The number of new Steam releases keeps going up every year, and backwards compatibility on consoles means there’s no shortage of older games competing with everything new coming out each week. The flood of choices can lead to paralysis and make actually picking something out to download and play feel overwhelming. Kotaku is here to help. Since last November , we’ve been running a weekly picks of our favorite recent indie game releases . These games are usually pretty cheap and range from old-school boomer shooters to golf course design sims. They’re often created by very small teams, maybe even just one or two people. It could be the first in a transformative career of making games or the only ones they ever ship. While we still regularly review lots of games , whether from big publishers or small indie studios, these weekly picks are a way of sharing some bonus personal recommendations from the staff for really neat stuff that’s not already getting tons of attention. The algorithm has no sway here.…