All-Time Highest Rated Games Tagged 'Windows, playable, 2006, indie' on The Great Games Experiment http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/css/logo.jpg en-us Blocksum is a very new typed action puzzle game. For everyone who can add numbers to 20.

]]> 08 Feb 2007 07:04:52 Within a Deep Forest is a freeware 2D platform game for Windows, featuring challenging gameplay, beautiful music, an evil doctor, infinite cuteness, and a deep forest.

]]> 26 Nov 2006 02:38:21 Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle game. You have to build structures with the purpose of getting an armadillo to a certain point in space. There is a selection of building materials, each with different properties, which can be combined to form almost anything. The realistic physics simulation gives you the freedom to solve each level in many different ways.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 02:13:47 The Knytt was abducted by an alien! Traveling through space, the UFO flies into a meteor and crashes on a nearby planet. Luckily, the Knytt and the alien survive, but the UFO is a wreck. How can the Knytt possibly find it's way back home again?

]]> 06 Dec 2006 12:42:22 Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible.

]]> 06 Dec 2006 04:17:44 Toblo is a free, fast-paced capture the flag game that has two teams using the world as weaponry, throwing bombs, and generally destroying things. During the course of a Toblo capture the flag match, the structures in the wild and wacky world full of colorful blocks are reduced to block rubble.

]]> 14 Dec 2006 06:41:34 You play the role of a military Commander hidden deep within an Underground bunker. Your mission - to successfully exterminate your enemy's civilian population whilst disabling their ability to attack your own. Start by launching your battleships, subs and bombers in order to decimate your opponent's defences. Scramble together your alliances but remember only one can stand victorious.

Prepare your pre-emptive strike before one of your supposed allies gets the same idea. Choose the perfect moment for betrayal, obliterating your opponents with an apocalyptic thermonuclear barrage, but get it wrong and their devastating counter attack will bring you to your knees!

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

]]> 01 Dec 2006 03:32:09 Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal:
To become the greatest civilization.

]]> 10 Dec 2006 12:49:47 The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures.

]]> 13 Dec 2006 10:48:36 Acidbomb is a fifty level puzzle game where you must find the pistons used to trigger a bomb and defuse them before time runs out. There are many bombs scattered around the world, from biological bombs that have hair-sensitive triggers to napalm bombs that are exploding at the seams, to nuclear warheads that have challenged even the highest trained bomb defusal agent.

]]> 22 Feb 2007 07:56:20 Step into the shoes of the Goddess Athena and help guide Ulysses' fleet to safety. Fend-off Cyclopes, Harpies and more while creating currents and winds to lead the boats to their destination.

Follow one of the most famous stories ever written as you retrace the route of Ulysses in his attempt to return home from the Trojan wars. Incredibly realistic water current behavior will amaze and challenge you as you use your godly powers to protect the Hero's fleet.

]]> 27 Dec 2006 08:35:01 Walabers Trampoline is an action trampoline simulation game for the Windows PC. The game uses powerful physics and animation to create a very realistic looking 3D trampoline game. Utilizing an unique control scheme using only 7 buttons, players can perform almost every move possible on the trampoline- including multiple flips and twists in different positions.

]]> 09 Dec 2006 08:24:46 In Ray-Hound you control a space ship in a circular arena where you have to survive for as long as possible and eliminate all turrets that keep shooting on you. Unfortunately you don't have a gun yourself, so instead you capture the shots the turrets fire at you and use their own shots againts the turrets

Ray-Hound is created by Hikoza Ohkubo, creator of Warning Forever.

]]> 08 Feb 2007 01:37:01 The Physics Centipede Invasion, where you fight to keep yourself from being pushed off the small arena and into the botomless void below it.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 05:45:53 Master Of Defense is a strategy game that lets you assume the role of a brave hero, who has been chosen to save the ancient kingdom from the hordes of monsters. The challenge of the game is to ward off relentless attacks of monsters and prevent them from capturing people in your castle.

]]> 01 Jan 2007 05:22:56 "Barbie horse adventure" is a fair description. Except you can kill the horses. And other people. And arrest people and beat them while they are in jail. And blow them up with dynamite.

It's a persistent online fantasy action game.

]]> 10 Oct 2006 02:52:07 Titanion is a scrolling shoot 'em up, along the lines of classics such as Galaga.

]]> 12 Dec 2006 05:58:52 Play with Fire is a highly unusual platform puzzle game in which you play a giant ball of fire--and burn things down.

]]> 16 Jan 2007 02:19:56 Euclidean Crisis is a multiplayer real-time strategy game played using a touchscreen stylus and voice commands. The game can also be played with a mouse.

Players control a diverse team of units on a two-dimensional battlefield, and must destroy their opponents' energy cores while protecting their own. Players tell units where to go by drawing out paths, and give orders using special gestures and voice activated commands. The game is rendered in a retro aesthetic featuring simple shapes (hence the origin of the title) in a world with colorful, psychedelic visual effects synced to the music.

]]> 07 Feb 2007 01:02:18 This game is a pimped up version of the original Pong, but now the player has the ability to give the ball a spin.

Gameplay is very similar to Pong, but the ability to add a spin to the ball means an extra level of strategy is added. The ball can be spun to an extreme degree so far that you risk spinning it into your own goal.

]]> 10 Feb 2007 06:38:08 BZFlag is a free multiplayer multiplatform 3D tank battle game. The name stands for Battle Zone capture Flag.

]]> 03 Dec 2006 09:27:06 Cultivation is a game about a community of gardeners growing food for themselves in a shared space.

Cultivation is quite different from most other games. It is a social simulation, and the primary form of conflict is over land and plant resources---there is no shooting, but there are plenty of angry looks. It is also an evolution simulation. Within the world of Cultivation, you can explore a virtually infinite spectrum of different plant and gardener varieties.

All of the graphics, sounds, melodies, and other content in Cultivation are 100% procedurally generated at playtime. In other words, there are no hand-painted texture maps---instead, each object has a uniquely "grown" appearance. Every time you play, Cultivation generates fresh visuals, music, and behaviors.

]]> 07 Feb 2007 03:37:14 Ichor is an action game based in fluid dynamics. Each player floats around the screen, trying to engulf his opponent with his own color.

]]> 11 Feb 2007 08:48:06 Blast Miner is a physics based action strategy game where you use TNT, gas cans and stones to cause huge explosions to dig through the earth. It's awesome, seriously just play the demo or watch some gameplay movies. Explosions people! You can't go wrong with that.

]]> 22 Dec 2006 05:39:21 In Invisible Vision you control a submarine trying to gun down other submarines with your torpedoes while avoiding enemy torpedoes and mines. Rather than trying to replicate some sort of realistic water, Invisible Vision is almost abstract in its display, showing submarines, mines and ripples in the water as wireframes only.

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