Have a holly, jolly Indie. There’s one sentence ’bout ‘em here…

Bonk!
How odd to see a brick-breaker on Indie Games. 80 Points.

Border Wars
Generic shooter where you can draw your sh- Code 3. 240 Points.

BugRace
A start-to-finish board game with a math problem before your spin. 400 Points.

Cannon #12
Mostly clones Yars’ Revenge, with occasional boss shootouts. 80 Points.

Christmas Tree 3D
While technically superior, it loses the simplicity and charm of its 2D cousin. 240 Points.

Chris Unarmed
Solid and fun, if a bit floaty, action platformer. 240 Points.

Crimson Blues
Interesting puzzle platformer with gobs of character abilities. 80 Points.

Don’t B Nervous Talking 2 Girls
Hurrah, more dialog branch guessing from Silver Dollar Games. 80 Points.

Dual Zone
Even the Schizoid developers thought this was a bad idea, and now it’s tiny and barely controllable. 240 Points.

Duel: The Art of Combat
Like Worms without turns. 240 Points.

Fractal Dive
Look at fractals, but I think they are just very high-resolution images rather than generated. 80 Points.


Gerbil Physics
Detonate towers of rodent-filled blocks. 80 Points.

Guardian
It’s like Missile Command crossed with being your own worst enemy. 240 Points.

Herman
Falls well short of its lofty boasts, but isn’t bad…sort of Space Panic-ish, but with guns…er, tangerines. 400 Points.

Hydro Electric Worker
Very old-school microcomputer-style arcade action high tension electric cable repair game. 240 Points.


Johnny Platform Saves Xmas!
Superb single-screen precision puzzle platforming! 240 Points.


Leave Home
Nifty, glowy, shooty score attack game changes noticeably depending on how you play. 240 Points.

Mind Warp
No game, but some visual illusions, and a bonus “worst game in the world”, which also isn’t a game, but is funny. 80 Points.

Molly the Were-Zompire
Choose Your Own hilarious undead Adventure. 80 Points.

QbTron 3D
Blockout clone with a freaky head. 80 Points.
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Rate My Avatar
When it’s not making me think of The Guild‘s music video, it makes me wonder if any of these Indie-Gold-community-only apps actually have a community. 80 Points.

Runic
Throw stones to match runes to clear levels. 240 Points.

Soaring Santa
Dodging game featuring Santa dropping into chimneys. 80 Points.

Superspace
I hate Thrust games, but here’s one if you like them. 80 Points.

Japanese hand game! ONLINE
Nicely presented thumb-guesstimating contest. 80 Points.
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I’m just glad I’m not the only one having that error in Border Wars.
I didn’t get that error. Border Wars seems like a cute enough little shmup, but it suffers from the usual euro-shmup problem: at least in the levels accessible in the demo, nothing actually targets your ship, so you can just leave the ship stationary and tap the fire button every now and then when something flies in front of your guns…
Fractal Dive: the images are rendered on demand (you can tweak the values), but it seems to cache the information which limits how far down you can zoom….
I like dual zone, it could use some powerups i think though.