
It’s hard to not say that the indie development landscape has changed. Steam seems to be a major reason in this, as the PC gaming service is the biggest gaming seller on PC, and is only really not contested for indies by itch.io. However, in the last six months, this has turned into a downward spiral for indie developers.

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
If the algorithm that determines visibility ignores indie games, they sink into the huge piles of garbage infesting Steam, now that Valve have opened the floodgates to whoever wants to play game developer, with zero quality control. I don't blame the good indie developers for feeling let down.