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January 2009 Indie Game Round-Up

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-year-new-games dept.

cyrus_zuo writes with this month's round-up of independent game reviews by the folks at Game Tunnel. The top rated game this month is Defense Grid: the Awakening, a tower defense game which "does not revolutionize the tower defense genre, but is solid in every aspect with a few interesting twists." Also scoring highly were cloudphobia and The Tales of Bingwood: Chapter I. "Bingwood is a very clear and unabashed homage to The Secret of Monkey Island. It succeeds because it manages to reference and mimic the style of the original with a fresh and engaging story and a consistent, clean presentation."

3 of 22 comments (clear)

  1. Questionable Content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does a game that doesn't run on half of the reviewers' machines not get last place?

  2. Tower Defense by AKAImBatman · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're a big fan of Tower Defense, go check out http://www.towerdefence.net./ They catalog nearly every variation of Tower Defense known to man. You can easily waste days on that site. So click through at your own risk! ;-)

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  3. Innovation! by Goaway · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So two out of three games mentioned are good because they're just like some other game?