Peek at the Week [Oct 5-11]
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Hope you had a great weekend!
I'll be traveling to New York tomorrow for New York Comic-Con! I'm so excited to head back to the Big Apple for the first time in a couple of years (the pizza is calling me), and as mentioned in Friday's newsletter, I'll be hosting the Final Fantasy VII Revelation panel. Hope to see you there!
Let's take a look at what's happening in the world of indies this week.
Giveaway
You still have a couple of days to enter the Silver Pines giveaway! The first LFG pick is launching this week and I have ten codes to give away. If you're not already a Supporter, hit the button below to join, link your Discord, then enter in the #giveaways channel. I'll draw winners on October 8, good luck!
New releases
These are the games to keep an eye on this week:
☕️ Speak of the devil: Silver Pines finally launches on October 8! Track a missing rockstar to a forgotten town in this survival horror metroidvania
✨ Order of the Sinking Star is the latest from Jonathan Blow and boasts over 1000 interconnected puzzles
🧠 Break the cycle. Echo Weaver, a time loop metroidbrainia where time is currency and upgrades are knowledge, launches on October 8
👴🏻 Prepare to cry. Take a road trip with your camera and remember your love Audrey in Forever Ago, also releasing on October 8
🥶 Stay frosty in Permafrost, a survival crafting game for you and up to three others set in the icy tundras. Coming to Early Access on October 9
🛻 Drive your pickup truck through the idyllic countryside and complete errands for the locals, but beware, not all is as it seems in Truckful (October 9)
⚙️ Big releases of the week: Gears of War: E-Day takes us back to where it all began on October 6. Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival has a mature content description that'll make every content creator wince. Now this is podracing: Star Wars: Galactic Racer also releases this week
Xbox Game Studios
Experience the brutal horror of Emergence Day through the eyes of Marcus Fenix in the origin story of one of gaming's most acclaimed sagas.
Events
Gird your wallets, it's the Steam Autumn Sale. There are some absolutely ridiculous deals happening now through October 8, Godspeed
The Triple-i Initiative October 2026 showcase is at 9 AM PT on October 8. Tune in for 40 game announcements from the likes of Innersloth, Raw Fury, Strange Scaffold, WINGS, and many more
This week's free game on Epic is System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
As mentioned last week, LudoNarraCon kicks off on October 8-10, and it's a wonderful a celebration of narrative games. I'm so pleased to be supporting the event with LFG this year, I recorded a couple of fireside chats with some developers (all the vids will be uploaded here) and I'll be streaming some demos too!
New York Comic-Con takes place October 8-11. If you're in New York, come see me host the the Final Fantasy VII Revelation panel on Thursday at 11 AM EST! It's going to be a very fun time, details here:
Thanks for reading!
No bonus newsletter from me this week due to travel, but I'll be back on Friday with this week's pick of the week. Here's a little hint: 🏝️🧌