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With the amount of Indie games around lately and the wildly fluctuating level of quality in them it's often quite hard to figure out which ones are worth playing. That is, if you even heard of the game. Lets try to remedy that by keeping a list of Indie games that are at the very least good for what they are. Recommendations are more than welcome. Here we go.
Minecraft
http://www.minecraft.net/
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens.
Super Meat Boy
http://supermeatboy.com/
The game follows a small, skinless, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the villainous Dr. Fetus through over 300 levels filled with deadly hazards.
The Binding of Isaac
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/
Roguelike meets Smash TV meets some pretty nasty childhood issues.
Cave Story
http://www.cavestory.org/
Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel.
Braid
http://www.braid-game.com/
Braid is a platform game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles
Plants vs Zombies
http://www.popcap.com/extras/pvz/
A mob of zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Think fast and plant faster to stop the zombies dead in their tracks.
World of Goo
http://2dboy.com/games.php
World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
Creeper World
http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/cw.php
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion. You've saved the day just so you can do it again and again. Do you have what it takes to save your great city, your people, and all of history?
Gemini Rue
http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/gemini-rue.html
Azriel Odin, ex-assassin, arrives on the rain-drenched planet of Barracus. When things go horribly wrong, he can only seek help from the very criminals he used to work for.
Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a man called Delta-Six wakes up in a hospital with no memory. Without knowing where to turn or who to trust, he vows to escape before he loses his identity completely.
Atom Zombie Smasher
http://www.blendogames.com/atomzombiesmasher/
The only thing preventing the zombie apocalypse is you, your mercenaries, and a nuclear-capable orbital battlestation.
Machinarium
http://amanita-design.net/
Machinarium is award-winning independent puzzle / adventure game developed by the makers of popular web-games Samorost and Samorost2.
Revenge of the Titans
http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-the-titans/
At first they came from the skies. In the ensuing war, Earth was laid waste, but we had won...
But that was just the first strike - now the invasion has landed! Defeat the returning Titan horde in a series of epic ground battles, save the Earth, again, and command the counterstrike against their homeworld!
Solium Infernum
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/So ... ernum.html
The Prince of Darkness has vanished and the Infernal Throne sits empty. A conclave of the Powers and Potentates of Hell will be summoned to Pandemonium to select the next ruler of The Infernal Pit. Do you have what it takes to claim the throne and rule Hell?
Solium Infernum is a turn based strategy game set in the profoundest depths of Hell.
Armageddon Empires
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/ar ... pires.html
Earth has been laid to waste by two alien races who then left. On the ruined planet humans, mutants and left behind aliens fight for domination. Turn based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic setting versus 1 to 3 AI opponents.
Terraria
http://www.terraria.org/
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint.
SpaceChem
http://www.spacechemthegame.com/
Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem.
VVVVVVV
http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCa ... vvvvv-demo
VVVVVV is a retro styled 2D platformer by Terry Cavanagh, creator of dozens of free games. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension exploring scientists who inadvertently crash, and are separated. The game involves exploring the strange world you've found yourself in, and reuniting your friends.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
http://www.amnesiagame.com/
The last remaining memories fade away into darkness. Your mind is a mess and only a feeling of being hunted remains. You must escape. And poop your pants. Which you will.
PG Forever
http://rudankort.spb.ru/pgforever/
PG Forever is a freeware remake of one of the greatest strategy games ever created - Panzer General. The goal of the project is to preserve the original game mechanics and the characteristic look and feel of this classic game, and at the same time improve all the other aspects: compatibility with modern hardware and operating systems, UI and usability, multiplayer capabilities, AI and customizability.
Frozen Synapse
http://www.frozensynapse.com/
Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC and Mac strategy game. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Classic gameplay with a modern interface!
Knights of the Chalice
http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/
Knights of the Chalice is a PC computer role-playing game (CRPG) for Windows loosely based upon the Open Game Licence 3.5 (OGL), the set of rules at the root of the popular pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Edition 3.5, made by Wizards of the Coast.
Uplink
http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/
You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.
You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can modify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.
Eschalon I and II
http://basiliskgames.com
The Eschalon games are classic oldskool role-playing game experiences that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into sprawling dungeons as you seek to uncover the mystery of who – or what – you are.
Dwarf Fortress
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. Oh, and that world hates you. Expect to learn enjoy abstract art and dying.
Aquaria
http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/
A massive ocean world, teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater dweller in search of her family, as she explores the depths of Aquaria. She'll travel from hidden caves, shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases, all lovingly handcrafted by its two creators.
Prelude to Darkness
http://www.zero-sum.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/?dnetngwnmjj
Oldskool rpg that for a short time became a codex favourite. The countless bugs then drove almost everyone off and the game was discontinued. Still, one of the most hardcore rpg's in recent history and worthy of mention.
Firefight
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/ff.html
Firefight is a World War II real time simulation game. It relies heavily on the use of artificial intelligence to create a realistic game, while having a user interface so simple and intuitive that you can learn to play in minutes.
Review at TCancer.
Trine
http://trine-thegame.com/site/
Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies.
Zeno Clash
http://www.zenoclash.com/
Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter set in a wierd fantasy world.
The Avernum Games
http://www.avernum.com/
Jeff Vogel's biggest hit series has been the Avernum games. These party based rpg's are all about exploration and combat in the giant underground penal colony named Avernum.
The Geneforge Games
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html
Another one of Jeff Vogel's hits are the Geneforge rpg games. Dabble in a world where the sect of the Shapers, being with the power to create and control other creatures, come under more and more pressure.
Avadon: The Black Fortress
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/avadon/index.html
Jeff Vogel's latest brings you Avadon: The Black Fortress, the first chapter in a new, epic fantasy saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Experience an exciting fantasy role-playing adventure and battle a conspiracy to destroy your people.
Capsized
http://www.capsizedgame.com/
Capsized is a fast paced 2d platformer developed by Alientrap Games, focused on intense action and exploration.
As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
Osmos
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.
Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.
Space Pirates and Zombies
http://spacepiratesandzombies.com/
At its core, Space Pirates and Zombies is an action based, skill oriented, top down space combat game. It's similar to the ones we knew and loved in years past, but now using full physics simulation and modern graphics for those oh so pretty explosions. It's however also a freeroaming exploraton in a huge randomly made universe.
Spelunky
http://spelunkyworld.com/
Randomly build worlds in a devilish oldskool platform adventure.
Alien Assault
http://www.teardown.se/
What started as a fanmade remake of the classic Space Hulk got shot down by lawyers and arose from the ashes as Alien Assault.
Bastion
http://supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242
Bastion is the first title from Supergiant Games, an original action role-playing game set in a lush imaginative world, in which players must create and fight for civilization’s last refuge as a mysterious narrator marks their every move.
Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole.
http://www.stealthbastard.com/
Stealth games are awesome. Hiding from The Man, skulking in shadows, the thrill of the unseen infiltration. But why do they have to be so... slow? Introducing Stealth Bastard: stealth, with a great big kick up the arse. A fast-paced, frenetic, one-step-away-from-chunky-death melange of sneaking, platforming, hacking and cursing. A whole lot of fun. It's like Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy had a baby out of wedlock. Semi-literally.
Minecraft
http://www.minecraft.net/
Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens.
Super Meat Boy
http://supermeatboy.com/
The game follows a small, skinless, cube-shaped character named Meat Boy as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the villainous Dr. Fetus through over 300 levels filled with deadly hazards.
The Binding of Isaac
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/
Roguelike meets Smash TV meets some pretty nasty childhood issues.
Cave Story
http://www.cavestory.org/
Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel.
Braid
http://www.braid-game.com/
Braid is a platform game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles
Plants vs Zombies
http://www.popcap.com/extras/pvz/
A mob of zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Think fast and plant faster to stop the zombies dead in their tracks.
World of Goo
http://2dboy.com/games.php
World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.
Creeper World
http://knucklecracker.com/creeperworld/cw.php
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion. You've saved the day just so you can do it again and again. Do you have what it takes to save your great city, your people, and all of history?
Gemini Rue
http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/gemini-rue.html
Azriel Odin, ex-assassin, arrives on the rain-drenched planet of Barracus. When things go horribly wrong, he can only seek help from the very criminals he used to work for.
Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a man called Delta-Six wakes up in a hospital with no memory. Without knowing where to turn or who to trust, he vows to escape before he loses his identity completely.
Atom Zombie Smasher
http://www.blendogames.com/atomzombiesmasher/
The only thing preventing the zombie apocalypse is you, your mercenaries, and a nuclear-capable orbital battlestation.
Machinarium
http://amanita-design.net/
Machinarium is award-winning independent puzzle / adventure game developed by the makers of popular web-games Samorost and Samorost2.
Revenge of the Titans
http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-the-titans/
At first they came from the skies. In the ensuing war, Earth was laid waste, but we had won...
But that was just the first strike - now the invasion has landed! Defeat the returning Titan horde in a series of epic ground battles, save the Earth, again, and command the counterstrike against their homeworld!
Solium Infernum
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/SI/So ... ernum.html
The Prince of Darkness has vanished and the Infernal Throne sits empty. A conclave of the Powers and Potentates of Hell will be summoned to Pandemonium to select the next ruler of The Infernal Pit. Do you have what it takes to claim the throne and rule Hell?
Solium Infernum is a turn based strategy game set in the profoundest depths of Hell.
Armageddon Empires
http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/ar ... pires.html
Earth has been laid to waste by two alien races who then left. On the ruined planet humans, mutants and left behind aliens fight for domination. Turn based strategy game in a post-apocalyptic setting versus 1 to 3 AI opponents.
Terraria
http://www.terraria.org/
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint.
SpaceChem
http://www.spacechemthegame.com/
Take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. Construct elaborate factories to transform raw materials into valuable chemical products! Streamline your designs to meet production quotas and survive encounters with the sinister threats that plague SpaceChem.
VVVVVVV
http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCa ... vvvvv-demo
VVVVVV is a retro styled 2D platformer by Terry Cavanagh, creator of dozens of free games. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension exploring scientists who inadvertently crash, and are separated. The game involves exploring the strange world you've found yourself in, and reuniting your friends.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
http://www.amnesiagame.com/
The last remaining memories fade away into darkness. Your mind is a mess and only a feeling of being hunted remains. You must escape. And poop your pants. Which you will.
PG Forever
http://rudankort.spb.ru/pgforever/
PG Forever is a freeware remake of one of the greatest strategy games ever created - Panzer General. The goal of the project is to preserve the original game mechanics and the characteristic look and feel of this classic game, and at the same time improve all the other aspects: compatibility with modern hardware and operating systems, UI and usability, multiplayer capabilities, AI and customizability.
Frozen Synapse
http://www.frozensynapse.com/
Frozen Synapse is a thrilling PC and Mac strategy game. It brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre bang up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad. Classic gameplay with a modern interface!
Knights of the Chalice
http://www.heroicfantasygames.com/
Knights of the Chalice is a PC computer role-playing game (CRPG) for Windows loosely based upon the Open Game Licence 3.5 (OGL), the set of rules at the root of the popular pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons Edition 3.5, made by Wizards of the Coast.
Uplink
http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/
You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.
You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can modify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.
Eschalon I and II
http://basiliskgames.com
The Eschalon games are classic oldskool role-playing game experiences that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into sprawling dungeons as you seek to uncover the mystery of who – or what – you are.
Dwarf Fortress
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Dwarf Fortress is a single-player fantasy game. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. Oh, and that world hates you. Expect to learn enjoy abstract art and dying.
Aquaria
http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria/
A massive ocean world, teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater dweller in search of her family, as she explores the depths of Aquaria. She'll travel from hidden caves, shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases, all lovingly handcrafted by its two creators.
Prelude to Darkness
http://www.zero-sum.com/
http://www.mediafire.com/?dnetngwnmjj
Oldskool rpg that for a short time became a codex favourite. The countless bugs then drove almost everyone off and the game was discontinued. Still, one of the most hardcore rpg's in recent history and worthy of mention.
Firefight
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/ff.html
Firefight is a World War II real time simulation game. It relies heavily on the use of artificial intelligence to create a realistic game, while having a user interface so simple and intuitive that you can learn to play in minutes.
Review at TCancer.
Trine
http://trine-thegame.com/site/
Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies.
Zeno Clash
http://www.zenoclash.com/
Zeno Clash is a 3D fighting game or brawler, with some elements of a first-person shooter set in a wierd fantasy world.
The Avernum Games
http://www.avernum.com/
Jeff Vogel's biggest hit series has been the Avernum games. These party based rpg's are all about exploration and combat in the giant underground penal colony named Avernum.
The Geneforge Games
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/geneforge/index.html
Another one of Jeff Vogel's hits are the Geneforge rpg games. Dabble in a world where the sect of the Shapers, being with the power to create and control other creatures, come under more and more pressure.
Avadon: The Black Fortress
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/avadon/index.html
Jeff Vogel's latest brings you Avadon: The Black Fortress, the first chapter in a new, epic fantasy saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Experience an exciting fantasy role-playing adventure and battle a conspiracy to destroy your people.
Capsized
http://www.capsizedgame.com/
Capsized is a fast paced 2d platformer developed by Alientrap Games, focused on intense action and exploration.
As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
Osmos
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.
Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.
Space Pirates and Zombies
http://spacepiratesandzombies.com/
At its core, Space Pirates and Zombies is an action based, skill oriented, top down space combat game. It's similar to the ones we knew and loved in years past, but now using full physics simulation and modern graphics for those oh so pretty explosions. It's however also a freeroaming exploraton in a huge randomly made universe.
Spelunky
http://spelunkyworld.com/
Randomly build worlds in a devilish oldskool platform adventure.
Alien Assault
http://www.teardown.se/
What started as a fanmade remake of the classic Space Hulk got shot down by lawyers and arose from the ashes as Alien Assault.
Bastion
http://supergiantgames.com/?page_id=242
Bastion is the first title from Supergiant Games, an original action role-playing game set in a lush imaginative world, in which players must create and fight for civilization’s last refuge as a mysterious narrator marks their every move.
Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole.
http://www.stealthbastard.com/
Stealth games are awesome. Hiding from The Man, skulking in shadows, the thrill of the unseen infiltration. But why do they have to be so... slow? Introducing Stealth Bastard: stealth, with a great big kick up the arse. A fast-paced, frenetic, one-step-away-from-chunky-death melange of sneaking, platforming, hacking and cursing. A whole lot of fun. It's like Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy had a baby out of wedlock. Semi-literally.
in gaming. I figured it was worth finally posting to recommend my favorite indie game, since I don't see it on the list.
