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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
      1,201
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

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

     
  • Mayhem Intergalactic
      692
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

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

     
  • Galaxy Scraper
      1,484
    Feb 18, 2008
    Demo

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

     
  • 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.

     
  • Empyreal Nocturne
      1,710
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    Wield flocks of birds like missiles -- or to save your skin -- in this eclectic aerial action game.

     
  • Poesysteme
      2,917
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    It?s The Sims meets magnetic refrigerator poetry!

     
  • Clean Asia
      3,452
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

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

     
  • Racing Pitch
      2,243
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    Remember when racing cars were all about making motor-sounds like ?rmmmm-rmmmm-rmmmm??

     
  • DEFCON
      3,941
    Feb 15, 2008
    Demo

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

     
  • Synaesthete
      4,424
    Feb 18, 2008
    Free

    Guitar Hero meets Diablo in this brilliant synthesis of funkadelic music and isometric action.

     
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