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Obscure Indie Game Recommendations

Our list of indie game recommendations! These range in popularity from very obscure to cult hit. We're trying to limit ourselves here to games we don't hear a ton of talk about. If you end up trying any of these or want details about any of them, leave a comment or message us! We'd love to talk about them! (sequels are separated by a slash)

Visual Novels:

  • Milk Inside a Bag of Milk / Milk Outside a Bag of Milk
  • Mr. Rainer's Solve-it Service
  • Heaven's Gate (apart of the Hello Charlotte series)
  • novena
  • Eliza

RPG/Visual Novel Hybrids:

  • Hello Charlotte (especially Reqium Aeternam Deo; maybe look up a walkthrough for the first game)
  • Escaped Chasm / Dweller's Empty Path
  • Brutal Complex (only the demo is released and only in Japanese but it's great)
  • tomorrow won't come for those without ██████

RPGs:

  • Hylics / Hylics 2
  • WORLD OF HORROR
  • Everhood

Puzzle Games:

  • EXAPUNKS
  • Last Call BBS
  • SHENZHEN I/O
  • Opus Magnum
  • Mixolumia
  • Tile Tale
  • Potion Craft

Soulslikes:

  • White Lavender
  • Brume
  • Ginseng Hero

Roguelikes/Roguelites:

  • Noita
  • Kingsway
  • Downwell

Other:

  • Ord. (text adventure)
  • Subway Midnight (light horror walking simulator)
  • Post Void (psychedelic fps)
  • Stacklands (card-based god simulator)
  • Micro Mages (modern platformer made to be played on an NES)
  • Minit (top down puzzle adventure)
  • minicraft+ (top down sandbox adventure)
  • Pocket Rumble (fighting game)
  • Pseudoregalia (3D acrobatic metroidvania)


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Pleo!

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I recommend Smile for Me, a simple puzzle game with a psychonauts inspired artstyle


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kubikill

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That's a cool list! I didn't expect Zachtronics games to end up here, I thought they were more popular than I thought :O

From myself I would add:

- DUM-DUM - an adventure/puzzle game set in a fictional OS inspired by early 90s OSes
- Cook, Serve, Delicious - a series of 3 hardcore restaurant simulators
- Kero Blaster - a platformer/run'n'gun from the creator of Cave Story
- Retro City Rampage / Shakedown Hawaii - spiritual successors to GTA 1/2 set in 8-bit and 16-bit aesthetics
- Wuppo - a cute action platformer with some metroidvania elements
- McPixel / McPixel 3 - puzzle games about trying to defuse a bomb or save the day in some of the dumbest ways possible


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ah, there's one more I forgot!

- City of Beats - a rhythm rogue-lite twin-stick shooter

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turquoise: Maybe Zachtronics is more popular than I know, I just don't see a ton of talk about them myself! Thanks for the additions, Kero Blaster made me think I might want to add Ikachan too!

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Nothing to do with, but I LOVE the layout of this blog


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turquoise: Thank you! I worked hard on it, it's the same style as the one for our layout!

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Watts

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I would also put "It's not me, It's my basement", "Agony of a dying MMO" and "An outcry" here


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plum: oooooh, nice nice! We'll take a look at those!

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