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Greenlight projects well worth looking at and keeping a beady eye on. Stuff to keep that voting finger happy for a while, anyway.

If nothing else, hopefully you'll find some games here that interest thee regardless of Steam status or not.

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Derrick the Deathfin
Created by gordon
Derrick the Deathfin is the world's very first underwater papercraft videogame!

It is out now on PC, Mac & PS3 &, with your help, soon to be on Steam too!

It's a fast-paced arcade action title set in a unique aquatic world made entirely out of pap...
The Sea Will Claim Everything
Created by JonasKyratzes
Selected as one of IndieGames.com's Top 12 Indie Games of 2012

It's the biggest game in the surreal and wonderful Lands of Dream, it sports one of the best soundtracks we've ever encountered and unique visuals that wouldn't feel out of place ...
qrth-phyl
Created by hermitgames
Arcade documentary of maze/dot/snake mechanic within changing dimensions, axis locks and the corruption of the system. Collect, grow, avoid your past, find new space, wake up...

qrth-phyl continues the algorithmic, generative and metaphorical arcade ga...
Depression Quest
Created by Hugs-Boson
Play the game now at depressionquest.com
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attem...
Richard & Alice
Created by LewisDenby
"Incredibly moving" - Rock, Paper, Shotgun

"Absorbing" - 4/5 - Digital Spy

"A quietly powerful tale" - Edge

Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But onl...
FOTONICA
Created by Santa Ragione
FOTONICA is a first person game about jumping, sense of speed and discovery.
The key is timing, the goal is exploring and traveling flawlessly through the environment. The setting is an abstract - mainly duotone - outlined world, with a look refe...
I Get This Call Every Day
Created by davidsgallant
Exactly what it says on the box - a lightly filtered experienced pulled from the creator's (now former) day job in a customer service call centre, made interactive in a point-&-click format. Lose politely, or lose spectacularly - the choice is yours.
[li...
You Have to Win the Game
Created by Pirate Hearts
You Have to Win the Game is an exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

This game is free and available for download at www.piratehearts.com.

Required system specs:
Windows (XP SP2 or better)
D3D9 SM2 GPU or better
...
Death Ray Manta:The Videogame
Created by Dawn Of The Bobbins
This is Death Ray Manta

8/10 in Edge Magazine, 8/10 from Eurogamer with a spot at the 2012 Eurogamer Expo, 5/5 editors choice in Tap! Magazine, 4/5 from 148 Apps, 5/5 RGCD.

From the developer of the SYNSO series and creator of...
Planitia
Created by ViridianGames
Planitia is a unique, fast-playing real-time strategy game based on classic "god games". In Planitia, you shepherd your villagers, helping them grow and give you mana. But you are not the only god in this world, and conflict is inevitable! Once you hav...
Spud's Quest
Created by ChrisD
Spud's Quest is a puzzle adventure game for Windows that draws it's inspiration from retro classics like the Dizzy series, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. The game is currently about 70% complete.

Players take on the role of Spud and his friend Princ...
Maia
Created by simon
Inspired heavily by the 70's Sci-fi aesthetic, Maia is a colony management simulator where you must keep your colonists safe, fed and happy. Liberally influenced by nineties god games, the game will have a dark sense of humour and more toys to play with t...
Probability 0
Created by droqen
Probability 0 is a fast-paced arcade game: you level up and earn new abilities, you combat threatening creatures with your newfound powers, and then -- inevitably, unavoidably -- you die.

Start over in a new world and a new body. Every game is d...
Sokobond
Created by wanderlands
What is this?
  • Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. The puzzles involve arranging atoms into molecules. It's logical, minimalist, and crafted with love and science. Sokobond was selected for the Eurogamer Expo 2
...
POP: Methodology Experiment One
Created by RobLach
An Experimental Game By Rob Lach.

www.popme1.com

Game Download Includes Official Soundtrack

Summary
POP: Methdology Experiment One is an experimental game in the most literal sense. The game was purposefully built in ...
BROFORCE
Created by FREE LIVES GAMES
"People keep talking about making the video game equivalent of The Expendables...how about somebody make a Hollywood version of this? Because this is how I remember 80s action movie heroes to be." - KOTAKU

A ridiculously violent platform g...
TRIP
Created by Axel Shark
TRIP is an art experiment created by Axel Shokk

There are no enemies
There are no objectives
Just you and the world

Visit the official website at:
http://teamkosmonaut.com/trip/

TRIP has been released
You can purchase TRIP at:
http://teamkos...
AQUA KITTY - Milk Mine Defender
Created by Tikipod
Do you like retro games / pixel art / cats / Amiga / PC Engine / Chiptunes / SHMUPS ? Of course you do!
Please help us Greenlight this game so the kitties can get their milk.

BACKSTORY
Due to a sudden shortage of milk, cats around the...
FRACT OSC
Created by phosfiend
FRACT is a musical exploration game. Explore an abstract, broken-down world built on sound, rebuild its forgotten machinery and create your own sounds and music within the world. It draws inspiration from Myst, Tron, electronic music, and most importan...
Crosstown
Created by luvcraft
Crosstown is the best classic computer game that never was! Inspired by Steve Harter's C64 cult classic "Crossroads", Crosstown drops players into a strange and dangerous world with no memories and no identity; just a unisex toga and a gun. ...
HEAVEN VARIANT
Created by Zanrai Interactive
A modern horizontal shoot 'em up infused with an offbeat style from the late 80s and early 90s. Rad, baby!

"Indie shmup Heaven Variant looks amazing."
- Destructoid

"The high production values are all the more surprising w...
Oniken
Created by Maks
Oniken is a 2D platform action indie game that make use of 8-bit graphic style. We are putting a great effort to guarantee that this game feels really like an 8 bit classic. Everything on Oniken, from the character design to the music, is a tribute to the...
P-3 Biotic
Created by BatCat Games
P-3 Biotic is a twin-stick shooter where you must pilot your nano-ship, the MK4s, inside a petri dish to defend an entity growing at the center of the dish, the Nucleus, from hordes of invading bacteria. In most other shooters in this genre, you only have...
The Real Texas
Created by psysal
The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI.

Sam, an ordinary Texas rancher, is on holiday in England when he falls into a blue portal and lands in The Strange Texas.

www.therealtex...
BasketBelle
Created by OneMrBean
BasketBelle is an experimental 2D basketball-based platformer. Each Chapter of the game uses the mechanics and idea of basketball in a different way. At one point you might be dribbling inside the intestines of a purple blob creature (what?). At ot...
Mos Speedrun
Created by nickd3000
[Please check out some of the user submitted speedrun videos above!]

Ready for release!

Please help us get Mos on Steam by clicking the thumbs up and favourite button :D

Mos Speedrun is the original speedrunning platformer, totally ...
UFHO2
Created by Tiny Colossus
UFHO2 is a turn-based strategy game. The goal is to navigate a space maze-like environment and beat your opponent in a race to get some power Gems. The catch is that the maze is shaped like an hexagon and made of hexagonal rooms connected by corridors, an...
Chuck's Challenge 3D
Created by Niffler
From design genius behind the classic game Chip's Challenge, comes Chuck’s Challenge 3D, a fiendishly addictive puzzler that’s packed with features that will tease the brain and challenge the fingers. It also comes with a level editor that lets you up...
Pastry Panic
Created by UP_Kevin
Original iOS full version: itunes.apple.com/us/app/pastry-panic/id505856278?mt=8
Original iOS lite version: itunes.apple.com/us/app/pastry-panic-free/id547899159?mt=8

Pastry Panic was a huge success on iOS, loved by nearly every player who loaded it u...
Cardinal Quest II
Created by randomnine
Cardinal Quest II is a turn-based hack 'n' slash adventure. Choose from six classes and fight through randomly generated levels full of bountiful treasures to defeat the forces of darkness!

Play the demo at: http:...
Chester
Created by noxi
Want to check Chester out before voting?
Grab it for free from Desura ( http://www.desura.com/games/chester ) until October 22nd!

Chester is a 2D platformer with over 10 unlockable characters, a light RPG element and leveling up system, ...
Flibble
Created by Zed
Flibble! Flibble? Flibble.

A very, very long time ago, 'video games' meant one button, tape decks and hours of loading. They were simpler times, with simpler expectations, simpler innovations and simpler methods of gameplay. Sure, they were primitive ...
Badass Locomotive
Created by Icarus Tyler
Originally posted by Nick Reineke, Indie Impressions:
This is some sort of a puzzle-game with emphasis on hats. You know, because hats are cool.
The world's premier hat-based train-simulator!

A train based puzzle game that asks you to work quickly to solve t...
Phantasmaburbia
Created by banov
"...the essence of a great game. It's fun, it's deep and it's a game that anyone would do well to try, even those who aren't necessarily RPG fans." - JayIsgames http://jayisgames.com/archives/2012/11/phantasmaburbia.php

"...it’s a game about a...
Dream
Created by samread
Dream is a first person atmospheric exploration game that has you assume the role of Howard Phillips, a young graduate with no direction in life who develops an obsession with his dreams. Discover dreams and nightmares filled with puzzles and secrets to h...
Escape Goat
Created by MagicalTimeBean
"…winner of the Best Game I’ve Seen In A While Award” -Rock, Paper, Shotgun
**Try Now In Your Browser! Link Below**
"... we whole-heartedly recommend it." -GamesRadar
"... incredibly fun puzzle platformer with a rockin' soundtrack." -Destructoid ...
The Oil Blue
Created by chubigans
(Update 9/23) The Oil Blue's price has been cut from $14.95 to $8.95! However, if we get accepted to Steam via Greenlight, I will permanently cut the price down to $6.95! Everyone who bought the game on any distribution portal will receive a Steam key ...
zX - Hyperblast
Created by retroFuture
" It’s a tough little game, but my word, is it ever fun, and so very well presented" - Indie Statik

"this is an intense and satisfying game which should fulfill your need for an arcade shooter for a nice amount of time" - Indi...
In the Pit
Created by luvcraft
In the Pit is a critically-acclaimed audio-only stealth action game. You control a vicious creature who lives at the bottom of a dark pit, and eats the hapless people who fall in. The game's audio-only nature means that there are no graphics at al...
Path to the Sky
Created by dek
About Path to the Sky
Path to the Sky is a retro-platformer that combines traditional elements and direct controls with a vibrant and colorful look. Explore the mysterious world in the roles of Akamo and his helper Deoka, two friends that need eac...
Venusian Vengeance
Created by Malec2b
EDIT: Thanks for the support everyone. The game is now available for purchase at my own site here: http://renegadesector.com/venusian-vengeance/

Venusian Vengeance is a Top Down Run 'n' Gun game taking place in an alternate history where the Communis...
Luminesca
Created by CrowbarSka
Alpha versions already available at 50% off! Pre-order at luminesca.com

About Luminesca...

Luminesca is a chilled-out underwater exploration game which follows the story of a little creature called Lum. Using the light from your esca...
Race the Sun
Created by freakyforest
FAST FACTS
  • Nearly half a million plays on Kongregate (early alpha demo)
  • Funded on Kickstarter ($20k+)
  • 2.5 hours average session length (beta version)
  • Powerful in-game world creator (focus on ongoing user-content)
  • Uniqu
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Purge
Created by CasiussGFX
Purge is a platforms game with a first person camera, where you'll have to use stealth and parkour to avoid the enemies and escape. Use the abilities at your disposal like wallrun, pipe climbing, ledge grabbing and more to reach the only route to run away...
Dungeon Dashers
Created by JigxorAndy
Pre-Purchase now and play the latest in-development builds of the game!
http://www.dungeondashers.com

Dungeon Dashers is a fast-paced turn-based dungeon crawler g...
Love+
Created by Trunks
Get early access to the brand new Love++ engine build by backing www.MiniFlippingTable.com. Check it out!

Love+ now available through:
Level Up Studios: http://www.levelupstudios.com/love
Desura: http://www.desura.com/games/love-by-fred-wood

Love+...
Shantae: Risky's Revenge
Created by WayForward
Metacritic’s highest rated handheld game of 2010, and winner of IGN's Nintendo DS Game of the Year 2010!

...and with your help, Shantae:Risky's Revenge is coming to Steam!

Check out the images and videos above from the already released iOS and DSi...
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
Created by sparsevector
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a cr...
Ether One
Created by Benjamin_Hill
You are a Restorer, an individual with a lost identity who is sent into the minds of mentally ill humans to restructure their broken memories. Tasked with restoring the mind of a client named Jean you must explore the depths of her memories in order to re...
Legend of the Knightwasher
Created by Detocroix
BEGINNING - Normal
A tale of knightly washing machine who goes on crusade against a false king who took the crown by chopping both old king and his knights to death. Knightwasher was on his way to afterlife, second in the row, right behind the dea...
Dark Scavenger
Created by cyphen
Demo and game available now at www.darkscavenger.com

The price of the game is just $4.99


Dark Scavenger is an adventure game that combines strategic turn-based combat with unique point-and-click mechanics.

Filling the role ...
Knock-Knock
Created by Ice-Pick Lodge
Game Concept

There is an unusual house standing in the depth of the forest. It served as a laboratory and a home to three generations of Caretakers. The last Caretaker has recently started noticing frightening changes in the familiar background ...
Suguri Collection (Suguri + Acceleration of Suguri X-Edition HD)
Created by Rockin' Android
Suguri Collection

Ready, ignition, fight! Over-the-top aerial shoot-’em-up meets in-your-face, one-on-one fighting: this is Suguri Collection!

Suguri Collection includes the original side-scrolling shoot-’em-up, Suguri, as well as Accel...
Bleed
Created by White Devil
Bleed is an action-platformer focused on stylish, acrobatic dodging and fluid, challenging gameplay.

Wryn wants to be the ultimate videogame hero, but the Greatest Heroes of All Time have already been chosen. Help her take them down one by one in an ac...
Cradle
Created by Flying Cafe for Semianimals
Cradle is a science-fiction first-person quest with freedom of movement. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl, who by enigmatic circumstances find themselves together in a yurt among the desert Mongolian hills. ...
Distance
Created by Refract
This game was successfully funded using Kickstarter!

Distance is a Windows/Mac/Linux survival racing game from members of Team Nitronic that combines the intense action of arcade racing with the exploration of an atmospheric world....
Jetpack 2
Created by adamadept
Jetpack 2 is a micro-scale platform game inspired by Lode Runner, Jumpman, & Pitfall.

The original Jetpack is from the early 90's, back when 2D was king, and gameplay was everything. Jetpack 2 brings back the same compelling gameplay, but on a massive...
McDROID
Created by laurent
Imagine the hectic big boss fights of RTYPE combined with the smarts and resource management of Dune 2. That's ​McDROID, our first game, made in homage of these awesome classics.
It's original, has gorgeous cell shaded graphics, boasts 100 enemies on s...
Multimedia Fusion 2
Created by ClickteamLLC
Game and software creation has never been easier or quicker than with Multimedia Fusion 2! Discover the tool used by so many multimedia professionals, game creators, and creative people from all walks of life. No programming is required! As the ori...
HOPE
Created by zoombapup
Build a home, build a life, build HOPE.

Hope is a first person, world and community building roleplaying game. Set in the junkpunk world of EverSky, where people live on flying structures known as "rigs". Your role is to help build the communi...
Potatoman Seeks the Troof
Created by Pixeljam Games
Potatoman Seeks the Troof is a challenging potatosophical platformer from Pixeljam, the creators of Dino Run and Gamma Bros.


Put your reflexes and worldview to the test through dry deserts, dark forests, busy citie...
Knytt Underground
Created by michelle
The legendary Knytt series continues with Nifflas’ latest creation; Knytt Underground.

In this Knytteration; humans have long since abandoned the planet after practically destroying it in a war, five hundred years ago. The remaining population of Sp...
Telepath Tactics
Created by Sinister Design
Telepath Tactics is a turn-based tactical RPG in the tradition of Fire Emblem and Disgaea. It features a single player campaign with well-written characters embroiled in a tale of war and political intrigue, as well as 2-to-6 player multiplayer with suppo...
Along Came A Spider
Created by routetwo
Along Came A Spider is a puzzle/platformer that I wrote a while back for xbox indie games. I realized recently that it might be a good game for Steam so I've updated it for PC. If Greenlit it would only cost a few dollars, the PC version is ready now and ...
SoundSelf
Created by RAGameSound
SoundSelf is a sensual exploration game about the intrinsic pleasure of playing instead of the rewards of winning. You use your voice to explore a hypnotic world of sounds and visuals that feel like they are emerging directly from your body. Each tone wil...
Trace Vector
Created by Vexel Games - Alex
Gameplay Summary
Trace Vector is a high speed action arcade game with puzzle elements. Featuring a modern take on vector style graphics, Trace Vector plays like an easy to learn, hard to master, game of the golden age of the 80′s video arcad...
Black Annex
Created by Man Fight Dragon
At Black Annex, we're in the business of corporate espionage and sabotage - and business is good. Your role here will put you in charge of a number of agents with skill-sets catered from aggressive weapon use to stealth and deception - beyond this,...
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Tatakae Genshijin Mar 21, 2013 @ 2:46pm 
Hey Rob!! Seen this remake - http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93343853 ??
Benjamin_Hill Oct 16, 2012 @ 7:46am 
Thank you for adding Ether One to your collection! The support is really appreciated.
Product of Engineering Sep 8, 2012 @ 7:45pm 
Nice list!
Retroburn Game Studios Sep 4, 2012 @ 8:55am 
Some nice games here on the list :)
Dahmok Sep 4, 2012 @ 12:18am 
Nice list, good job helping people make a choice. Maybe you can update the description on why "you" chose these games so that like minded people will appreciate the list more?
Dawn Of The Bobbins  [author] Sep 3, 2012 @ 9:14pm 
Hi folks, please don't pitch your games in the comments. I'll be browsing everything daily :)
Kenny Roger Aug 31, 2012 @ 11:13am 
Check out the game SangFroid, looks different and really nice. There's Werewolfs !
roundcrisis Aug 31, 2012 @ 10:07am 
Thanks for the inclusion of P-3 Biotic :D Nice find too
Tiny Colossus Aug 31, 2012 @ 6:52am 
Thanks for the inclusion of UFHO2 mate, very appreciated!
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