Crewforge is where indie games happen before they hit Steam. Follow studios from concept to launch, read devlogs, watch milestones land, give feedback when playtests open. The games you would have stumbled on six months too late on a TikTok algorithm - you find them here first.
Free. No sign-up gate. Browse first, follow later.
Sundown · cozy farming, gen-2
Following 1.2k · vertical slice
First puzzle pass is in the build
From Hollow Roots · 14m read
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Niche horror · roadmap Q3
We're a community of players too. We love getting to know projects that bring real creativity, new mechanics, and craft. Unless you stumble across them on social media, there's no centralised place to find indie games in development, join playtests, give feedback, and back the studios you believe in. We built that place.
Filter by genre, engine, state (concept, prototype, alpha, beta, early access). Each project has a public page with screenshots, devlogs, and the team. You can subscribe to a project's devlog feed without even signing up.
Studio profiles show every project they're working on, every role they're hiring for, every devlog they post. Follow once, see everything new from them.
Not press releases. Real updates from the people making the game - what's working, what isn't, what they cut. The kind of content gamedev podcasts dream about.
Studios will be able to open structured playtests with applications, feedback forms, and direct contact. This is a first-class feature on the roadmap - follow projects you care about and you'll see playtest calls when they go live.
Browse by what you actually want to play next: cozy farming, metroidvania, horror visual novel, action roguelite. Genre filters surface the indies your favorite reviewer might not get to for another year.
TikTok shows you the indie game three weeks after the developer's launch trailer. Crewforge shows you the game three months before they even have a trailer. Skip the discovery lag.
If you recognise yourself in any of these, you'll feel at home here.
Wishlists 200+ games, follows devs from prototype, plays itch.io free builds, watches Markiplier indie horror week. Crewforge is your wishlist source upstream of Steam.
Cozy games, metroidvania, horror, visual novel. Loyal to a genre, hungry for the next one. Filter for your genre, follow every studio working in it, never miss a new entry.
Actively wants to give feedback on in-development games and treats it as a hobby. Crewforge surfaces playtest calls from the studios that actually read feedback.
No. You can browse projects, read devlogs, and subscribe to updates without an account. Sign up if you want to follow studios in-app, comment, or participate in playtests when they open.
Some are. Some are paid demos on itch.io. Most are in development and not yet available to play. Each project page makes it clear what's available and where.
No. Crewforge is where games are made, not where they launch. Most projects on Crewforge are heading toward Steam, itch.io, or console stores. We help them get the audience ready before launch.
Direct studio support is on the long-term roadmap. For now, the most valuable thing you can do for a studio you love is follow their project, share their devlogs, and wishlist their game when it hits Steam.
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