Brigador: Great Leader Is Dead, Solo Nobre Must Fall
A tactical mech game where you flatten a neon city block by block, and the city remembers. Steep learning curve, excellent synthwave soundtrack, very satisfying once it clicks.
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#Indie Games.
Everything tagged Indie Games, wherever it's filed, newest first.
Rain World: Life Is Hard When You're a Slimy Little Guy
The most beautiful way to suffer ever made. Rain World will break your spirit, then slowly teach you how to survive in a world that doesn't care if you do.
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Balatro: Just One More Hand
What if poker was actually fun? A roguelike deckbuilder about building ridiculous hands and watching the numbers go into scientific notation. It will eat your evenings.
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Animal Well: 34MB of Pure Magic
A tiny download that holds one of the densest, most rewarding exploration games I've played. It keeps going deeper, and deeper, and deeper.
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The PS4 Was Quietly a Great Shoot-'Em-Up Console
More than a third of my PS4 collection turns out to be shoot-'em-ups. Arcade ports, M2's careful reissues, modern indies and twin-stick shooters, and how a console known for big cinematic games ended up with a shmup library this deep.
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Gorilla Tag: My Furniture Evolved, but Backwards
A VR game of tag where you move only by swinging your arms. It's brilliant, it's exhausting, and your furniture will not survive it unchanged.
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Switch Games for Two, Four and Eight on One Couch
My Nintendo Switch shortlist for local multiplayer, sorted by how many people are on the couch, from two-player co-op games that need teamwork to eight-player chaos.
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Door Kickers: Think Twice Before You Kick Down Every Door
A top-down SWAT tactics game where every mission is a puzzle and the planning is half the fun. It rewards patience and punishes you for rushing.
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Loop Hero: Time Is a Flat Circle and I Can't Stop Playing
You don't control the hero. You build the world around him, one card at a time, and watch him walk the same loop until something kills him. It's weirdly addictive.
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PS3 Hidden Gems: The Games That Deserved a Bigger Crowd
Fourteen quieter PlayStation 3 games from my list, averaging 81 on review scores, from Vanquish and Valkyria Chronicles to Folklore, Tokyo Jungle and Puppeteer, with who made them, why they got missed and where you can still play them.
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Inscryption: The Less You Know, the Better It Gets
A card game that isn't just a card game. I'm going to tell you as little as possible, because that's the best way to play it.
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En Garde! Have Fun Storming the Castle
A short swashbuckling action game where you parry, kick guards down stairs and throw buckets at their heads. I wanted more of it, which is the only real complaint.
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Slime Rancher: Just One More Harvest Before Bed
A farming game where the crops are bouncing slimes and the farm tool is a vacuum. Sixty-three hours in, it's still the game I put on when I want to unwind.
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