Category: 500-Word Indies
Ghostly Matter
Ghostly Matter is a retro-styled 2D Metroidvania dropped on Steam without any fanfare, whose claim to fame is that it …
Tower of Archeos, The
So the ultra-hard dungeon crawling rogue-like genre is overdone. How do you breathe life into it? French developer Benjamin Soulé’s …
Huuma Mina: The Game
Remember that weird puzzle game that retold Cinderella with more torture and murder? Same dev made another game before it, …
Cinderella Escape 2!! Revenge
Disclaimer: The author of this article started backing the developer on their Patreon shortly after purchasing this game. Hajime’s sequel …
Cinderella Escape!
It’s amazing what can pop up on Steam sometimes. For five bucks, you could get great titles like LYNE or …
Press X To Not Die
With the rise of digital video, the revival of the FMV game is well under way, both large and small. …
Noir Syndrome
Indie developers are constantly looking for two things; a game they can make in a timely manner, and a concept …
Parameters
Parameters by NekoGames (AKA Yoshio Ishii) is a Flash-based JRPG built from nothing but boxes and numbers. You could start …
Richard & Alice
One of the best things about indie narrative games is that they’re able to explore subject matter that major releases …
Yawhg, The
The rise of the indie scene has also seen a return of the choose your own adventure format. There are …
Science Girls
Hanako Games has been around for a good while now, and they’re an interesting group. The games they help publish …
Xeodrifter
As the Metroidvania genre continues to thrive, developers must progressively put more work into making their game stand out among …
Tobe’s Vertical Adventure
Indie platformers with retro aesthetics are rampant nowadays, mostly using the blocky graphics as an excuse to be hip or …
Tale of Two Kingdoms, A
Maeldun Whiteblade, hero of the uprising that stopped the expansionism of King Vortigern of Theylinn, is now a guest in …
Space Mouse
Space Mouse is the second of Mindware’s conversions of early 80s Japanese PC titles, originally published as a type-in program …
