Indie Games

[GrahamZA]

I've been looking through Steam and found quite a few fantastic Indie games.


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Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood

Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is a cartoon-style third-person shooter. You take the role of a last-standing hard-boiled Legionnaire taking on an entire rebel army.

A small campaign with various objectives, such as defending civilians, escorting a tourist bus and a mass-chicken-murder map. The game includes a ranking system that allows you to unlock new outfits, accessories and of course new weapons.

Key features:

• 18 Various Steam achievements: Try to win Chicken Slaughter (killing all the chickens) and Damage Control (sparing all the civilians) in the same game!
• Fill your buckets with blood by causing suicide bombers to explode prematurely or shoot gory head shots!
• A dynamically evolving soundtrack that reacts to your actions!
• A complete arsenal of weapons, including personal air-raid support to slaughter attacking hordes at once.
• A broad range of difficulty with action-packed fun for both casual and veteran players!

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Puzzle Dimension

The rules for gravity and movement are easy to grasp. The objective "Pick all the sunflowers and exit through the portal" is simple - within minutes you will move in 3D structures and solve puzzles never seen before.

Addictive Gameplay
Find solutions to the puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments. With 100 unique puzzles there will always be many to choose from and hours of gameplay to look forward to.

High Quality Graphics
Your progression changes the audiovisuals - the retro look explodes in a fountain of pixels, revealing HD visuals. And the music reacts to your progress by blending between crystal clear music and 8-bit retro-style chip tunes.

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World of Goo

World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys. Drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo are curious to explore - but they don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

• Mysterious Levels - Each level is strange and dangerously beautiful, introducing new puzzles, areas, and the creatures that live in them.
• World of Goo Balls - Along the way, undiscovered new species of Goo Ball, each with unique abilities, come together to ooze through reluctant tales of discovery, love, conspiracy, beauty, electric power, and the third dimension.
• The Sign Painter - Someone is watching you.
• World of Goo Corporation - Congratulations! World of Goo Corporation is the Global Leader in Goo and Goo Related Product, including World of Goo Corporation Trademark Brand Soft Drink Beverage and World of Goo Corporation Trademark Brand Facial Exfoliating Lotion. Succulent!
• Massive Online Competition - Human players around the world compete in a living leaderboard to build the tallest towers of goo in World of Goo Corporation's mysterious sandbox. World of Goo Corporation is contractually obligated to state that everyone is a winner and is enthusiastic to celebrate everyone's tower building opportunities equally.

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Braid

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more.

Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.

Key features:

Newly added Steam Cloud support

• Save your in-progress game to the cloud, then play where you left off from on any Steam connected computer.

Forgiving yet challenging gameplay:

• Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging — but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps.

Rich puzzle environment:

• Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time. The gameplay feels fresh and new; the puzzles are meant to inspire new ways of thinking.

Aesthetic design:

• A painterly art style and lush, organic soundtrack complement the unique gameplay.

Nonlinear story:

• A nonlinear fiction links the various worlds and provides real-world metaphors for your time manipulations; in turn, your time manipulations are projections of the real-world themes into playful "what-if" universes where consequences can be explored.

Nonlinear gameplay:

• The game doesn't force you to solve puzzles in order to proceed. If you can't figure something out, just play onward and return to that puzzle later.

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Zombie Driver

Fight your way through the streets of a zombie infested city to save the survivors of a disastrous chemical accident that changed most of the city's population into mindless brain hungry monsters. Time is your enemy and your car is your weapon as you race through the streets smashing everything on your way including fences, phone booths, street lamps and hordes of zombies. When the gruesomely mutated zombies become too much to handle, buy a new car or get more guns and upgrades installed. You can earn more money for finishing side quests, making kill combos and searching for hidden prizes. Game play is unrestricted and the player can freely roam through the dark streets, alleys and backyards searching for the best shortcuts or hidden power ups.

• 17 story missions with sub quests and bonus objectives.
• Huge, free roaming city, infested by thousands of brain hungry zombies just waiting to be explored.
• 6 different cars including an unlockable super car.
• 9 different upgrades for each car, which can transform even an innocent Taxi into a Chariot of Death.
• All cars can be mounted with miniguns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers or even dual railguns.
• All weapons have 3 upgrade levels which come with unique features.
• Dynamic combo system with tricks and hordes of zombies to try it on.
• Many vicious zombie types including even zombie dogs.
• PhysX by NVIDIA

New Slaughter game mode:

• Fight endless waves of zombies to achieve the highest score possible
• 5 unlockable arenas with different environmental effects

          o Harbor - sunny midday
          o City Center - foggy noon
          o Park - warm dusk
          o Midtown - night with projected headlights
          o Suburbs - early dawn

• Upgrade your car on the fly
• Post your high scores to Twitter and Facebook directly from the game

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Nation Red

Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning over 70 perks.

August 17, 1977
Scattered groups of zombies infiltrate remote Midwestern towns. Incapable of using tools or weapons, the invaders are resisted until they retreat back into the desert. Special elimination posses are set up to hunt down any of the surviving undead. Six weeks after the squads started their search-and-destroy mission, the last known zombie was shot and killed.

Present-day
Over thirty years had passed when a truck driver traveling down a desolate Arizona road plows into a wall of undead. Before the driver's phone signal went dead, he reported some were carrying guns... They're back and now they are hunting us.

Steam Exclusive Features:

• Local and On-line Coop — Take on the horde and earn perks together
• Barricade Mode — Defend your base against zombie attack
• 58 Steam Achievements and a dozen Leaderboards
• 30 Additional Steam User-designed Perks
• Xbox 360 Controller support for single or multiplayer
• Steam Hammer — Rips the skin off your opponent (nice)
• New Steam User designed weapons — Minigun, AA-12, MP5, Beretta 93R, Super Shorty and more
• New Level and New Enemies — Zombie patients and caretakers in a desert asylum, Brawler boss zombies, Suicide bomber zombies..
• Pneumatic Destroyer — Detonates the Rammer they are surrounded by zombies

Key Features:

• Ultra Fast Action — Fight armies of hundreds of zombies and their bosses in an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience
• Deadly Weapons — Use machetes, axes, jack hammers, dual Uzis, flame throwers, grenades, poison and a dozen more including a Steam Hammer, exclusive to Steam purchasers
• Customize Yourself — Over 70 player modifiers combine with two dozen power-ups for limitless gameplay
• Four Game Modes — Free Play, Survival, Barricade and 18 increasingly brutal missions await
• Zombies with Guns — They wield axes, cut-off saws, AK-47s and more

Are there any others you'd like to recommend?

[NeoN]

Epic list dude.

Hope it's okay to discuss 'em Indie games in this thread, since I don' really have any recommendations of my own. >_>

Used to love these sorta games in my uni days, esp the multi-player ones we used to LAN in the computer labs. >_< My fav being Counter-Strike-2D. Since I started working though, it just hasn't been the same. Time's always been something that I didn't have enough of, and soon had to cut down and eventually stop playing 'em altogether. T_T

[jGLZa]

Ah, World of Goo

Indie Games

[GrahamZA]

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Amnesia: the Dark Descent

A horror game in its truest sense. I've only played the demon, but WOW (not Blizzard) did it royally scare the living hell out of me! I haven't been that scared since Silent Hill 2...

Here's a brief synopsis:

Awake...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.

Explore...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts you in the shoes of Daniel as he wakes up in a desolate castle, barely remembering anything about his past. Exploring the eerie pathways, you must also take part of Daniel's troubled memories. The horror does not only come from the outside, but from the inside as well. A disturbing odyssey into the dark corners of the human mind awaits.

Experience...
By using a fully physically simulated world, cutting edge 3D graphics and a dynamic sound system, the game pulls no punches when trying to immerse you. Once the game starts, you will be in control from the beginning to the end. There are no cut-scenes or time-jumps, whatever happens will happen to you first hand.

Survive...
Amnesia: The Dark Descent throws you headfirst into a dangerous world where danger can lurk behind every corner. Your only means of defense are hiding, running or using your wits.

Do you have what it takes to survive?

To anyone that's thinking about it, I must ask that you please do not pirate this game. Fractional Games deserves all sales from this amazing title.

[jGLZa]

Anybody play Minecraft yet?

[NeoN]

^ Nope, haven't heard of it before. >_>

[jGLZa]

Are you serious!? Somebody please tell me he's not serious?

[GrahamZA]

Are you serious!? Somebody please tell me he's not serious?

Yes, yes he is.

I've read a lot about it on Kotaku, but haven't played it. Even saw a YouTube video of 1 guy building a 1:1 scale model of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)! 

[NeoN]

Just read up on it, sounds pretty cool - but it looked horrible. Not sure if that's footage from like the original version or something.

[jGLZa]

No thats how it looks.

It takes on the mentality of: f@ck pretty girly looks & fancy graphics, this is just plain pure addictiveness!!!

[NeoN]

hahaha... I see. >_<

[Ter1x]

I vouch for Minecraft....awesomely fun and addictive...i know alot of people though take one look at the grahpics and decalre it to be not worth it, but once you get playing it and have a project and goal in mind the game is addictivly awesome