Happy Game

Happy Game

This games art style is awesome.

This is beautiful.

Thank you Amanita Design!!!

Real player with 10.1 hrs in game


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a little traumatizing for me and a lot traumatizing for small bald bastard

Real player with 5.0 hrs in game

Happy Game on Steam

PUSS!

PUSS!

after a long time i finaly beat this game and trust me it is harder than it looks, i think this game diserves a lot more attention that it is getting.

its sad because its really just luck if these sort of inde games become popular. There are lots of inde horror games like this that get huge amounts of attention on youtube because one youtuber plays a game, then fans recommend that game to other youtubers who play it, then even more youtubers play that game because they saw someone else play the game and they think it would make for a good video, it crates a domino affect of popularity. Im not saying this is a bad thing but it sort of means that you just have to get a little bit lucky. it means that a lot of games that are really good like this one will not be as popular because they are not picked up and advertised by youtube gamers. Let me give an example, recently a game by the name of baldi’s basics in education and learning was picked up and played by youtubers and became very popular though a big wave of popular gaming youtubers playing it. You my or my not have herd of it but a LOT of youtubers played it. Others may disagree but I don’t think it was a very good game, it was ok, but it didn’t bring anything new to the table, it wasn’t very well scary and the gameplay was very RNG based and not really entertaining. You may disagree but they only reason it gained popularity was because one youtuber played it and others followed suit.

Real player with 105.2 hrs in game


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Awesome Vaporwave/Glitch art aesthetics wasted on an ungodly abomination of game design. It is truly baffling how one could screw up such a simple idea. Your goal is to move your cursor around a labyrinth without colliding with (often moving and dynamic) geometry, you know, like in the internet classic Scary Maze (the game actually has a level referencing it, so bonus points for that). The levels themselves are absolutely amazing, each one of them is a separate work of Vaporwave art, accompanied by equally sweet soundtrack (composed out of truly bizarre samples, just like Vaporwave should be). Everything moves, glitches out, the mazes suddenly change in shape, and there are a lot of gimmicks to spice things up.

Real player with 24.4 hrs in game

PUSS! on Steam

Ticket

Ticket

Don’t let the initial presentation fool you - this is an incredibly creative 2D platformer with unique visuals and an outstanding soundtrack. My first playthrough, I constantly found myself saying “the next level couldn’t get any weirder than this” only for the game to do just that.

The only caveat is that some levels are a bit obtuse and frustrating to figure out without a guide - but that’s something you can find easily enough.

Real player with 30.8 hrs in game


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Ticket is the product that challenges your preconceived notions of what games are about. It is certain that the so-called seriously taken game reviewers would not be able to give acclaim to this game, as it does not follow the conventional rules of high quality game design. This tells about the sad state of gaming industry rather than about Ticket though. If you are the person who thinks that good games follow strict rulesets of certain design-economic and mathematically measured criteria and are usually some sports titles followed by a running year number or the latest installment of a well-established series, then Ticket might not be for you.

Real player with 9.3 hrs in game

Ticket on Steam

Color Souls

Color Souls

Incredibly amazing game. The movement of the character is a lot of fun and every boss and mechanics in the game are really surprising. The levels that you can jump on the monster’s head in sequence were very well thought out.

Real player with 2.2 hrs in game

A pretty good platformer. I really like this unique aesthetic and gameplay concept where you can’t see the enviroment, so you have to move and jump to splash ink revealing the obstacles and platforms.

Real player with 1.7 hrs in game

Color Souls on Steam

Ruya

Ruya

Ruya is a truly meditative experience with a simple, endearing story, and interesting game play. If you’re looking to just chill and play a solid, calming game. This is it.

People who arn’t aware, there is a demo of this game on Newgrounds, so if you’re still on the fence, you can play part of it here: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/719494

Real player with 13.9 hrs in game

I loved this game. Sure it’s a match game, but the atmosphere, the soothing music and color scheme, the focus on meditation to heal was all interesting and a great balance for a game to play while maybe doing something else in the background. I listened to some of the soundtrack and then decided to start playing an audiobook (a common bad habit of mine), and this was a great game for that. So if anyone else likes to multi-task gaming, this is a good one for it. Also, and I can’t stress this enough, this is a fabulous game in my mind for anyone with GAD, MDD, or even ADHD or something similar. It’s grounding and tension relieving enough that I feel it’s great for that. It took me around 12 hours to conquer (with all achievements), but I know I can be a bit pokey. A normal player probably can beat this in more like 9-10, so I feel like 4 dollars is a really good price for that.

Real player with 11.6 hrs in game

Ruya on Steam

怕不怕趴喵霸霸 Ghost Party Nyanbaba

怕不怕趴喵霸霸 Ghost Party Nyanbaba

Story background:

Nyanbaba from cat girl star drove a UFO to the earth. She accidentally scalded her tongue when drinking milk tea just after landing. The angry nyanbaba said he would use magic to fight back against mankind!

Introduction to the game:

This is a very cute click game to find hidden items!

The game player plays the weak and stupid human, investigates suspicious hidden objects in various styles, and does not let Nyanbaba’s magic trick succeed.

怕不怕趴喵霸霸 Ghost Party Nyanbaba on Steam

Bloat

Bloat

I usually play puzzle games to relax after work.

This game is amazing. It’s both really calming and aesthetic in every way. The music and scenery is really original and both perfectly complement each other.

The tutorials are easy to follow and intuitive, so both children and adults can play and enjoy.

I find gameplay is a great experience overall and so far (I have yet to finish it) the difficulty is a perfect ramp up for where you are in the game. Showing mechanics as you progress in a slow and understanding fashion.

Real player with 14.6 hrs in game

Loved it!

Good puzzles, but not too hard. So it’s one of those rare games that can give you a challenge, but you can actually beat it!

I love short games that don’t waste my time, and don’t have bugs.

This is why I love indie games.

Also amazing soundtrack. Spotify when??

Real player with 6.7 hrs in game

Bloat on Steam

Subway Midnight

Subway Midnight

I PET THE DOG OMG OMG OMG I DID IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Real player with 4.9 hrs in game

This game made me scream so badly my roommate had to come make sure I wasn’t being murdered.

I really love the different designs and areas. I only played through it once so far and got the bad ending but I definitely want to play it again to see if I can get the other endings. The level and sound design is brilliant, in my opinion. The game really knows how to invoke anxiety and fear into the player. There’s the anticipation for a scare lurking around for the majority of the game. I enjoyed all the puzzles as many of them felt very unique and there was certainly a feeling of relief upon completing specific ones and entering essentially a safe zone.

Real player with 4.8 hrs in game

Subway Midnight on Steam

Catie in MeowmeowLand

Catie in MeowmeowLand

Catie in MeowmeowLand is a beautiful traditional point-and-click adventure game set in a bizarre world of cats and ludicrous characters.

As Catie follows a strange white cat in her garden she suddenly finds herself in a mysterious world of MeowmeowLand, where she has to undergo a journey to find her way back home. Your task is to help Catie get there!

Features

  • MeowmeowLand is a bizarre world where you find the most unexpected characters in even more unpredictable situations

  • As you help Catie solve all kinds of original puzzles, be ready to face absurdly comical situations

  • Play through over 24 beautiful 2D hand-drawn sceneries, see more than 100 funny characters and more than 2 hours of charmingly crafted 2D animations

  • Listen to original recorded comical voices of all characters and composed music

  • Instead of reading traditional dull text boxes all characters communicate through comic bubbles filled with amusing line art

Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council

Catie in MeowmeowLand on Steam

Spinch

Spinch

LSD isn’t legal. Spinch is!

EDIT [going beyond my trivial and obvious ~joke~]

  • In my personal opinion, the game has the ideal difficulty, once it’s not hard enough to be annoying and far from being easy enough to be boring

  • The difficulty progression is also very balanced, with the game becoming more challenging while you develop your skills and get used to its physics

  • Talking about physics: it’s very unique and different from other platform games (character’s acceleration is kinda weird), but I also like it. I think it fits the lysergic experience and it becomes cool after a while

Real player with 20.4 hrs in game

Spinch is colorful, beautiful, solid, fun, and brutally punishing.

It’s been out a year and only 90 reviews? What gives?

I’d describe this as a 90s throwback with crazy psychedelic art. Each enemy, boss, nearly every part of the level is some part rainbow and flashing. It’s super psychedelic, the animations are fantastic, the whole game is a feast for the eyes. If you have epilepsy, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. Despite being so colorful, isometric, and somewhat busy, the levels are easily navigable and you never feel lost or that you aren’t hitting the right part of the “3D” object or determining background/foreground. Love the enemies and the art style, each level brings a new environment and themes challenges to fit. These levels are hand crafted and each one has a new piece of rainbow art to add to this strange world.

Real player with 13.1 hrs in game

Spinch on Steam