GMTK Digest (September 2025)

Through silk and song

Hello lovely GMTK backers!

Oh boy, the video game business just woke up from its summer slumber! This month saw new Silent Hill, Borderlands, and Sonic games, plus massive indie hits and loads more. Even this big list below is just scratching the surface.

I’ve also got a bumper reading list for you to enjoy - with tonnes of articles and videos to keep you busy. So let’s jump on in.

New Releases

Blockbusters

Hollow Knight: Silksong - It’s the big one. Seven years in the making, Team Cherry is back with the follow-up to one of gaming’s masterpieces. It’s another sprawling, atmospheric Metroidvania with rock hard boss fights - and a twitchy, precise moveset.

I’ve been glued to this game all month. I’m about 45 hours in and I’m still not done. The world is just so big - it’s dense and detailed, and splinters off into every direction. You explore one tiny cave or unlock an unassuming door and stumble into a whole new world of ideas, enemies, and secrets.

And, yeah, it’s hard. I’ve died hundreds of times. But you can always explore somewhere else - find new powers, get more health, get more silk, try new tools and traps, change your build. Then come back and succeed. Every failure is the start of a comeback story.

I can’t wait to dig deeper for a Boss Keys episode - but I need to finish my own playthrough first!

LEGO Voyagers - A cute co-op puzzle game from the same peeps who made Builder’s Journey. I played a big chunk of this with my wife and I’m sad to say it completed bored us. The puzzles are simple and repetitive, and the building mechanic has fussy controls that makes it tedious to construct a simple bridge. We dropped it before the short run time was up.