"Indie Games". What are your favourites?

[luke2fr]

i've discovered and bought vvvvvv on steam.
easy to finish, but hard to get all the "gems".
great litte game, with a good replay value, and a great soundtrack.

World of goo is a must have too.

[pubjoe]

I recently descovered that 2DBoy made a powerPC compatible version of World of Goo, so I put it on my Boy's 8 year old 700mhz imac g4. It runs perfectly!! He's chuffed to bits (even though he's already completed it on the wii).

VVVVVV, I still haven't bought. I feel like £3.99 is just a quid too high and I'm being tight. Ahh **** - I think I'll stop being a tosser and buy it.

[luke2fr]

there's some worthy indie game pack these days on steam. One of them include it
edit: just checked, not true anymore

[luke2fr]

got today's puzzle indie pack on steam.
Cogs rulez !

[pubjoe]

Oh for ****'s sake. I just missed the puzzle pack and the orange box deals by 43 minutes. I saw them this morning, but thought "today's deals" meant I could get them "today". ...Stupid timezones.

[pogfanatic]

Picked up Breath of death IIV from xbla indie section and must say worth the 90 or so ms points. Plays like an 8Bit era rpg and makes fun of itself at times. Only gripe I have with it is that its to easy but im only a few hours in might get better.

[tart31]

http://www.retrocityrampage.com/"

Quite looking forward to this.still no date yet though

[pogfanatic]

That retro city is looking fun hopefully it comes out on something outside wiiware also.

[pubjoe]

http://www.humblebundle.com"

Pay whatever you like for...

Braid
Cortex Command
Machinarium
Osmos
Revenge of the Titans

[throneofwolves]

Most Cactus games are worth checking out, especially the likes of Clean Asia (shooter) and the Mondo series (a series of David Lynch inspired FPS puzzler/general mind-****). His games ooze style and atmosphere, and they're not too shy on originality either. Definitely the best indie developer I've come across thus far.

http://cactusquid.com/games.htm (all free to download)

[pubjoe]

Thanks throneofwolves ...Freeaky!

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Loving VVVVVV by the way. I can't believe I was being so tight spending out on this. It's worth the money for Souleye's incredible soundtrack alone!

Has anyone managed a decent score on Super Gravitron? My best is 14:86 seconds.

Super Gravitron Ninja Video...

[luke2fr]

VVVVVV is a must have for sure.
Where did you find that gravitron mode ?

edit:
ok, i've asked google.
Damn you're good if you've found and got all trinkets !

[pubjoe]

I dunno about that. VVVVVV's challenges make me cry.

The trinkets aren't too bad. There are four **** ones that I remember: "I'm sorry", "edge games", "prize for the reckless" and "doing things the hard way".


I'm sorry, my 8-year-old Son ended up getting! I missed him do it after I had already died 50-100 times and given up temporarily. This trinket just requires perseverance I suppose ...But I never actually did it!


Edge games is a tricky one. I actually did this one a strange way, by timing a direct run up to the trinket so that I passed through some enemies while running out of the screen's edge. I probably died over 100 times attempting it.


Prize for the reckless. Ingenious trinket this. You start in the bottom part of the room, hit the checkpoint and then have to avoid every other checkpoint in the several rooms that lead you back to the top part. Then you can release the trapped moving platform by crumbling the quicksand platforms. Then kill yourself. Due to the fact the last checkpoint was in the same room, you will reappear instantly in the lower part and can easily get the trinket. If you try to do it any other way, leaving the room causes a reset so that the quicksand comes back and the key moving platform gets re-stuck.


Doing things the hard way is a classic moment. The infamous "unsurpassable waist high fence". You just need to practice it a few hundred or thousand times!

[pubjoe]

If you guys haven't tried it yet get Minecraft, very addictive and extremely simple to play. Basically you mine things in a 3d world and use the materials you mine to craft new things like tools, boxes, houses. The aim is to survive as when nighttime comes, monsters come out to try and kill you and you need to barricade yourself in with your creation to survive. Its a very fun game and is only $15 I think.

Minecraft looks awesome. Has anyone been playing this? Ah sod it I'll start a thread for it...

[opt2not]

Surprised no one mentioned Hydorah:

Very well put together side-scrolling shooter, ala Gradius Salamander style gameplay. Definitely worth the free price-tag

Super Puzzle Platformer has got quite a few hours of playtime from me:


If you're running a PC in your cabinet, these two are pretty awesome to play with an arcade setup.

I'm really looking forward to Monoco, the gameplay looks like a lot of fun (release date is pending):

[Mango]

I love Cave Story Simply so much fun, and easy to pick up anytime.

[Klax]

Been playing through Aquaria and really like it - though my favorite indie game is Cave Story (this is going to be the new tetris where it's released for every single game system from here on out in 500 different versions). Within a Deep Forest is also awesome.

[pogfanatic]

Had to Find this thread and tell everyone who wants to loose there life to a game and never leave there house again to get Terraria. So much win I cannot stop playing.

[opt2not]

Yeeeeeeah necro bump...

The developer of Super Puzzle Platformer just released a newer updated "Plus" version: http://games.adultswim.com/super-puzzle ... -game.html"

It adds enemy traps, "drift" jumping (ala Super Mario World cape gliding), and a killer updated soundtrack.

AND, he's working on a Deluxe version, which has a versus mode!


I loved the original.
Great game, works really well on a cabinet, or with a controller. I haven't tried it on a vertical monitor set-up yet...might have to give that one a shot.

[moshpit]

I like that game! Thanks for sharing!