Favorite "Indie" Games

[sansanjuan]

Originally Posted by hEad

Seeing the recent fav game thread and the Rogue one that was floating around awhile ago, I would like to hear about some of your favourite indi games.

In my later game playing years I have struggled to find a good game to play down at the local EB games shop, hell, it’s even getting to the point where the PC section is a small segment tucked up the back, flanked by the acreage of console offerings.

Digital download or ordering online is now my only means of buying a game. I've played a fair bit of Armageddon Empires and crazy amounts of Dom3 in the last 12 months but am now ready to have a look at some else.

Something in the strategy / sim genre, any topic - space, historic, fantasy, but I would prefer titles that are secret gems, you know, those games you stumble across and wonder how they escaped you for so long.

Don't let the name throw you.... "Bookworm Adventures" by Popcap games. Free trial for an hour. It's Scrabble with hammers.

http://www.popcap.com/games/bookworm...0_5_A_07_01_08

-ssj

[the Vanishag]

Here are a few of my "hidden gems," expanded from my post to the "favorite games" thread.

1. Laser Squad Nemesis - from the Gollup brothers, who created X-Com. Free demo, cheap to try, continuing requires a subscription but it's $40 for a year, not $30/month.

2. Battle for Wesnoth - open source (therefore, free!) Fantasy TBS: not like Dom 3, it's played in skirmishes or campaigns on hex maps and no "world map" or research.

3. Endgame: Singularity - also open source. It's like X-Com without the squad combat - you play as a spontaneous AI, trying to self-realize before paranoid humans wipe you off the net. A much smaller and shorter game than LSN and Wesnoth, but all the more a must-play for that.

I mostly find out about new indie games from Play This Thing! and I;m not just plugging it because my review of Dom 3 will be going up sometime soon (I offered to review Dom 3 for them because it was the only really cool "new" computer game I've found in the past two years that they haven't reviewed).

For retro/abandonware, I've given up on Home of the Underdogs and have found http://www.abandonia.com/">Abandonia to be great. I'll play Nobunga's Ambition someday, I really will.

Ok, that's enough from me. I need to go to sleep.

[RegnorVex]

Originally Posted by the Vanishag

1. Laser Squad Nemesis - from the Gollup brothers, who created X-Com. Free demo, cheap to try, continuing requires a subscription but it's $40 for a year, not $30/month.

Omg, I'd forgotten all about LSN. GREAT game. In fact, I'm going to go fire it up now and see how it's changed since I last played it (they were just introducing the 3rd "race"). Thanks for the inspiration.