The Gaming Den

I spend a lot of time following indie gaming news and kickstarters, and I figured I'd make a thread for any stuff worth recommending now that we have a videogame board.

To start off, check this out: http://www.remar.se/daniel/iji.php
Iji is an excellent platformer-RPG-shooter with good replay value.

This is what I'm currently playing: http://indiegames.com/2013/04/freeware_ ... se_as.html
Being the Final Fantasy boss who throws waves of slowly-harder monsters at the hero to level them up so they can save the world sounds kinda funny.
EDIT: Now that I've finished it, As Was Foretold wasn't really all that great.

Cave Story was recently remastered, retranslated, and rereleased for a few consoles and on Steam, but the original game and associated fan translation are highly recommended and still available: http://www.cavestory.org/

I got Cave Story Plus in an indie bundle. It had a fun bonus level and some silly seasonal sprite swaps, but it isn't really worth getting over the original for more than a couple bucks.

http://www.thefreebundle.com/

Some fairly cool stuff here. Out of the games in the current bundle, Wesnoth is cool (and has ridiculous amounts of fan content / mods), and the smash bros demake is surprisingly fun. I've played it with my friends a few times.

http://www.superfundungeonrun.com/?page_id=9
Podunkian's made some neat stuff.

The Underside's demo is a great Cave Story clone, and I laughed at the MGS parody stuff.

http://www.towerofheaven.com/

I played the non-flash version of Tower of Heaven, and it was a really clever high-lethality platformer that didn't last long enough to outstay its welcome.

Tower of Heaven is awesome. Incredibly challenging, but you know what you have to do.

http://www.mattmakesgames.com/

An Untitled Story is an excellent choice if you like sidescrolling platformers, exploration, and upgrading capabilities as you go. Cute, but it gets really hard later on. I really enjoyed it.

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http://indiegames.com/2010/03/freeware_ ... ul_of.html

Castlevania clone, but think the really early Castlevanias. I haven't finished this one, but I also have a lot of fun with it. Some cool boss fights.

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http://jajitsu.com/games-html/mka
http://abobosbigadventure.com/fullgame.php

Some silly sidescrolling brawlers.

Old school goodness. King's Quest and Quest for Glory 2

http://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html

Hmm. That new game they kickstarted looks like it might be pretty good.

Here's another graphical adventure game: http://crystalshard.net/atotk.php

EV Nova like / Roguelike like space game: http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/

The micro is more like EV Nova, but the macro is more like Nethack.

ooh, transcendence updated? I thought it had died three or four years ago.

It's sitting at version 1.something right now. When I stopped playing (about Freshman year), it was at 0.99c or 0.99d I think.

EDIT: To clarify, I stopped playing it around freshman year, but I got back into it this semester (and have subsequently failed to find the right combination of time and motivation to play though it again, so I'll probably drop it again)

Eversion is a short but sweet retro style platformer.

I'll also link Digital: A Love Story, which is also a stylish little adventure.

I played the sequel and it was pretty cool, but I never actually tried Digital. Maybe I should finally give it a shot.

A few come to mind:

The Ur-Quan Masters, a port/remake of Star Control 2, a wonderful Sci-fi RPG/exploration/action game in the vein of the venerable Starflight.

Tales of Game's offerings, particularly Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, a Final Fantasy-style JRPG about Charles Barkley. Surreal and very funny, and something of a send-up of the JRPG genre and it's more rabid fans. Also notable is The Sewer Goblet, a Wu-Tang Clan themed roguelike.

Privateer Gemini Gold, a remake of Wing Commander: Privateer, a RPG/space-dogfighting game.

Barkley's pretty rad. I'm looking forward to when the sequel gets finished, though that's gonna be a commercial game. Maybe there will be a demo.

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/get_a_let ... _atmo.html

Looks interesting, haven't tried it yet.

wait, people have been making nba themed cyberpunk pseudo-jrpgs and nobody fucking told me?!

Barkley 1 is free, already out, and has at least one good LP available.

Barkley 2 should be available to buy next year, or December of this one if we are lucky.

One of my favorite indie devs had an interview on indiegames.com

http://indiegames.com/2013/06/the_locom ... rview.html

If you like hard shmups, try hydorah. It's really good.

http://www.supercratebox.com/
http://not.vlambeer.com/luftrauser/

Both are fun little arcade games. I love luftrauser, and look forward to the commercial sequel.

I wanna be the guy! Entertaining masocore retro platforming. Made because Cat Mario was too easy.

I wanna be the Boshy! made because I wanna be the Guy was too easy. Twitch streamer Kalemandu currently has the world record, and still tries to beat his best several times weekly.

Additionally, there are tons of other IWBTG fan games, most of dubious quality, some occasionally good.