Digging Up the Indie Darlings Time Left Behind
A small crew in El Gouna spending far too many nights replaying obscure 2010s indies so their stories don't get lost to dead links and shut-down storefronts.
Meet the TeamWhat We Stand For
No affiliate spam, no clickbait titles, just people who care about these games
We finish these games before we write about them, not skim a trailer and call it a retrospective. Every credit roll matters.
We'd rather spend a week on a title that sold 4,000 copies than rehash coverage that already exists a hundred times over.
Written by players for players. No sponsored placement, no ranking games higher because a publisher asked nicely.
We dig into dev interviews, patch histories, and storefront metadata so each piece explains why a game mattered, not just that it existed.
The Archive So Far
Small crew, steady output, since we started this in a spare room in El Gouna
What Readers Say
Found their piece on that weird 2013 pixel-art dungeon crawler nobody remembers and it sent me down a three-day rabbit hole of the dev's old forum posts. That's the kind of writing I show up for.
I worked on a small studio team back in 2015 and one of our games got exactly one write-up ever. It was this site. Genuinely didn't expect anyone to still care years later.
Their retrospective series doesn't just list games, it actually explains why a studio folded or why a patch never shipped. Reads more like an oral history than a listicle.