Gripper
In Gripper, androids celebrate “Burning Man” by burning humans. That’s why all inhabitants bear a physical injury of one sort or another. You and your deaf sister are no exceptions. The two of you live peacefully on a farm until someone comes and burns it down. Now, your sister is missing. All you have left is your car with a hook. The time to learn how to kill with it is running out.
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Take on the journey of a hero named None and follow the voice of his sister — a deaf singer.
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Tear your enemies apart with a hook and finish them with their own weapons.
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Discover and rip away the hearts of 11 colossal bosses to gain new abilities.
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Explore 11 bizarre biomes which will form a vast and majestic world right in front of your eyes.
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Fly through 11 nightmarish tunnels to the beat of incredible tracks by KillTheBarber!, VEiiLA, Under This, Yamila, Mezzanine, pqQp.
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Solve puzzles and decipher the codes of Garbage Collector to reconstruct the world history.
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Immerse yourself into the retro-waves and tunes of mini rhythm games.
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Collect all hidden statues to reveal the skeletons and tragedies of each character.
Gripper is our personal story of loss. We turned it into the game to let it go. We hope it will help you too.
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Fallstreak: Requiem for my Homeland
Humanity has tapped into the very power of possibility and has doomed itself in the process. The MC is a child soldier tasked with fighting a war over scraps, and a chance for a few humans to survive advancing armageddon. This VN is a vicious look at war, love and human ambition. There are waifus, war crimes, well written scif-fi and extreme violence. Although there are certainly better looking visual novels, the character designs are appealing and the music is surprisingly good. There are even genuinely comedic moments in all of the grim dark (An old man’s joke about painting his wife’s canvas comes to mind). Of course those happy moments are a set up for an absolutely brutal series of events that will leave you feeling hollow at the end of it. Best $5 I’ve spent all year.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
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Rather than being a sequel to the original game, this game is the prequel. It explains alot of what happens in the original game.
While definitely shorter than the one before it, the writing, sound design, CG’s, etc. are still very good, if not better. Taking the brutal and gut wrenching descriptions of gore on a whole nother level (coming from my mind). The OST’s of this VN is amazing, perhaps at times better than the original one. While I am sad that this one doesn’t have as much gameplay to offer as the first Fallstreak, it is still a masterpiece. A diamond in the rough, just waiting to be found. Was it well worth the 4 euros I spent on it? Very. If you are reading this to see if you should buy this or not, then let me say that. This game isn’t a requirement, but if you enjoyed the first Fallstreak as much as I did then it is well worth the price.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
World for Two
the game is absolutely beautifull, the audio and the video. if you care about lore this is something for you for sure. 10/10
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
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8/10 - Great value for money if bought & overall a very pleasant, relaxing experience.
This game was truly an enjoyable time. I’ve not completed the game fully but I have gathered the main aspect and the majority of what I needed to do. If I’m guessing, you’ll get about 6-8 hours of gameplay overall before “finishing” this game.
You’re using DNA to create lifeforms and reviving the world, essentially. It’s a very cute, relaxing indie game and the soundtracks are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! Absolutely over the moon.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~
Planetarian The Reverie of a Little Planet
Hmmm, so coming into this VN I didn’t know what to expect, I had heard quiet a lot about it but I was hearing a lot of mixed impressions, however I was pleasantly surprised to find what a great story it had, it was a very interesting read; and suffice to say I have reread this VN many times.
The Story is based long after a great war that left the world in darkness, most if not all life gone, acid rains ever covering the planet in an erosive downpour.
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
So, this is another key’s sadness visual novel, I have played Clannad and watched Clannad, Air, Kanon, and many key’s animes. This time key brings us a sadness but thoughtful story with a robot girl whose name is Hoshino Yomemi, which means the beautiful dream of the stars. I have read the whole Planetarian novels after played this game, so that I know the whole world of this novel series.Yomemi is a lovely girl, I DON’T think she is a ROBOT, but a HUMAN with all the beauties and she stands for the brightness of humanity. She is innocent and just like a child. Human destoried everything but she still believed that everything will become fine one day. I think the precious memories of Yomemi are the most moved part of this novel and I cried for nearly 2 hours after I watched that part. After played this game, I thought a long time, why human beings began to kill each other? Maybe they lost their emotions like love and mercy. After all, all these loves and mercies are given to Yomemi and she became the hope of human maybe. Though her body dead in the end, but her spirit was taken by us. By the way, the next novel called Man of Stars(maybe, I read this story in Chinese), in that story, our main character became a old man and show other people the beauty of stars, just like what Yomemi was done to him, and finally in a small village in South America, he dead with another robot which the same type of Yomemi, in that time, the South America was covered with ice and people could hardly survive. In that village, our main character teached 3 children many things of stars, knowledges, and some past stories. It’s a sad end. Human couldn’t avoid disappearing from this planet, but our spirit, our love, the dream of heaven, the heaven that won’t be seperated, the hope, won’t disappear.Actually, I think this game worth this price, in my opinion, it’s even more worth than 60$, it makes us to thought what’s the true love, what’s the humanity, and I think it’s even more thoughtful than some text book.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
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An Action-Based Puzzle Adventure Touched with Post-Pandemic Sentiment
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100 hand-crafted Puzzles to Hack Through
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6 Target Locations with Different Rulesets to Master
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Life Simulation in A Modern Slum Being Stucked Indoors
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A Post-Pandemic Tale about Neriko Told by Stylized Manga
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Unlock Speedrunner Mode and Compete with Other Hackers in New Game+
Indie Game: The Movie
Main Feature:
A candid look into indie game development. We follow Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Team Meat through uncertain times during the development of Super Meat Boy. From the insane three month crunch to finish their project to Microsoft’s careless handling of their release, it’s a harrowing journey. We also follow Polytron’s Phil Fish and the drama spiral that surrounds him. He struggles to release Fez, his passion project in development for nearly 5 years, despite a bevy of roadblocks. Like him or hate him the film provides an honest look at the personal difficulties and pressures that affected the game’s turbulent development. Fish seems open and vulnerable here, far separated from the man making headlines for inane, egotistical comments. There are also interviews with other indie developers, such as Jonathan Blow (Braid) who provides some unique insight into the indie movement and how developers try to connect meaningfully with their audience.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
The struggling artist is a trope that we’re all familiar with, but most of us don’t associate it with video game developers. That is pretty understandable because until 2009 or so the only games we saw were big-budget games being put out by large corporations. With the indie game scene exploding in the last few years, it became much more obvious that there were people making games purely out of passion; people who put their financial stability and reputations on the line to create something beautiful. And that’s art.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
RUSA Odyssey
RUSA Odyssey is a third-person exploration game set in the post-apocalypse world. Play as a lone deer and travel to the unknown world. Discover the story and mystery that lies along the way.
Note: “Rusa” means deer in Malay/Indonesian.
Fleshport
Absolutely amazing game! I loved every second of it. The game play is smooth and fun, and the characters as well as the story are very beautifully written. I highly recommend giving this game a try!
– Real player with 19.7 hrs in game
Finishing Fleshport took me about 9 hours, but I’m very slow and check every detail twice. This game had me hooked from beginning to end. Even with the small RPG Maker window size, I had the feeling that I was traversing through some supernatural landscape with its own people and customs. The characters are both unsettling and charming.
The design in some parts of the game are confusing, with doors that are hard to notice and details that are easy to miss. There was one puzzle in particular I could only figure out after interacting with every object and smooshing my face against every wall. There are also some bugs, especially with the chase mechanics, but nothing game-breaking. I fully recommend this weird, weird game.
– Real player with 13.9 hrs in game
Ashwalkers
Updated for Steam Nominations 2021
As mostly first person shooters player, i sometimes enjoy switching to less intense indie games. Ashwalkers would be one of those.
For me this game became liked a moment i saw it on store. Mostly because of character design and story setting, which is surprisingly similar to one i’ve wrote a couple of years ago. So far this is the closest thing to what could be called “dream game”.
As the gameplay is not challenging, it requires player to calculate their movements since “survival” part is taking an action. Game itself is user friendly, player just need to get used to visual narrative and simple controls.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
For those looking for a game akin to the choose your own adventure books of old, Ashwalkers is phenomenal. Decisions require careful thought be put into them, and the game rewards reading into the choices and texts. Some of the choices endgame that determine the endings felt a bit arbitrary, but after having at least gone down the three main endings (that each have at least 12 permutations) twice I can say I had a fun time for the price of the game.
That game while short does its best to make the time spent feel much longer than it is between the unique art style of both the world and its inhabitants, and the survival mechanics of the game which help add a needed sense of weight to the smaller choices. I had fun carefully deliberating on if I wanted to risk losing one resources for another I was in desperate need of. On repeat runs however this meter watching quickly begin to feel monotonous.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Outsider: After Life
Outsider: After Life is a compelling puzzle game and existential adventure with a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting. Players take control of a lonely android named HUD-ini as he embarks on a range of tasks in a bid to escape the now lifeless planet.
Outsider uses dynamic storytelling to deliver the surprisingly moving narrative visually, through narration and cutscenes and also through the gameplay itself. This, alongside the themes and subject matter, make for an engaging and emotional experience.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Outsider: After Life is a neat indie puzzle game made in Portugal. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting, where you control HUD-ini, an android. The atmosphere is pretty cool, because graphics, animations and music are well done. It’s even emotional a few times. Gameplay consists of solving dozens of small, varied puzzles. And I think they are well-designed, because some of them can be challenging at first but never overwhelming. It’ll take you around 2-3 hours to complete the entire game. Oh, and all of that happens in one continuous camera shot, which is a cool touch as well. It’s sold cheaply and, most importantly, doesn’t waste your time. So, I can recommend it, even if you’re not a fan of puzzle games. Set aside a few hours and enjoy this gem.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game