Indies Under the Knife

Indie games go "under the knife"! You send me games, mid-development. I cut them open to see what's inside. Insightful and occasionally silly streams and clips.

Curated by: Indie Game Clinic (169 videos)

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Currently Playing: Dungeons, Crawling, etc. [Ad Iterum / Synergy Abyss]

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Tracks in this Playlist

• IUTK : MMC / Carnholt / R2R
• Let's Hurt Some Robots!!! [Echo Extract / MegaBattle / HOPE_01]
• SpookyVania [Disinherited / The Fabric of the Mind / Climb Out Of Hell]
• Tiles & Tactics [Digital Druid / Pirate, Pillage and Plunder / Tiles & Vials]
• Dungeons, Crawling, etc. [Ad Iterum / Synergy Abyss]
• DEATHBULGE: Battle of the Bands
• Let's Learn an Alien Language! [Pikku Adventure]
• Zappy Zappy Pew Pew [LinkShift / Flagship Down / Cosmic Flesh: Overdrive]
• Private video
• Wizardnesday!
• OffBeat 🔊🎵 [Beatmaking Tycoon]
• Petrichor Lane / Impirical Evidence / Cold Case: The Red Dress Murder
• Folk Emerging [Prehistoric 4X]
• Nature Incremental Games 🌿 [Sea & Sundry / Pond Keeper / Drunk Woodcutter]
• Godless Avalon / Echo of God
• Storm Settlers
• Garden Games with Floral Themes 🪷 [The Regreening / Thornspell / The Secrets We Grow]
• Playtesting a Deckbuilder with 99 of You
• Sokoban Time
• IUTK: Orebital Dynamics & Knick Knack Stack
• Indies Under the Knife: Slots & Diapers / Astefactor / IGTAP
• Streaming Some Games from CollabJam 2026
• Streaming Some Games from CollabJam 2026
• Community Member's Games: "Race to Ruler" / "Banners"
• Streaming Some Games from CollabJam 2026
• Streaming Some Games from CollabJam 2026
• Streaming Some Games from CollabJam 2026
• 2x DISTURBING Games [Flesh Grinding / Who's Afraid of Uno]
• We Need to Talk About Platformers [Stream Highlights]
• Patron's Games
• Deckbuilder Day [Fatal Exception / Bound Together / Northanda Chronicles]
• IUTK 21 - Parlour Games [Sparrow Warfare / Space Cat Solitaire / Real Time Chess ]
• IUTK 20 - Let's Get Weird in 3D [Planet Surf / Explosiovania / project_Structure_01]
• IUTK 19 Metroidvania-ish [Holo & Veil / Valerie / Spring Escape / Climb Out of Hell]
• Blood & Chaos [Live Playtesting, Private Demo]
• Don't Let a Bad Story Hurt a Good Game [Stream Highlights]
• Thanks for 40k Subs!!! [and here are this week's playtests]
• Community Playtesting
• IUTK 18 - Word-Game Magic [Wordlock / TypeCaster / Spellsy]
• IUTK 17 - Fantasy Tactics [Lootbane / Northanda Chronicles / Deck Tactics ]
• Deckbuilder Devs! Please Pay Attention
• Goreticulture / WOIM / King's Haven / Well You Can't Stay Here
• Community Playtesting / Patreon.com/indiegameclinic
• IUTK 15: Scraptory, Little Tree Kingdom, Into the Depths
• Jumping Around in Castles! ⚔️ Mead & Glory / Dwarf Legacy⚔️ IUTK 14
• "Decks & Tiles & Tactics, Oh My!" - Manic Meeples / Cyber Tile / Forge the Fates [IUTK 13]
• Designing a Mini RTS? [Nights of Nil]
• 4 Choices in My Upgrades? No Thank You! [Relic Abyss / Book & Horn / Astrolite] - IUTK Week 12
• IUTK Week 11: Autobattlers [Souls End / Leaf Us Alone / I Won't Let You Level Up...]
• 4 Patrons' Games (Ad Iterum / Trials of Liberation / Starlode Salvage / R.A.T.S.)
• Community Playtesting
• First Impressions: Folk Emerging [Prehistoric 4X]
• Community Playtesting
• Games of Deckbuilding and/or Pushing Your Luck
• Pushing Our Luck at the Ren Faire
• 2 More Games About Delivering Things
• Community Playtesting
• 3 Games of Puzzling Logic
• A Game About Piecing Together History
• Delivering Pizzas in Yellow Canyon
• Moonshire: First Impressions
• Games From the Indie Game Clinic Discord [Monthly Community Playtest Stream]
• Community Monthly Playtest [Games From the IGC Discord]
• Tic Tactic - Steam Demo & Chat
• Planet Popper / Rogue Mech [Fortnightly Discord Community Stream]
• Community Playtesting
• "Hermit": Why an RPG Isn't a Good Solo Project
• 4 Top-Down Action Games
• 3 Indie Games About Contraptions
• Community Playtesting
• 2 Gentle Games About Rewilding a Dead World
• Feudums: First Impressions
• Patron's Games! [Echo Extract, Well You Can't Stay Here, Battle Lines, Spore Bloom]
• Let's Play Summit Drive (and discuss the banality of evil)
• Tower Defense MARATHON Part 1/2
• Patron's Games! [Atomic Lance, Echo Extract, and more!]
• Doc's Recommendations 💊 December 2025
• Clowns and Ghosts and Freaky Cameras! [IUTK Dec 18th]
• More Itch.io Browser Games [Pachinko Plex, Flick Party, Blue Princess, Peganomics, Vena]
• Turn-Based Tuesday [Light Voyagers / King's Guard / Where Noble Plans Lie / Sync Tactics]
• 4 Puzzle Games [Gravity Whipped / Skull Seeker / Beyond the Board / A Simple Expurriment]
• Sixteen itch.io Browser Games Reviewed
• Patron's Games! [Space Mongrels / Kamelot Healers / Newtons Revenge / Ad Iterum / King's Haven]
• Indie Game Playtesting [One Pop Planet/Gammiferous / Huedini]
• Playtesting Your Games [MIK / On Your Own / One Rotten Oath / Object Impermanence ]
• Playtesting Discord Members' Games
• I Played 150 of Your Games; Common Problems (and Solutions!)
• Sporebloom - Mycelium Master
• Playtesting Supporters' Games
• Frog Legs x BRINE
• Playtesting Channel Supporters' Games
• Playtesting Games With Spooky Settings
• Indie Game Academy Special
• Indies Under the Knife; Stage Fighter, Bomb or Kill
• 3 Games About Automation
• Game Designer Reacts: 3 Unique Deckbuilders [This Is It / Mark My Words / Goblin Gourmet]
• Bullet Heaven / Bullet Hell!
• Live Playtesting + Crit "Age of the Deep"
• Live Games Crit; 4 "Creepy but Cute" Games
• Your Games Tested