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[AuthenticKaizen]

Do you like games?
Name good XBLIG / XBLA Games, please!  

Also check out the PC Indie Game Recommendations Thread.

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XBLIG
abbadon / abbadon retribution
action arcade wrestling
aesops garden
ancient trader
aphelion
apple jack
ARC viking
Arkedo Series - 03 PIXEL!
armor valley
astroman
astro tripper
Atomhex
bloody death
break limit
breath of death IV
Breath of Death VII
brethren of the sea
BURNING FISTS OF RAGE
Castle Pain
cave in
chaos gateway
cheney star
chus dynasty
Clover, a Curious Tale
Colosseum  
contagion
CREED ARENA
Crossfire
Curse of the Crescent Isle
decay 1&2
Decimation X
decimation x3
dino splode
Dishwasher: The Dead Samurai
Dr Mazing
Duotrix
dysnomia
Echoes+
Eets
epic dungeon
EXELINYA BURST
Explosionade
fight monkey of magic
figment
Fireball
fishing girl
flotilla
Fluid
Funky Punch XL
Gamerbots:Third-Robot Shooting
Garden Gnome Carnage
Get Rich or Die Gaming
Gravitron 360
Green Island
Hypership Out Of Control
Iredia: Atram's Secret
infect Ed
Inferno
Ilomilo
isagoras
Johnny Platform Saves Xmas!
Johnny Platform's Bisquit Romp
Jonny Crush
JoyJoy
jump n bounce
Kaiten Patissier
Karnn Age
Kong360 Gorilla warfare
Leave Home
legend of the rune lord
leucistic wyvern
Lord Ownage:UnBritish Invasion
Mama And Son: Clean House
Masters of Belial
mech gladiator
megalopolis
miasma
minds eye of jupiter
Miner Dig Deep
missing reel
mithra episode 1
Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess
Mutant Zombie Onslaught
Nasty
Ophidian Wars
Petank Party
Philip Muwanga's Hexy Trench
Platypus
prismatic solid
protect me knight
quad force
raskulls
Retrofit: Overload
rock a block
Seizonrenda
Shoot1UP
solar
solar struggle
soul
Soulcaster
Soulcaster 2
space police on super highway 9
star crisis
star cross
steam heroes
sword of rapier
SYNSO 360
SYNSO2
tempura of the dead
the deep cave
the endless abyss
Time K
Tobe’s Vertical Adventure
transsubversion
Treasure Treasure:FFEE
tribes of Ursea
trino
Tunescape
twin blades
unrevolutionary
vampire rage
veks and silence
Weapon Of Choice
Your Doodles Are Bugged
zombies eight my cookies
ZP2K9
ZP2KX: Zombies & Pterodactyls!
ちえりのドキ★ドキ湯煙ぶらり旅



XBLA
aces of the galaxy
Alien Hominid
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Blissful Island
Castle Crashers
Comic Jumper
Darwinia+
deathspank
defense grid
Galaga Legions
Ikaruga
kodu game lab
Lazy Raiders
Limbo
Mega Man 9
monday night fight
Mutant Storm Empire
Mutant Storm Reloaded
N+
Outrun Online Arcade
Pac-Man C.E.
Pac-Man CE DX
R-Type Dimensions
Rez HD
Shank
Space Giraffe
Super Meat Boy
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Zeno Clash



Promising Games That Are Still In Development:
alpha squad
Duality ZF
Grapple Buggy
Nastier
Owlboy
Rainbow Ball Into Adventure
Retro City Rampage
Rola Trooper
Score Rush
Spelunky
they bleed pixels
dust: an elysian tail

Avatar Games
Avaglide
Seaside Racing



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This Thread was inspired by the iPhone Recommendations Thread

[mark]

What about Alien Hominid? It's super hard (for me anyway, I can't seem to beat it) but it's also a lot of fun.

Edit:
I really should get to trying out some of the games in the XBLA, could you maybe mark which of them are XBLA and which are XBLIG? (since indie games require gold for some reason, and I can't find enough reason to spend the money for gold)

[AuthenticKaizen]

What about Alien Hominid? It's super hard (for me anyway, I can't seem to beat it) but it's also a lot of fun.

Edit:
I really should get to trying out some of the games in the XBLA, could you maybe mark which of them are XBLA and which are XBLIG? (since indie games require gold for some reason, and I can't find enough reason to spend the money for gold)

added alien hominid and made 2 sections.

[Spyn Doctor]

I really should get to trying out some of the games in the XBLA, could you maybe mark which of them are XBLA and which are XBLIG? (since indie games require gold for some reason, and I can't find enough reason to spend the money for gold)

Actually, XBLIGs do not require Gold. They just (unfortuantely) require you to be online when you start the game (you can go offline again after the game is running). But for that, a Silver account is also fine.

Some XBLIGs I bought myself (which aren't already on the list above), alphabetically:
Clover, a Curious Tale
Johnny Platform Saves Xmas! (great platformer, see also Johnny Platform's Bisquit Romp)
Platypus,
radiangames Fireball,
Soulcaster

And I'm glad that YDAB! is already on the list, so I don't have to pimp my own game... ;-)

on XBLA:
Winterbottom,
and I actually like Lazy Raiders (although I often get motion sickness playing it :-)

Doc

[iffi]

I think the XBLA version of Spelunky would count as a promising game still in development.

[moi]

There are A LOT of XBLIGS worth a look, try them for yourself though.All those games are worth at least their price.


XBLIG
-breath of death IV
-tempura of the dead
-Curse of the Crescent Isle
-miasma
-steam heroes
-infect Ed
-Get rich or Die Gaming (not everyone's cup of tea, but I think it deserves being there. Also: a top seller)
-action arcade wrestling
-figment
-isagoras
-tribes of Ursea
-chaos gateway
-abbadon / abbadon retribution
-leucistic wyvern
-sword of rapier
-ちえりのドキ★ドキ湯煙ぶらり旅
-solar struggle
-the endless abyss
-star crisis
-decay 1&2
-aphelion
-dino splode
-bloody death
-vampire rage
-Kong360 Gorilla warfare
-ancient trader
-transsubversion
-legend of the rune lord
-protect me knight
-minds eye of jupiter
-Dr Mazing
-EXELINYA BURST
-BURNING FISTS OF RAGE

AVATAR games
-seaside racing
-avaglide


XBLA
-monday night fight



[EDIT] THIS IS JUST THE FIRST HALF! I'll come back with more.

[mark]

I really should get to trying out some of the games in the XBLA, could you maybe mark which of them are XBLA and which are XBLIG? (since indie games require gold for some reason, and I can't find enough reason to spend the money for gold)

Actually, XBLIGs do not require Gold. They just (unfortuantely) require you to be online when you start the game (you can go offline again after the game is running). But for that, a Silver account is also fine.

Oh my, it would seem it is just not available in my region, awesome...

(This is impossible to find real information about that's why I just assumed that it was Gold only..)

[s0]

Yeah, it's unavailable in some countries mainly in Europe. Apparently it's mostly to do with MS being too lazy to get the legal stuff out of the way. I guess it makes sense from a marketing standpoint though, the 360 has a smaller install base in Europe than it does in the US, so the sales from small countries like Austria (where I live) would probably be negligible.

[anosou]

YOU SHOULD GET SPACE GIR- oh wait, you have it? Okay then, good. Here are some others:

XBLA
Galaga Legions
Ikaruga
R-Type Dimensions
Rez HD

XBLIG
Every single game by radiangames
Arkedo Series - 03 PIXEL!
Atomhex
Philip Muwanga's Hexy Trench

[Tanner]

avaglide is what i play to relax
as previously stated, anything radiangames makes is awesome. inferno especially

[Balrog]

XBLIG
-Curse of the Crescent Isle

Ah, that doesn't count. It ain't even out yet. 


XBLIG
Arkedo Series - 03 PIXEL!
Breath of Death VII
Explosionade
Get Rich or Die Gaming <-- So good I'm forcing people to buy it
Green Island
Kaiten Patissier
Miner Dig Deep
Soulcaster
Treasure Treasure:FFEE
ZP2K9 <- the sequel is coming soon
protect me knight

XBLA
Bionic Commando: Rearmed
Galaga Legions
Mega Man 9
Outrun Online Arcade
Pac-Man C.E.
Ikaruga

[handbanana]

Two great games on xbla not already mentioned:
Dishwasher: The dead Samurai and Zeno Clash

[AuthenticKaizen]

thanks guys! i added all the games to the list

[handbanana]

Ninja train is also a really cool xblig. Only three levels though highly replayable.

[moi]

PART II

XBLIG

-Masters of Belial
-soulcaster
-star cross
-brethren of the sea
-missing reel
-soul
-ARC viking
-fight monkey of magic
-Time K
-Arkedo series
-CREED ARENA
-twin blades
-mech gladiator
-armor valley
-aesops garden
-fishing girl
-contagion
-megalopolis
-Lord Ownage:UnBritish Invasion
-Gamerbots:Third-Robot Shooting
-veks and silence
-Jonny Crush
-mithra episode 1
-Colosseum   
-Funky Punch XL
-Petank Party


AVATAR
-avatar golf

Some of those games are incredibly polished and totally ignored. Some seem to be failed XBLA games.
There are more I ignored whole genres that I don't like (arena, TD,abstract, "art",etc...)

[AuthenticKaizen]

[...]
Some of those games are incredibly polished and totally ignored. Some seem to be failed XBLA games.
There are more I ignored whole genres that I don't like (arena, TD,abstract, "art",etc...)

thanks again
great to have these ignored games listed here!
(arena and TD means arena shooter and top down? if you know games from these genres would it be possible to mention them also even though you dont really enjoy them?)

[moi]

TD means Tower Defense, I 'll have a look

[AuthenticKaizen]

TD means Tower Defense, I 'll have a look

allright, that's nice


new
heres an upcoming katamari damacy inspired game by the maker of 3d action platfrom shooter caster.
its called
Rainbow Ball Into Adventure
http://elecorn.com/blog/2010/11/rainbow-ball-into-aventure/

[Chaz]

I don't know if you're specifaclly after Indie games but Scott Pilgrim vs The World on XBLA is well worth a playthrough and I think a new DLC is coming out in the next week or two.

If you're after hardcore indie games, that 'I maed a gaem wit zombies in it!1' thing was a chuckle.

[rayteoactive]

You guys have Tobe's vertical adventure in there! It warms my heart