There are a lot of games by people I know on there, and it's hard to say this without playing each and every game, so I don't want this to sound too negative, but the entries seem kind of underwhelming to me this year. I.e. there's nothing there that I feel "I definitely want to play/buy that", with the exception of Night Game.
I had the opposite reaction. Maybe it's a difference in taste. When I browsed through the list, I wrote down games I thought were strong competitors for a finalist spot, and I quickly came up with way more than there's actually space for. And I'm sure there's a bunch of fantastic games I skipped over.
Here were the games that caught my eye 1st time thru:
Innovative artsy games:
- Dyson
- Machinarium (a personal favorite)
- Night Game
- Osmos
- The Graveyard
Neat puzzle and card games:
- Bruiser and Scratch
- Puzzlegeddon
- The Far Wilds
Fun platformers:
- Agatha Ragatha
- Boingo
- Cletus Clay
Slick racing games:
Funny, quirky Flash Games:
- Amateur surgeon
- Gigolo Assassin
RPGs and RTSs with good art and high production quality:
- Aztaka
- Buckaneer
- Krabbit Online
- Iron Grip Warlord
- Project Aftermath
- The Maw
- Zeno Clash
A well-crafted tower defense game:
- Harvest Massive Encounter
Interactive narrative/story games;
- A Street Story
- Bleating Sheep Theater Drinking With God
- Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble
And some neat retro pixel art games:
- Calamity Annie
- Night of the Cephalopods
- Virtual Villagers
I went from being somewhat confident I'd clinch a finalist spot to suddenly not being so sure in a hurry! But it's great to see so many neat things going on in indie-land.
Thanks for the inclusion!
We also went in all confident, but quickly changed our tune.
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