Saturday, July 14, 2007
The Top 100 Indie Games
GameTunnel.com has decided to put its 3+ years of monthly indie game round-ups to good use and showcase the top 100 games that they've rated in that time:
Game Tunnel's Top 100 Indie Games
This list has obviously invited some... shall we say, animated discussion. As these kinds of lists always do. I mean, they don't even have Void War in the list, which won a silver award and got the same rating as others in the top 100... :) Okay, I guess when the cutoff point came, more recent games got the nod over older ones. Phooey.
Anyway, nobody should mistake this for an "all-time greatest." Or "best-selling." It doesn't include some older (but even better) games. But for what it is worth, it's a really interesting snapshot into some of the better games to come out of the indie community in the last three years. And it helps show just how incredibly prolific the indie games scene has been lately.
My own personal list of the best indie games of the last three years? You can see a partial list RIGHT HERE. That's part of why things are so ecclectic at Rampant Games. Actually, there are a few more I'd like to have added. Avernum IV and the Geneforge games, and Minions of Mirth, ferinstance. And some free web-based games, like Flash Element TD, Vector TD, and Desktop TD. And there are way too many I haven't had a chance to play.
So what are some of the indie games you'd put on your personal "Top 10?"
Labels: Indie Evangelism
- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 12:02 PM (Permalink)
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Well, let's see...
Democracy, among others. Great game.
Wolfenstein 3D for sure, I prefer that one over many new titles ;)
I like Derek's point about BKR though - I can't find one good reason why it should be there. It's not original, and the graphics are nice but definitely not Top 100 nice. If BKR is there, then where is for instance, Bejeweled and Zuma? Crazy.
Democracy, among others. Great game.
Wolfenstein 3D for sure, I prefer that one over many new titles ;)
I like Derek's point about BKR though - I can't find one good reason why it should be there. It's not original, and the graphics are nice but definitely not Top 100 nice. If BKR is there, then where is for instance, Bejeweled and Zuma? Crazy.
"Top X" lists always leave something out. I for one like the fact that there are 100 very good indie games all in one place, which can save me alot of time if I wanna check out the 'state of the scene'
Anders -
I think the reason Bejeweled and Zuma aren't on the list is because they are older and were not rated in Game Tunnel's monthly round-up. If they had been, then we'd probably have seen them on the top 100 list.
Now, we can argue all day as to whether or not Big Kahuna Reef deserved the rating it got. I personally thought it was a very interesting twist on the Bejeweled mechanic, and I thought the graphics were nice. But so much better than the rest that were below it on the list? That I don't know if I could say.
So the list is about as unbiased a list as they could have produced, but it's definitely causing some questions and discussion. Which, in my mind, is a good thing :)
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I think the reason Bejeweled and Zuma aren't on the list is because they are older and were not rated in Game Tunnel's monthly round-up. If they had been, then we'd probably have seen them on the top 100 list.
Now, we can argue all day as to whether or not Big Kahuna Reef deserved the rating it got. I personally thought it was a very interesting twist on the Bejeweled mechanic, and I thought the graphics were nice. But so much better than the rest that were below it on the list? That I don't know if I could say.
So the list is about as unbiased a list as they could have produced, but it's definitely causing some questions and discussion. Which, in my mind, is a good thing :)
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