This List features interesting sites related to Indie Games.
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Navigation
- INDIE GAME BLOGS
- INDIE GAME VIDEO SHOWS
- FREEWARE GAME DATABASES
- INDIE GAME FEATURES
- INTERNATIONAL INDIE GAME BLOGS
- FORUM THREADS ABOUT INDIE GAMES
- VIDEO GAME SITES (with a heart for indie games)
- FLASH GAME SITES
- SITES WITH A SUBSECTION ABOUT FREEWARE GAMES
- SITES THAT ARE NO LONGER UPDATED
- FORUMS
- XBOX 360 INDIE GAME SITES
- IPHONE GAME SITES
INDIE GAME BLOGS
- Indie Games – The Weblog
- TIGSource
- Retro Remakes
- GameJolt
- Play This Thing
- DIYGamer
- Bytejacker
- Indie Review
- Indie Games Channel
- Erratic Gamer
- Jay Is Games
- The Daily Click
- IndieDB
- ModDB (Indie Games)
- Doctor Game
- Freeloader
- Games For Gamers
- GameSetWatch
- I-Luv-Games
- Doujin Game Pick
- Big Download (Freeware Friday)
- Pixel Prospector
- Pixel Prospector / indev
- The Indie Game Magazine
- Crude Pixel
- the2bears
- Free Gamer
- Adrian Werner’s Freeware List
- indiePub Games
- Indie & Doujin Gamer
- The Linux Game Tome
- A Game A Week
- ZOMGIndie!
- Gamer Limit (Indie Spotlight)
- Freeware Hub
- Fessic’s Favorite Free Video Games
- Blue Flash’s Freeware Games Blog
- One Video Game a Day
- Barts News
- wow, you lose.
- pixelatron
- Games You Should Play
- Harry Balls
SITES THAT COVER INDIE GAMES & OTHER STUFF
- retro // indie // videogame // pixels
- Digital Tools
- Eclipse
- Gnome’s Lair
- IndieOtaku
- 4 color rebellion
- Infinite Lives
- Just One More Game
- TIGRadio
SMALLER SITES
INDIE BUSINESS
- Gamasutra
- indievision
- Wolfire Games Blog
- Positech Games Blog
- Game Producer Blog
- Gambrinous Blog
- Blitz1UP
- The Big List Of Indie Marketing And Business Tips
MAC INDIE GAME SITES
(many games are also available for windows and linux)
LINUX INDIE GAME SITES
(many games are also available for windows and mac)
- The Linux Game Tome
- PlayDeb
- Linux Game Database
- Penguspy
- The Linux Gamers’ Game List
- Free Gamer
- Linux Games
- Linux Gamers Codex
- Linux Gaming News
- Ubuntu Gamer
- Linux Gamer Guide
- List Of More Linux Gaming Sites
- Linux Juegos (Spain)
- Holarse Linux Gaming (Germany)
ONLY COMMERCIAL INDIE GAMES
INDIE GAME VIDEO SHOWS
- Bytejacker
- Indie Games Searchlight
- C:\INDIE GAMES
- Quick Indie Game Video
- IndieDB Spotlight
- PixelProspector
- Indie Games Played Well
- DeceasedCrab
- idealsoft2008
- Zockerperlen
- indiegamescom
- CasualOpinion
- Let’s Play Indie Games
FREEWARE GAME DATABASES
- Freeware Database
- TIGdb.
- Big List Of Retro Remakes
- Abandonia Reloaded
- The Great Games Experiment
- The Independent Games Wiki
- IndieFAQs
- Eo
- Gamer’s Database
- GameBoom
- XP Games
- FreePCGamers
- TheGameHippo
- The Jayenkai Archive
- Curly’s World Of Freeware
- V’s Recommended Games
- DigiPen – Game Showcase
- Independent Games Festival – Finalists And Winners
- Planet Freeplay
- SourceForge
- Free Gamer’s Free Games List
INDIE GAME FEATURES
1UP – 101 Free Games
- 1UP – Another 101 Free Games 2010
- 1UP – 101 Free Games 2010
- 1UP – 101 Free Games 2009
- 1UP – 101 Free Games 2008
- 1UP – 101 Free Games 2007
- 1UP – 101 Free Games 2006
IndieGames.com – Best Of Features
- Best Freeware Arcade Games 2009
- Best Browser Arcade Games 2009
- Best Freeware Adventure Games 2009
- Best Freeware Experimental Games 2009
- Best Freeware Platformers 2009
- Best Browser Platformers 2009
- Best Freeware Puzzle Games 2009
- Best Freeware Shoot’em ups 2009
- Best Freeware Strategy Games, RPGs, Roguelikes 2009
- Best Freeware Arcade Games 2008
- Best Browser Arcade Games 2008
- Best Freeware Adventure Games 2008
- Best Freeware Platformers 2008
- Best Freeware Remakes 2008
- Best Freeware Shoot ‘em ups 2008
- Freeware Games by cactus 2008
- Freeware Games by Jesse Venbrux 2008
- Most Addictive Browser Games
- Best Freeware Adventure Games 2007
- Best Freeware Arcade Games 2007
- Best Freeware Platformers 2007
- Best Freeware Remakes 2007
- Best Freeware RPGs, Roguelikes 2007
- Best Freeware Shoot ‘em ups 2007
- Best Freeware Games by cactus 2007
- Best Freeware Games (Others) 2007
- Best Freeware Adventure Games 2006
- Best Freeware Arena Shooters 2006
- Best Freeware Platformers 2006
- Best Freeware Puzzlers 2006
- Best Freeware Shoot ‘em ups 2006
- Best Freeware Shooter Remakes 2006
- Geometry Wars Clones
Various
- Caltrops – The Top 100 Indie Games
- GamesRadar – 365 days of free games
- TIGSource – 50 Really Good Indie Games
TIGSource Competitions
- A Game By it’s Cover Compo
- Asemblee Compo (additional Reviews by Zolyx)
- GAMMA Compo
- B-Games Compo
- Video Game Name Generator Compo
- Procedural Generation Compo
- Bootleg Demakes Compo
- Commonplace Book Compo
- Cockpit Compo
- Adult / Educational Compo
- Text The Halls Compo
- Action 52 Owns!
INTERNATIONAL
INDIE GAME BLOGS
(If you want to understand what is written on the sites i recommend to use Google Translate)
[ITALY]
[GERMANY]
- Superlevel
- Zockerperlen
- gameslabor
- Player1’s GameBlog
- Gamgea
- Asamakabino
- PC Spiele Kompass
- Its4Free
- Gamer-Site
- FreiSpiel
- Let’s Get Digital
- Gamestar Forums Indie Games Collection
[CZECH]
[SLOVAKIA]
[POLAND]
[SPAIN]
[SWEDEN]
[RUSSIA]
[BRASIL]
[FRANCE]
[KOREA]
[JAPAN]
FORUM THREADS
ABOUT INDIE GAMES
- Megazell’s Free and Legal PC Games (@cheapassgamer Forums)
- Free And Worth Every Penny (@Colony Of Gamers Forums)
- The Indie Games Thread (@Penny Arcade Forums)
- 2010 Indie Game Thread (@Rotten Tomatoes Forums)
- Free Games For The Week (@Giveaway of the Day Forums)
- Our Favourite Downloadable Games (@Bit Blot Forums)
- The Big List of Retro Remakes (@Retro Remakes)
- The Retro Remakes A-Z Games List (@Retro Remakes Forum)
- Autonomous Regime – Indie Games (@Gamespot Forums)
- The Awesome Freeware List (@MKF Forums)
- Free Games That Don’t Suck (@Facepunch Forums)
- 365+ Free Games – The Big Book Of Free (@PC Gamer Article)
- The Indie Games Thread (@Penny Arcade Forums)
- 2010 Indie Game Thread (@Rotten Tomatoes Forums)
- Free Games For The Weekdays (@Giveaway Of The Day Forums)
- The Very Best Of PC Freeware / Indie / & Retro Games (@retro Gamer Forums)
- Indie-anapolis (@Games Village Forums)
- Official Indie and Free Games Thread (@HG101 Forums)
VIDEO GAME SITES
(with a heart for indie games)
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun
- Offworld
- The Escapist
- Destructoid
- PCGamer
- Gamers With Jobs
- EuroGamer
- Kotaku
- Joystiq
- 800+ Gaming Blogs (All Systems) on Technorati
FLASH GAME SITES
- Kongregate
- Newgrounds
- Armor Games
- Nitrome
- Orisinal Games
- BulletProofArcade
- AppStorms Top 40 Places To Play Games On The Web
SITES WITH A SUBSECTION
ABOUT FREEWARE GAMES
INTERNATIONAL SITES WITH A SUBSECTION
ABOUT FREEWARE GAMES
- DemoNews.de (Germany)
- Chip.de (Germany)
- 4players.de (Germany)
SITES THAT ARE
NO LONGER UPDATED
- Indygamer (Dec 2007)
- Destructoid (Indie Nation) (Aug 2009)
- GameTunnel (Sep 2009)
- Gamespot (Indie Spotlight) (Nov 2009)
- Fun-Motion (Oct 2009)
- GamezWorld (Apr 2008)
- FreeGameSite (Mar 2008)
- TDC – Game Of The Month (Feb 2010)
- Acid-Play (Jan 2009)
- LibreGameWiki (Nov 2009)
- Caiman (R.I.P. – Feb 2010)
- Ytanium (April 2009)
- Runtime HQ (Jan 2008)
- The Arsecast (July 2007)
- IndieGameVideos (Feb 2010)
- Javet’s Freeware Game Of The Day (Aug 2008)
- Shmuptacular (Jan 2010)
FORUMS
- TIGForums
- Retro Remakes Forums
- Indie Gamer Forums
- Scirra
- SHMUP-DEV
- Robosquid Forums
- The Poppenkast
- The Braingale Team
- SigmaNine
- Gamebuilder
- SoCoder
- Blitz Showcase
- allegro
- The Games Collective
- FreeGameDev
- GameDev
GAME MAKER RELATED FORUMS
- Game Maker Community
- Game Maker Games
- 64digits Community
- Game Maker Suomi (Finland)
- GMClan (Poland)
- Brasil Game Forum (Brasil)
- Game Maker Brasil (Brasil)
- gm-d (Germany)
- Le CBNA (France)
- Game Maker Zone (France)
- Game Maker Italia (Italy)
- Nederlandse Game Maker Community (Netherlands)
- Velkey Chytrak (Czech)
GAME MAKER RELATED SITES
XBOX 360 INDIE GAME SITES
- XNPlay
- indienerds
- Worth The Points
- XBLA & XBLIG Ratings
- Pixelated Sausage: XBL Indies
- Indie Game Blog
- Xbox Live Indie Games Catalogue
- XBLIG News, Reviews & Previews
- XboxHornet
- XNA Creators Club Games Catalogue
- Xbox Indies
- Xbox Indie Games
- Two Fedoras
- Wasted Seconds
- Red Ring Circus (Indie Game Spotlights)
- Armless Octopus
- Small Cave Games
- XBLIGR
A big thanks goes to ExL Studios because i discovered many of the Xbox related sites on their page
(visit them for more Xbox related sites and Links to Developer Creation Tools)
Don’t forget SoCoder!
It’s a little busy at the minute, since most of the active community are busy with life/work/school, but it’s still a community, and there’s at least one game a week being posted ;)
added… ;)
http://www.diygamer.com is another
thanks! the site is now added to the list as well…
Hey AK nice post ! And thanks to show my blog !
PS. In this great list lacks another one that is very beautiful: Pixel Prospector / indev :))
wow, nice post, great to find some new pages i haven’t seen already :)
tnx for the info.
Wow, thanks for including Ludus Obscura! Much love ;).
Have you checked out GameSalad.com? It’s for Mac and iPhone game creators. Many of which are non-programmers building games.
Lexander, no i didnt knew that site but it seems that they only offer commercial titles and furthermore, as you said, only for mac an iphone which i don’t own…
(that is perfectly ok but the above mentioned sites are focusing on windows games and they are also reporting about free games – at least to a certain degree…)
but thanks for the suggestion anyways. :)
Hey J-CamdenT thanks for the tips!
i thought that i already added the2bears but well obviously not…
good that you made me aware of that!
Indie Vault looks also pretty good…
Don’t forget http://www.the2bears.com!
P.S. There’s another good Italian website about indie games. http://www.indievault.it. They’ve made some cool interviews to me and other indie developers :)
A small group of developers started up a site recently where we post about and work on our own games. It sort of fits the description, if you’d like to take a look: http://braingaleteam.com/
Great, you’ve gathered all the great indie-related sites in a single list – way to go, nice job!
Hey,
You can check out my thread. I highlight ‘Free And Legal Games’ from all over currently my list is at 503 games –
http://www.tinyurl.com/FreeAndLegalPCGames.
Thanks for the reply, Pix ;)
@Megazell
impressive thread…!
added it to the list.
Just a quick update. DIYgamer.com has had a fairly major design update and we’ve also added forums.
@Geoff
thanks for the info!
while i have added some new sites in the last few weeks i havent taken snapshots of those sites yet… therefore many of the mentioned sites don’t have a preview image. i will update that section probably sometime in the next weeks with some better structure. (and when im at it i will also add some more sites and forums + add a new snapshot of diygamer for sure)
How about the famous japan freeware depository, vector games?
http://free2play.vector.jp/
thanks! :)
i’ve just added the site.
Hey, Just noticed this. Nice of you guys to put us up here. Posted it in the blog: http://www.itbgames.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-big-list-of-indie-game-sites/
Props for the post. ;)
@Glen
i’m also working on an update of the list which should be done in may. :)
(with pictures and short descriptions)
Thanks for putting Rincón Indie there :D
I am honored to see my blog on this list, thanks.
[]’s!
http://youtube.com/ortoslon
Thank you for including ZOMGIndie on your list! That’s really awesome. An awesome list of some great sites as well.
Thank you for mentioning us, we would of couse prefer another category, but we can’t run from the fact.
I’ll put a link on my site!
Amazing article!
I’m trying to spread Indie Word in Italy through this forum thread: http://forum.gamesvillage.it/showthread.php?819536-1-Indie-anapolis. Please, check it out! It is very young but I believe it has some worth.
http://rpgmaker.net/
Yeah, the website mainly consist of RPG Maker games. Say whatever you want about that, but they still got em games, and I assume they are still considered indie, whatever that means
@exitplanetdust
That is a relly nice thread! Great work! Added it :)
@Randomasta
thanks for the info. Added it as well.
*update*
new site added:
Blue Flash’s Freeware Games Blog
*update*
Added a new section:
XBOX 360 INDIE GAME SITES
Great list, i’ll be sure to check out a lot of those sites for a good dose of indie games!.
@Dusan
I just noticed that you have a new neat little site…
“One Video Game a Day” added ;)
Another A-Z Games List containing only remakes of previously released commercial titles, all included games are freeware, this is a sister thread to the retro remakes one you already have included.
The Retro clones/remakes A-Z list, is available linked below :-
http://www.avforums.com/forums/retro-gaming/729574-retro-clones-remakes-z-list-no-posting-please-use-discussion-thread.html
A great list. Thank you for putting in the effort to compile it.
The Play Indie Games is brazilian blog, no portugal.
Thanks!
http://abscure.net
I’m not really sure what this goes under… it has a blog but is mostly a portfolio. If it is too small (or unknown) to be on this, I understand.
http://solitaire.vegard2.no/
A list of Solitaire games. My favourite is PySol.
Thanks for the link to JustOneMoreGame!
I hadn’t seen this page before, but it’s a ‘must bookmark’. Great stuff!
*update*
INDIE BUSINESS
Now that’s a good list :D
*update*
MAC INDIE GAME SITES
(many games are also available for windows and linux)
LINUX INDIE GAME SITES
(many games are also available for windows and mac)
http://www.lattasoft.com
Indie game developer
Upcoming linux gaming, watch this space: http://www.ubuntugamer.com/
I think that’s gonna cover indie games.
It’s gonna be host by makers of OMG Ubuntu!
@krisu
thanks for the tip!
i will add the site after it’s launch (provided that it’s a good one… but due to the fact that is from the guys behind omg ubuntu it will most likely be)
http://indiegamers.ru/ – new site (from Russia).
@d0lphin
nice!
*site added*
Hey, there’s another one from Brazil. http://www.indiejogos.com.br
Based on TIGSource, the proposal is to help developing Indiegames in Brazil, creating a community where everyone helps everyone.
Tks
I found many interesting games.
Thanks