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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
2010 role-playing video game

Ib
2012 video game

Freedom Planet
2014 video game

Chaos on Deponia
2012 video game

Retro City Rampage
2012 video game

Dredge
2023 video game developed by Black Salt Games

Awesomenauts
Awesomenauts is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Dutch company Ronimo Games. The game was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in May 2012, and Windows in August 2012. It was ported to OS X and Linux. Another version of the game, Awesomenauts Assemble!, incorporating all the changes and additions available on Windows, OS X and Linux, was released for the PlayStation 4 in March 2014 and for the Xbox One in September 2016.

SteamWorld Dig
2013 platform action-adventure game

Natural Selection 2
2012 video game
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Canabalt is a one-button endless runner designed by Adam Saltsman for the Experimental Gameplay Project in 2009. The 2D side-scrolling video game was originally written as a Flash game, then ported to iOS, Android, PlayStation Portable, Ouya, and HTML5. An authorized version for the Commodore 64 called C64anabalt was released on cartridge. Canabalt has been credited with popularizing the endless runner subgenre.

Slime Rancher 2
2025 video game

Hand of Fate
2015 video game

Never Alone
2014 video game

Samorost 3
2016 video game
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2024 video game developed by Neal Agarwal

Castle Story
2013 video game

Duck Game
2015 video game

Rebel Inc.
2018 video game

Risk of Rain 2
2019 third-person roguelike video game developed by Hopoo Games

Lucius
2012 video game

Dorfromantik
Dorfromantik is a 2022 strategy puzzle video game developed and published by Toukana Interactive. In it, the player places a series of hexagonal tiles containing elements of a pastoral environment to create a landscape. They earn points and additional tiles by connecting like sides of the tiles together, closing off fields, forests, and villages, and completing quests to make areas of contiguous regions. An additional creative mode allows the player to create their own landscapes.

TowerFall
TowerFall is an action indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through her company Maddy Makes Games. In the game, players control up to four archers in a multiplayer platform fighter. It was released on the Ouya microconsole in June 2013 and was later ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, OS X, and Windows as TowerFall Ascension and to the Nintendo Switch under its original title of TowerFall.

As Dusk Falls
2022 video game

Emily Wants to Play
2015 video game

Crab Game
2021 video game developed by Dani

Shadowrun Returns
2013 video game

Moonlighter
2018 video game

2064: Read Only Memories
2015 video game

Planetbase
Planetbase is a space simulation and strategy video game developed by Madruga Works which was released on October 16, 2015 for Microsoft Windows, and January 8, 2016 for OS X. The game involves establishing a human colony on a distant planet and building an outpost to survive on the planet.
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2017 video game

High on Life
2022 video game

Threes
Threes (stylized as Threes!) is a puzzle video game by Sirvo, an independent development team consisting of game designer Asher Vollmer, illustrator Greg Wohlwend, and composer Jimmy Hinson. The game was released on February 6, 2014, for iOS devices and later ported to Android, Xbox One, Windows Phone, and Windows. In Threes, the player slides numbered tiles on a grid to combine addends and multiples of three. The game ends when there are no moves left on the grid and the tiles are counted for a final score.

Kero Blaster
2014 video game

ClusterTruck
Clustertruck is a 2016 platform game developed by the Swedish studio Landfall Games and published by tinyBuild. It consists of nine worlds in which the player must navigate by jumping on moving trucks to avoid obstacles and the ground, culminating in a boss fight. This concept originated from Landfall Games's founder, Wilhelm Nylund, picturing himself leaping across trucks to escape traffic.

Mewgenics
Mewgenics is a 2026 tactical role-playing roguelike life simulation video game developed by Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel. The gameplay revolves around the process of breeding cats that assume character classes and sending them out on adventures based on a series of tactical combats set up on procedurally-generated grids. Originally announced by Team Meat in 2012 as a follow-up to Super Meat Boy, the game experienced a protracted production cycle that led to a state of development hell, before being cancelled and subsequently reacquired by McMillen for development with Glaiel in 2018. Mewge

Sunless Sea
2015 video game by Failbetter Games

Defense Grid: The Awakening
2008 video game

Osmos
Osmos is a 2009 puzzle video game developed by Canadian developer Hemisphere Games for various systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, OnLive, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android. It was designed by Eddy Boxerman, founder of Hemisphere and a former developer at Ubisoft Montreal.

Forager
2019 video game

Vintage Story
2016 sandbox survival game
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2018 survival horror video game developed by Stormind Games

Viscera Cleanup Detail
2015 science fiction simulation video game

Dyson Sphere Program
early access video game

That Dragon, Cancer
2016 video game
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Cloudpunk is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by German studio Ion Lands and published by Maple Whispering Limited for Microsoft Windows on 23 April 2020. The game was ported by Madrid-based Stage Clear Studios to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 15 October 2020. It was later released for the PlayStation 5 on 19 August 2022, and Xbox Series X/S on 16 October 2023, respectively.
Independent Games Festival Award - Seumas McNally Grand Prize
main award given at the Independent Games Festival

Kingdom: Classic
2015 video game developed by Noio, Licorice

Bright Memory
2019 first-person shooter video game

The Cat Lady
2012 video game

Overgrowth
2017 video game developed by Wolfire Games

Donut County
2018 indie video game

Gish
2004 video game

Gunpoint
2013 stealth-based puzzle-platform video game

Shenzhen I/O
2016 video game

Beyond All Reason
open source real time strategy game
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2005 government simulation game

Phoenix Point
2019 strategy video game featuring a turn-based tactics system developed by Snapshot Games

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
2018 platform game

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
2008 video game

Haven
2020 video game