Xbox Indie Games

[Drakul]

I know the XBLA Indie section is hardly an "Alladin's cave" of quality games with so many games being beyond awful but I thought I'd start a topic about what few good ones there is. There's over 500 Indie games right now so I'm sure we've each missed a few good ones.

I've only found four that are worth mentioning.

Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp



It's a platformer themed around cakes and biscuits, like the name suggests. It's pretty good. Each type of biscuit and cake has a different use. Battenburg cake is used as a pushable block, cookies can be rolled around, Custard Creams break after being stepped on etc. It's simple, colourful and worth checking out.





Dock'em



Another simple idea. You have to dock three different kinds of boat into the correct harbour and prevent them from colliding with each other. You click and drag on a boat and draw a line for it to follow to its harbour. It gets hectic after a while but I found it fun.





RC-AirSim



Not so much a game as a general time-waster. Still fun at first but not something you'll come back to. It's a little expensive at 240 MSP. You select a model plane and then you fly it around the sky using the left and right sticks. It controls like the old model planes some of us would have had as kids. At the least, it's worth checking out the demo.





Run Away!



My latest indie purchase and probably my favourite indie game yet. Again, it's very simple. You are trying to reach the house of a girl called "Angry Girl" to tell her you love her. Along the way, a dog starts chasing you and you have to run away and jump over hedges, fences etc to escape. Each level has different obstacles and has you being chased by a different person/thing. It's simple, bright and fun.





So, has anyone else checked out any Indie games? If you have and think they are worth other people checking out, post them here.