OP updated with the first highlights of this month, which will be sharing the spotlight with the highlights of July until September. The full list of July releases is included in this post, and I will short-cut it for quick access, so that this information can be checked even when it's no longer in the OP. Also, since I actually changed the format of this thread from a series of them to a long-running one, I'm going to include in this post a link to the previous ones, so that those games don't get totally lost and are as easily accessible as all the others.
But before that, a quick overview: there's been a total of 277 releases as of July 31, of which 68 have a minimum score of 75 in Metacritic. As for August, indies seem to like this month, because it starts with a lot of releases (41); more than any other previous month at the same point, more than the whole months of January, April and July, and almost the same amount than the whole months of February and June. The full raw list is the following:
HIGHLIGHTS
Dragon Star Varnir
I Am Dead
Crown Trick
OTHER GAMES
Grime
Hunter's Arena: Legends
In Sound Mind
Dodgeball Academia
The Falconeer: Warrior Edition
The Last Survey
Black Book
Button City
Ever Forward
Faraday Protocol
Fire Tonight
Foreclosed
SkateBIRD
Tetragon
The Plane Effect
Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four
Road 96
Humankind
Greak: Memories of Azur
Mayhem Brawler
Out of Line
Recompile
RiMS Racing
Hoa
King's Bounty II
Murder Mystery Machine
Hotel Life: A Resort Simulator
Baldo: The Guardian Owls
Guts 'N Goals
KeyWe
Rustler
Song of Iron
The Big Con
GAMES WITH NO SPECIFIC RELEASE DAY
ExoMecha
Blood Bowl III
Rogue Spirit
Toy Soldiers HD
Golf Club: Wasteland
January-March releases
April releases
May releases
June releases
July highlights
| GAME | GENRE | METACRITIC | PLATFORMS |
|
The Procession to Calvary |
ADV | 78 | XBO/NSW/Steam (PS4) |
|
Boomerang X |
HNS | 80-81 | NSW/Steam |
|
Observer: System Redux |
HOR | 77-85 | PS4/XBO/XS/PS5/Steam/GOG/EGS/Humble |
|
Death's Door |
ACT ADV | 86-87 | XBO/XS/Steam |
|
Russian Subway Dogs |
ACT ARC | 85 | PSV/Steam |
|
Tribes of Midgard |
SUR ACT ADV | 79 | PS4/PS5/Steam |
|
Chernobylite |
SUR HOR RPG | 75 | Steam/EGS/GOG (PS4/XBO/XS/PS5) [September 7 on PS4/XBO) |
|
Omno |
ADV | 80 | PS4/XBO*/Steam (NSW) |
|
Vesper |
PUZ PLAT | 82 | Steam/GOG |
Other July releases
| GAME | GENRE | METACRITIC | PLATFORMS |
| Arcadegeddon | MP SHTR | - | PS5/EGS [Early Access] |
| Blue Fire | ACT ADV | 70-71 | XBO/NSW/Steam/Stadia (PS4) |
| Swords of Legends Online | MMORPG | 72 | Steam/EGS/Gameforge |
| Where The Heart Leads | ADV | 71-72 | PS4 |
| Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials | METR ACT ADV PUZ | 74-82 | PS4/XBO/NSW/Steam |
| Guild of Darksteel | ADV | - | NSW/Steam/GOG/Humble/ Greenman/Nuuvem |
| Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing | RAC | 62 | PSVR/Rift/SteamVR |
| Lost at Sea | NAR ADV | - | XS/PS5/Steam |
| World for Two | ADV | - | Steam/NSW/iOs/Android |
| Cotton Reboot! | SHT'M | 74-80 | PS4/NSW [West release] |
| Cris Tales | ACT RPG | 72-78 | PS4/XBO/NSW/XS/PS5/ Steam/GOG/EGS/Stadia |
| Samurai Gunn 2 | MP SHTR PLAT | - | Steam [Early Access] |
| Ultra Mission | SHTR | - | PSV |
| Last Stop | ADV | 64-71 | PS4/XBO/NSW/XS/PS5/Steam |
| Urban Trial Tricky Deluxe Edition | SPRT SIM | 64 | PS4/XBO/Steam/GOG/NSW |
| Dariusburst: Another Chronicle EX+ | SHT'M | 64 | PS4/NSW [West release] |
| Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles Enhanced Edition | ADV | 64-74 | XS/PS5/NSW/PS4/XBO/Steam |
| Trigger Witch | SHTR | - | PS4/XBO/NSW (XS/PS5) |
| Escape from Naraka | SUR PLAT | - | Steam |
| Skydrift Infinity | RAC ACT | - | PS4/XBO/NSW/Steam |
| The Ascent | ACT RPG | 65-74 | XBO*/XS*/Steam |
| Bustafellows | VN | - | NSW/Steam [West release] |
| Ion Driver | RAC | - | PS4 |
I'm mostly a lurker now.
