Friday Follow-UP #40 2025

Newsletter #40 of 2025 Featuring: indie games to wishlist, crowdfunding game, latest soundtracks, Gaming Club, merch, and more!

Welcome to this week’s Friday Follow-UP covering indie games to wishlist, crowdfunding game, Gaming Club, gaming soundtrack, merch, and more! Subscribe to get the weekly newsletter and reviews straight to your inbox.

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Wishlist XP | Pocket Boss,

Pocket Boss is a data driven game about fudging the numbers. It’s nicely designed has a quirky premise and is coming next week!

Fix my charts! Pocket Boss is a data-bending remote career simulator. Master the pleasures of manipulating data while getting things done for your boss.

🎮 Pocket Boss | Steam
🗓️ Release Date | October 8th, 2025

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Absolum looks like a Saturday morning cartoon came to life and now you get to play it as a beat ‘em up roguelite adventure.

Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.

🎮 Absolum | Steam
🗓️ Release Date | October 9th, 2025 | Demo available

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Gaming Club | October 2025: A Short Hike

It’s officially October and we have started playing A Short Hike. I streamed it this week on Twitch and you can see the full playthrough here! Want to join the link or share something for others to join. Here is the official social post to share:

You can also share the Discord link below to make things easier!

🎮 A Short Hike | Steam
🗣️ Good Game Lobby | Discord & Gaming Club
🟣 Good Game Lobby | Twitch

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Crowdfunding Checkpoint | Black Tower Enigma

I love a good Game Boy styled game, and when someone makes a wholly original one in the year 2025 then I am going to support it. Black Tower Enigma is just that and you can even back it to get a physical cartridge. It’s a puzzle-solving adventure game about an Orc. It looks like a Zelda clone at the same time with its design and I’m all for it! It ends today so ACT FAST AND BACK IT NOW!!

What is a Game Boy game from your childhood you would back immediately on Kickstarter if it launched today?

🎮 Black Tower Enigma | Steam | Kickstarter
🗓️ Release Date | TBA

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Quest Vibes Monthly | October Playlist

It’s a new month so the Quest Vibes playlist is updated with new songs curated just for you. With Autumn beginning in Sweden and the leaves making their yearly transformation I wanted to start things off mellow with songs from Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, Lego Voyagers, and Long Gone Days into a few upbeat songs from Eli Rainsberry and Aaron Cherof. A couple spooky sounding tracks from September’s Silksong and Hades 2 releases. One of my favorites on the playlist is from pr0te for the soundtrack to the indie hit Easy Delivery Co. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Have a song recommendation you think will fit the next Quest? Let me know in the comments!

🎶 Quest Vibes Monthly October | Spotify | YouTube

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Quest Loot | Mouthwashing Designworks — Lost In Cult

This is going to just turn into a sponsored section of the newsletter at some point because all I post is Lost In Cult. 😅

They are back with a new DesignWorks and this time it’s for indie darling Mouthwashing. Filled with a ton of goodies from posters, postcards, eye patch, a mouthwash bottle and one of the nicest slipcases.

Mouthwashing was one of my favorite games of 2024 you can see the review of here:

Have you played Mouthwashing? What did you think about the game? Let me know in the comments!

🏪 Lost In Cult | Designworks: Mouthwashing
🎮 Mouthwashing | Steam

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