Indie Game Curiosities

Dredging up the odd and forgotten...to recognize, to highlight, and to warn!

Cham the Cat Adventure

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Cham the Cat Adventure strives to recreate Mario's iffiest outing: Super Mario Land! Yep, Cham feels like the weird, cat-girl sequel gamers never got and Nintendo would never deliver. But more importantly...is it good?

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TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

TASOMACHI is Super Mario in the body of a super cutie. Tasked with romping and hopping through idyllic, picturesque landscapes, she's definitely not unlike her portly counterpart. Except here, there are no baddies. No real challenge. Just revelry...in what might be one of the prettiest games of its age.

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Cocoon

Cocoon: If terrestrial insects build hives and mounds, would not interstellar insects do the same...just across a much grander dimension? That's Cocoon, a game of melding and metamorphosis...a journey through worlds...an exercise in dismantling the past to develop what's always been.

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Fairune is an RPG without the basic ingredients of one--it strips away the typical combat and narrative structure in favor of pure exploration and fetch-quest puzzle solving. Does such a reductionist approach make for a good game...or a pointless one?

Fairune

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Gal Guardians: Demon Purge

Gal Guardians learns from the best, cribbing from the Castlevania franchise while switching the whips for bullets and replacing the guys with the yummiest girls. Because, really, if women are good at anything, it's slaying monsters with endearing spear and winsome gun.