Category: Indie
Games that are created by smaller studios or individuals, rather than large scale companies. Indie games may be published through larger publishers such as Annapurna Interactive or Devolver Digital, but the games themselves are smaller scale.
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Wandersong
A cute little game about a bard trying to save the world. Explore many fantastic locales and sing to solve puzzles. Recover the parts of the Earthsong to try and save the world!
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Spirit of the North
Spirit of the North is a fox game in its purest form. You play as a fox, like, an actual fox, who can yip and wag their tail. Eventually you meet a friendly spirit fox who will help guide you on your adventure and try to explain to you what’s going on.
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Freedom Planet 2
So if you enjoy Sonic, you’ll like Freedom Planet and it’s long awaited sequel Freedom Planet 2. You get a small cast of playable characters, Son– I mean Lilac the dragon, Carol the wildcat, Milla Basset the pupper, and new to this game, the team’s panda friend, Neera. Each character plays differently.
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Opus Magnum
Welcome to the age of alchemy and automation, you’ve been hired as the alchemist to a nobelman, and been given access to their transmutation engine, which you can configure and automate however you need to achieve your goals. Starting with a set of inputs and programmable arms, and create a set of outputs to complete…
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Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
It’s literally just a super lightweight collection of free and open-source newspaper puzzles. No concrete progression, no unlock system, no ads or IAPs, just pure puzzles and nothing else.
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A Short Hike
A very cute lil game about climbing a mountain, or well, climbing is the goal, but you’d find it difficult to not get distracted on the way by all the cute and colourful characters, side quests to help people out, and exploring the archipelago you’re on for hidden treasure and secrets.
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TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Tri is a platformer, one with a very slightly off atmosphere, and in some cases a bit of non-euclidean map design, but its a puzzle platformer nontheless. Your goal is to find your missing fox friend by adventuring through areas, solving puzzles, and unlocking new tools.
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Arcaea
Two young girls explore a shattered world filled with sound: a past to be uncovered. Not the tagline I’d have gone with personally, and a lot of people seeing the logo out of context probably got confused by this too, but in reality while Arcaea is a rhythm game, it also has a lot of…
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14 Minesweeper Variants
If you thought that Minesweeper was too easy, or that guessing in Minesweeper is a sin that should be avoided at all costs, then this is the game for you. 14 Variants is a brutally hard game that expects you to follow a bunch of potentially obscure logical trails to deduce every square and can…
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DemonCrawl
It’s basically Minesweeper but with rogue-like mechanics.
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Home Quest
The first game on the big list of stuff that passively just consumes my life, this is a pretty simple resource management idle game without too much complexity. It’s the sort of game that you kinda pick up for 5 minutes, queue up some stuff to do, then let it sit for a bit, so…
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Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits Are Gone
Something spooked your 100 bunnies in the night and now you have to adventure out to find them. This is a puzzle platformer where not only do you have to explore the world to find your rabbits, you have to call out to them and tell them to move, stop, etc in order to try…