzzillo reckons challenge can be inseparable

GamesRadar

This physics platformer about a wiggly worm that travels into space has even got Tim Schafer excited: 'It looks super cute and fun'

Wirm squirms onto Steam soon.

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Silksong delayed a game so hard its devs made an entire trailer featuring a giant statue of Hollow Knight character Hornet

Baby Steps can't baby step around this

GamesRadar

Yes, the protagonist of Baby Steps does have a juicy butt: 'Every animator winds up a little bit arse-focused,' says Bennett Foddy

It's an open world mountain-climbing game, with curves.

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The Switch 2 is here – here's what 28 game developers want from Nintendo's new console, from a "much better" eShop to less painful ports

John Romero, Sam Barlow, Bennett Foddy, David Szymanski, and many more devs weigh in

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Getting Over It creator Bennett Foddy threatens the world once again: If you want Baby Steps to be a brutal rage game, "you can inflict that on yourself"

"It's a rock or it's a tree; it's minding its own business. It's not telling you, 'hey, can you get up here?'"

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Behold, the most intimidating demo I’ve had in 12 years of covering video games: playing "literal walking simulator" Baby Steps in front of Getting Over It mastermind Bennett Foddy

Baby Steps, from Bennett Foddy and the Ape Out crew, is a singular experience

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I laughed, I fell, I ragequit: Baby Steps is a hilarious walking simulator I can't wait to watch speedrunners try to defeat

Climb a mountain, one awkward step at a time.

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Maximum points: what is the most influential video game ever?

As Bafta launches a survey asking the public to nominate the most influential game of all time, we asked people from across games and culture for their picks

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"Death Stranding was a huge inspiration for us!": More than an evolution of QWOP, Baby Steps is stumbling along its own path

Big in 2025 | We're falling for this already - Bennett Foddy on how the team is making putting one foot in front of the other enjoyably awkward in Baby Steps

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The horror of Getting Over It is about to take over Twitch again with a new rage game from a solo dev who "took it upon myself" to revive the masochist genre

"I hate this game. 10/10"

TechRadar

Only Up! Is a terrifying endeavor that left me dizzy, sick, and wanting more

Only Up! is a great way to ruin your evening, but even still, it's full of the furiously fun features that roguelikes are loved for.

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Baby Steps is a 'literal walking simulator' from Bennett Foddy that looks like QWOP-ing your way through Skyrim

In Baby Steps, from the makers of Ape Out and QWOP, you'll hike the mountains—one uncertain step at a time.

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