What other indie games are really worthwhile?
Apple Jack TrailerIn this platformer, you play as Apple Jack, who's lost his dog. Ride enemies, pick them up, throw them at eachother for coins. This may be the best game on the XBL Indie games channel.
Arkedo Series - 01 JUMP! TrailerPlatformer where the goal is to collect coins and bombs. The bombs each have a timer on them and you lose a life if one blows up. Once all bombs are collected an exit door opens.
Arkedo Series - 02 SWAP! TrailerA puzzle game. Blocks of different colors move up the screen, and you arrange 4 in a single line to destroy them.
Arkedo Series - 03 PIXEL TrailerAnother platformer. This one you play a cat named Pixel. There's a puzzle mini game too, where you zoom into a block and then it plays like a maze, where you have to find the right pixel.
Breath of Death VII TrailerOld school NES RPG, like Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior. The game is sort of a parody on other RPGs, with lots of references.
Kaleidoscope TrailerJump on enemies and collect color pellets to return color to the world.
Lumi TrailerSort of a platformer where you fling yourself from floating object to floating object. There's blue things to attach to, and red ones. You use one trigger for blue, the other for red, and fling yourself past obstacles.
Ophidian Wars: Opacs Journey TrailerPlatformer with no enemies. Focus is on the platforming and collecting powerups that let you glide, double jump, etc.
Platformance: Castle Pain TrailerA platformer where you have to get through a large sprawling level full of traps and obstacles. A giant ghost chases you the whole way to keep you moving. The focus here is on speed runs, though the easy difficulty is good for learning how to get past the obstacles.
Prismatic Solid TrailerShoot 'em up. You have like 6 different bullet spread configurations, and these little things that surround your ship that you can block bullets with.
Radiangames JoyJoy TrailerA very stylish looking twin stick shooter with lots of weapons and powerups. As you go you get more weapons, and then upgraded versions of those weapons.
Radiangames Crossfire TrailerBasically it's Space Invaders with a graphics style similar to Geometry Wars. The major difference is that you can launch yourself to the ceiling, turning the game upside down.
Soul TrailerYou're a soul that has recently vacated it's body, and must float through the hospital avoiding traps and demons to get to the exit. It's sort of like Operation (the board game) int hat you can't touch the walls. Warning: There's a "creepy girl" face that shows up on the screen at some points and it plays a loud scream, much like those things that have you stare at your monitor intently then try to scare you. It's annoying, even when you're expecting it.
Space Milkman TrailerA platformer where you spend a lot of time sliding to kill enemies, break blocks, etc.
Square Off TrailerTwin Stick shooter where you play as a floating square, and must destroy the enemy spaceships. It has sort of a Castle Crashers look to the visuals. It has multiplayer too, I think up to 4 players.
The Shadows in the Underworld TrailerSort of a twin stick cave crawler. You play as a submarine with a flashlight exploring an underwater labyrinth.
Twin Blades TrailerSidescrolling hack and slash. You play a nun with a scythe and you walk around slashing seemingly endless hordes of zombies. It can get a bit repetitive, but there are bosses to mix things up too. You can upgrade your scythe, jumping abilities, or your gun. Your gun can get upgrades to shoot fire, holy beams, and a few others. The responsiveness of the controls can be a little lacking at times, but it's not a huge problem.
Urban Space Squirrels TrailerPlatformer where you play as a squirrel, and use bombs to unlocks doors, or project yourself upward. You can shoot a bomb, then jump up just past it and detonate it to propel yourself higher, or bounce a bomb off a few walls to hit a switch with it.
いれかえまほちゃん (Japanese text)
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Marketplace LinkThis one was sort of annoying to find since I don't read/speak Japanese and don't know of an English translation of the name. I included a marketplace link too, since I don't know exactly where to look for in on the Xbox dashboard (I picked it up when it was on the new release list)
Anyway, it's a puzzle platformer where you shoot a star out and if it hits an enemy, you swap places with it. You can shoot horizontally or at a 45 degree angle. Each level is one screen and pretty short, but there are 50 of them (I think).
Maybe I should have just made an Xbox Live Indie games thread haha.
