# Dinos with swords, making music with gnomes and other new indie games worth checking out

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dinos-with-swords-making-music-with-gnomes-and-other-new-indie-games-worth-checking-out/
- Published: 2026-07-25T11:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-25T11:12:41+00:00
- Original publisher: Engadget
- Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2222862/dinos-with-swords-making-music-gnomes-new-indie-games/
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming, Music

## Key points

- Dinoblade turns sword-wielding dinosaurs into an action RPG.
- Offbeat makes music creation accessible and playful.
- A new archive preserves rare early E3 history.

## Summary

This week’s indie-game roundup highlights several unusual new releases, alongside a game-history archive that preserves early E3 material.

- Dinoblade is a £20 action RPG on Steam in which a sword-wielding Spinosaurus fights armed dinosaurs and summons defeated bosses’ souls; it is discounted by 10% until 30 July.
- The game grew from a 2022 viral animation by Sucker Punch animator Jean Nguyen, and is being praised as an enjoyably janky, distinctive take on the crowded Soulslike genre.
- Offbeat, in Steam early access for £12 and discounted by 10% until 1 August, is a music-creation game where players fulfil client briefs using a four-track sequencer and eccentric instruments, including a singing gnome.
- The Video Game History Foundation released decades of E3 materials, including rare 1995 footage of the Sega Saturn reveal and Sony announcing the original PlayStation’s price.

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