The Great List of Good Indies

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Hmm,

http://www.gunpointgame.com/ seems interesting...a kind of stealth puzzle game. Looking forward to it.

http://www.illwinter.com/coe3/ I play this from time to time. Think Warlords/Age of Wonders style gameplay, with a few twists.

 

[Overboard]

http://www.illwinter.com/coe3/ I play this from time to time. Think Warlords/Age of Wonders style gameplay, with a few twists.

At $38.52 that's a little bit pricey. No demo either.

 

[JudasIscariot]

http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/resonance.html - one of the few adventure games I really like. Interesting story, an interesting soundtrack that really adds to the general ambiance, and puzzles that, for the most part, make sense.

 

[Monk]

What do you think of Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land?

http://redwaspdesign.wordpress.com/call-of-cthulhu/

 

[Black]

So apparently Spelunky had its release on XBLA and apparently but not surprisingly it's great, the first and so far the only "hardcore" game available on consoles. Gameplay looked pretty decent (as in, they didn't change much, thank god), but I was wondering if any sub-human 360 owner on the Dex bought it?

 

[JudasIscariot]

Axiom Verge looks promising...

 

[jonathan2340]

Wow...Its amazing. now everyone can find good indies easily from internet. Thanks for sharing this information with us. Keep it up.

 

[Baddygoal]

I'd like to add:

Liero (1998, updated 2009)
http://www.liero.be/

Most of you know about this, a real-time worms-alike which can quickly escalate into total chaos.

Walaber's Trampoline (2011)
http://walaber.com/wordpress/?p=64

A trampoline game with an extended progress mode/tutorial and a Tony Hawk-like big tricks = more points structure. Good physics and quite challenging.

Star Wars: The Battle of Yavin (2004), Star Wars: The Battle of Endor (2003)
http://www.bruneras.com/games.php

These are probably the best re-creations of Star Wars space combat post- Tie-Fighter/X-Wing Alliance. Graphics mods are available.

 

[Bigg Boss]

I didn't see Lone Survivor listed. It's basically a 2d Silent Hill with a touch of Lovecraft.

http://superflatgames.com/wordpress/?tag=lone-survivor

 

[Don Peste]

http://www.dangerdeckman.tk/

http://www.freeindiegam.es/2012/03/wither-rastek/

You only need good ideas to make a good game.

 

[Blaine]

You only need good ideas to make a good game.

If only that's all you needed to actually get people to play your game.

 

[Infinitron]

Trash Cortex Command, Lone Survivor and Gratuitous Tank Battles are no longer "upcoming".

 

[Garbonzo]

This is a pretty cool indie game. It is a fresh take on a couple of different genres blended together. It is called:

Tower of Elements - http://toe.frogdice.com

The official info:

Tower of Elements is an innovative match 3, tower defense, role playing game. Play an elementalist who commands a magical tower against a relentless horde of monsters trying to breach your kingdom’s walls.

Make strategic matches to launch powerful, elemental bolts at the Void Army. Gain experience to learn mighty spells and gather gold to buy epic gear and deadly siege weapons.

Collect scrolls with information about your foes to compile a bestiary that will aid your kingdom in preparing its defense.

• Fast paced match 3 with strategic tower defense.
• Collectible monster cards.
• 24 spells & 11 pieces of gear.
• High level spells and gear are impressively epic.
• 90 levels.
• 10 chapter story in the world of Primordiax.

They have a free 10 level + 1 boss level demo on their web site.

For anyone who digs the game, here's a 50% off code I saw elsewhere: CFNV001H9

 

[Dim]

Gimbal; design the ships you pilot in 2d combat.

 

[gondor]

Well, I think no one mentioned FTL (http://www.ftlgame.com/), a extremly well balanced space roguelike and Grimrock (http://www.grimrock.net/), a great reboot of the dungeon-crawler genre.
Upcoming, already mentioned but great enough to be re-mentioned: Age of Decadence (http://www.irontowerstudio.com/)

And about the requested freeware:

• Iter Vehemens ad Necem, a Violent Road to Death (IVAN) is my all-time favorit roguelike with great game mechanic and a twisted sense of humour: http://www.attnam.com/
• 
  a hacker/AI simulation http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/index.html
• Mari0, Supermario World meets Portal http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

(PS: and I also liked SpaceChem & Dwarf Fortress very much, +1 to each)

 

[gondor]

damn, a 15min edit limit? :/

OK, extension to the freeware section:

• Mari0, Supermario meets Portal http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
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• Battleshipsforver, a tactical Real Time Strategy game that put's you in command of a small fleet of warships in space. (IGF 2008 Game Design Innovation Award Finalist) http://www.wyrdysm.com/bfdownload.php
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• Transcendence, a good 2D Privateer/roguelike http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/
• PakuPaku, excellent Pacman clone (extrapoints for adressing extreme retro platforms) http://www.deathshadow.com/pakuPaku
• 
• AcidBomb 2 Rearmed, puzzle game in which you have to disarm bombs, funky graphic http://www.vertigogaming.net/acidbomb2.htm
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• The Art of Theft, Thief game by the great Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw http://www.escapistmagazine.com/content/games/yahtzee/artoftheft
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[gondor]

Two more for the freeware section

• The Apocalyptic Game about Penguins (TAGAP1+2), excellent run and gun game from Finland http://tagap.net/tagap2.htm
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• Every Extend, One of the coolest and most original Japanese shoot 'em ups ever - featuring no shooting!, http://www.acid-play.com/download/every-extend
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[AN4RCHID]

Starseed Pilgrim is an incredibly hard real-time puzzle adventure game. It has sucked up a ton of my time recently.

 

[AN4RCHID]

The Swapper kicks a lot of ass. Great hard sci-fi setting and very tough puzzles based on simple rules. The story is veyr well thought out also.

 

[gondor]

Crimsonland, You are playing as a man, which alone survives against a horde of monsters, finding weapons, ammo and different items along the fight.
Unfortunately the end is only one – death. It only depends how long can you manage to survive. http://phoenix.ee/old-crimsonland-1-02-1-3-0-1-4-0/?lang=en

 

[gondor]

Futurepinball + Blindmankind tables http://www.futurepinball.com/ http://www.blindmankind.tecnopinball.org/

 

[gondor]

"1916 - Der unbekannte Krieg" A first perspn avoider game. http://1916.dadiugames.dk/

Reprisal - Populous 1 Remake http://www.reprisaluniverse.com/site/