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Our MIDI Week Single today comes from the 2011 indie bullet-hell, Jamestown, with amazing music by Francisco Cerda, from the stage right before the difficulty really ramps up:

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#MIDIWeekSingles #Jamestown #FranciscoCerda #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
MIDI Week Singles: "Prisoner of the Badlands" - Jamestown (PC)
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September 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Our new Game EXP Trilogy series brings shortened reviews for the older indie games: Super Meat Boy from Team Meat, COGS from Lazy 8 Studios, & Jamestown from Final Form Games.

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#GameEXPTrilogy #SuperMeatBoy #COGS #Jamestown #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
Game EXP Trilogy Part IV: Super Meat Boy, COGS, Jamestown (PC)
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September 18, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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I have a short and to-the-point First Impressions article up for Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! You put away books on a shelf. That's it. That's the game. And I love it.

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#LibrariansTidyUpTheArcaneLibrary #ArtRising #IndieGame #StageSelectStart
First Impressions: Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
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July 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our MIDI Week Single is the amazing song by Darren Korb & sung by the soulful Ashley Barrett, from the 2011 indie game Bastion.

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#MIDIWeekSingles #Bastion #DarrenKorb #AshleyBarrett #IndieGames #VideoGameMusic #StageSelectStart
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July 1, 2026 at 3:03 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our MIDI Week Single today is from the classic pixel-perfect platformer, Super Meat Boy, with Hellish good music by Danny Baranowsky.

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#MIDIWeekSingles #SuperMeatBoy #DannyBaranowsky #IndieGames #VideoGameMusic #VideoGameSoundtrack #StageSelectStart
MIDI Week Singles: "Hot Damned (Level 4 Light World)" - Super Meat Boy (PC)
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September 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
A new Game EXP article for the short horror walking-sim The Black Within from indie developer waldeezo, playable on the Steam Deck.

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#TheBlackWithin #waleedzo #indiehorror #indiegames #StageSelectStart
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April 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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We have a short Game EXP article for a short stop-motion horror game, The Children of Clay from indie developer Balazs Ronyai.

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#GameEXP #TheChildrenOfClay #BalazsRonyai #IndieGames #StopMotion #ArcheologyHorror #StageSelectStart
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February 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Our Game EXP article today takes a look at Mountains of Madness, an daptation of At the Mountains of Madness by Deep Dive Project.

Discl: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer

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#MountainsOfMadness #HPLovecraft #IndieGames #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Mountains of Madness (VSD)
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July 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Our Game EXP article today looks at The 18th Attic, a new psychological horror narrative walking sim from Steelkrill Studios.

Discl: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer

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#The18thAttic #SteelkrillStudios #IndieGames #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: The 18th Attic (PC)
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February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Thinking about studio closures, studio acquisitions, and how best to support the games that interest us and want to play.

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#StudioClosures #StudioAcquisitions #PrivateEquityFirms #VideoGameIndustry #StageSelectStart
How Do You Be A Supportive Consumer In The Age of Studio Layoffs and Closures?
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September 25, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Our Game EXP article today is for the indie visual novel Messy Hearts from @blackheartgames.bsky.social A messy relationship told in pixel art fashion and full of emotion and heart

www.stageselectstart.com/2026/05/game...

#MessyHearts #BlackHeartGames #IndieGames #VisualNovel #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Messy Hearts (PC)
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May 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Last week we had an article for the beautiful and short indie game MANDAGON, a platformer that takes visual and narrative cues from Tibetan mythology and philosophy.

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#MANDAGON #BlindSkyStudios #TibetanMythology #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: MANDAGON (PC)
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January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our Game EXP article today takes a look at the delightfully disturbing and beautiful Necrophosis

Discl: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer

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#Necrophosis #AresDragonis #AdonisBrosteanu #HRGiger #ZdzisławBeksiński #IndieGame #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Necrophosis (VSD)
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October 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our Game EXP article today looks at Only Cards, a deck-building adult puzzle game mashed with a mystery visual novel

Discl: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer

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#OnlyCards #GrimsStudio #DeckBuilding #IndieGames #AdultGames #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Only Cards (VSD)
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September 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
We have a new Game EXP Trilogy article featuring older indie games: Castle Crashers, Crayon Physics Deluxe, and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.

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#IndieGames #CastleCrashers #CrayonPhysicsDeluxe #SuperbrothersSwordandSworceryEP #StageSelectStart
Game EXP Trilogy Part II: Castle Crashers, Crayon Physics Deluxe, & Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (PC)
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July 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our Game EXP article for The Shaved Ice Shop from Holitass is now up, ashort thriller indie night cafe sim-lite.

Disc: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer

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#TheShavedIceShop #Holitass #IndieGame #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: The Shaved Ice Shop (PC)
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January 30, 2026 at 11:28 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our GameEXP article today is for the 2019 VR escape room horror game Last Labyrinth from AMATA K.K. & played on the Quest 2.

Discl: I rec'd a review code from Keymailer

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#LastLabyrinth #AMATAKK #EscapeRoom #VRGame #VRHorror #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Last Labyrinth (MQ2)
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August 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our article today is for the sometimes chill, sometimes aggravating, Game With Balls from indie dev Geert Verhoef, out on Switch & Steam OS.

Disc: I rec'd a review copy from Keymailer

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#GameWithBalls #GeertVerhoef #IndieGames #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Game With Balls (NS2)
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June 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Our MIDI Week Single today will make more sense from Friday's article, but it's from the 2009 physics-based indie game, Hammerfight from Kranx Productions & music by qMattp

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#MIDIWeekSingles #Hammerfight #KranxProductions #qMattp #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
MIDI Week Singles: "Action Boss" - Hammerfight (PC)
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August 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
Our Demo Time article today is for the sim/horror crossover [HERROR] Gas Station Case from [HERROR]. Full game in Q2 2026.

[Disc: I rec'd a review key from Keymailer]

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#DemoTime #HERRORGasStationCase #HERROR #IndieGame #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Demo Time: [HERROR] Gas Station Case (PC)
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December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
A short article for a fun game that took me over 53 hours to complete. Released in 2020, Picross for a Cause was a great collection of nonogram puzzles from indie developer Porter Zach.

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#PicrossForACause #PorterZach #Picross #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
Game EXP: Picross for a Cause (PC)
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August 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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In a first for our site and YT channel, we'll be reviewing the new deck-building and comedic adult visual novel, Only Cards:

Disc: I rec'd a key from Keymailer

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#OnlyCards #GrimsStudio #IndieGames #AdultGames #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Only Cards [A Stage Select Start Playthrough] - YouTube
Only Cards Release Date: September 4, 2025 Systems: Windows, Steam OS Publisher: Grim's Studio Developer: Grim's Studio [Disclaimer: I received a free review...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
We have a new Game EXP Trilogy article up, where I review three older indie games from Humble Indie Bundles. This week, we have Gratuitous Space Battles, Hammerfight, NightSky.

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#IndieGames #GratuitousSpaceBattles #Hammerfight #NightSky #StageSelectStart
Game EXP Trilogy Part III: Gratuitous Space Battles, Hammerfight, & NightSky (PC)
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August 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
We have another Demo Time article for y'all today, this time it's the paranoia inducing No, I'm Not A Human by indie developer Trioskaz

Discl: I rec'd a free key from Keymailer

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#DemoTime #NoImNotAHuman #Trioskaz #IndieGame #Keymailer #StageSelectStart
Demo Time: No, I'm Not A Human (VSD)
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June 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
jaconian.bsky.social
We have a new Game EXP article up for the indie walking-sim, Poetic Trio by Tonguç Bodur on the Nintendo Switch.

Disc: I rec'd a review code from Keymailer

www.stageselectstart.com/2026/07/game...

#GameEXP #PoeticTrio #TongucBodur #Keymailer #IndieGames #StageSelectStart
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July 27, 2026 at 1:42 PM