Christian Simmers

It's here! One of my final Cohost posts! Here's a list of all the indies I jotted down into blog posts in 2024.

This is only a small slice of all the interesting and fantastic indie games that have come out so far, but I think I managed to capture a good variety. Check these games out, add them to your wishlist, etc.

Enjoy the super long list under the cut!

• Kingsvein, tactics RPG with a very customizable party

• Momodora: Moonlit Farewell, sidescrolling action game.

• Frostrain, a roguelike deckbuilder where you play as the last conductor in a frozen world.

• Home Safety Hotline, creepy interface drama game.

• Turnip Boy Robs A Bank, top-down action game.

• Go Mecha Ball, twin-stick shooter roguelike where you roll around in a ball.

• Paper Lily - Chapter 1, RPG horror game with puzzles.

• Lil' Guardsman, a game about making tough (and funny) decisions at the town gate.

• Legendary Hoplite, a combo of action RPG and tower defense.

• WitchHand, a card based strategy about gathering resources and casting spells.

• Ultros, psychadelic metroidvania action game.

• Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore, inspired by Zelda CD-i.

• 20 Small Mazes, a free game with a bunch of fun mazes.

• Balatro, a deckbuilding roguelike where you build score with poker hands.

• Penny's Big Breakaway, a colorful 3D platformer.

• Regency Solitaire II, the return of an indie classic card game.

• Windowkill, a twin-stick shooter that takes place on separate windows on your desktop.

• Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography, an immersive game for learning basic Japanese.

• Minami Lane, a casual cozy management sim.

• Sixty Four, a strategic factory game with a unique art style.

• Duelists of Eden, a multiplayer version of the roguelike inspired by Megaman Battle Network.

• Death of a Wish, a hack-and-slash action RPG.

• SUMMERHOUSE, a low-stakes "digital toy" that lets you build homes to your heart's content.

• Slice & Dice, a dice-building roguelike.

• 4D Golf, mind-bending golf challenges with 4 spatial dimensions to consider.

• Pepper Grinder, a sidescrolling platformer with a huge drill.

• Distant Bloom, a serene crafting game on an alien planet.

• The Magical Mixture Mill, a crafting game where you set up magical automated production lines for your potions.

• The New York Times Simulator, experience the act of carefully curating headlines so as to not anger your powerful benefactors.

• Buckshot Roulette, a Russian Roulette-inspired strategy game.

• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, a 3D platformer where you play as a small taxi.

• Botany Manor, relaxing exploration game where you grow plants in their preferred habitats.

• Anomaly Collapse, a tactical roguelike with colorful animal characters.

• Dream Tactics, a card-based tactics RPG with a GBA aesthetic.

• Life Eater, a horror interactive fiction game where you must sacrifice your neighbors or let the world end.

• Harold Halibut, a point-and-click adventure game created using stop-motion animation.

• Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, a spiritual successor of Suikoden Chronicle. Recruit a hundred party members and fight in turn-based combat.

• Rusty's Retirement, an idle game that grows plants on the bottom of your desktop screen.

• POOLS, an experience of walking through liminal spaces.

• Another Crab's Treasure, a cute and colorful soulslike adventure.

• INDIKA, an experimental game about living as a nun...which takes unexpected directions.

• Great Houses of Calderia, an indie grand strategy game about feudal family dynamics.

• Echoes of the Plum Grove, a cozy farm sim and crafting game with a paper aesthetic.

• 1000xRESIST, an acclaimed sci-fi narrative game.

• Rabbit and Steel, a co-op sidescrolling action game inspired by MMORPG raids.

• Crow Country, a lo-fi survival horror game inspired by the Playstation 1, set in an abandoned amusement park.

• Athenian Rhapsody, a colorful, experimental RPG.

• Dread Delusion, a low-poly open world RPG with occult secrets and powerful magic.

• MULLET MADJACK, a colorful kinetic first-person-shooter inspired by retro anime.

• Arctic Eggs, an experimental narrative game where you cook eggs (and other things) on a frying pan.

• Yolk Heroes: A Long Tamgo, an idle raising-sim about nurturing the perfect RPG hero.

• Isles of Sea and Sky, an open world top-down puzzle game.

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, a detective mystery game that lets you use the powers of a duck's deduction skills.

• Trash of the Titans, a tactics RPG starring little trashy animals.

• Nine Sols, a 2D action platformer with Sekiro-inspired combat.

• Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip, a cartoony open-world game about running, driving, and gliding around town.

• Nightmare Kart, a gothic kart racing game inspired by games like Bloodborne.

• Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge, a casual game about running a sanctuary for frogs.

• Anthology of the Killer, a collection of 9 colorful adventure games following the bizarre scenarios that BB finds herself in.

• SKALD: Against the Black Priory, a retro-style party RPG in a grim-dark setting.

• #BLUD, a top-down action RPG with a slick 2000s TV cartoon aesthetic.

• Dystopika, a low-stakes city-building sandbox for making futuristic landscapes.

• Garage Sale, a top-down narrative adventure game about collecting items and talking to neighbors.

• Oh Deer, a multiplayer hunting game where 1 player plays as a hunter and the rest play as deer.

• Until Then, a pixel art narrative game about high schoolers uncovering hidden truths.

• Anger Foot, a first person shooter with a mighty kick button.

• Fallen Leaf, a retro side-scrolling platformer.

• Flock, a multiplayer co-op game about flying around the world and collecting strange little flying creatures.

• Dojo Masters, a 2-button competitive martial arts game.

• Dungeons of Hinterberg, a 3D action-adventure game set in the alpine village of Hinterberg.

• Vampire Therapist, a gothic/comedic visual novel about guiding vampires through emotional baggage.

• Veritus, a retro-inspired top down puzzle adventure game.

• Arranger, a top-down puzzle game where you can slide all the tiles of the world around.

• Dread Weight, a horror visual novel with an anime aesthetic.

• Kitsune Tails, a colorful retro-inspired 2D platformer with a tangled yuri love triangle.

• Fields of Mistria, a colorful top-down farm sim that's inspired by 90s anime.

• ONE BTN BOSSES, a boss-rush action game that you have to defeat with only 1 button.

• Depersonalization, a lovecraftian indie RPG.

• The Crush House, a game about running your own hot reality TV show.

• Shoulders of Giants: Ultimate, a co-op shooter where 1 player controls a robot and another player plays as a tiny frog on its shoulders.

• The Crimson Diamond, a retro-inspired text parser game about a reluctant detective named Nancy Maple.

• Arco, a tactical RPG focused on branching decisions, magic, and revenge.

• Gourdlets, an easygoing city sandbox game with cute vegetable folks.

• Sunset Hills, a point-and-click adventure game with a lush painterly art style and a world of animals.

• Tactical Breach Wizards, a tactics RPG about deploying renegade wizards and rewinding time.

• Galaxy Burger, a co-op cooking sim about running your own burger joint across different planets.

• Crypt Custodian, a top-down metroidvania game where you play as a cat.

• Fishlike, a series of hectic, fish-themed microgames.

• Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies, a social deception game about blending in at work to avoid the Manager's suspicions.

• CATO: Buttered Cat, a sidescrolling platformer about an anti-gravity cat.

• Lovely Lady RPG, a narrative visual novel about wandering around and seeing where the day takes you. You play as Ghost, who wakes up with no recollection of why there's a hole in her ceiling and a space Orb embedded in her chest.

• Witching Stone, an engine-building roguelike where you cast spells by matching up sequences of gem tiles.