Indie game recommendation thread.

Alright, so I've recently gotten into indie games, as I'm bored with mainstream games. Could you guys recommend me some good indie games for PC? I prefer RPG, Action, or Strategy, but I'm open to whatever.

I've already played Amnesia, Braid, Audiosurf, Trine, Machinarium, and Plants vs. Zombies. (Out of those, I would definitely recommend Amnesia and Braid if you haven't played them).

Minecraft, Magicka, and Terraria looks good but I haven't played it myself.

I'll look into them, but I'm leaning towards games with some sort of story, atm. Anyone try Gemini Rue?

Not much of a story for either, but both Sanctum and Frozen Synapse are great. Sanctum is a tower defense/FPS hybrid, while FS is a TBS. Sanctum has a demo, and check out the Total Biscuit Youtube video for Frozen Synapse to get an idea of it. I'm having more fun with these two games than most AAA games.

anthing from brendon chung, the guy behind BLENDO GAMES

check out GRAVITY BONE from blendo. Its free and awesome.

Also Atom Zombie Smasher and Flotilla, also from blendo games. You can get them both on steam.

Frozen Synapse

Capsized

Zeno clash

Inside a star-filled sky (kindof mindbending)

bit trip beat

Limbo (coming out on pc in august)

Evochron Legends for a cool space-sim.

Star Ruler for a solid and ever improving 4x space strategy.

A.I. War for another kickass 4x style strategy game that is very unique and fun imho.

Sanctum, and FPS/Tower Defense hybrid that is actually pretty entertaining.

Revenge of the Titans is a defense strategy game that is also very addictive.

I have a ton of indie games, I have even purchased a few just to support the devs and I've yet to touch the game. That's how Star Ruler was for me, I picked it up a looong time ago, tried it once, it intially was no fun...then I started playing again about a month ago and it's been my primary game as of recently. You may like Trine, is Torchlight indie? Either way it's entertaining. I did also recently pick up Frozen Synapse on sale on steam, that is a very cool turn base strategy game.

For story based check out:

Amnesia

Eschalon Book 1 and 2 (check out the demo since they are very old school)

Aquaria

I'll look into them, but I'm leaning towards games with some sort of story, atm. Anyone try Gemini Rue?

FFXI-Blk-Mage

It's a shame that nobody's mentioned Gish yet.

Knights of the Chalice. And be on the lookout for Dead State. (which isn't out yet)

Evochron Legends for a cool space-sim.

Star Ruler for a solid and ever improving 4x space strategy.

A.I. War for another kickass 4x style strategy game that is very unique and fun imho.

Sanctum, and FPS/Tower Defense hybrid that is actually pretty entertaining.

Revenge of the Titans is a defense strategy game that is also very addictive.

I have a ton of indie games, I have even purchased a few just to support the devs and I've yet to touch the game. That's how Star Ruler was for me, I picked it up a looong time ago, tried it once, it intially was no fun...then I started playing again about a month ago and it's been my primary game as of recently. You may like Trine, is Torchlight indie? Either way it's entertaining. I did also recently pick up Frozen Synapse on sale on steam, that is a very cool turn base strategy game.

kursah

Limbo (coming out on pc in august)

jettpack

My indie game recommendation is Jamestown. Awesome shmup.

I recommend Recettear, Sanctum, Audiosurf, Amnesia, Terraria, Minecraft.

Forgot to add Super Meat Boy although you better use a controller for that game and have magic fingers.

http://www.cavestory.org/

english patch

Thanks everyone.

For now I went with X3, Capsized, Terraria, and Gemini Rue.

Anyone try Gemini Rue?

FFXI-Blk-Mage

You should try the demo. I tried it recently, and it's near the top of my "to buy" list as a result.

I would recommend Hector: Badge of Carnage for a point&click adventure and Osmos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIHVumk2RI both of these games are also on the iphone

oh and I forgot to mention World of Goo which got a 9.0 and also on the iphone

Anomaly - reverse tower defense, really cool idea and a lot of fun. It has a demo so give it a shot.

Amnesia - extremely atmospheric and creep horror game. One of the scariest and most disconcerting games around.

Torchlight - really fun Diablo type hack-and-slash RPG. Give it a shot, the sequel is due out in a few months and will have 6 or 8 player (they haven't decided yet) co-op.

Plants vs. Zombies - hard to describe, but lots of fun. You eventually get dozens of weaponized plants that you have to use to fend off waves of zombies. Has won a bunch of awards.

Those are the ones I am most familiar with.

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Anyone try Gemini Rue?

broken_bass_bin

You should try the demo. I tried it recently, and it's near the top of my "to buy" list as a result.

super crate box

As a quick question, out of star ruler and AI war which do you find better? I am going to play the ai war demo soon I just havnt had the time yet. So if I were to only pick one up, which would you recommend? creaturemagic

Honestly I like both, AI War has more action and seems to take off faster, while Star Ruler seems more hardcore and needs more attention, takes longer to get going, has newtonian physics, etc. Depends on what youw ant honestly...try the AI War demo for sure, try the Star Ruler demo for sure.

Star Ruler is on sale for $6.80...AI war was just on sale the other day. If you can get both under $20-30, do it imho. Both are great at how they go about the genre in their design aspects. I feel AI War is a better product because it has been out longer and has a lot of expansion goodies to it as well...but Star Ruler is constantly being updated and will have it's official release soon...it's still in beta iirc. Try the demo, but if you want more action and a solid AI, get AI War, if you want more of everything else get Star Ruler imho. Cheers.

Minecraft, Magicka, and Terraria looks good but I haven't played it myself.

metroidfood

There all awsome

mechinarium

braid

limbo

pixeljunk shooter

world of goo

Check out humble indie bundle. You pay what you want for 5 games.

http://www.humblebundle.com/