The Best of Indie Gaming

Game Cover Titlesort icon Summary Platforms Price Game Link
Aquaria

Derek Yu's beautiful "metroidvania" style underwater epic. A huge adventure packed with a variety of interesting game mechanics.
PC
Mac
 $20 - $30 Link
Canabalt

With only a single button Canabalt is somehow one of the most addictive flash games ever made. Set amidst a bleak apocalypse you're asked merely to run and what follows is high speed free running frenzy that will have you comparing scores with your mates.

 Flash Free Link
Cave Story

Pixel's vast and imaginative platformer has been a huge inspiration for the indie gaming scene and it's not hard to see why. Full of charming characters and imaginative game design.
PC
Mac
 Free Link
Everyday Shooter

An interactive musical twin stick shooter built entirely around guitar riffs. Each level is entirely different in style and content giving it the feeling of an album as songs as much as a game of levels.
PC
Playstation 3
PSP
 £6+ Link
Groov

What at first glance might seem like a mere geometry wars knock off in fact turns out to really add something new by building the game around an interactive music mechanic. Not terribly deep but for a couple of quid this is worth every penny.

 XBOX 360 240MSP Link
Leave Home

A twitch shooter with stunning presentation and adapative difficulty. Giving you a fixed time limit and infinite lives Leave Home is genuinely different with each play through depending on how well you play. Leading to constant replay as you attempt to master the 5 brief levels.

 XBOX 360 240MSP Link
Spelunky

This randomly generated treasure hunting platformer is both frustrating and rewarding in well portioned measures. Always compelling you to give it one more go to see what you'll find this time and always surprising with something new.

 PC Free Link
The Company of Myself

A touching and emotional puzzle platformer. Using a player duplication mechanic that will be familiar to Braid fans this brief adventure finds unique ways of using gameplay mechanics as a metaphor for story twists.

 Flash Free Link
VVVVVV

Terry Cavanagh's retro platforming masterpiece is an amazing throwback to the spectrum/C64 days. Filled with fiendishly difficult but masterfully designed levels, a huge and varied world to explore, and an excellent chiptune soundtrack.
PC
Mac
 $15 Link
You Only Live Once

Essentially a single joke game but played out to incredible levels of absurdity. A fantastic pastiche of gaming tropes.

 Flash Free Link