Top 10 Best Indie Games

What are your top ten favorite indie games?

Here is my list. #1 is the best.

10. flOw [F]
9. Love, the Game [F]
8. Teleportower Plus [F]
7. Temporal[F]
6. Legend of Princess [F]
5. Cave Story [F]
4. Chalk [F]
3. Iji[ F]
2. La Mulana [F]
1. Action Fist [F]

[F] = Free

 

10. Chalk
9. N
8. Knytt Stories
7. Lyle in Cube Sector
6. Teleportower Plus
5. Within a Deep Forest
4. Saira
3. Cave Story
2. An Untitled Story
1. Braid

edit: All are freeware except 1 and 4

 

I couldn't bring myself to put only 10 games in the list, so I decided to do an approximate top 20 instead.

20. * Off
19. Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
18. Blocks That Matter
17. Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
16. Hyper Princess Pitch
15. * Yume Nikki, .flow, Yume 2kki
14. 1000 Amps
13. Limbo
12. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery
11. ¤ Cave Story
10. Braid
9. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
8. The Binding of Isaac
7. Minecraft
6. FEZ
5. * Touhou Hisoutensoku (12.3)
4. Rock of Ages
3. Super Meat Boy
2. ¤ VVVVVV
1. ¤ Eversion


EDIT: Aaaaaand I forgot * Knytt Stories, * Within a Deep Forest, * An Untitled Story, * EverEternal WinterWorld, * Escape from Underground, and some other games. Whatever.

EDIT: I added "*" before freeware games. "¤" means that it's freeware but you can buy it to get additional features.

 

It'd be nice if you guys'd note which of them are freeware. Like putting an F besides their name. That'd motivate a casual gamer to try them.

 

10. Braid
9. Limbo
8. Terraria
7. Shank
6. [F] Within a Deep Forest
5. Pyschonauts
4. A Valley Without Wind
3. [F] Cave Story
2. Minecraft
1. Bastion Bastion Bastion wooooooooo Bastion woooo

 

My top ten would be...

10. Super Meat Boy
9. The Binding of Isaac
8. Amnesia
7. Limbo
6. Braid
5. Sword & Sorcery
4. Psychonauts
3. Lone Survivor (why hasn't anyone else here played this flawless perfection of a game -- I found it scarier/more haunting than Amnesia)
2. Minecraft
1. Cave Story

And... after making that top ten... I realized I have only played ten "indie" games so far. For shame, me.

 

I played Lone Survivor... didn't find it really great actually.

By the way, Bastion is totally boring. Just sayin'

 

By the way, Bastion is totally boring. Just sayin'

... and had unfavorable PC controls, samey gameplay, etc.

Okay so

10. Bit.Trip Series (Can't decide on just one)
9. Rolando
8. Shank
7. Psychonauts
6. Super Meat Boy
5. VVVVVV
4. Cave Story
3. World of Goo
2. Binding of Issac
1. Doom (arguable)

 

I put those little [F]s next to my games. All of mine are free

 

I played Lone Survivor... didn't find it really great actually.

By the way, Bastion is totally boring. Just sayin'

Maybe not in terms of actual gameplay (go figure -- I call a game great for something other than it's 'game' aspect), but the story and narrative were fantastic. I love it when games make you work to figure out the story by piecing together little bits of everything and provide narrative outside of cutscenes, such as the notes, inspecting the objects in the scenery and the atmosphere. Bioshock is probably the #1 example of this type of storytelling, but Lone Survivor did it remarkably well for a game you can knock off in two hours.

Not to mention that Jasper Byrne went in with the intention to create a story of significance. The whole "give the player the option to be good or bad" is played out to death, but in Lone Survivor it's actually much more. Byrne wanted to represent the ideologies of nature vs nurture (yes, really -- check his interviews) in a way that's more realistic and subtle. The game's up to it's ears in symbolism. I could seriously write an IB-level mini thesis on symbolism and Lone Survivor. I wish it came out earlier, because I would have, and it would have been fucking rad.

While it may not be fun to some or necessarily innovative, it's a work of art.

 

Wee, I don't play indie games often, but Cave Story, Minecraft and Serious Sam are the best. But the serious difficulty...

 

While I've played a nice variety of indie games I've decided I can only come up with 3 out of 10 best games so far.

Iji [F]
Cave Story [F]
The Way [F]
Crescent Pale Mist

Games like Braid, Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV, Star Stealing Prince, Within a Deep Forest, Limbo, Another World, etc etc; are excellent indie games, but... I forget about them over time, despite how fun were to play.

Games like Cave Story, Iji, The Way won't let go

 

10. Karoshi 2.0 [F]
9. Ether Vapor
8. Crayon Physics Deluxe
7. Within a Deep Forest [F]
6. Final Columbus [F]
5. Kamui
4. Gang Garrison 2 [F]
3. Iji [F]
2. La-Mulana [F]
1. Cave Story [F]

Kind of hard not to put Cave Story at the top considering the amount of time I've spent with it, even if I'm a bit tired of playing through the main game. [F] means a vote for the free version of a game if not all versions are free. Some of these I still have yet to complete (La-Mulana, Final Columbus, Crayon Physics Deluxe) but are still on my list out of appreciation for what I know about them. I might put GG2 back at #2 if the devs ever fix some of the years-old problems with it

 

10 Cartman`s Autoritah [F]
9.TurboRisk [F]
8. Cube 2 [F]
7.Cube [F]
6. N! [F]
5.Stick Soldiers 2 [F]
4. Warning Forever [F]
3. Dogma (you can download it @Acid-Play.com) [F]
2. Cave Story [F]
1. Alien Arena [F]

 

Now that I remember I'm also going to drop in an honourable mention for Clarence's Big Chance

 

Probably:

 4. N
3. Teleportower Plus
2. Spelunky
1. Cave Story
0. Iji
-1. La Mulana

Haven't played la mulana, but that won't stop me from saying it's the best.

 

10.Amnesia: The Dark Descent
09.Magicka
08.Time Fcuk
07.FEZ
06.Spelunky - Remake
05.An Untitled Story
04.Super Meat Boy
03.Binding of Isaac
02.Cave Story
01.La-Mulana - Remake