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