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All the Cool Kids Are Doing It -- Free Indie Video Games Sampler
Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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I had two game discovery in my life, first was designer board games via Board Game Geek. I had no idea that there was an entire industry of board games that I knew nothing about. I now have over 150 board games and I had the pleasure of showing many people to the board game hobby.
I had a second discovery about a year ago when, I discovered playthisthing.com. There is a world of indie video games I never knew existed. I was shocked by the quality, the fun, and unmatched beauty of indie video games. I used ponder what platform was the best for games: PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. The PC is the best because there are so many, many, many great video games that are either free or under $15.
I want to share my discovery of indie video games which was as great find as finding eurogames for me.
Here are some games that are FREE that you may not heard of but you should try. Many look like they are old NES games but these are all recently made games that look retro.
If you want to help me add some of these great indie video games to vgg, check this out: http://videogame.geekdo.com/thread/539008/all-the-cool-kids-...
Did I mention that this is 100%, not a demo or crippleware, all...
FREE!
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Contra like shooter. Supports 2 players.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Space Hulk the video game.
Space Hulk plays better as a videogame.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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A puzzle game like Portal but with ASCII. Interesting twist.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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The one of absolute best run-and-gun game.
Excellent.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Minesweeper + Nethack = desktop dungeons
Creative blend of RPG and puzzles.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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THE defining Arthouse genre game. Who knew block heads were so cool!
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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A shooter distilled to the basics.
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Video Game: Hydorah
[Average Rating:8.25 Unranked]
Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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80's restro style, but modern shoot'em up.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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D&D 3.0 with deeeeeeeep, immersive gameplay.
The BEST RPG I have ever played.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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A nonviolent platformer something like the eurogame equivalent of videogames.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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An easy, fairy tale like interactive fiction. You play Grunk, a dimwitted orc.
"Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget.
Now Grunk need find pig."
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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8 bit platformer, similar to Mario series.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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A near perfect, JRPG like game. The story is well written.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Boss battle, boss battle, and more boss battles.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Happy, happy, run, run, go!
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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The best platform game that has a new level every time you play. Ultra high playability.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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A beautiful point-n-click adventure.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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The reimplementation of the 80's classic. The original is not considered indie but it was ahead of it's time. Earliest multiplayer player vs. player game that played like a euro auction board game.
Planet M.U.L.E. is an indie game commissioned by the children in memories of their father.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Alien Assault + Gauntlet + RPG = Alien Swarm
Looks like Alien Assault but play like Gauntlet.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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The longest developed game in history. Ageless and popular among indie gamers, even today.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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Perhaps the deepest simulation ever made.
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Sebastian Sohn
United States
culver city
CA
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The Battle for Wesnoth
Deep turn based strategy game. Been developed by large, well organized team.
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Twinge
United States
Berthoud
Colorado
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Made by the same designer as Knytt Stories, this is another solid platformer. It has a few minor flaws (a few late-game aspects are like old adventure games with a mindset of 'try a bunch of stuff until something works', and the mechanics might wear a little thin by the end) but is a great game overall.
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James Hutchings
Australia
Unspecified
Unspecified
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A game (made by me) which is similar to Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf, and other fantasy gamebooks that were popular in the 80s. It uses a 'choose-your-own-adventure' type structure.
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Video Game: Knytt
[Average Rating:6.86 Overall Rank:2638]
Marcin S
Poland
Warszawa
EU
M s b S
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Not to be confused with Knytt Stories - this is the game that started it all. Short, but sweet, with great controls, cute landscapes and funny NPCs.
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Fleetwood
Pennsylvania
I stumbled upon PlayThisThing a couple of years back and have been into the indie ever since. I recently participated in the HumbleIndieBundle charity event and have been loving the games I recieved. I think they might even be free now....
However, it's unfortunate that this project (If it's the one I'm thinking about) turned into a bit of a confession of failure for the gaming community, as a fairly high percentage of the downloaders decided to pay absolutely nothing for the entire package, not even a cent. I mean I'm not stupid enough to believe that piracy is actually hurting the video game industry, but this is just plain poor sportsmanship; Using their bandwidth to download their work, free of any invasive copy protection schemes, and then not paying them anything.
And the package included some great games, it included (Among others) Aquaria, Gish and World Of Goo, each of which I bought individually on Steam, and all of them are well worth their individual price.
Naturally, I only found out about this entire thing once it was over.
Berthoud
Colorado
"The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, 138,813 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,273,613. Of this, contributors chose to allocate 30.85% to charity: $392,953 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity.
Now it's our turn to give back. As of 5/11/10, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture pledge to go open source."