Shelling out a bursting cornucopia of choices to puzzle fans, and all wrapped it up in a pulse-pounding soundtrack, this game is one solid offering. You will sit in front of your computer for nine hours. Fractal brings together the best parts of Hexic and Lumines, and then blows them both to itty-bitty pieces. Couldn’t get enough, couldn’t find anything wrong with it. As engaging within Steam as it is on iOS, Galcon Fusion also features excellent multi-player modes with in-game chat, and really cool option to toggle on the ASCII underpinnings in realtime by hitting the F10 key. And it shows.Įnormously addictive, over-the-top swarms of enemy ships duke it out for control of a group of planets. This is not to say that it is a reboot so much as a very clean and nicely realized graphical front end to an AI system that has been refined over the course of twenty years. Galcon Fusion is the so-called “HD” re-imagining of an old statistic-heavy ASCII game dating back two decades. ~IGR Crew Indie Game Reviewer’s Top Ten Indie Games of 2010 10. With all that said, we humbly present our top picks for 2010’s best independent video game title releases. So our top ten list is one that endeavors to represent as wide a variety of genres as possible, to highlight how eclectic the indie platform truly can be.īut innovation and overshadowing are not enough to merit a spot in our list – we aren’t trying to play hipper-than-thou by favorings the underdogs…in fact we always look for titles that get all the basics right: intuitive controls, emotional engagement, replay value, sound and graphic design, and of course a little audaciousness. Here we will likely run into controversy over the omission of 2010 darling Super Meat Boy – a very polished, rich platformer – however, we felt that with the indie world over-inundated with platformers, we should look further for titles that may have been overshadowed due to lack of advertising budgets or love from the press and yet merited attention. For this reason titles like and Minecraft are not included.įinally, we wanted to cover as wide a range of genres as possible, so although The Ball was an extraordinary indie effort, we felt Amnesia managed to do something even more innovative with the FPS genre. You will notice some very obvious popular choices are also absent from this list we were very meticulous about ensuring that any games on the following list were in full release as opposed to alpha or beta or demo stages within 2010. Selecting ten games from the plethora of independent comers in a watershed year for the indie gaming community was made even more difficult because of our desire to showcase those creative and adventurous minds that are helping to break molds and old patterns and often we have to separate the developer from the game and base our decision on the game itself – its playability, narrative, ease of use, originality, execution and not the potential of its creators.
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