Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Released Sep 5, 2010 Single Player AdventureThe last remaining memories fade away into darkness. Your mind is a mess and only a feeling of being hunted remains. You must escape. Read on...
Welcome to the 3rd annual Indie of the Year awards, a celebration of the best independent games released in 2012 as well as the up and coming whom we hope edge towards release in 2013. For the next 30 days, it's time to recognize the dedication and creativty of so many developers who have given everything to their craft (which, in many cases amounts to years of development).
We expect the 2012 Indie of the Year to be our biggest yet - so make yourself count by finding your favorite indies and voting for them! Who will join Terraria and Minecraft previous winners who continue to be as popular as ever. Up until Jan 1st 2013 join us and help celebrate your community, culture and give thanks to the developers by voting for your favorite projects. Welcome to the 3rd Annual Indie of the Year Awards (also check out our App of the Year awards and Mod of the Year awards).
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Released Games of 2012
The last remaining memories fade away into darkness. Your mind is a mess and only a feeling of being hunted remains. You must escape. Read on...
Haunt is independent adventure/horror game project inspired by Parsec Productions Slender: The Eight Pages, which was based on Victors Surge Slender-man idea. Read on...
'I need a Heart in order to open it.' The game will try to deceive you as many times as it can. I'm extremely sorry. I didn't really want to do that. Forgive me. Read on...
We got boobies. We got hookers. We got Zombies. We got Nazis. We got even Nazi-Zombies! We got puzzles, as this is an adventure. But this is also a shooter. And it is an RPG (at least in some special moments). Unique - and crazy like hell. Read on...
The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various multiplayer servers in creative mode, or fending off zombies, skeletons, spiders and creepers in survival. Read on...
Slender's Woods is a short horror game about a mythical creature Slender man and it takes place in the woods. The development started a month after the original Slender game by Agent Parsec came out. Read on...
This suspenseful psychological horror game features stylized artwork, a simple keyboard control method and English voice acting, plus a compelling, atmospheric 60 minute soundtrack by Micamic. Read on...
A new voxel based adventure, rpg and creation game. Big focus on player created content such as characters, items, weapons, monsters, NPCs, quests, etc. Read on...
Alien Arena is a standalone game based off of id Tech 2 source that combines a sci-fi atmosphere with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical enhancements such as GLSL per-pixel lighting, hi-res textures and light blooms. Read on...
CHIVALRY: Battle for Agatha is a first-person medieval online combat game that seeks to deliver the intensity of epic hollywood medieval blockbusters to the hands of a gamer. CHIVALRY hurls the player into a fictional medieval world. Read on...
Hitler nearing his end in 1942 decides to copy in his mind a disk. Today, this disk has reappeared and began to infest the internet. Not to leave the Axis victory, it is imperative to protect the primary DNS servers from virtual Nazis. Read on...
Nazi Zombies: Portable recreates Nazi Zombies on the PSP. Read on...
Dinosaurs have been unleashed on an old military controlled island due to an experiment gone awry. A team of mercenaries have been dispatched to contain the threat. Primal Carnage is a multiplayer FPS where players must work as a team to survive. Read on...
Remember 1996's Command & Conquer: Red Alert? Now, enter the fray as a single combatant on the battlefield, fighting alongside the Allies or the Soviets for global supremacy in this mod that adheres to the classic world created by Westwood Studios. Read on...
Warsow is a high-speed standalone deathmatch mod that utilizes a heavily modified version of the Quake 2 engine. Combined with cell shaded graphics and an emphasis on movement and jumping tricks, Warsow is one of the most frenetic mods you'll ever play. Read on...
AirBuccaneers is a Co-operative Vehicle based Team Deathmatch game with fierce aerial battles between the Buccaneers and the Vikings in beautiful Scandinavian landscapes. Read on...
Napoleonic Wars is a multiplayer DLC (Downloadable Content) expansion pack for Mount & Blade: Warband featuring the last years of the Napoleonic Wars. Experience the thrill of Napoleonic warfare first hand! Read on...
Recruits is a Single and Co-Op player game where the players take charge of the Army's newest soldiers to fight the war against their deadly Enemies. Read on...
Renegade X is a tactical First and Third Person Shooter with Real Time Strategy elements, set in the Command & Conquer universe. It is a high quality award-winning free indie game being created on the Unreal Development Kit Read on...
RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down sandbox shooter, with emphasis on cooperation, squad leading and being a tiny soldier in a big war. The events take place on an open world battlefield divided between two factions. Read on...
“A deserted island…a lost man…memories of a fatal crash…a book written by a dying explorer.” Two years in the making, the highly anticipated Indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther arrives on PC. Read on...
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a mercenary, a business owner, a doctor, a bandit.. the list goes on. Aid or oppose the various factions in the world. Read on...
Legend of Grimrock is a fantasy game loaded with underground adventuring, tricky puzzles, combat and role-playing elements. In other words, it’s a dungeon crawl game. Read on...
Mount&Blade: Warband expands on the original game by introducing a sixth faction, increasing the political options, allowing players to start their own faction and incorporates a new multi-player mode. Read on...
Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die? Read on...
Secrets of Grindea an old-school RPG with co-op support. In the world of Grindea everything is determined by one thing - how big your collection is. Take your first steps to become a famed Collector and collect the most valuable rares in the kingdom! Read on...
Underrail is an old school turn-based isometric indie role playing game that focuses on exploration and combat. It's inspired by western RPG classics such as Fallout, Arcanum, Neverwinter Nights and System Shock 2. Read on...
Transformice is a multiplayer Flash game.You are a small mouse out to get a piece of cheese and who got to take it back into the mouse hole. The game includes a physics engine, so the multiplayer aspect gets fun when many players blindly rush ahead. Read on...
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Read on...
Towns brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. Read on...
Endless Space is a turned-based Strategie game where you colonize Planets and wage War against other Species. Read on...
It is the year 2084. You control a secret organization charged with defending Earth from a brutal alien enemy. Build up your bases, prepare your team, and dive head-first into the fast and flowing turn-based combat. Read on...
Xenonauts is an upcoming strategy title inspired by the classic X-Com series of strategy games, reinventing and reimagining them for modern times with a fresh setting, increased usability and countless other improvements. Read on...
LA-MULANA is an 'Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game' in which you search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the 'Secret Treasure of Life' - which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of 'LA-MULANA' and is said to be the beginning of all civilization. Read on...
Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory is a 2D platformer that presents the story of a sugar cube. The background tiles of the game have two sides, namely, the front and the back. These tiles can be flipped for access to critical hints to solve different levels. Read on...
Teslagrad is a puzzle platformer with action elements. Magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are gained trough the game and used to surpass the games challenges and explore the long abandoned Tesla Tower. Read on...
A modern take on the classic arcade game, Lunar Lander, extending the experience to a fully, fictionalised Lunar Module Simulator providing a variety of mission types like Transporting Cargo, Acquiring Data at Survey locations and locating Lost Cargo. Read on...
A fully dynamic haunting-simulator. Experience the horrors of a haunting that's never the same twice. Read on...
Guns of Icarus Online is a team-based multiplayer airship combat game set in a steampunk/dieselpunk-inspired, post-apocalyptic world where lighter-than-air flight is the only means to cross the scarred wilderness dividing pockets of civilization. Read on...
Fast pace cellshading flying action. Soar the skies as you take on the most vicious enemies above the ground. Experience an airborne adventure in an all new art style that will take you to something different and exciting. Read on...
Miner Wars is a 6DOF underground and space shooter played in a fully destructible environment and is a combination of single player story game and MMO. As a player, you operate an advanced mining ship in an open world asteroid belt area. Read on...
ScrumbleShip is the most accurate space combat simulation devised to date. Gather resources, construct a capital ship out of individual blocks, then pilot it with AI or human help against other players. Read on...
Wing Commander Saga is a free game based on the Freespace 2 Source Code Project. It is based upon the popular Wing Commander series by Chris Roberts and Origin, and features a new story line. Read on...
Since the death of Major Mylar, the Tan army has lost every battle. Even with the help of the Blue and Grey armies, it seems that the Green are destined to win and the war finally appears to be coming to an end after so many years. Read on...
A high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat. Assume the role of a mysterious antihero on a murderous rampage against the shady underworld at the behest of voices on your answering machine. Read on...
An incredible team-based sidescrolling multiplayer about 2 teams of Knights, Archers and Builders battling for control over a randomly generated terrain. Read on...
This game was created in collaboration with an Italian association and is part of a project for schools to teach children the importance of respect for animals. Read on...
Natural Selection 2 is the sequel to the popular HL mod which pits Elite Marines against the vicious Alien Kharaa in a battle of survival. Marines must use weaponry to find and destroy alien hives, while each Alien class has different abilities. Read on...
Faster Than Light is a spaceship simulation roguelike-like. Its aim is to recreate the atmosphere of running a spaceship exploring the galaxy (like Firefly/Star Trek/BSG etc). Read on...
Torchlight II takes you once more into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures, and sinister secrets! Read on...
Upcoming Games of 2012
A classic survival horror adventure about a lost motel, a lonely road and a spiral of death and murder. Read on...
The year is 1899. Wealthy industrialist Oswald Mandus has returned home from a disastrous expedition to Mexico, which has ended in tragedy. As he struggles to his feet, somewhere beneath him, an engine splutters, coughs, roars into life... Read on...
Dead Man Zand is a classical graphic adventure game, combining groundbreaking aspects with the magic and humor of the 1990's adventures. The game is set in the Underworld, an humorous and outrageous take to Purgatory, filled with funny characters and beau Read on...
Empathy is an adventure game with emphasis on storytelling and exploration. A game about emotions, good intentions and desperate measures, where you embark on a journey through a dying world to discover its story and wonders. Read on...
Oliver&Spike: Dimension Jumpers is a mix between adventure and platform puzzler, developed on Unity3D. Think Ratchet&Clank meets Zelda meets Uncharted, with Dimension Jumping to battle repetitive game-play. Read on...
Overgrowth takes place in the savage world of Lugaru where rabbits, wolves and other animals use paws, claws and medieval weaponry to battle each other. Taking advantage of Wolfire's brand new Phoenix Engine to create an astoundingly immersive experience. Read on...
Visitors from Earth crash land on an unforgiving land filled with creatures ready to outlast the visitors. Now the survivors must explore, gather, build, create, fight, and ultimately, conquer the land. Read on...
FpsProject is an tactical FPS(First-Person-Shooter) with multiplayer. For the campaign we still need help with the story line and animators. We hope that FpsProject is going to be a great game and wish us good luck. Read on...
Conscript is a psp/pc game using a modified quake engine that takes place in an alternate half life 2 universe, through the eyes of a conscript. Read on...
Eugene and Marcus return in the spiritual successor of Zombie Panic: Source. Contagion is a survival horror FPS set at the beginning of an epidemic that will force a familiar group to work together if they are to survive. Read on...
This project represents a high quality game in the genre of post-apocalypse, game set in the well-known universe of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Read on...
A dark storm is coming. Scientists working on experimental technologies are attacked by an unknown enemy. Chaos ensues. Powers change hands. Lives are lost. And that's just the beginning. A dark storm is coming. Read on...
A free multiplayer FPS built on the Unreal Engine 3, in a sci-fi universe. Read on...
Eden Star is a dark, Sci-fi. Take on the 'mine, create, survive' gameplay found in popular voxel-based creation games. With ultra interactive destructible environments, game-changing graphical quality all within an ever expanding universe. Read on...
A first-person action/adventure game set in the universe of 'The Eternaut', the classic comic written by Germán Oesterheld. Read on...
Interstellar Marines is an AAA, FPS, Sci-fi, action and adventure game with an original and unpredictable storyline. Read on...
A multiplayer FPS that will put you into fast paced, objective based game play, in a Steam Punk world. Two teams will battle for control of the few remaining resources left on the war ridden planet, in order to advance their technology. Read on...
Network // New Innovative Multiplayer F2P FPS Game Read on...
OverDose is a Class/Team based multiplayer game set on a post apocalyptic Earth. Divided into two factions, the CMC and MDR battle out for supremacy over the destroyed cities of a war torn world. Read on...
"Stargate : No Limits" is a French mod for the Unreal Developement Tool Kit. It's a multiplayer and cooperatives mod based on the Stargate,Stargate SG-1,Stargate Atlantis TV show. The most known places of the séries are recreated. Read on...
The Battle of the Somme symbolised the horrors of warfare in world war one. Follow orders, fight for your country, survive in rain soaked trenches and wait for the call; the call to charge over no man's land to fight for freedom and liberation. Read on...
A total conversion which aims to turn the FPS C&C Renegade into Tiberian Sun with a bit of Firestorm thrown in. Read on...
Traction Wars is a Tactical Teamwork Game set during the Second World War. We aim to create a realistic and historically accurate environment for players to immerse themselves. For information about the first release please see below. Read on...
Wake Up Call is a first person action thriller game set 250-300 years in the future, almost two hundred years after a massive outbreak of an extremely deadly pandemic that killed off almost all of the world's human population. Read on...
Set in the Dune universe, this mod turns Emperor: Battle For Dune into a First/Third Person Shooter. The Emperor is dead. The Guild has taken over the Spice flow on Arrakis until someone else claims it, three Houses remain after the long fighting on Arrak Read on...
Join the fray of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 firsthand in Apocalypse Rising, a mod that finds you in the boots of an Allied G.I. or a Soviet Conscript in the heat of battle, fighting among all of the units and buildings from the original game. Read on...
Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox is an indie game with the intent to recreate the amazing turn-based, first person RPGs from the golden age of PC gaming using modern game engine technology. Read on...
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a sandbox action-RPG strategy hybrid will take players on a journey into a fictional world of up-close and personal medieval combat on a huge scale, bigger, bloodier and more intense than ever before. Read on...
Path of Exile is a gritty, new Action Role Playing Game from New Zealand based studio, Grinding Gear Games. Path of Exile combines bone-shattering, monster-slaying action with in-depth character customization. Read on...
Pioneers a turn-based game with RPG elements. It's a game where you start by assembling your exploration party with men with different abilities and skills. Every man counts and every skill counts. Head for some unknown land. Read on...
Siege of Inaolia, The first game from Riftwalker Ltd, intends to put survival games on the map by offering a refined and fresh experience in the form of a game that pays heavy attention to story as well as a high replay value by means of dynamic combat. Read on...
Enter the desert world of Noshrac. You are a Son of Nor, a human mage with the sole mission to protect and preserve what is left of your race. Son of Nor is an action RPG set in a dynamic desert environment that can be shaped by the player’s magic. Read on...
Survivor - Forgotten World is a First-Person survival RPG on a new concept, set in 1983 and based on Unreal Engine 3. You need to eat, drink, sleep and fight after your crash upon unknown land. Read on...
The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire. Read on...
Embers of Caerus is a low-fantasy sandbox MMORPG in development. Read on...
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) with a great focus on classic roleplay. The world is inspired by the medieval Europe and Near East with fantasy elements such as mythical creatures from Slavic folklore. Read on...
SeaCraft game is the online naval shooter with the original style of the second half of XX century. The game will drive you into the enthralling world of sea battles from equatorial latitudes to northern ices. Read on...
This is a Naruto Based MMO from Masashi Kishimoto anime series of Naruto & Naruto Shippuden. A fully open world game with many options of being a Kage of your village, become a missing ninja, creating your own clan, and more! Read on...
Sirius Online - One single team - One single MMO. Seven years of work! Sirius Online is a Freelanceresque MMO with an additional focus on Economy, PvP and Exploration. Read on...
0 A.D. is a new real-time strategy currently undergoing development by Wildfire Games. Featuring a ground-breaking new game engine custom built to suit our environment, 0 A.D. strives to preserve historical accuracy combined with engaging gameplay. Read on...
Platformer with puzzles, in cyberpunk setting. When Sokoban meets Metroid Read on...
Indie Pirates: The Game is a ultimate pirate simulator that will draw you in the world full of bandits and noble folks. Trade and fight other pirate leaders, intercept caravans full of treasure, enjoy fishing at open seas and much more. Read on...
Build the wildest starships you can imagine from the inside-out -- and then blow them up! Read on...
Excalibur breaks the mold of traditional space simulation games by putting the player firmly in the boots of an experienced Starfleet captain. From the outset you will be able to control your character and command your ship! Read on...
Silent Hill:The Pledge is a fan game based on the Downpour universe and tells the story of the postman (Howard). The game plays much like SH:Downpour. This is our own version of what happened to the postman and how he got into SH and hopefully it'll fit w Read on...
Stone Rage is an online third person multiplayer action game set within the Pleistocene and Eocene eras, featuring prehistoric tribalism, prehistoric landscapes and prehistoric animals. Read on...
BIONITE: ORIGINS is a game inspired from the 1998 tank shooter Battlezone. Battlezone was an outstanding phenomenon at its time combing the two worlds of real time strategy & first person shooter. Read on...
StarForge a game about gathering resources, building bases, buying weapons, using strategy, and destroying your opponent’s bases to win. It is real time and set in a first or third person perspective. Set on an alien planet, the theme is high technology. Read on...
Crasleen: Drums of War is a turn-based tactical strategy where you play as the commander. During the campaign the gamer’s army is enlarged with various warmongers and unique characters who gain experience fighting in battles ultimately becoming stronger! Read on...