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DAVE THE DIVER
Astoundingly varied and deep, dripping with funky charm, and both challenging and approachable. It’s fantastic
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DREDGE
This is simply a nautical adventure that continues to surprise, somehow both placid and often tense, routine and yet full of nasty surprises
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The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Among the indie games I’ve greatly enjoyed on PC over the years and have wondered when they would make their wa...

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Nuclear Blaze
A creative take on a puzzle platforming adventure that’s challenging but fair, and has plenty of secrets to discover along the way
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
If you don’t mind the sometimes glacial pacing of the adventure aspects, the art and story here are top-tier within the space
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Blanc
This mesmerizing adventure in black and white is both accessible and brilliant for sharing with a friend or tackling solo
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut

While I’ve played indie games with a pretty wide variety of styles and levels of quality since the launch of th...

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Flipping Death
Whenever you talk about classic adventure titles there's roughly a standing assumption that they'll bog down at some poi...
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Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
The final wild ride with the odd duo, though with a different central gag in the form of Max’s psychic powers
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SteamWorld Heist II
The approachable tactical strategy shooter is back, packing plenty of personality, polish, and a fair challenge
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Temtem
There's finally a legit upstart contender for the monster-collecting throne...
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Citizen Sleeper

As regulars probably know well by now, I don’t tend to be a fan of visual novels and even sometimes struggle wi...

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DYSMANTLE
While I’ve been able to be objective about survival games in order to attempt to give them an appropriately fair shake r...
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The Wild at Heart
Sometimes all you need to get excited about a title are a few evocative words, commonly referred to as an “elevator pitc...
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UNSIGHTED
Unsighted is interesting to me, in part because at just a casual glance, or even just a very short play session, I belie...
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Eastward
When it comes to pixel art action-adventures the normal standard that is compared against would be The Legend of Zelda: ...
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Lost in Random
Full disclosure, up front I’ll admit that I’ve always tended to be fond of games from the Zoink crew, in particular find...
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Indivisible
Probably one of the things I appreciate most in an indie game is for it to surprise me, and with its unwillingness to be...
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Sparklite
Since I’m a huge fan of roguelikes and their ability to revitalize and alter how you play more classic genres I’ve alway...
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The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse
While I know there are people out there who’ve kind of gotten tired of the label roguelike being thrown around I continu...
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Pool Panic
This was hands down my favorite title I'd never really heard about that I got to check out at PAX East. Thoroughly weird...
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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
Oddly up until this year I'd only consistently heard good things about Shantae but I'd never had the chance to indulge f...
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The Night of the Rabbit
With lush environments, an atypically unpredictable story, and smart design this does the classic adventure proud
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Planet of Lana
A solid take on a cinematic adventure of sorts as you try to evade capture and save your sister
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Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
In many ways playing out as a more mature and deeper Choose Your Own Adventure take, Harmony offers great dynamic storytelling
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Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space

Oh, Sam & Max, I simply can’t resist your weirdo humor, references, and charm. Once again the dysfunctional...

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Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
An attractive, reasonably challenging, and smart Metroidvania experience awaits
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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Undoubtedly different and wide open for possibilities based on your choices, this is a text-heavy but interesting affair
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Tunic
Undoubtedly the most well-crafted “tough Zelda” game out there, with tons to discover and learn (usually the hard way)
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Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

While I may be prone to complaining when titles put me to sleep with their droning stories and dry lore, when the qua...

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CRYPT CUSTODIAN
A charming, and sometimes silly, top-down Metroidvania-style romp that feels refreshing
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Lucy Dreaming
A more retro-than-typical style of interface, cheeky humor, and great voice acting helps to lift this adventure up
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Beacon Pines
Can you make the crucial decisions it takes to save your friends and your struggling town?
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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut

While there have been a great number of LucasArts-esque point-and-click adventure titles on Switch, not all of them h...

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Little Nightmares II

Having missed out on the original, though certainly having heard its praises, I walked into Little Nightmares 2 with ...

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The Star Named EOS
A visually gorgeous, and often touching, series of puzzles to be solved in order to connect a child to their mother
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Night Reverie
Enchanting both visually and in terms of its storytelling and themes… if you’re game for taking the ride
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Botany Manor
An interesting mix of botanical rejuvenation, exploration, and problem solving
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Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story
Whether you’re familiar with League of Legends of not, this “boy and his beast” platforming adventure is a good time
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Inscryption
At its base it’s a deck-building strategy with disturbing vibes, and from there it continues to surprise
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Youropa
While this gravity-defying and somewhat mind-bending 3D puzzler can be aggravating it’s also quite unique
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Coromon

The distance between honoring a game (trying to build on what made people love it and hoping to create something a li...

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Bugsnax

As long-time followers of mine will undoubtedly know, I’m a lover of games that qualify as being weird. With th...

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Blast Brigade vs. the Evil Legion of Dr. Cread

When I typically think of Metroidvanias I’ve been conditioned a bit to the point that I assume the balance is u...

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Delivers a mix of rural character, old-school adventure, and some legitimately chilling revelations
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Hindsight
There’s just something about playing the right story-driven game that speaks to some aspect of your own life or trials t...
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Endling - Extinction is Forever
When you’ve been playing 10 - 20 games a week for the last 4 years it can get to be a challenge for games to really stan...
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The Big Con - GRIFT OF THE YEAR EDITION
Maybe it’s the 80s kid and 90s twenty-something in me, but I’ll admit that when a game features a slice of life from my ...
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Tormented Souls
In general I’ll admit that I’ve been a bit frustrated by games from the indie space on Switch who describe themselves as...
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FAR: Changing Tides
Picking up roughly where the original FAR left off, and generally offering up a very similar (though longer and refined)...

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