Indie Game: The Movie: The Game: The Guide

IGTM now features a hidden game where you have to identify hand-drawn game characters by name. Learning and remembering all games can be quite a tedious task. This guide helps you out.

Introduction

"Indie Game: The Movie: The Game you say? Nonsense! I have watched all movie segments at least four times and there is no such thing!"

Yes there is. The game is hidden in the main menu. Just click the SNES controller. If you're having trouble finding it just take a look at the picture below. I marked the controller for you with a big red circle using my awesome MS Paint skills:

The Game

Each round spawns 127 different character icons. Some games have more than one character to be found. The game has a timer counting down from 30 seconds. Each correctly identified character adds about 10 seconds to your timer, errors subtract 2 seconds.



You need to identify 20 icons to win the game and get the Game Master achievement.

How to Use This Guide Effectively

The following is a list of all indie game characters featured in IGTM: The Game. To use it effectively, press CTRL+F and type the name shown to directly jump to the corresponding icons.

A...F

1001 Spikes

Aether

Alien Hominid

And Yet It Moves

An Untitled Story

Aquaria

Armadillo Run

Arvoesine

AVGM

Bastion

BattleBlock Theater

Ben There Dan That

Blocks That Matter

Blueberry Gardens

BIT.TRIP

Bonesaw

Braid

Canabalt

Captain Forever

Castle Crashers

Cave Story

Closure

Coil

Cortex Command

Crayon Physics

Dad 'n Me

Darwinia

Deadly Rooms of Death

Dear Esther

DeathWorm

Deepak Fight Robots

Defcon

Desktop Dungeons

Don't ♥♥♥♥ Your Pants

Dungeons of Dredmor

Dust Force

Dwarf Fortress

Eliss

Endless Forest

Fancy Pants

Faraway

Fez

Flail

FTL: Faster Than Light

Fly Wrench

Frozen Synapse

G...M

Gish

Give Up Robot

Gravity Bone

Guacamelee

Hotline Miami

Icycle

Ilomilo

Incredipede

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

I Wish I Were the Moon

Iji

Jelly No Puzzle

Jetpack Joyride

Joe Danger

Karoshi

Knytt

Limbo

Little Inferno

Lugaru

Machinarium

Melolune

Mewgenics

Minecraft

Minotaur China Shop

Mondo Medicals

Ms. Splosion Man

N...S

Nidhogg

NightSky

Noitu Love

No Time to Explain

Octodad

Offspring Fling

Ogmo

Osmos

Passage

Pico's School

Puzzle Bots

Raptor Safari

Retro City Rampage

Revenge of the Titans

Ridiculous Fishing

Run Man

Samorost 2

Serious Sam

Skulls of the Shogun

Slender

Snapshot

Spacechem

Spelunky

Spewer

Splosion Man

Starseed Pilgrim

Sumotori Dreams

Super Crate Box

Super Hexagon

Super Meat Boy

Swift*Stitch

Swords & Soldiers

Sword & Sworcery

T...Z

Terraria

The Binding of Isaac

The C Word

The GraveYard

The Maw

The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom

The Path

The Witness

Time ♥♥♥♥

Today I Die

Toki Tori

Tower of Heaven

Tumbledrop

Treasure Adventure Game

Tri-achnid

Use Boxman

VVVVVV

Warp

What is Bothering Carl

World of Goo

Within a Deep Forest

You Found the Grappling Hook

You Have to Burn the Rope

Notes

To avoid confusion (and to keep this thing useful), the names in this list match the spelling used in IGTM: The Game, regardless of their correct names. (e.g. "Dust Force" instead of "Dustforce").

Also, Steam filters several swear words automatically and replaces them with heart symbols.

Edit: A few characters are missing. I'm working on it. This list is now complete... I think.

[Bunger]

First try knowing most of these games helped tho

[Player427]

Thx I finished the game because of this

[LitoMore]

Now it's 2022, we may be able to use some image recognition software as a cheat. Anyone interested in writing one and open sourcing it on GitHub?

[ThojttKriime]

Idk htf this would be possible without this guide, unless you gether the information on your own from playing it like 20 hours. So fucking pointless :D
At any rate thanks for htis, I 100% this game years and years later. Even with the guide it was too difficult to complete when I was younger.

[collixenlol]

man, this was such a weird game...

[DrGLuck]

This is too hardcore game for me. But I do not like to leave games with a single achievement.
So, x96dbg and about 5 minutes...

[Eppacti0n]

Omg that guide is the best!
Thank you very much for tour hard work
This guide is complete but what you think about making it a lot fuller?
How about add some information about game? By that I mean adding some links for the games.
About 50% of games in this guide are available in steam, some other games are in public domain.
So how about add this links in this guide?

[ageres]

I noticed the most characters needed are in the top row. So, start looking there at first when you play.

[George]

yOU SCREWED ME ON LLOMILO!!!!!

[Moys]

Thank you very much, it helped a lot.