Best Indie / Shareware Games?

Share your favourite indie / shareware games here. These poor developers scrape together barely enough money to live and yet release great games. Let's see 'em!

For me, my favourite indie RPGs have to be:-

Avernum

Geneforge

Eschalon

Anyone else got some?

edited 2nd Oct '10 9:05:55 AM by Morghulis

We already got a thread for this kind of stuff.

^ That's for Freeware, isn't it? Shareware is different.

This is stuff that requires money, basically. =p

^ Um, shareware does not require money. It's most manners of trial versions of software. Free, limited content version of something that does require money. Not really sure why you'd lump indie games and shareware together.

Indie:

Iron Grip: Warlord.

Shareware:

Raptor Call Of The Shadows.

^^ So you have to pay for it, yep? =p And, as a general thing, Indie developers trial their software through Shareware.

Freeware thread.

Not the shareware. Shareware is by definition free. "Games that have shareware trials" is not the same thing as the shareware itself. And indie games are far from the only sorts of games that have shareware versions. So if I'm gathering correctly, the intent is "best indie games or any games that happen to have a demo"? It's just a really weird and vague criteria that could include any number of games without any real commonality, is what I'm getting at.

I don't know why the term "shareware" is even used any more.

So...what do games like Touhou, Rosenkreuz Stilette, and Bunny Must Die count as?

edited 2nd Oct '10 3:39:18 PM by Signed

^^^ No, that's Free Ware.

Shareware. Trial software provided to users without payment.

^^^ It usually isn't. This is the first time I've heard the word in a long time. Trial versions of games are usually just called demos these days. Though I suppose maybe not all demos are technically shareware. If it's a scenario that doesn't ever appear in the actual game (Half Life had one of these with it's demo, Uplink), that may or may not qualify as shareware.

^^ I don't know enough about those games to say. If it's fully functional software released without any charge from the developer, that's freeware.

edited 2nd Oct '10 5:44:39 PM by Stranger

So, anyone got any more?

^Well, for freeware games, I recommend looking on ModDB and it's recent spinoff: IndieDB.

edited 3rd Oct '10 1:40:53 PM by RocketDude

Inertia won 4 awards at DICE's Indie Challenge (alongside Limbo). It's only 80 MSP ($1 USD) on Xbox Live Indie.

Inertia can be found here.

Team Hermes is composed of classmates of mine. I'm so psyched for them - and I did not expect to read about them on TV Tropes!

Here they are, getting their check(s).

DERP.

Limbo won art direction. Michelle corrected me over the phone.

edited 12th Feb '11 2:41:48 PM by Rebochan

Symon looks interesting.

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