Indie Games

It's pretty much unlike anything I've seen before. It's a scifi story where you play as the AI that aids a researcher that explores an alien ocean. It's hard to explain and needs to be seen.

So, it's a city builder but it's also a card collecting game. And there's quests and monsters and you can raise chickens and cows. What more do you really want?

Another interesting proposition, a reverse horror game in which you are the monster and you get to murder all the silly guards and research staff that imprisoned you.

2D pixel art game in which you explore the facility that housed you in the first place. Different levels are layered in a way that you need to complete a number of checkpoints in order to progress, unlocking new abilities as you move on.

Recent hidden gem I found, it's a Scifi thriller/horror/survival game where you explore a kind of remote research station which suffered a catastrophic event in which people died and general chaos ensued.

The feel of the game reminds me of games like Alien Isolation or Resident Evil but done in pretty beautiful pixel art with anime theme (Ergo Proxy?).

Do recommend

Peglin is a fantastically entertaining game, combining aspects of Peggle / Pachinko with a deck-building roguelike.

In Peglin, you build a deck of different "orbs", each with their own unique stats and abilities, such as being extra bouncy, chaining to nearby pegs, splitting into more balls when hitting a peg etc.

You combine this with a number of passive boosts, and have to traverse 3 maps, engaging in combat, and dealing damage based on how many pegs you hit!

The game is a great little time waster, and can get some really satisfying synergies with the right items.

I highly recommend people check it out.

YouTuber Aliensrock has a video series on Peglin, following it through early-access to the current day. The most recent video being here