In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Yoshida writes, “With PlayStation Indies, we hope to spotlight and support the best of the best indie games being published on PlayStation and the entire indie community as a whole. Our goal is to make PlayStation the best place to develop, find, and play great indie games.”
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How exactly that will manifest itself is yet to be confirmed, but Yoshida confirms that a new indie game will be added to the PlayStation Now service every month, beginning with Hello Neighbor this month. Perhaps most importantly, Yoshida also confirms that he, like all of us, has not been able to stop singing the Bugsnax song (which you can listen to above, if you too want to succumb to the curse).
We will update this story with the games announced today, with Yoshida writing that they will be “nine imaginative and exciting titles coming to both PS4 and PS5.”
Full List of PlayStation Indies Revealed
F.I.S.T: Forged In Shadow Torch (PS4) – This 2D action-platformer sees an anthropomorphic bunny with a giant metal fist fight his way across a dieselpunk-inspired Metroidvania map. It launches for PS4 “soon”.
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Maquette (PS5, PS4) – A first-person puzzle game from Graceful Decay (and published by Annapurna Interactive) bound to garner comparisons to The Witness, Maquette has you manipulating objects in simultaneously simulated, recursive worlds to create solutions to progress. It’s hard to explain without seeing it in action, so here’s a walkthrough trailer:
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Where the Heart Is (PS4): A narrative adventure game coming this winter, the new game from Armature follows a family throughout their lives.
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