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Top Indie Games You Wouldn't Mind Paying For
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timothy
on Tuesday August 19, @11:08AM
from the well-I-might-but-ymmv dept.
from the well-I-might-but-ymmv dept.
Alan Skorkin writes "If you are sick of the boring and overpriced commercial games, then have a look at this list. These are
some of the best indie games out there — innovative, immersive, great gameplay and very reasonably priced (some are even free). You would never feel cheated after buying and playing these games. In fact, you would feel like you got the better end of the deal, and that is a lot more than can be said for the vast majority of commercial games out there."
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Mount n Blade is worth a look (Score:4, Informative)
I was seriously impressed with the combat on horseback. When I tried the game, the rest of it was a bit of a clear work-in-progress (that may have changed now), but I've never seen horseback combat done as well as that.
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Heavily seconded (Score:3, Informative)
I have burned so much time in Mount & Blade.
It's such a great sandbox rpg game. There are so many ways to play, without even getting into the mods available. Also, this is a great time to start playing since the game is in its final beta stages.
In the new version, the start is fairly difficult. I'd recommend spending the first few levels participating in the melees in the city arenas and training in the training grounds.
With all the great indie games out these days, I don't know why I occasionally buy r
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Mount and blade is a tremendous game. I got onboard about a year and a half ago, the game was lots of fun then, and has progressed by leaps and bounds since.
And yes, horseback combat = win (Especially if you have a lance)
Worth checking out (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't played most of the games on the list, however I have played Mount and Blade. And it really is a great game. The graphics are a bit dated, but the gameplay is fantastic. It has easily the best melee combat I've ever played. (It puts Oblivion to shame in that regard.) I downloaded and tried the demo, and it wasn't long before I purchased a serial for it.
For folks who want a bit more detail, the melee combat system works thus: you control the direction of every swing as well as block, by how you move your mouse when you start the swing or block (but there are other options you can choose from, if that doesn't suit your style). The same works when fighting on horseback, and when you're using a pole-arm on horseback you can couch it and run enemies through with it for massive damage. Also, if you run over foot soldiers with your horse, they get knocked down and take damage.
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Any Touhou Project game (Score:4, Informative)
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It's worth pointing out that Touhou 6 - Touhou 10 all work very well in Wine [wikia.com].
ABA games (Score:5, Informative)
The best free games I've found in a while are Shmups from . Most of them have linux packages, and the windows versions work great in wine too. Fast paced, colorful, intense arcade shooters, it doesn't get much better than this. Go play Torus Trooper and tell me your jaw doesn't drop. [asahi-net.or.jp]
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That was supposed to be:
The best free games I've found in a while are Shmups from ABA games [asahi-net.or.jp]. Most of them have linux packages, and the windows versions work great in wine too. Fast paced, colorful, intense arcade shooters, it doesn't get much better than this. Go play Torus Trooper and tell me your jaw doesn't drop.
I should learn to preview.
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What he said.
My jaw dropped, my brain froze, and my face melted. I don't know what kind of drugs that programmer was on, but he somehow managed to code it into an easily-portable brainsplosion.
Seriously. Go get that game NOW! It makes me pine for the old Williams shooter classics.
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Braid rocks... (Score:3, Informative)
Braid is not listed!?!
Having gotten the demo, I had to buy it. The game is absolutly brilliant. It is a work of art, with mindbending, unique puzzles, AND a lot of fun, all at the same time.
If you have an XBOX 360, install the free demo, and if you like it, buy it.
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PC games, on the other hand, rely almost entirely on word of mouth. There's no platform that advertises them, or consolidates the downloading, or puts up at least a "what's new for Windows" page.
Defcon, Uplink, and Darwinia (Score:4, Informative)
Defcon [introversion.co.uk] is wonderful, and it's by the same people that do Uplink [introversion.co.uk] and Darwinia [introversion.co.uk], and like their other games, comes in Windows, Mac, and Linux versions.
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Sins of a Solar Empire (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the most engrossing games I have played in years! Also, no DRM, great developer support.
It in nice to be treated like an adult by the developer!
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Sorting through them all... (Score:2, Informative)
I agree with the author of the article that Depths of Peril is probably the best indie RPG available today. But of course I haven't played them all. (And he's obviously slanted towards RPGs based on his list.)
I find more and more that my game purchases are smaller games, or just donating on the Paypal buttons of freeware games I like. The last indie game I bought was a simple, mindless (but strangely addictive - at least at first) tile RPG called Battle of Tiles [bimboosoft.com] that cost $4.95.
There are so many indie ga
Dwarf Fortress (Score:2)
I have not gotten around to playing it just yet, but reading the story of Boatmurdered [fromearth.net] prompted me to download it.
The dwarven settlement of Boatmurdered (eh what?) is created and eventually run to the ground by several players, each governing the city for one year of game time. Madness ensues (with lots of homicidal elephants).
Aquaria (Score:2)
I'm a fan of Aquaria, which is sort of an unreal underwater action-adventure Metroidvania sort of thing. It's stunningly beautiful, fun, and reasonably priced.
Shift (Score:2)
One of the more fiendishly clever flash puzzle/platformers I've encountered, Shift [indiegames.com] has the same "Pick up and Play for a few hours" with simple game mechanics that made Portal so fascinating.
There's a couple sequels out there, too. I'd gladly pay for a longer, more complete version of this game.
Fantastic Contraption (Score:2)
For the Slashdot crowd, I can think of nothing better than Fantastic Contraption. It's a free* flash based physics game, where you can construct all sorts of machines, vehicles, catapults, bridges, or whatever else solves the task of 'get this object from a to b'. There's a whole slew of user generated content like the 'find the simplest solution' challenge, or the 'find a green (no motors) solution' challenge.
www.fantasticcontraption.com
*For a $10 donation you get the ability to design your own levels, but
Mac support (Score:2)
I glanced at a few that looked good and saw Mac support in all the ones I looked at.
I love this trend! I'd be even more impressed if they had linux support as well, but anything but windows is fine with me.
Hmm, "Anything But Windows" would make a great replacement for "News for Nerds".
Regarding Positech.. (Score:3, Informative)
It's worth noting that Positech is the game company which gained some Slashdottery earlier by being the company whose developer opened a dialogue with software pirates to find out why they do what they do. And because of that, he has removed all DRM and dropped the prices of his games and made bigger and better demos... and a bunch of other things. He's worth checking out.
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