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Afterglow - PC

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=58067.0

Afterglow 20.51 is a graphic adventure where all happens inside of a paper train. Our main character doesn’t remember anything about how he arrived there, what is that place or what to do and his mission it’s to answer all the questions. With a little push of our charismatic barman and with help of a little strange pig, discover the secrets that this train and its passengers.

The Way Back - ????

https://twitter.com/Sir_carma

A voxel dungeon crawler

Figment - PC

http://www.bedtime.io/figment

Figment is a surreal and isometric adventure game, wherein the player must journey through the subconscious mind to save it from the fears and nightmares.

Kingsway - ????

https://twitter.com/int_main

Fantasy RPG meets OS

Earth’s Dawn - PC, PS4

http://www.risingstargames.com/us/games/earths-dawn/

Packed with super-fast sci-fi action, Earth’s Dawn offers 2D side-scrolling gameplay in a beautiful hand-drawn style. Combat is intuitive, but deceptively deep with combos, finishers and rankings after enemy encounters all adding depth to the game, while RPG-style skill trees, equipment crafting and character evolution open up things even further

Bikrash - Free (PC)

https://hisashimaru.itch.io/bikrash

You are a pro road racer. Overtake the other raiders and toward the goal line!

Astrofuse - PC

http://spectralforms.com/astrofuse/

Explore a primitive alien world. Your ship has crashed on a planet in deep space. In order to return home you must salvage ship components and launch them back into orbit.
Solve intricate puzzles built from magnets, fusing blocks, sensors and other Smart Blocks on the planet's surface.

Typeknights - ????

https://twitter.com/typeknights

A casual RPG with simple text commands controls
Keyboard is your only weapon in this game.

Grave Danger - October 31st (PC, Mac)

http://www.gravedangergame.com/

Grave Danger is a 2D sidescrolling adventure game about utilizing unique characters to solve puzzles and stay alive. Run, jump, float, shoot, and scythe your way through puzzles involving teamwork and precision! Alternate between each hero: Dante the cowboy, Elliot the wizard, and Malice the reaper.

Shadowhand - PC, Mac

http://www.positech.co.uk/shadowhand/

Shadowhand is a unique RPG card game
Duel powerful enemies with unique solitaire-style turn-based combat. Build mini-decks and equip your character strategically to sneak, slice and blast through foes!

Crimson Breath - PC

http://crimson-breath.tumblr.com/

Crimson Breath is a platformer-exploration game, spread with combats, magic and awful creatures on a dark, bloody vampiric mood world.

Igknight - PC, PS4

http://hyperluminalgames.com/?portfolio=igknight

Don your Knightly armour in a colourful 3D world full of Medieval shenanigans. Igknight is a family friendly competitive brawler where friends become foes in a frantic fight for the throne. Engage in chaotic combat as you attempt to knock your opponents off the obstacle course, avoid perilous hazards and ascend to Royalty!

Feral Umbra - ????

http://www.desixstudios.com/projects

Feral Umbra is a dramatic puzzle adventure with multiple varying game-play styles, exploring a vast and alive world that is constantly changing, littered with ancient technology & bound with primitive contraptions. Traverse alien landscapes, hostile environments, and enjoy therapeutic visuals guaranteed to haunt you in the best way.

Slime-san - PC, Mac, Linux

http://www.fabraz.com/#

Slime-san was minding his own business, sliming around in a peaceful forest when suddenly…A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up!
Now deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worms intestines and back out its mouth!

Previously Mentioned

To Azimuth

Darkside Detective

Dystoria

Inmost

Isleward

Yaga

Emporium

 

[More_Badass]

One of my favorite indie RTS, Infested Planet, got a major expansion that adds a procedural planetwide campaign, new classes, and more

http://store.steampowered.com/app/204530/

 

[r3n4ud]

Never heard of Archimedes and Wand Wars, but will pick them up. They look darn good. Also, Thumper for sure.

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

omg Crimson Death


A vampiric action platformer


ooof considered my ears perked

 

[r3n4ud]

Holy shit. Didn't realize Lost Socks was releasing soon! Loved it on ios.

 

[Maximo]

Holy shit. Didn't realize Lost Socks was releasing soon! Loved it on ios.

Looks interesting ill keep a look out.

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

Hey Badass, is it too soon to make a thread about Crimson Breath?

I know Castlevania GAF would be really interested in this game.

 

[More_Badass]

Hey Badass, is it too soon to make a thread about Crimson Breath?

I know Castlevania GAF would be really interested in this game.

Probably too soon. At least I wouldn't yet. Not enough info or footage yet
The early animations are promising though

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

Probably too soon. At least I wouldn't yet. Not enough info or footage yet
The early animations are promising though

Hopping Jesus! :0

I think the release of an indie Symphony of the Night is probably going to be the seventh seal that signals the end of the world

 

[More_Badass]

Oh wow, Interference is back in development!

I remember seeing the game years ago

Then and Now

 

[PandaPedinte]

Kingsway looks interesting

 

[Toma]

Anybody else here receiving their psvr headset tomorrow? :-o
Still havent really checked which Indies might be releasing soon to check out.

 

[Toma]

Also sort of as a note on the side:
http://forums.mode7games.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&p=28533#p28533

Some may recall that I was doing a GAF tournament for Frozen Synapse 1 a while ago. Well, turns out the developers liked the execution enough to ask me if I want to do an official tournament for them.

I suggested some other stuff and aside from the tournament (starting date announced later), I pushed a small contest idea for participants to create their own FS map and the winner map will be used for the FS tournament and get a FS2 Beta invite.

As I am now helping them and its not an "Gaf only" thing, I cant post a thread about it like last time, but I'd be happy about any participant. (Hey, you can win a Frozen Synapse 2 key by drawing a map )

 

[More_Badass]

Anybody else here receiving their psvr headset tomorrow? :-o
Still havent really checked which Indies might be releasing soon to check out.

Embrace the chrome god that is Thumper!

 

[Toma]

Embrace the chrome god that is Thumper!

I am... afraid of that game... ESPECIALLY in VR.

 

[More_Badass]

I am... afraid of that game... ESPECIALLY in VR.

It's already intense af with headphones on a laptop. I can't imagine how insane it would be in VR

 

[Wok]

As I am now helping them and its not an "Gaf only" thing, I cant post a thread about it like last time, but I'd be happy about any participant. (Hey, you can win a Frozen Synapse 2 key by drawing a map )

Do you mean you are part of their staff as a side-job?

 

[Toma]

Do you mean you are part of their staff as a side-job?

Not part of their staff, but I am organizing this tournament on the side for them as they asked me if I had any interest in doing another one for the whole FS community, after seeing the participation in the GAF tourney. I liked the idea to tinker around with some event ideas (like the map making contest) and see how effective my ideas are in that environment. Its relatively close to my actual job, but different projects have different requirements, so its neat to see things from another perspective.

Guess it will only be this one tournament, but I guess we'll see how this one goes and where it might go from there.

 

[More_Badass]

Anyone know those games?

 

[spineduke]

anyone else picking up Gonner?

just came out today - and it looks promising.

 

[More_Badass]

anyone else picking up gonner?

waves

Having played a bit, I'd say this is closer to Downwell than Binding or other roguelites. It shares the former's guns-blazing, keep-up-kill-chains pace. Also items don't stack but rather swap out attributes, so it's more about finding your favorite loadouts than adapting on the fly.

 

[spineduke]

waves

yay!

I was really hoping for it to scratch that arcade itch the way Downwell did. Excited!

 

[epmode]

Which reminds me, Downwell no longer works in tate mode in Windows 10. It's so disappointing.

 

[More_Badass]

yay!

I was really hoping for it to scratch that arcade itch the way Downwell did. Excited!

The way it works is that killing enough enemies in a combo earns you a coin to buy upgrades in between levels, and that also act as continues. So if you die, but have enough coins, you can play again from that level.

Also getting hit doesn't kill you, but scatters your head, gun, and backpack, so you have to deftly leap around and on enemies to reach your stuff. You can jump on enemies to kill them like in Downwell too

 

[More_Badass]

GoNNER - $9.99 (PC, Mac, Linux)

http://www.gonnergame.com/

GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world—a giant landbound whale named Sally—by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.

Warshift - $19.99 (PC)

http://warshift.com/

A unique mix of Action, RTS and RPG gameplay elements that forms an innovative game genre. You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

 

[spineduke]

Oh man, Gonner is really fun - if you enjoyed Downwell you definitely want this. So glad I jumped in.

 

[KodeAndGame]

Oh man, Gonner is really fun - if you enjoyed Downwell you definitely want this. So glad I jumped in.

Blue Revolver and Gonner within days of each other. Ugh too many great games as usual

 

[swarley64]

Warshift - $19.99 (PC)

This looks kind of interesting... It looks like its been in Early Access for a while, has anyone tried it?

 

[More_Badass]

Some longer Thumper impressions

Would it be hyperbole to say that Thumper is the most intense, most satisfying, and most draining test of reflexes since Super Hexagon? Much like Terry Cavanagh's infamously challenging arcade game, Thumper is equal parts simplicity and excess, easy-to-understand but challenging-to-master gameplay within a sensory overload of movement, color, and sound. If Super Hexagon was hypnotic in its shifting twisting geometric minimalism, then Thumper is 2001's mesmerizing mind@!%$ given metal life.

From the first section of its nine levels to its last hellish stage, Thumper hurls you into a kaleidoscopic tempest, your chrome beetle racing along twisting tracks and claustrophobic tunnels as eldritch beings of light and metal twist and unfurl within the void. It's a visual gut punch of an experience, that I can only imagine is enhanced to eye-bleeding levels in VR. But even with headphones and a regular screen, Thumper's intensity is peerless.

Imagine those classic inputs of a Guitar Hero or Rock Band - tap and hold to the beat at the right time - and you can grasp Thumper. Strip away the speed and visual chaos, and Thumper is as easy to understand as those games. Thump down on markers, turn and grind against the turns, hover over spikes and through rings. Even as more elements and nuances are introduced, the game remains a mechanically lean test of focus and reflex.

Success in Thumper is draining, exhausting, exhilarating. Like some cyberpunk birdcall, you answer the music's beat with every shockwave of your thumps and spraying sparks of grinds, until you're conditioned to react to each signal and tone with practiced skill. Success requires you to act on the fine line between focus and near-clairvoyant intuition, that zone and flow that the best in the genre let you enter.

Success in Thumper is tactile and physical in ways that few games can tout. You feel every thump, every slam into a turn, every missed beat. Your fingers hurt, you feel your heart thumping in your chest, your vision is locked on the road ahead, you twist and duck in sync with the serpentine track. Thumper is a chemical reaction in game form; every action has a reaction, that flares and explodes and flashes and shatters in response.

I've never been able to get into the music/rhythm genre. Even my favorite - Crypt of the Necrodancer - is enjoyed more for its clever roguelike design than its music game elements. But that's only a testament to Thumper's masterful design and audiovisual hellscape. It's one of those special games that can cross genre lines and even appeal to those who wouldn't normally be interested. Moving to the rhythm has never been this relentless and satisfying.

 

[Toma]

Some longer Thumper impressions

I played the demo on PSVR yesterday, its very good and really intense in VR. One little thing where I disagree though, its pretty much in all regards a typical rhythm game. I kinda get where your Superhexagon comment comes from, but rhythm games had those elements for over a decade (the hard/insane modes of rhythm games have been.... well... insane). I really like it (and I love rhythm games in general), but there really isnt too much difference between Thumper and Amplitude for example, aside from Thumper being a bit more streamlined and minimalistic, which might have triggered those hexagon comparisons. Oh and, admittedly, Thumper has a more oppressive feeling due to the background, that is really, really well done, but that is more aeasthetics than difference in mechanics.
And yeah, after playing all PSVR demos yesterday, Thumper is one of the 3 games I will probably pick up now. There are some more games that I am interested in, but they reaaaally could use a pricedrop.

 

[More_Badass]

That "is Spelunky the best procedurally generated game" got me back into roguelikes hard.

Between Invisible Inc releasing on iPad, Cogmind getting a major new update, learning about this cool vampire roguelike coming soon, and getting back into Dwarf Fortress for real this time, it's been roguelike heaven

Golden Krone Hotel - $4.99 (PC)

http://www.goldenkronehotel.com/

Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

Totally had forgotten that MegaSphere was on Early Access.

Totally looks trippy as hell from that trailer

Have we heard anything about when MegaSphere will leave Early Access???

 

[Wozman23]

ULTRAWORLD EXODUS is free on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/331580

It's a relaxing first-person exploration game, with a really strong abstract art style. The story dabbles in existentialism. Plus, you have a camera and can take all kinds of great pictures with different filters too.

It was recently nominated for this year's IndieCade Festival. The developer, James Beech, also paints some cool abstract art that he posts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/neonserpent

I played it back when it was just ULTRAWORLD, before it was expanded upon, and really enjoyed it. (I generally don't enjoy exploration games, but had to give it a try on art style alone.) Others were less impressed and called it pretentious.

At zero dollars, it's definitely worth a look.

 

[More_Badass]

Broken Paradox - Free (PC, Mac

https://boaheck.itch.io/broken-paradox

The mad man watches, waits and never lets his prey go free.
A short pixel horror experiment graphically inspired by games like Imscared and 7 Days.

Witchkin - 2017 (PC)

http://www.covengames.com/

Deadly doll, killer clown, terrifying teddy, and a sociopathic woman of legend... Hide-n-sneak horror game set in 1920s rural Texas.

Outer Colony - PC

https://voyagergames.com/

An open ended strategy game designed to push the boundaries of simulation and AI.
Set in a sci-fi universe, players command expeditions of spacefaring colonists in an effort to establish settlements on remote worlds. Much of the core gameplay revolves around providing for your expedition’s NPCs, managing its fledgling society, freeform building, and tactical combat. Whatever you do in OC affects the persistent game world, so everything from driving species to extinction to terraforming whole regions is possible.

Hobo RPG - ????

https://www.facebook.com/hoborpg/

Hobo RPG is a single player roleplaying game with survival elements. Be alive, travel and meet new people. Explore the 70s rendered in pixel perfect glory. Hobo RPG is a road movie made into a game.

Super Pilot - Free demo (PC)

https://dopagames.itch.io/superpilot

Super Pilot is a futuristic racing game that lets you create, edit and share your tracks in the blink of an eye.
Design your own crazy track by adding loops, twists, or making it vertical, upside-down, or whatever you'd like, using our powerful and easy-to-use track editor.

Trapper’s Delight - $9.99 (PC, Mac)

http://trappersdelight.net/

Get your friends to fall into your cunning trap in Trapper’s Delight; the competitive multiplayer game where you communally create a deadly labyrinth, then see who can escape.

Occult - PS4, Xbox One

http://kunani.com/
https://twitter.com/OccultGame

A paranormal survival horror game

Way of Redemption - 2016 (PC, PS4)

http://wor.pixelcreamstudio.com/

Way of Redemption is a perfect combination of an arcade and a sports video game, with a pinch of MOBA. Labelled as a MOSA (Multiplayer Online Sport Arena), it grants you countless hours of action, frenzy and competitiveness game after game for up to 4 players simultaneously. Earn the redemption of the Gods by destroying the enemy portal with powerful ball throws.

The Woodsman - PC

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=54797.0

The Woodsman is a narrative point and click adventure retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red has carelessly toyed with a malicious elder forest spirit, and her grandmother must suffer the dire consequences. You play as the Woodsman, enlisted by Red to assist her in finding an elder tree fruit to save her grandmother.

Wizard Chess - ????

https://twitter.com/iammichaeldavis

A magic-based take on Chess

Unnamed ocean exploration game - ????

https://twitter.com/SecondDimension

No details yet

Previously Mentioned

Through The Woods

Euclidean Lands

Insatia

Flinthook

Jenny LeClue

Nantucket

 

[Wok]

For Europeans, and mostly for French people I guess, there are some cool talks planned for IndieCade Europe in Paris next month.

Check the agenda here: http://europe.indiecade.com/?page_id=832&lang=en

Keynotes: Matt Nava, Rami Ismail, Luke Crane, Michel Ancel, Zoe Quinn.

Live plays of their games by devs Matt Nava, dev of Niche game, and dev of Santa Ragione (1st day). Live play of Future Unfolding and Psychonauts VR (2nd day). Future Unfolding is one of the games that I am most curious about for next year.

As an indie enthusiast and as a long-time gamer, I think I will attend the conference in English, although there are cool stuff going on in another amphitheatre in French, and workshops for devs.

 

[chadskin]

Recently played through The Bunker and really enjoyed it. Had a surprisingly good, unique story and was overall well done.

It's pretty light on gameplay elements and with a playtime of about two hours very short, though, so €20 is a rather steep asking price all things considered. Best to wait for a Steam sale or two to pick this up.

 

[More_Badass]

Recently played through The Bunker and really enjoyed it. Had a surprisingly good, unique story and was overall well done.

It's pretty light on gameplay elements and with a playtime of about two hours very short, though, so €20 is a rather steep asking price all things considered. Best to wait for a Steam sale or two to pick this up.

I'm waiting for the iPad version. I wouldn't be surprised if that'll be like $5

 

[Nomadic Sparks]

I watched a lady LP play Space Funeral and I swear to god I have never heard a battle theme that is so good (One-Eighty-One) (besides Persona 4)

I heard thecatalmites is making another game called "Magic Wand", Has anyone heard if that game will coming to Steam or not?

 

[Moobabe]

Catching up on some older indies.

Infested Planet is really good and not AT ALL the game I thought it was going to be - it's a lot slower and more tactical, I was expecting some twin stick shooter type action.

Also - Devil Daggers. So I played a bunch last night and got to the top of my friends leaderboard (not that much of a feat, only 5 friends have it) but man, that game is bananas. I made it to like 110k score and then watched the replay of the guy who's top.... wow.

So he was doing stuff I didn't even know you could do - rocket jumping, bunny hopping, special abilities! I'd normally complain stuff like that isn't signposted but it's nice how obscure everything is.

 

[More_Badass]

Catching up on some older indies.

Infested Planet is really good and not AT ALL the game I thought it was going to be - it's a lot slower and more tactical, I was expecting some twin stick shooter type action.

Also - Devil Daggers. So I played a bunch last night and got to the top of my friends leaderboard (not that much of a feat, only 5 friends have it) but man, that game is bananas. I made it to like 110k score and then watched the replay of the guy who's top.... wow.

So he was doing stuff I didn't even know you could do - rocket jumping, bunny hopping, special abilities! I'd normally complain stuff like that isn't signposted but it's nice how obscure everything is.

Two of my favorites there. How far did you get into Infested Planet? The closest thing to it is probably the Creeper World games, there's this push-and-pull to battles where you're setting up beachheads and whatnot to carve out safety. A single squad against thousands of mutating aliens, the RTS action can be get really intense

And Devil Daggers was a side project from the devs working on Spire, so that makes me even more excited for how good Spire's movement and action will be

 

[Naeval]

Question: If a game has been released in one platform, and re-releases in another, appears in this type of posts?

 

[epmode]

And Devil Daggers was a side project from the devs working on Spire

I had no idea! Dustforce was excellent* and I was really looking forward to Spire. I'm even more interested now.


*it also has one of the best soundtracks of the generation

 

[More_Badass]

Mini Metro released on iOS today, and playing it for review, the game finally clicked for me. I hadn't been able to get into it on PC, but now I realize what the game is. It's like a SpaceChem or that game's ilk: all about managing efficiency and optimizing.

 

[chadskin]

Mini Metro released on iOS today, and playing it for review, the game finally clicked for me. I hadn't been able to get into it on PC, but now I realize what the game is. It's like a SpaceChem or that game's ilk: all about managing efficiency and optimizing.

Awesome, been waiting for ages for this to hit iOS.

Seems like there's a large indie sale going on in the App Store by the way. Finally picked up 80 Days for 2€.

 

[More_Badass]

ROM - Free (PC)

https://bincurlgames.itch.io/rom

ROM is a short experimental experience. Explore a desolate island, revive it's forgotten machines and take control of the game's atmosphere.

Hellhunter - PC, Mac, Linux

http://www.hellhuntergame.com/

Hellhunter is a supernatural investigative hunting RPG, where you assume the role of a freelance hunter building his career towards uncovering the ultimate terror. However in each chosen job, the level is procedurally generated, and the true identity of the supernatural creature is not revealed. It is up to you to explore and investigate it, which ultimately effects the fight at the end of every job, creating an intense and unique experience for every hunt.

Foot - ????

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=58338.0

Your weapon is a foot, your hero is a baby with a big whang
“FOOT” is a “near-near-not-quite roguelike-like” (a roguelike-like, top-down, turn-based, shooter with permadeath and a sweet combat mechanic that resembles billiards), or simply… a “foot-shoot” game.

No Guns - PC, Mac, Linux, PS4. Xbox One, Vive

http://landfall.se/no-guns/

A FPBH (First Person Bullet Hammerer) from Landfall Games
A VR game about doing tricks and firing bullets with a hammer

 

[spineduke]

Any more notable releases for this month that aren't out yet?

 

[Wok]

Any more notable releases for this month that aren't out yet?

The Steam early access of Eco should be available on October 24.

 

[Wok]

IndieCade awards have been given. There are some familiar names.



Click if you want more info on some games, there are links to each game on the page.


I did not know We are Chicago.

 

[gabbo]

Hellhunter reminds me of Nocturne, if it was set in modern times

 

[More_Badass]

A Trip to Yugoslavia - Free (PC)

http://gamejolt.com/games/a-trip-to-yugoslavia/138201

A TRIP TO YUGOSLAVIA is an experimental interactive game with a theme of the old VCR player (with the ability to REWIND, PAUSE and FASTFORWARD).
Yugoslavia has fallen apart. No one knows what caused it. Some people ran away instantly and some of them still don't know that the war has just begun
Including you. You're taking a role of an amateur photographer, who has been caught in the nearby Yugoslavian forest on the outskirts of town. Now, without any combat knowledge, you have to survive a few months of war in a desolated country.
Welcome on a one way trip...