As the name might imply, Raptor Boyfriend is a visual novel dating sim in which players can simulate dating a raptor. Not limiting itself to just being a dinosaur dating sim, which would frankly be enough to pique my interest, the game allows the player to also court a bigfoot and a fairy. While the core concept of a high school dating sim featuring cryptids is loosely based on Twilight, the developers drew more direct inspiration from Life is Strange, Night in the Woods, and

Developed as the debut title for indie studio All Possible Futures, The Plucky Squire follows the exploits of Jot, a writer and protagonist of a children's storybook, and his friends as they battle against the forces of the dastardly Humpgrump. As the studio was founded by James Turner, who had previously worked for Game Freak designing Pokémon from generation five onward, and Jonathon Biddle, who had worked for Devolver Digital as the creative director for The Swords of Ditt

Released in 2020, Going Under is the first game developed by indie studio Aggro Crab, and follows the tumultuous unpaid internship of Jacqueline "Jackie" Fiasco. Having earned her degree and hoping to enter the working world, she lands a "job" working for Fizzle, a beverage company subsidized by the much larger conglomerate company known as Cubicle. Though eager to get firsthand experience and hopefully being hired to a paid position, any dreams of a normal job are dashed alm