Indie Games

A couple roguelikes I just saw Retromation play. Caught my eye.



sequel to an old flash game. very silly sense of humor.

Pretty amazing looking slay the spire roguelike.


This one has a demo. Ring of pain dev.

I picked this one up in the tower defense fest, and have found it to be pretty fun. It's EA still, but it's effectively a finished game - there's a new biome and a few characters to add, but I would have been happy with what's there at the moment as a full game.

It's kind of a combo of tower defense, roguelike and tetris - the RNG is tempered though, you always have access to all your collected towers, it's only the tetris blocks that you maze with that are random draws each round.

Pros: Colorful, fun, good variety of maps and mechanics, creative multi-phase bosses, wide range of towers.

Cons: Balance needs work - the merchant and tiny-bot are stronger individually than all of the other characters combined. It's single player though, so you can take the character class as an extra difficulty setting ;p
The winter biome's zone effect is obnoxious as hell too - this may not be a con if you like having an extra complicating factor in your building.

A couple more really cool ones. All EA.. cause of course they are.

Sillence of the Siren is a Sci-fi heroes of might and magic. cool factions. great visuals. might be better then songs of conquest.
Theres a demo. (I didnt actually play long. I realized I just don't actually like homm games much. I like the idea of them, way more then actually playing. ha.)

A very cool looking crpg. Banquet of fools. now, this devs old game has mixed reviews. "great ideas, but too obtuse and deep, and ultimately abandoned".

And, Monomyth. Dungeon crawling immersive sim. solo dev... so expect the progress on this one to be VERY slow. a lot of dark and darker influence it feels like.
Demo here as well.

This is kind-of a stardew clone, but damn it is good:

Been playing with a friend and having fun. I've mostly been doing combat, as the controls and fighting are really good.

There's no energy meter and not much inventory pressure like stardew. I kinda miss those and yet I kinda don't. I think the game-dev in me misses them and the game player doesn't

Early convos made me worried there was going to be a Tom Nook, so I immediately began plotting murder, but they turned out to be fairly chill.

During character creation, I was kind of poking around looking at things, and one of the things you need to do is set your birthday. I did that and thought I needed to hit confirm, but turned out it was confirm for the entire process, so I ended up with a very random character.