Indie Reviews

During my Sophomore year in college, during a programming class, I saw a friend of mine playing this  2D platforming game on his laptop that I hadn’t seen before.  It …
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[Disclosure: The box art for Apple Jack 2 was illustrated by A Critical Hit’s Kate Willaert, though she was not in any way involved with the creation of the actual …
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If I were to describe Botanicula — the sort-of spiritual sequel to indie point-and-click puzzle/adventure Machinarium — I’d say it has the strange other-worldly charm of Oddworld, happy nonsense-words music …
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It has been out for quite some time now, and it has taken me about two years to get around to finishing it, but I have finally completed the Xbox …
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It really feels like something special when you find a game in the Xbox Live Indie Game section that actually feels like it was made by someone who knows a …
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As I’ve said before, the Xbox Live Indie Games section is host to many a cheap knockoff, lazily-coded weekend project, or good idea wasted on bad programming.  Every once in …
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Breakout (or Arkanoid, to some) has always been my favorite of the “classic” arcade games.  Not just for the brick-breaking, but the huge amount of powerups (or power-downs) that are …
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It seems like Roguelikes are making a comeback.  Dungeons of Dredmoor, 100 Rogues, Legends of Yore and now The Binding of Isaac are all recent examples of additions to the …
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Yet another example of an XBLIG title taking a now-standard flash game idea and making it something worthwhile, The Cannon takes the tired “shoot things with a stationary cannon” genre …
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You know those physics-based flash games that seem to have grown in popularity for no real reason?  The ones where you control a cannon, or a guy with a bow, …
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