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Best Indie Games Tier List

Official CheckpointDB starter template. Category: Genre. Rank memorable indie games by creativity, execution, replay value, and personal impact. Includes 20 real linked games from CheckpointDB.

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Spelunky Spelunky (also known as Spelunky HD) is a remake of Spelunky (now known as Spelunky Classic), an open source indie platformer video game created by Derek Yu and originally released as freeware for Microsoft Windows. The player controls a spelunker who explores a series of caves while collecting treasure, saving damsels, fighting enemies and dodging traps. The caves are procedurally generated, making each run through the game unique. Spelunky is one of the first examples of a roguelike-like, borrowing concepts from the roguelike genre, and was the influence for many later roguelike-like games. Towerfall Ascension: Dark World Challenge your friends to fight through TowerFall's Dark World, with or against you, in this massive expansion for the acclaimed archery brawler. Team up to challenge the all-new Dark World Mode - a co-op campaign for 1-4 players. Battle your way to hideous boss monsters, and face the brutal challenge of the added Legendary difficulty mode. Expand your roster of playable fighters with the undead pirate Vainglorious Ghoul and 9 more alternate archers. Dark World also adds a powerful level creation tool, allowing players to create and share their own new Versus towers. The Dark World Expansion pushes TowerFall further in every direction, a great excuse to revisit the beloved indie fighter. Atom RPG Atom RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, System Shock, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others. In 1986 both the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc were destroyed in mutual nuclear bombings. You are one of the survivors of the nuclear Holocaust. Your mission - to explore the wild and wondrous world of the Soviet Wasteland. To earn your place under the sun. And to investigate a shadowy conspiracy, aimed at destroying all that is left of life on Earth. Bendy and the Ink Machine Bendy and the Ink Machine is an indie first person puzzle-action-horror game with a unique cartoon atmosphere and an intense, frightening story line that keeps you guessing throughout.

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Sairento VR We're a bunch of indie developers on a mission to create the one true must-have ninja experience for VR. We hope you join us for the ride! Since its launch, Sairento VR has been gaining fans worldwide with its unique locomotion system. It is the one game in VR that allows you to experience the iconic "bullet-time" scenes from The Matrix, blended with the slow-motion mayhem of the Max Payne game series, all while looking and feeling as badass as the Bride from Kill Bill. In Sairento VR, you will be able to perform double jumps, run along walls, and slow down time while blasting away at a foe before landing to deliver a lethal strike on another. Kit yourself with your weapons of choice - katanas, firearms, bows, throwing glaives - they are all at your disposal. Popular gamers like Node call it their ‘favourite VR game’ and Nathie, Cix Liv, JoshDub, TimDotTV and more all give it a thumbs up. Sairento VR was designed to be easy to pick up, but tough to master. The more time you spend with Sairento VR, the better you will perform the moves in the game and the more you will be rewarded with the unparalleled feeling of being the action hero of a big budget move production. At the moment, we are still in beta production. The full version of our game will be released sometime between October to November 2017 and it will encompass more content and come with a multiplayer feature and a story mode. - GET TRANSFORMED INTO A DEADLY CYBER NINJA - Sairento VR is a mission-driven, VR action role-playing game set in a re imagined Japan in the near future. In Sairento, you play as a member of the Silent Ones - a righteous but covert organization of seemingly ordinary people who practice the long forsaken code and martial arts of the ancient samurais and ninjas. Crafted painstakingly to provide an engaging and visually stunning first-person sword-fighting and gunplay - expect awesome weaponry, intuitive controls, challenging levels, menacing enemies and beautiful environments in your fight to restore order to the world. Get transformed into a mighty warrior with an arsenal of ancient weapons with a futuristic twist and engage an endless horde of enemies across different locations. - GAME FEATURES - Chosen to be a Silent One for your outstanding character and trained by a sensei skilled in the art of ancient Japanese martial arts and modern fighting, you not only yield a mean katana, but are also skillful with guns and projectile weapons. Built for non-stop slash and shoot action, Sairento aims to set a new standard in VR games in terms of excitement and engagement. • Leap 15 feet into the air, perform double jumps, run across walls or slide across the floor like only a true action super star could. • Soak yourself in blood-pumping, exhilarating music as you become God in your own action movie. • Engage enemies using our innovative combat system, allowing you to fight in slow motion and parry incoming projectiles like a boss. • Cut your enemies down with a futuristic katana or blast them to smithereens with good old fashioned guns. • Fancy hurling blade beams from your katana? You can do so by upgrading your abilities and weapons as you accumulate experience from completing missions. • Traverse a reimagined futuristic Japan in unique oriental locations. • Upon full release, the game will include a story campaign as well as co-op play. Puzzle Agent Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at! Titan Souls Titan Souls is an indie action-adventure game centered around battling powerful bosses in a minimalist world. Players are equipped with a single arrow and one hit point, emphasizing precision, timing, and strategic movement. The game features pixel-art visuals, atmospheric environments, and a focus on trial-and-error gameplay. Civilization 4 Four Civilisations is an indie game. It brings you back to early civilization times and lets you control the destiny of your civilization. You will compete with 3 other civilizations in the game. You will need to gather resources to advance in science and upgrade your buildings.

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A House of Many Doors “Between the infinite worlds was infinite nothing. A void, a darkness between realities. But nothing is as crowded as is nothing. The House built itself in reaction to its own lack of existence.” A House of Many Doors is an indie RPG written and coded by Harry Tuffs, with art by Catherine Unger and music by Zach Beever. In A House of Many Doors you are an explorer, poet and spy, traversing and mapping the House – a vast parasite dimension that steals things and people from other worlds. Exploring in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs, you will discover bizarre civilizations, befriend your crew, write procedurally-generated poetry, and cling to life and sanity. Voidspire Tactics An indie turn-based Tactics RPG with a heavy emphasis on exploration, character progression, and highly tactical combat. Create your own deeply customizable party of Warriors, Sorcerers, and Shiftcloaks to take on the Spire! Axiom Verge 2 You may have played Axiom Verge, or heard it referenced as a benchmark for indie “metroidvania” adventures. Axiom Verge 2 is part of the same story as Axiom Verge 1 but is a completely new game: new characters, new powers, new enemies, and a new world. You can play it before or after the original. Theatrythm Final Fantasy Theatrhythm Final Fantasy is a rhythm video game, developed by indieszero and published by Square Enix for Nintendo 3DS and iOS. Based on the Final Fantasy video game franchise, the game involves using the touch screen in time to various pieces of music from the series.

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Path of Titans Path of Titans is a cross-platform indie game with MMO questing, where players choose from 30+ dinosaur species and survive, explore, and thrive through life cycle events and social gaming. Find and build a home cave within Panjura, the first of several 8km x 8km maps. Explore our open sandbox, or extend gameplay through an extensive system of MMO questing adventures for the menagerie of air land and sea dinosaurs, with rewards and incentives from egg to adult. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy is a roguelite action-RPG and prodigious sequel to the critically acclaimed indie gem, Unexplored. Leave the Dungeon of Doom behind and venture into a vast, wondrous world as you embark on a heroic quest to destroy the mysterious Staff of Yendor. Earth of Oryn Earth of Oryn is an indie city-builder/strategy game set in a medieval world filled with story and heart. Starting from nothing, shape your kingdom according to your vision while managing the needs and wants of your people. Aphelion <p>Aphelion is an indie adventure game. It is set to come out in 2026. <br>You can play Aphelion on PC. You can purchase the game on Steam. </p> <p></p>

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Legend of Legaia 2 IndieGames - "A solid game with good writing and a lot of hooks to snag the player's attention" Two Dash Stash - "Legena: Union Tides definitely feels right at home among the other RPGS of the era that it pays homage to." Hardcore Gamer - "Legena: Union Tides' charming visuals, catchy soundtrack, classic battle system and fully realized world leaves you wanting more." GenGAME - "The game hearkens back to the 16-bit days which is evident by it's style. If you're a JRPG fan it's definitely worth a look." Retro Gaming Magazine - "The game will progress based on choices made by you while playing and encounters on the overhead map are readily visible. Those two design choices definitely put Legena in the newer age of role playing games."OverviewLegena: noun: A legend that spans an era: the legend of the Narrator Solve the mystery of the Narrator! A new take on the classic RPG featuring morale choices, ability equipping and harnessing the weather. Legena: Union Tides is the first game of 2D Turn-Based RPG trilogy that takes turn-based combat and adds new ideas and designs to bring a fresh feel to the formula with the blood of the 16-Bit classics coursing through every design.GameplayChoices - While your fate always remains the same, who says you cannot help to change the fates of others for the better? Your choices will affect your allies and foes. Make the right choice and it will motivate your friends. And who knows. You may change the future... Carry Your Choices - By importing your saves from one game to the next, you can carry the choices you make and see how it changes the course of history. There is no right or wrong. You must carry the results of your actions with you as you unravel the mystery of the Narrator... Dynamic Combat - Take part in a dynamic turn-based combat system that tells you who strikes next. Be prepared for fatal attacks and use your enemies attack pattern to your advantage. Weather - Harness the power of the weather! Empower your fire spells by making the weather hot. Become shrouded in fog to reduce your foes accuracy. But be warned, they too can use the weather against you. Skill Equipping - Made from the Channelling itself. Equip Feathers to use a range of spells in combat and unleash more powerful spells by equipping feathers of the same type! Difficulty Grid - Need a meatier challenge? Too hard? Why not use the Difficulty Grid to find your difficulty? You can use the grid to modify Enemies, Rewards and your own SP and CP consumption. Dare you try the Insanity Mode? Replayability - With the Difficulty Grid and Choices comes an increase in replay value. And not just because you have more modes and choices to play with. Unlock hidden codes and secrets each time you play a new difficulty mode to discover new content ranging from new weapons to characters and dungeons...StoryHave you seen the Red Sky? And the Green Lightning? Rumour has it that whenever the sky turns red and the land is struck by green, the Narrator appears. A time traveller I hear. You best be a good boy. You best be a good girl. Otherwise the Legena will come true. The Narrator will get you. Long thought to be just a childhood monster under the bed, the children of the world sleep quietly and scared of him. Keeping in line and never stepping a foot out of line. But throughout history, records show the Narrator has claimed his victims. His kill tally out-shines any criminal or army. On their way to Dynol and Vesira to bring peace between all lands, Tetiro Aceus runs into a man named Scholar who holds the secrets to the Narrator's downfall. Every question you have he knows. And the Narrator knows it. The Narrator is coming for Scholar. Running from the Narrator, Tetiro Aceus and Atesan Turwin are hired to protect Scholar from the Narrator. Meanwhile, other heroes are making a move. An old friend of Tetiro and Atesan's is heading to Dynol to solve a mystery of missing people. A Pirate Lord and his trusty companion are planning to steal a ship. And a toy animal comes to life, not knowing who she is or where she came from. Together, they will solve the rumours that surround Dynol and Vesira. Letter from Grandpa Pixel The Vanished Soul The Vanished Soul is an indie, first-person, psychological horror game made by one person. It is set in 2016 in the fictional place called Novazenica. Dive into realistic and atmospheric setting, solve various puzzles and interact with many objects in the game! Live-A-Live This project was created for the Indie Game Making Contest: Rebirth. Story A flowerbloom maiden is falling into a world of near blackened state, disillusioned and robbed of her most intimate past memories. Deathly stench permeates the vicinity.  Yet the flowerbloom itself radiates renewal energy the likes of which can counter such blackness. Alongside the knight glistening in love aura, who compassionately tried to protect the flowerbloom maiden before her awakening, they both must find the last key to restore the lands and rejuvenate the world once more. Features: - A simple input memory game where you input arrow keys and numbers to rejuvenate or rebirth darkened beings attempting after your life. Ensure your memory is in tip top shape, as you will need to remember the order and input the correct sequence. - Relatively short game experience within roughly 20-30 minutes. - Silent storytelling with no dialogue. - Multiple CGs and arts akin to a visual novel. Controls:  Arrow KeysNavigation/Combination InputZ Confirm / Interact X Cancel / Menu 1/2/3/4Combination InputPageDownFast Forward Speed Credits: Story BerryB Plugins VisustellaTheoSRD/SumRndmDde/SRDude Graphics BerryBGotcha Gotcha Games Music migfus20Tri-TachyonTADDegicaGotcha Gotcha GamesRichard John S. Glaciered Glaciered is an action-adventure indie game that takes place on a glacier-covered Earth 65 million years in the future. Play as a Tuai, a species evolved from birds, to soar through the seas and fight against the threats to this new golden age of life.