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    Best Indie Games ?

    Curious to hear what others here are playing or would recommend.

    Its not really something that grabbed my attention really until i came across Limbo and of course Minecraft .

    Heres one ( Just to get started ) I came across that seems to borrow a lot from Limbo visually .

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Osmos is one of the most engaging I've played in a while, although it's on Android now as well as Windows which might be a better option.

    Very simple concept (moving a bubble around the screen and absorbing bubbles smaller than you, thereby gaining their mass), but very well implemented with a range of game modes that keeps you going for ages.

    Have to say, I completed the Android campaign very quickly, although the challenge mode should last a lot longer - I think the one on PC is a lot harder.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    world of goo
    machinarium
    eufloria
    defense grid: the awakening
    amnesia: the dark descent

    are my personal favourites. still haven't completed amnesia due to me being to scared of it

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Would second World of Goo and Defense Grid, both excellent games that I've enjoyed in the past.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    All good mentions so far. Also add:

    Bastion
    Braid

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Indie wise this is what I have been playing the last few months:

    • And Yet it Moves
    • Bastion
    • The Binding of Isaac - Dungeon crawler of sorts, one life for whole run through game
    • Bit.Trip Runner (Awesome soundtrack)
    • Capsized
    • Cave Story+
    • Cogs
    • Cthulhu Saves the World
    • Demolition Inc
    • Dust Force - A bit like Super Meat Boy in gameplay
    • Galcon Fusion
    • Grid Runner Revolution - Another refresh from a Jeff Minter classic from the man himself
    • Jamestown (Awesome shoot em up)
    • Magika
    • Minecraft
    • Night Sky (Think I got this as part of the Humble Indie Bundle - Not played as yet)
    • Payday: Heist - Maybe not the usual feel of an indie game and servers are starting to die off now
    • Really Big Sky
    • Realm of the Mad God - Free to play on Steam, 8bit like mmo shooter game, really good fun
    • Satazius - Great hark back to the 90's shmups of the SNES/Mega Drive era (R-Type like)
    • Scoregasm - Shoot em up, more in the ilk of Geometry wars)
    • Space Giraffe - Jeff Minter genius
    • Super Meat Boy
    • Terraria - Some will say its a Minecraft rip-off, it borrows a lot but a great game
    • Torchlight
    • Trine 1 & 2
    • VVVVVV - Great game and great soundtrack
    • World of Goo


    In the last year or so I have switched heavily to indie gaming. I think it offers a lot more in the way of something new/different/challenging than the usual rehash and packaged games that are coming out of the big studio's at present. Only so many rehashes of an FPS or RTS that's the same old as it has always been with a new game style or skin on it.

    Just something about what they label as AAA games that just don't interest me enough to spend £30+ on them.

    Out of the list above the ones I would recommend over the rest (not saying they are bad games there )are:

    • The Binding of Isaac
    • Bit.Trip Runner
    • Dust Force
    • Scoregasm
    • VVVVVV
    • Super Meat Boy
    • Satazius
    • Jamestown


    Really playing these on an almost daily basis
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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Marenghi View Post
    world of goo
    machinarium
    eufloria
    defense grid: the awakening
    amnesia: the dark descent

    are my personal favourites. still haven't completed amnesia due to me being to scared of it
    I got to the 3rd part in machinarium then got stumped - what makes it hard is not being so sure how your robot reacts to the environment,as some things are not so obvious through controls until your in the right place.

    I love the look of this .

    This doesnt look too bad either .


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    Last edited by melon; 27-02-2012 at 06:49 AM.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Grey M@a View Post
    Indie wise this is what I have been playing the last few months:

    • And Yet it Moves
    • Bastion
    • The Binding of Isaac - Dungeon crawler of sorts, one life for whole run through game
    • Bit.Trip Runner (Awesome soundtrack)
    • Capsized
    • Cave Story+
    • Cogs
    • Cthulhu Saves the World
    • Demolition Inc
    • Dust Force - A bit like Super Meat Boy in gameplay
    • Galcon Fusion
    • Grid Runner Revolution - Another refresh from a Jeff Minter classic from the man himself
    • Jamestown (Awesome shoot em up)
    • Magika
    • Minecraft
    • Night Sky (Think I got this as part of the Humble Indie Bundle - Not played as yet)
    • Payday: Heist - Maybe not the usual feel of an indie game and servers are starting to die off now
    • Really Big Sky
    • Realm of the Mad God - Free to play on Steam, 8bit like mmo shooter game, really good fun
    • Satazius - Great hark back to the 90's shmups of the SNES/Mega Drive era (R-Type like)
    • Scoregasm - Shoot em up, more in the ilk of Geometry wars)
    • Space Giraffe - Jeff Minter genius
    • Super Meat Boy
    • Terraria - Some will say its a Minecraft rip-off, it borrows a lot but a great game
    • Torchlight
    • Trine 1 & 2
    • VVVVVV - Great game and great soundtrack
    • World of Goo


    In the last year or so I have switched heavily to indie gaming. I think it offers a lot more in the way of something new/different/challenging than the usual rehash and packaged games that are coming out of the big studio's at present. Only so many rehashes of an FPS or RTS that's the same old as it has always been with a new game style or skin on it.

    Just something about what they label as AAA games that just don't interest me enough to spend £30+ on them.

    Out of the list above the ones I would recommend over the rest (not saying they are bad games there )are:

    • The Binding of Isaac
    • Bit.Trip Runner
    • Dust Force
    • Scoregasm
    • VVVVVV
    • Super Meat Boy
    • Satazius
    • Jamestown


    Really playing these on an almost daily basis
    Id love to see a Trine MMORPG done in 3D

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Quote Originally Posted by melon View Post
    Id love to see a Trine MMORPG done in 3D

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    The rumours keep popping up here and there but nothing official Trine 1 was a great game and I was worried Trines 2 would be more of the same, I was pleasantly surprised when it was released. Even better game.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Loved Super meat boy (need to try and finish it but I have got stuck on the brown meat boy boss level.)
    Machinarium was good but lost my saves so need to restart some time.
    Sticking to my principle of not buying any new games I should get some time.

    Keep an eye on Humble bundles etc as you get a range of games for not an awful lot.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Grey M@a View Post
    The rumours keep popping up here and there but nothing official Trine 1 was a great game and I was worried Trines 2 would be more of the same, I was pleasantly surprised when it was released. Even better game.
    Rumours ??

    You mean they might actually be doing it ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by melon View Post
    Rumours ??

    You mean they might actually be doing it ?

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    It's rumours from the fans, they came about when the Torchlight MMO rumours did the rounds. There is probably nothing to them, I can't see Trine as an MMO as the story is literally 3 characters on their travels.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    I am not a massive fan of Indie games but do have a few installed that I really like :

    Misadventures of P.B Winterbottom
    Braid
    Hamiltons Great Adventure
    Xotic
    The Ball
    Amnesia
    Sideway New York
    Burn Zombie Burn

    I do have others like Penumbra, Wasteland Angel, Nikopol, Binding of Issac etc but played them for a little while and dont like them to much at all.

    Out of that list The Ball, Winterbottom, Exotic and Hamilton are my favourites.

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    http://forums.hexus.net/pc-gaming/23...ing-isaac.html
    both The Binding of Isaac and Dungeons of Dredmor I'm greatly enjoying, even though binding of isaac is insanely hard and I've not got past the 4th level yet, both have a lot of replay because levels are randomly generated.

    Also to the list
    World of goo
    Minecraft
    Death Spank (not a great deal of replay in death spank but I found it a lot of fun if a bit easy)
    Gattling Gears (twin stick shooter game, great fun, looks great, but again limited replay)

    If you were a fan of the old x-com games then xenonauts is one to keep an eye on http://www.xenonauts.com/

    I'd also checkout Total Biscuit's WTF is . . . channel on you tube http://www.youtube.com/show?p=vVuDo8ku4PA
    There's some major releases but the majority of titles he looks at are all indy


    Some which look great but I've not personally played
    The Unstoppable Gorg - a tower defense type game, slight twist you cannot create paths for the enemies but have to adapt your tower positions to the enemy paths
    Bunch of Heroes - twin stick shooter, nice comedy world, online co-op
    Cthulhu Saves the World - old snes style rpg (made with rpg maker AFAIK) lovely comedy to it.
    Magicka - looks great, not sure if that twin stick, but it's got a really intresting magic system and online multiplayer co-op.
    Super Crate Box - old school single screen arcade game.
    LIMBO - puzzle platformer



    ps on pc twin stick means move with keyboard aim with mouse

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Grey M@a View Post
    It's rumours from the fans, they came about when the Torchlight MMO rumours did the rounds. There is probably nothing to them, I can't see Trine as an MMO as the story is literally 3 characters on their travels.
    hey - it worked for God , Jesus and the Holy spirit , and we're still waiting for the conclusion !!

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    Re: Best Indie Games ?

    *shrugs* Swap characters for character classes and you're there.

    Torchlight MMO wasn't a rumour though - the devs came out with that one up front.

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