The Void Rains Upon Her Heart is an early access bullet-hell game available on PC. It’s all about earning randomised loot and learning to love the monsters you face. Random sequences of difficult bosses challenge the player to adjust their strategies, while special rewards augment your abilities and encourage risk-taking. It’s a colourful experience, perfect for anyone who loves or is curious about bullet-hell games.

Wandersong starts with bad news: the world is dying. The good news is that it is also packed with excellent people worth saving. Setting out from your tiny, colourful village, you solve puzzles and dispatch grumpy ghosts with music. It combines point and click adventure and rhythm games into an adorable experience full of great music and a surprisingly intense narrative.

In Subserial Network, humanity as we know it doesn’t exist. Instead, synthetic beings populate the world. They live mostly normal lives. There’s only one rule: Don’t connect yourself directly to the net. The synthetics who disobey are deemed “Subserials”. Your job is to hunt them down.

Plenty of explorations games give you the opportunity to walk through colourful fields or strange, alien worlds. But sometimes it feels as though all you can do is wander around. Mendel allows the player to breed plants in order to create wild and unexpected new species.

10S is a bullet-hell tennis game where each match is a frantic battle to survive. Strange dog enemies and massive bosses fill the screen with projectiles, all while you fire shot after shot at them. The amount of things you need to juggle and track to succeed is intimidating, but it makes each victory feel incredible.

It’s a late night shift and things are quiet. That nosy journalist who always says she’s working on a book took her espresso and sat down in the corner. A dapper looking elf wanders in with his literal succubus of a girlfriend. It’s gonna be a slow night in Coffee Talk, but that’s fine.

Clever game design can take advantage of even the most limited resources. Celestial Hacker Girl Jessica is a marble-rolling game set in abstract space, which is made using mostly Unity assets. For some people, that might be infuriating, but sitting down to play it shows off what smart level design can do for a game.

One Hand Clapping is a experimental project from the University of Southern California’s games program. It mixes music and puzzles—the player needs to hum or sing to create walkways and raise platforms to proceed through a colourful world. It’s short but memorable.

OK/NORMAL is an experimental arcade game by Toni Koretelahti that embraces the visuals of early PlayStation games. The game, which captures the strange and abstract worlds of mid-90s 3D, is one of several new indie titles that embrace a new form of "retro" aesthetics. It's an oppressive, bizarre, and overwhelming game whose glitch spaces are so tangled, I thought I would never escape.

Settling a bet with Rock, Paper, Scissors is nice but it's even better when you can read the future. In Fortune 499, you use fortune-telling cards to predict your opponent's move and win battles against the demons attacking the human resources department. Fun combat and a unique twist on magical bureaucracy make it a perfect Indie Pick.

In Quarantine Circular, a plague is ravaging humanity, destroying cities and pushing our existence to the brink. As extinction looms, a mysterious creature from the stars appears, their motives unclear. It's up to you to navigate the situation and hopefully save humanity.

Spartan Fist is a first person brawler where you have to punch your way through randomly generated maps. Along the way, there's tons of special attacks and silly upgrades that turn each new playthrough into a hilarious beatdown of hapless enemies.

The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds is an interactive game by Nicky Case all about how ideas and trends spread. Short puzzles teach the player how popular perception changes as groups grow smaller or larger. It's an important lesson wedged between devious brain teasers and a perfect Indie Pick.

Sometimes, you just want to hit the road. Photon Highway takes cues from games such as Audiosurf and Temple Run to create a randomised highway through the stars. It's great for those times you want to sit back and cruise away from life's problems.

Lucah looks as though it leapt right off a chalkboard, with a distinct hand-drawn style somewhere between wild scribblings and hallucinations. It mixes tense combat and exploration into a wild action-RPG.

Beat the Art Breaker is a game about dashing around and punching folks. It isn't done yet, but a new playable demo gives a glimpse at an indie game that has a fast and exciting take on hand to hand combat.

Duck Jam mixes WarioWare style mini-games with a touch of absurdist comedy to tell the story of a bunch of ducks trying to make money. Bills, you could say.

Danmaku Unlimited 3 is a bullet hell arcade game that came out for PC last year but was recently released for the Nintendo Switch. The laser-filled shoot 'em up is exciting, with tight dodges and massive beam blasts that make for a good time.

Bleed 2 initially released last year for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One, but was ported to the Switch this month. It's a relentless action game full of air dashes, bullet deflecting, and tons of bosses that feels freshly sprung from the mind of an eight-year-old on a sugar high.