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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INFRA
Yet another one that I was recommended by a YouTuber I follow, but this time it was Real Civil Engineer. I got about 3 videos into the playlist before I stopped and went to play it myself, and I’m glad I did. The game surprisingly has a very intriguing plot, which is not something you’d…
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Manifold Garden
“In William Chyr’s Manifold Garden, the player’s world is not our own.” – Jacob Geller, 2020. Manifold garden is a game about infinity. Every ceiling a floor, Every direction stretching out in a looping manner, only terminated temporarily by the repeating floors, and in this game you get to navigate this infintite world to solve…
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Hyper Light Drifter
My boy! My wonderful beautiful handsome swordy boye! So this game is a pretty tricky combat and exploration adventure game set in a beautiful sci-fi futuristic world. You have to fight your way through various areas and enemies in order to collect fragments that are used to power the towers that open the final boss.…
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The Sexy Brutale
The Sexy Brutale is a time looping puzzle detective game where the staff are murderers and the guests are the victims, and its on the player, Lafcadio, to figure out how each person dies, and how to save them. Don’t worry about getting it wrong, as you can repeat the night as many times as…
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Vision Soft Reset
A short little metroidvania game where you play as an oracle who can see the future. You land on a planet and explore, and you might notice a timer in the top corner. As you adventure, you’ll find checkpoint stations, where you can save your progress. But not only does this save your items and…
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Baba Is You
Baba Is You is a Sokoban-like puzzle game, where the rules of the game are written on the blocks that you push. You play as Baba, a cute sheep critter, but not always, sometimes you play as a robot, or as a box, or as a wall, or well, you could be anything, it all…
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Rusty Lake
This is a weird one because its not just a game, but rather a whole series of games made by a single developer. The games all belong to the same genre: Point and click puzzle games. Starting as a series of flash games, the publishers have bundled all their early works up into a single…
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Mages of Mystralia
An action adventure game where simply put, you are a mage. You can learn and create spells using a super unique spellbook system of combining effects with a trigger and chaining things together. Then you can assign your spells to buttons to cast in world to defeat the enemies you encounter. Its a short little…
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Cultist Simulator
Cultist Simulator is a tabletop card game where the goal is to form a cult and ascend to a higher plane known as the Mansus. While the game describes itself as a roguelike narrative card game, each individual run may take significantly longer than a traditional roguelike, potentially spanning multiple playsessions. However, from personal experience,…