Indie Games 2015 [December] Let's talk about anything Indie!
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More_Badass
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Awesome!
Posting my list with more details over there, but here's my final ranking:
1) SOMA
2) Ori and the Blind Forest
3) Besiege
4) Invisible Inc
5) Elite Dangerous
6) Infinifactory
7) Mushroom 11
8) Subnautica
9) Crypt of the Necrodancer
10) Duskers.
11) Exanima
12) Dark Echo
13) Broforce
14) Rocket League
15) Stasis
16) Darkest Dungeon
17) Hand of Fate
18) Downwell
19) Her Story
20) Snakebird
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21) Sorcery 3
22) Jotun
23) Galak-Z
24) Prison Architect
25) Satellite Reign
26) Guns, Gore, and Cannoli
27) Catacomb Kids
28) TIS-100
29) The Swindle
30) Flywrench
More_Badass
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Steam Winter Sale is next week. I think I'm pretty indie'd out; the only thing I'm looking to pick up is RE HD Remastered. And maybe Warshift if it has a nice discount, that game looks insanely good for a one-man project
Icyflamez96
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I haven't played nearly enough 2015 indies to vote.
More_Badass
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Clustertruck - April 2016 (PC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyrs2UGGpNA
http://www.landfallgamestudio.com/clustertruck-1
The point of the game is to reach the end of each level without falling off trucks driven by terrible drivers.
Playing the campaign mode will take the player on a Hollywood-esque journey through many different worlds where everything tries to kill them
Thank you for the shoutout! I just finished a slightly updated version here, with a lot of little improvements.
And speaking of Ludum Dare,
Concrete Jungle - Free (Browser)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=8745
Guide the plant to the sunlight above the buildings.
There's still time!
Yep, you got around 1 month left, and plenty of Indies are free anyway. You can check Baddys or my list for playing suggestions.
And I envy Baddy for having it ranked already. Cutting my list down from 58 to 20 point winners is gonna be excruciating.
More_Badass
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Heh. I'm a college student during finals week with only two finals. So I had more time than the average person this week
More_Badass
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Some more Ludum Dare entries
Alien Pathogen - Free (PC)
Forklift Man - Free (PC, Mac)
SAAM - Free (PC)
Stargazer - Free (PC)
Growees - Free (PC, Browser)
Seed - Free (Browser)
Double Kick Heroes - Free (PC, Browser)
Light Drifter 34 - Free (Browser)
Alien Pathogen - Free (PC)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=59961
Alien Pathogen is Top-Down Sci-Fi Horror Shooter. Mars 2315 , Alien Pathogen control Facility - Extraterrestrial decontamination Unit.
Forklift Man - Free (PC, Mac)
http://tocogames.itch.io/forklift-man
You are Forklift Man! He can rapidly grow his limbs at his will. His amazing superpower must be put in good use among various challenges and puzzles.
SAAM - Free (PC)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=39370
Play as a Crewmember 341 who is waking up in their cryo-stasis pod on a ship called Trieste.
You will be assisted by S.A.A.A.M. (System Automation, Assistance, and Analysis Matrix).
Will you do what it wants you to? Will you be obedient?
Stargazer - Free (PC)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=66283
Enter into a mysterious icy world on the brink of its end. Solve puzzles and unravel the story of men and stars.
Growees - Free (PC, Browser)
http://gamejolt.com/games/growees/114020
Help mother nature to overwhelm the wild industrialization!
Seed - Free (Browser)
Double Kick Heroes - Free (PC, Browser)
http://blackmagic-home.com/ld34/
Double Kick Heroes mixes a shoot'em up with a rhythm game!
You must survive on the highway to hell by killing zombies with your gundillac! Struggle throught the 4 levels of total madness and escape from this nightmare! Only the power of Black Metal can save your band!
Light Drifter 34 - Free (Browser)
http://thoughtreactor.itch.io/light-drifter-34
Light Drifter 34 is a simple but aggravating car/drifting style game where you steer a perpetually moving craft, avoiding dangers and collecting blue Multiplier Lights to increase your score.
PandaPedinte
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I think I have my list done, now I need to order the games and it's the hardest part.
Edit: Posted it
I made the music for a game in the Ludum Dare 34 with some amazing guys from Madrid, Cremagames. They did this little gem, Mobsferatu, and I was completely blown away they could put this polish in just 72h
Mobsferatu - Free (Pc, Mac, Linux)
Mobsferatu - Free (Pc, Mac, Linux)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=59414
Take your place in an angry mob while you climb through Nosferatu's Tower seeking revenge, avoiding traps and looking for other folks to join your crusade and your crowd will grow.
The game has two button controls and features the Growing theme two ways: the Angry Mob (grows whenever you rescue a trapped villager) and the Music (grows in intensity when you are near the Tower's top).
One Foul Note
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My word indeed, I just had a fun season of going through my steam games and pulling out anything that was released this year that might possible end up on my GOTY listings. I'm not even quite all the way through of content and I am currently looking at sixty four games that have to be cut down into fifty and then into twenty. Quite a task.
More_Badass
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Nelo - PC
Oft Horizon - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux
Postcard from Capri - ????
Wailing Heights - early 2016 (PC)
Corsair - ????
Pigsodus - PC, Mac, Linux
Pale Echoes - $4.99 (PC)
Blue Rider - early 2016 (PC)
Previously Mentioned
Reditum
Rising Islands
http://www.nelogame.com/
Nelo is a hyper fast, sci-fi action game. And has its own twists on the twitchy shoot em up game genres. It's made for gamers who want their reflexes to be put to the test using new mechanics for shoot em ups. Nelo is also made for gamers who want to immerse themselves in an out of this world sci-fi epic. Nelo hybrids gameplay of twinstick shooters and modern action games, as well as offer many other unique mechanics and gameplay scenarios.
Oft Horizon - 2016 (PC, Mac, Linux
http://ofthorizon.com/
Oft Horizon recreates the longing solitude and the anxiousness of an uncharted voyage, interspersed by fast paced action and RPG strategy.
Brief periods of ferocious weather, chance meetings with other ships, fast paced naval battles, or light RPG exploration may intersperse your travels in this daydream world.
Postcard from Capri - ????
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=51567.msg1200109
Postcard From Capri is an interactive short story/first-person narrative in which my ambition is to create a tense, intriguing and immersive kind of experience. You play as a detective/journalist that get's a letter with a postcard, a ticket and some money to travel to Capri to unravel a few things...
Wailing Heights - early 2016 (PC)
http://www.wailingheights.com/?page_id=2
A coffin-rocking, body-hopping, musical adventure game, set in with a horrific hamlet of monsters
Set in a peaceful, blood-curdling village blessed with gorgeous panoramic mountaintop views and the blissful stench of rotting corpses, Wailing Heights is home to the likes of vegan werewolves, hipster vampires, gossiping ghosts and all manner of well-adjusted supernatural taxpaying homeowners.
Corsair - ????
https://corsair-game.net/
Our vision is a co-op multiplayer game of adventure and exploration where the players manufacture parts and build their own spaceships.
Pigsodus - PC, Mac, Linux
http://pigsodus.com/
Join Horace Oinkstein in an epic quest to save his kind in this beautiful, classic, action adventure RPG.
Pale Echoes - $4.99 (PC)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/377190
An RPG of exploration, collection, and critical thinking. The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only phantoms where once there was life. Now Schorl, the last surviving human, and Spinel, the last of the magical saerii, search through the memories of a bygone era, hoping to find a future.
Blue Rider - early 2016 (PC)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=503365884
Blue Rider is a long-awaited arcade-like shoot-em-up game. Its pure action at its highest level. Easy to play, hard to beat, always fun. A colorful adventure turned into a real challenge.
Large amount of enemies, huge frightening bosses, hidden treasures, a great variety of environments, a background story full of surprises and many, many explosions
Previously Mentioned
Reditum
Rising Islands
More_Badass
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This game looks..uh...interesting
Pony Island - January 4th (PC, Mac, Linux)
Pony Island - January 4th (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://www.pony-island.com/
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
More_Badass
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And some more Ludum Dare entries
Breathe - Free (PC, Browser)
CICP - Free (Browser)
Button Simulator 2000 - Free (Browser)
Unicell Manager - Free (PC)
DUO - Free (PC, Linux, Browser)
2DOOR - Free (PC, Browser)
White Rose - Free (PC, Mac, Linux, Browser)
Breathe - Free (PC, Browser)
http://galvesmash.itch.io/breathe
Four hundred years ago, in an ancient forest of somewhere in Japan Ni-tsu was left by her family in an very old temple. She started a deep meditation journey in order to fulfill her loneliness and to reach the highest state of illumination, however evil spirits wont let her in peace.
We invite you to help Ni-Tsu in this journey of self-illumination!
CICP - Free (Browser)
Button Simulator 2000 - Free (Browser)
https://buttonsimulator.surge.sh/#/
You've been unemployed for a while, and by the time you applied for the job online you would have taken just about anything. The advert said "Wanted - Grower to maintain crops and ensure high yield. Must have experience using HappyTime GrowMaster 2.0 HyperTerminal growing machinery."
Unicell Manager - Free (PC)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=51362
You are controlling inner workings of a unicell organism, which is growing bigger and bigger, eating plancton, fish, and people...
DUO - Free (PC, Linux, Browser)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=34675
We have some funky geometry for you, again. All you gonna get is two buttons and lots of deadly spikes.
2DOOR - Free (PC, Browser)
http://gamejolt.com/games/2door/113805
The game is about following the right path, guided by the form and sound of illuminated doors. Choose the right path and pass through all 6 chambers.
White Rose - Free (PC, Mac, Linux, Browser)
http://dissonent.itch.io/white-rose
In a world created by sound, play as a boy with synesthesia as he fights the ever growing darkness with music and his fists, painting the world in color with every damaging blow. Choose between 3 tracks and destroy the monsters before the song ends, or else they will overwhelm you. Turn up the beats and enjoy the visual experience.
More_Badass
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Another interesting LD game
Cubyrinth - Free (PC)
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Nice to see Into The Rift is still in development
Cubyrinth - Free (PC)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=65637
Cubyrinth is an atmospheric Puzzle/Exploration game.
The level is constructed like a Rubik's Cube, where every sections can lead you anywhere if you choose the right button to press.
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Nice to see Into The Rift is still in development
More_Badass
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Hope you enjoy it. I really liked it. Empire is still my favorite, but Force Awakens is tied with A New Hope in second place IMO
One Foul Note
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Ahh, don't torture me. I'm not seeing it till Wednesday, starting to bounce off the walls a little bit given all the positive press it is getting.
What I like best about this game is if you squint then the main character looks like a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise.
What I like best about this game is if you squint then the main character looks like a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise.
It was REALLY good. I wasn't hyped at all until reviews started rolling in - this is probably the first time I've seen a film this close to release in years.
More_Badass
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Man, Astroneer is looking so good
Some new GIFs showing off planets and automation
Some new GIFs showing off planets and automation
More_Badass
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Karaski: What Goes Up - early 2016 (PC)
http://karaski.com/
Onboard a the worlds first Airship, a dark plot unfolds. Each suspect has a secret and unique personality you can uncover in a nonlinear manner via dialogue, breaking into their rooms, drinking with them, or even pissing them off. But getting caught snooping around will rise your suspicion and the passengers will start doubting you more! Your interactions shape the past, present and future outcomes of the story. Different playthroughs can lead to different results.
More_Badass
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Hanako: Soul of the Samurai - 2016 (PC)
Milgram - Free (PC, Mac, Linux, Browser)
Long Long: A Snake Lies In The Past - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://www.indiedb.com/games/hanako-soul-of-the-samurai
Travel through a beautiful, fictional rendition of the 16th century of Feudal Japan. Choose between four types of warriors as you learn to master intuitive, directionally-driven swordplay while also choosing unique abilities to ensure victory over your foes. Join your friends in an immersive multiplayer campaign across Japan in pursuit of either preserving the peace and honor of the Emperor or bringing on chaos and death by playing across four different game modes with different objectives and strategies.
Milgram - Free (PC, Mac, Linux, Browser)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=12952
This is Milgram, a game about pressing one button or the other button. There are three endings to find.
Long Long: A Snake Lies In The Past - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=64267
Go on an epic long Adventure Puzzle with Long - the ridiculously long and always growing snake. Crawl through mystic woods, find the magical sword, fight through terrifying dungeons and help the princess in danger.
More_Badass
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The combat in this looking really fun
First GOG, then Itch has a redesign and client released. Not sure either has what it takes to differentiate themselves from Desura, but I am hopeful we get some DRM-free indie focused competition to Steam. Now I see IGS has a subscription service like HB too. I couldn't get excited for HB because I already own so many games and bundles, I really doubt I would get anything I didn't already have at least one copy of. I like the idea of it, maybe after a few months go by I will rethink it. I wish IndieBox would come out with more games. Love the goodies they put in, but so far most of the releases aren't exactly top picks for me. Pretty cool to watch the development of the gaming culture and market right now. There's a lot to take in.
I fully agree, but GOG didnt hit the sweetspot with functionality unfortunately yet, their client felt too clunky. Might need to check out itch though, as that is an outlet that I definitely should keep a closer eye on.
Galaxy isn't there for me yet either - it's missing one key feature that would make it a MUST use for me: in built mod support.
If I could boot up Planescape: Torment and install widescreen, bug fixes, missing content etc all through the client I would never put it down.
One Foul Note
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I've grown very cold to those game subscription services and blind bundles recently. The super cheap ones are pleasant enough but when you get to Humble Monthly or IGS prices they are just starting to feel really exploitative and lacking in value given you are giving up the right to know what you are buying. Unless companies like Humble get more open as to what they are selling then I doubt I will get on board with this consumer trend.
Same for me - I've actually stopped buying bundles now - whereas before I was all over every single one.
More_Badass
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In general I've only bought a few bundles, partly because I only got into PC gaming in the last two years so I missed the golden age, so to speak. A lot of the recent bundles have been pretty weak or have games that I already own
I only buy a bundle if there are games I really really want, like the recent one that had Crosscode, and even then it's rare because I don't want to have those extra games that I'm not going to play. I much prefer IGS' $1 deals; I've picked up a lot of great indies from those
Subscriptions for bundles are really stupid IMO. Why would anyone blindly want a bundle where you don't even what games you'll get? It's too high a risk of getting games you already own.
I just noticed that I only did my Steam Indie sale threads during the summer sales, weeeee. No need to waste christmas time on that
I wouldn't - especially considering there's no dailies this time around. People can poke around the more general sales themselves!
More_Badass
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Just discovered this. Looks like a fun game. Like Gang Beasts meets 3D platformer
Human: Fall Flat - $9.99 (PC)
Human: Fall Flat - $9.99 (PC)
http://www.nobrakesgames.com/human/
Human: Fall Flat is an open-ended physics based puzzle game in which you take control of builder Bob helping him resolve the mysteries behind his recurring dreams of falling.
Your goal is to escape those dreams full of puzzles, dangers and surprises using everything you find in the levels.
The problem isnt the dailies, its having an overview of good Indies in the see of thousands of games. I think its pretty useful, but I think I'll stick with doing it once per year during the summer sale.
More_Badass
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Has anyone here played Hover: Revolt Of Gamers?
PandaPedinte
Member
Wow. That looks very polished for a Jam entry
Reneledarker
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Hello Indie GAF!
I am looking for a strategy/survival/exploration game and Thea: The Awakening seems to have everything I am looking for.
I just want to know if there are more games that you could recommend me.
I want emphasis on exploration/survival, not combat. The less combat the better.
Thanks!!!
I am looking for a strategy/survival/exploration game and Thea: The Awakening seems to have everything I am looking for.
I just want to know if there are more games that you could recommend me.
I want emphasis on exploration/survival, not combat. The less combat the better.
Thanks!!!
More_Badass
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You might like The Curious Expedition
http://www.curious-expedition.com/
Also Subnautica
http://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/
and The Long Dark
http://hinterlandgames.com/
Reneledarker
Banned
Thanks!
The Curious Expedition looks really good.
I am following The Long Dark, just going to wait to get out of early access.
Curious Expedition is great and they're updating it like twice a month.
Edit: Anyone know anything about Gridworld? It looks interesting, but there's barely any info about it anywhere.
More_Badass
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Thanks, any idea if it's like an actual game or more of a science experiment?