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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Taiji
Ever since I finished The Witness for the first time back in 2017, I’ve been looking for a puzzle game that follows that same formula, and this year I found it with Taiji. Instead of being a first person puzzle game about completing puzzle panels where you fill in the edges, this is a top-down…
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The Room
Yet another bundle of games, each with the same premise and controls. The Room is a series of point & click puzzle games with an overarching plot told through notes left behind by the people you’re trying to track down. The series starts off simple enough, you start with a box, and you have to…
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Filament
This is a brutally hard puzzle game, where the main mechanic involves controlling a small robot to wrap wires around pylons to open the exit. There are a dozen or so puzzle mechanics, which are each isolated to one set of puzzles, and introduced at the start of the set. Solving puzzles gives you more…
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Example Block Game
Now I have to come clean on this one, the developer of this game is literally my IRL partner, who makes games to keep herself from going insane. She has a lot of experience with various tetris games, including ones that very few people have ever heard of, and she’s made a few games in…
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Cult of the Lamb
This game is so cute and adorable and it filled up a Moonlighter shaped hole in my heart that I didn’t even know was there, as well as introducing me to Animal Crossing kinda? I don’t know… All I know is that this scrimblo is adorable and everyone should forefit their earthly posessions to him.
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Here Comes Niko
Such a cozy little platformer collectathon full of friends to meet and talk to and fun objectives to complete with those fun fluffy friends. All the characters may look like animal pals, but Animal Crossing exists, and yall didn’t complain about that, so this comfy game gets to slide too.
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Patrick’s Parabox
Take a look at the thumbnail image. That will tell you almost everything you need to know about this infinite Sokoban game.
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The Forgotten City
In The Forgotten City, you are a detective/archaeologist exploring lost ruins and investigating the civilisation within, in order to learn what the ruins are and how things work. One of the first things that happens in the game is you find a time portal in the old ruins. Stepping into it has a suspiciously Doctor…
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Death’s Door
A cute little game similar to Hyper Light Drifter, with a bit more of a concrete story. You play as a reaper, a cute little crow who’s job is to reap the souls of the dead to bring them to the afterlife, and to do that you have a few weapons at your disposal that…
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The Looker
If you didn’t like The Witness, you’ll absolutely love The Looker. This is a parody game by one dude, who just wanted to make something really funny and frankly they did a great job at it. The objective here is the same as The Witness: Draw a line from the start to the end. Unlike…
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The Witness
This is a hard one to recommend because it takes a certain type of person to enjoy the concept of this game. You’re dropped in a world devoid of life but full of puzzles, with no direction other than the controls. Move to the door, click to open solving mode, draw a line from the…
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A Dance Of Fire And Ice + Neo Cosmos
ADOFAI is the first true rhythm game on my list and wow it certainly is something. The gameplay is incredibly simple, one of the simplest forms of input in the most versatile genre of games: one button. You press one button, any button, in time with the path you’re following. Doesn’t have to be the…