Indie/Non-Mainstream Games To Check Out On PC
here's a list of games that deserve to be checked out, at least in video form
some of them have demos & some are available on other platforms like XBLA or WiiWare
all of these i've tried & own on steam
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1. Super Meat Boy
very well produced time based platformer, plenty of levels, secrets, jokes, references, and deaths
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2. Osmos
absolutely amazing! great music, great feel, & still is relaxing even during the really hard parts (i managed to complete the game before the update that made it easier, spent 17.5hrs total playtime)
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3. The Polynomial: Space of the Music
O-M-G
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4. And Yet It Moves
amazing atmosphere and a fresh concept! on PC you rotate 90 degrees, while the wii version stops time for you to rotate arbitrarily
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5. Shatter
coincidentally both things with the word 'shatter' are next to each other, this one has various twists on arkanoid, good music, good visuals
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6. Shattered Horizon
zero gravity space fps, pretty cool, looks good
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7. RailWorks 2: Train Simulator
a more serious train sim vs trainz
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8. AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
technically a base jumping game, but in some kind of sci-fi setting, complete with alternate paths, target scores, 'hugs', 'kisses', close calls, and flipping off your protesters
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9. Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West
wild west 3rd person shooter on the arcade side with various levels of teamwork depending on the game mode
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10. Darwinia
cool looking strategy with a world somewhat like tron and reboot, has a whole separate multiplayer game called multiwinia
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11. I-Fluid
clever concept, you're a water drop in a home going from point A to point B, avoiding obstacles like cloths, long drops, or slopes
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12. Eufloria
what used to be known as Dyson, this is a 'tower strategy' as i'm calling it (like mushroom wars or galcon fusion) with a very interesting and pleasant look & feel
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13. Bit.Trip Beat
nice music, interesting gameplay, really pleasant
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14. Plain Sight
a 3rd person 'suicidal ninja robot' multiplayer action game with interesting strategies & mechanics, plus nice abstract art and level design
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15. Chime
interesting puzzle with elements of tetris that loosely ties to the music that's playing
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16. Gish
sticky gooey platformer, one of the things Edmund worked on before Super Meat Boy
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17. Braid
well this is practically mainstream, but still very interesting, good art, time travel mechanics, platforming
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18. Spectraball
kind of a ball physics based race platformer
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19. Bloody Good Time
from the devs that made The Ship comes... an evolved and streamlined version of the mystery hunt FPS concept
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20. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
interesting puzzle platformer where you interact with your past and future self (like Braid?)
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21. Lucidity
it may be lucasarts, but this feels very fresh and different, it's a kind of mixture of platforming, lemmings, and tetris, complete with great art & music
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22. Trials 2 Second Edition
motorcycle trials platformer
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23. Madballs in... Babo: Invasion
3rd person from above sort of action shooter light platformer thing, pretty neat
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24. Machinarium
point & click puzzle adventure with very nice art
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25. Windosill
surreal and abstract point & click puzzle type thing with pleasant art & sounds
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26. FLOCK!
it may be published by capcom, but the dev is still 'indie' in a sense, you control a ufo that's trying to capture various animals
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27. Cogs
it may be one of those move the blocks to connect the pipes/gears/etc games, but the steampunk look & feel is extremely polished
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28. Defense Grid: The Awakening
decent looking competent tower defense game
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29. Puzzle Dimension
it may be a puzzle game, but it has a solid 3d engine that looks pretty nice (the swedish devs come from thedarkness/riddick/battlefield, it's almost like they're testing the engine on a small project before licensing it or making a large game)
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30. Gumboy: Crazy Adventures
a pleasant looking rolling/ball racing platformer
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31. Toki Tori
partially non realtime puzzle platform thing, nice art, fun music
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32. Tank Universal: Challenger Eight
sci-fi tank tactical shooter type game, similar visual style as the tron universe
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33. Beat Hazard
playing it is better than watching it
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