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Great Downloads: Award-Winning Indie Games

These mostly free downloads were among the winners and finalists at the 2007 and 2008 Independent Games Festival. Playable, fun, and sometimes quite weird.

  •     PRODUCT NAME
    DATE ADDED
    LICENSE
  • Aquaria
      1,204
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    Guide a mer-creature named Naija through a massive underwater environment in search of her family and lost memories.

     
  • DEFCON
      3,946
    Feb 15, 2008
    Demo

    Everybody dies in this real-time global thermonuclear WarGames homage.

     
  • Eschalon: Book One
      1,590
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    Old-school isometric role-playing gets a minor facelift and the first chapter in a new trilogy.

     
  • Galaxy Scraper
      1,486
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    Two levels of madcap planet-prowling in the tradition of Super Mario Galaxy make this platformer demo work a look.

     
  • Gesundheit!
      906
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    The sneezy, puzzle-like adventures of a booger-flinging pig and the monsters that want to eat him.

     
  • Mayhem Intergalactic
      693
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    Turn-based space strategy distilled to its ?expand? and ?exterminate? essentials.

     
  • RoboBlitz
      939
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    Guide a handy technician robot named Blitz through a series of physics-based puzzles to save the world.

     
  • Toribash
      2,096
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

    A turn-based fighter with floppy ragdoll physics equals tons of tactical fun.

     
  • Battleships Forever
      13,381
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    Dismantle your enemies piece by piece in this tactical real-time strategy game.

     
  • Clean Asia
      3,465
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    Twins with special debris-flinging ships shoot their way through China to save the country from the eyes of mankind.

     
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