2025, dec 9 - fifty indie game recommendations

[droqen]

i first encountered zaratustra's inclusion of The End of Gameplay in a 50 indie game recommendation that had something to do with the game awards:

Mashina. The Art of Reflection. Endlight. Lingo 2. Pudding: Lyre Knight. Puzzle Depot. FISH FEAR ME. Pocket Boss. HORSES. Blippo+. Mars First Logistics. Starstruck: Hands Of Time. The Trolley Solution. Rise of the Golden Idol. Kaizen: A Factory Story. Depersonalization. Öoo. Isles of Sea And Sky. // Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo. Sol Cesto. Bombe. Strange Jigsaws. Seeking the Guardian. Loophole. Ark's Wonder Dungeon. 4D Golf. PETS. Court of Wanderers. Babushka's Glitch Dungeon. Skin Deep. The End Of Gameplay. Yogurt Commercial 3. The Void Rains Upon Her Heart. The Button Effect. Lab Rat. // Every Draknek & Friends game. ENA: Dream BBQ. Gentoo Rescue. Leap Year. NO-SKIN. Gravity Circuit. Birdigo. Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity. Prodigal. Cobalt Core. PROXIMATE. Cape Hideous. Grunn. Judero. Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers. Arco. Tactical Breach Wizards. // Play more indie games.

New rule this year: If you post "Play more indie games" during the game awards, you are required to make a thread recommending 50 of them.

[droqen]

but it's always sylvie doing something that makes me want to do it lol. sylvie tried: "can i recommend 50 indie games. probably not" and gave up after 10 games: "tapping out at 10 indie games, recommending stuff is too hard. now i'm forced to watch 80% of the game awards or something i forget what the original post said"

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where will i land? i am so certain i can name fifty indie games.

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FJORDS
LA-MULANA
Cave Story
Consume Me
RE: Imagine the Player Re: Imagine the character
zk map for stranger [fr0g] clan official server 24/7 zk map (for stranger)
Rooftop Cop
Iji
Hero Core
Yume Nikki
Toribash
Black Shades
(brb, i need to pee)
(oh, wait one last one)
Save the Date

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Myre (card game by Zach Gage) (i'm going to have to go back and add sources for all these won't i)
actually now that i think about it i should probably limit it to 1 per developer

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cute jump (sylvie)
There's a Beautiful Star (HaoLiao)
fast car (moochi)
ap  drive (Andy Sum)
And Other Stories
Slay the Princess
UNDERTALE
Nidhogg
that really insane text adventure puzzle game with the magic spellcasting that's free on Steam but you can buy a certificate o "not cheating" . . . i'll find it Hadean Lands
Suveh Nux
Elona

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Haven & Hearth
the cyberpunkish game that's a first person dungeon crawler that i didn't finish that A recommended what was it called
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Fit for a King Fit For A King

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Spelunky
White Butterfly
Counterclockwise
Minecraft
Manifold Garden
Moirai
Uurnog Uurnlimited

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Execution (2008)
Inside a Star-Filled Sky
Megane
Corrypt
Psychonauts (does Psychonauts count?)

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Gish

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Lyle in Cube Sector
Infinifactory
Infiniminer
The Kingdom of Loathing
The Gostak
Chango
Vertex Dispenser
Sing a Song for Freddy
wow why can't i find this indie game? it's like a spaceship deckbuilder game? and it's cute? Cobalt Core
Cortex Command
N
Liero
Little Fighter
Ace of Spades (not the one currently on Steam, the other free original one)

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GUN GODZ

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Dwarf Fortress
Brogue
Rift Wizard

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Gravity Bone
Thirty Flights of Loving
Quadrilateral Cowboy

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(... how many am i at, now?)