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Best Indie Games So Far This Year

Posted by Zonk on from the holiday-games dept.

cyrus_zuo writes "Game Tunnel has just finished and published its yearly mid-year article 2005 Independent Game Mid-Term Grades. This article, the mid-year equivalent of Game Tunnel's year-end Game of the Year awards, captures the best indie games so far in 2005 while also grading each game genre. The article is set-up just like a school report card, grading genres, such as action, adventure and strategy, with a letter grade from 'A' to 'D' while also spotlighting two of the best games that have been released so far this year in each of the genres and listing what game GT is looking forward to most in the genre."

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  1. Slashvertisement by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative
    Note that most of the links are referrals, so the site is getting paid for people clicking on them.

    Anyone care to link to some quality free games? My current favorites:

    Warning forever: http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/index_e.html
    Truck Dismount: http://jet.ro/dismount/

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    1. Re:Slashvertisement by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Informative

      I should keep the list somewhere...

      Cho Ren Sha 68k (shmup)
      Kenta Cho's games (mostly shmups)
      Destruction Desire (fighting game)
      Mind Arms (fighting game)
      Galax (Shmup)
      Frequon Invaders (weird)
      Doukutsu Monogatari (platformer)
      Every Extend (kamikaze'em up)
      Glace (platformer)
      Frontline (sidescrolling shooter)
      Minebot (... Action?)
      N (Platformer)

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  2. Darwinia! by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was pleased to see Darwinia in the list - it's easily the best game I've played this year. And I'm not usually that keyed in to the world of independent games, so I'm definitely looking through the list for other things I might like...

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    1. Re:Darwinia! by Lisandro · · Score: 2, Informative

      Thanks for the advice! Amazing game, i love the looks of it - feels like a mixture of Tron (the movie) and Rez. It was about time someone did something new in the PC world. And it's available for Linux!

  3. The best: by Prophet+of+Nixon · · Score: 2, Informative

    The best three indy games so far (just look on google for URLs, I haven't them on me at the moment):

    Zombie Smashers X2
    Jets n' Guns
    Mount & Blade