Tag: Self-Published
Games that were developed and then published by a single person or studio. Indie in the most literal sense of the term “independent.”
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…
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Can of Wormholes
Yet another devilishly complex puzzle game with a simple premise and simple set of controls. Can of Wormholes is kind of a snake + Sokoban hybrid, a Snekoban if you will, where the goal is to get your snake into the hole. Your only controls are to move the head of the snake in one…
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Agent A: A puzzle in disguise
Off schedule post here because the game is currently like, 90% off on steam summer sale. Go play, you’ll like. Funky lil indie point and click puzzle game with a surprisingly charming aesthetic and voice acting, and a fun story that ends with sabotaging a submarine, which is…. impressively topical to say the least.
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Dinkum
Animal Crossing meets Stardew Valley except its on an island in Australia. What more could you want to be honest. Move out of the city with a sweet old woman named Fletch to try and start your own little town on a tropical island, and invite new residents to expand your town during the course…
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Turing Complete
This game has consumed my entire life and has converted me into a hardware geek instead of a software one. Send help. Turing Complete is a surprisingly competent logic simulation model and game, where you start with nothing but a couple of basic gates, like NAND and NOR, and build your way up to a…
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Toem
Super cute game about adventuring around several locations and helping people to collect stamps and make progress. Huh, that sounds familliar… Oh but in this one your primary mode of interaction is with your fancy camera that comes with an optical zoom!
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Buck Up And Drive
If you’ve ever played classic sega racing games like OutRun or Super Hang On, this will be right up your alley. It’s a back to form classic rally racing game, except this one comes packaged with a huge massive important DRIFT button, and quarter circle bullshit.
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Discolored
A short little point and click puzzle game. Some of the puzzles are a tiny bit obtuse, but my partner and I solved it in 2-3 hours without a walkthrough or anything. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
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Factory Town
This is a weird one to recommend, I saw it on the Jingle Jam bundle and thought why not give it a try. Turns out its actually an incredibly deep management simulation styled like a town simulation game, with a fairly wide range of things to manage and consider.
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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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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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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.