Category: Indie Games

Jenny LeClue – Detectivu

developed by mografi | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, PS4

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“A handmade, 2D, exploration based, adventure game with a focus on story, character, and mystery.”

“Jenny LeClue is a coming of age tale. Sometimes funny, sometimes scary, always mysterious; it’s a story about finding our strengths, accepting our weaknesses, and the blurred lines between what is right and wrong.”

“This is a game about your choices and how they permanently affect the story. We want to deliver a rich narrative experience about relationships with delightful surprises and interactions. The story also deals with mature themes, complex characters, and an epic tangled mystery. We want you to help guide the direction of Jenny’s journey, within the game itself.”

[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website] | [Play teaser demo]

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Some gifs made from TheSparrowsJourney let’s play.

The Next World

developed by Illuminated Games | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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“A strategic visual novel…telling the story of a crashed colony ship and its ragged group of survivors, trying to make a new life on the wrong planet.”

“Keep as many colonists alive as possible by making the tough decisions which will determine how your adventure unfolds. Build colony structures, salvage wreckage, resolve problems with multiple branching outcomes, and manage your colony’s dwindling supplies; all while playing through an intense story of political intrigue, sabotage, desperation and survival..”

[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website]

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Zombie Night Terror

developed by NoClip | Platform: Windows

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“Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic to wipe humanity of this planet. Because the only way to survive the zombie apocalypse, is to BE the apocalypse!”

“Blood, tears, non-sexual moans, inappropriate laughter, and tons of puzzles that will literally blow your brains out… This is Zombie Night Terror!”

[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website]

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Bounty Train

developed by Corbie Games | Platforms: Windows, Mac

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“Mount and design your very own train with plenty of detailed equipment, hire a loyal, bold and selfless crew and travel through the dangerous Wild West. Find your way by cleverly using your resources and by shipping goods and passengers. Solve problems your own way, either through diplomacy, violence or bribery.”

[Buy on Steam Early Access] | [Visit the Website]

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Pode

developed by Henchman & Goon | Platforms: Unannounced

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“A puzzle adventure about friendship and cooperation. Join Bulder the rock and Stella the star on a wonderful journey through an ancient, lush underground world filled with riddles and mysteries.”

I usually wait until there’s a bit more gameplay to show before making a full post, but I just found Pode to be super charming. It’s still very early in development and looks like a very promising co-op game (that can also be played by one person switching characters). The development team previously made Flem, which you can check out below.

[Visit the Website] | [Follow on Tumblr]

Flem

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“An unforgiving retro-platformer where you play as Flem, the bouncing booger ball, stranded in a strange new world after the calamity of the Great Sneeze.”

[Buy on Steam] | [Visit the Website]

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Wandersong

developed by Greg Lobanov | Platforms: Windows, Mac

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A musical adventure where your character must sing in time with various visual cues. It’s currently on Kickstarter in order to ensure it has an awesome soundtrack (like in the trailer).

“Use your singing to solve people’s problems, solve puzzles, and hopefully, ultimately, save the world!”

“Wandersong is *not* about learning a few note patterns and re-using them throughout the game: it’s about observing the environment, and using music to interface with each unique situation.”

[Back on Kickstarter] | [Follow on Tumblr]

Art by meowza

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Mobs, Inc.

developed by Pietro Ferrantelli, Theophile Loaec, Orik, & Augustin Grassien

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“Mobs, Inc. is hiring new employees ! The dungeon the company has been taking care of has become so attractive that too many adventurers are visiting it every day.

“Become one of these new employee hired to maintain a constant challenge for these adventurers. If you’re doing your job quite well, the CEO might give you a promotion and enhance you with some new powerful skills.”

This was made for Ludum Dare 33. It has really simple controls, and you can play it for free below.

[Play on itch.io]

via Games We Care About

I used some footage from Thet’s Play to make the gifs.

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

developed by YCJY | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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“A pixelated, side-scrolling, underwater action-adventure game about exploring the decaying ruins of our species — and fighting deadly sea-creatures — in search of answers about our downfall.”

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human came through Kickstarter last year (I made a post about it here), and just released a couple of days ago ($9.99 in the U.S., but on sale at the moment). So if you want to take part in underwater submarine shenanigans check out one of the links below!

[Buy on Steam] | [Buy on itch.io] | [Buy on Humble Bundle] | [Buy on GoG]

Syndrome

developed by Camel 101 | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4

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“A survival horror game set in the future, where the player controls a character who wakes up in a spaceship, with no memory of what happened. The spaceship is adrift in space, and most of the crew is dead or insane. The rest is changed… You’ll need to survive and find out what’s going on and what happened to the crew. Sometimes the hostiles can be taken out, but most of the times the best strategy is to run and hide.”

[Visit the Website]

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The Inner Sea

developed by dsquare games | Platform: Windows

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“An open world game with RPG elements, set in the XVII century in a mysterious archipelago. You’ll build up your fleet from a single damaged ship, hire crew, engage in naval battles with both the islanders & the creatures from the deep, perform missions & much more!”

[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website]

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