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.