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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I Love Hue Too
A very simple free to play puzzle game about sorting puzzle pieces by colour. You start seeing the end result of the puzzle, then it shuffles most of the pieces, and you have to move the pieces around again to put things back into colour order.
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WitchWay
WitchWay is a charming little puzzle platformer about escaping a well and rescuing bunnies. Early on, you find a wand that you can use to control purple blocks scattered all throughout the well, which you’ll then use to either press buttons remotely or traverse the rooms you’re in.
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Trifox
Welp, those assholes just broke into your house, trashed the place, and stole your TV remote. Time for this grumpy fox to go wreck shop and get it back. This is a fun little combat platformer with some puzzles in it, think like a Ratchet and Clank game but with slightly less meat, and a…
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Etterna
This game has been with me for a long time. After I had made my start like many others playing osu!mania, I decided to transition to a more competently designed game in order to improve my skills further, and Etterna is the game I jumped to. It’s a 4 button (4K) rhythm game with a…
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Rabi Ribi
Bunny girl with a hammer, what could go wrong. Well, a lot, I suppose. Somehow all the bunnies have disappeared and Erina, our protagonist, has turned into a bunny girl instead of a bunny? Whats going on? Whats this bunny phenomenon thats making every other girl on the island try to capture you? Guess you’ll…
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Potion Craft
This is a game about crafting potions with various effects and selling them, and if that sounds boring, I promise it’s not. This game has one of the most unique crafting systems I’ve personally ever seen. Each day you can pick up some plants from your garden, as well as buy some plants or minerals…
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The Entropy Centre
Portal inspired puzzle game with a talking puzzle gun. Need I say more1?
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Moncage
Moncage is a cute puzzle and story game where you explore a world inside a cube. The twist though is that some parts of the cube can interact with other parts when you look from a certain angle. Each face of the cube is its own perspective on the world inside, and while the scenes…
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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…