For the Itch Bundle for Palestine
Currently standing at > 1000 games for $5.
The below is a list of games from the bundle I have personally bought at full price, played, and can easily recommend.
To be clear, I own many more games from the bundle, and many of these are good; but these are no-hesitation recommendations.
And to be clearer, there are many more games I do not own from the bundle, so I'm sure there are many more good things (sorry if I didn't list your favorite!). I just wanted to give an entry point to people overwhelmed by choice
(All Games are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux unless otherwise specified. I use Linux, so when there's no Linux version, I confirm it runs under Wine without issues. Get Kitch, which includes Wine)
Table of Contents
- Fighting Games
- Doing its Own Thing
- Point and Click, StoryTelling
- Action, Action-RPG, Platformer
- More Cyberpunk than Cyberpunk 2070
- RogueLikes
- Toys, Exploratory, and Whimsical
- Puzzlers
- Tools
- Games I Noticed Later
- Rebop Blasters by dean_sick: The closest you'll get to DBZ-style fighting
- Crescent Loom by Olive: Liked the cell stage of Spore, but wanted more depth? Gotten merrily lost in the graphical programming puzzles of SpaceChem? Love the "can I manage to build this...?" creativity of Kerbal Space Program?
Long form, with deep mechanics:
- Long Gone Days by Camila Gormaz: a 2D modern-day military RPG set in our current times, with a focus on language and cultural barriers, inspired by classic dystopian literature and visual novels (no Linux: use Wine)
- Signs of the Sojourner by Echodog Games: Unique narrative deck building game where your challenge is communication
- Anodyne by Melos Han-Tani, Marina Kittaka: A Link to the Past, with actual story
- Good Lookin Home Cookin by Toadhouse Games: Visual Novel featuring Jessica and Amira, childhood best friends, running their dream food court during the busy month of Ramadan. One of the game's authors is the organizers of the bundle! Incidentally, the game is also part of a different bundle which you may want to check out too: Queer Bundle 2021
Actual Point and Click:
- Legend of Hand by Cloak and Dagger Games: Martial arts, cool characters and beautiful art style (Windows only)
- Milkmaid of the Milky Way by machineboy: I'd rather not spoil anything, but this a weird and fun game. No Sierra logic, it's all well paced and smart
Story-focused games:
- Lieve Oma by Florian Veltman: A sad and short story about childhood and grandparents
- A Mortician's Tale by Laundry Bear Games: a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home (no Linux: use Wine)
- Wheels of Aurelia by Santa Ragione, PaoloMonkey: A racing game with... dialogue?
- Minit by Devolver Digital: do I need to present it? Zelda-like, under 1mn at a time
- Pikuniku by Devolver Digital: an excellent and oh-so-cute platformer
- Sky Rogue by Fractal Phase: rogue-lite action flight simulator
The below are harder:
- VVVVVV by Terry Cavanagh: no jumping, invert your gravity. Devilishly hard (on top of Win/Mac/Lin, you also get the Android version)
- They Bleed Pixels by Spooky Squid Games Inc.: Stylish and bloody gothic platformer
- Bleed by BootdiskRevolution: shoot everything, super fast paced action
- Bleed 2 by BootdiskRevolution: second part of Bleed
- Super Win the Game by J. Kyle Pittman: retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action
- Splinter Zone by MOKKA: Bomberman, but procgened
- Everything?
- The Real World
- But also:
- Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You by Osmotic Studios: a game of surveillance and government oversight
- Plunge by SpookyBunsGames: a turn-based roguelike with puzzle-like combat (No Linux: use Wine)
- Luna by Funomena: A beautiful, popup-book like relaxing game. Good for kids or playing with kids
- Windosill (2009) by Vectorpark: You can't really explain Vectorpark games, so I won't try
- Metamorphabet (2015) by Vectorpark: same (no Linux: use Wine)
- GNOG by KO_OP: Puzzle/Toy about exploring weird contraptions. (No Linux: use Wine)
- Vignettes by Skeleton Business, Armel Gibson, Pol Clarissou: an exploration game where objects shapeshift as you spin them around (No Linux: use Wine)
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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build by Draknek & Friends, Benjamin Davis: relaxed but damned hard puzzler that has you rolling snow
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Cosmic Express by Draknek & Friends, Benjamin Davis: nice and relaxed puzzler that has you managing train tracks
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Rose & Time by Sophie Houlden: turn-based sokoban with time travel
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CROSSNIQ+ by Max Krieger: Action, arcade-style puzzler. Think Tetris + Candy Crush (but in a good way)
- DragonRuby Game Toolkit by DragonRuby: A cool and simple x-platform 2D game engine for Ruby lovers
After doing this list, I scrolled again the bundle and found so many games I played and liked! But I need to get back to work, so I'll list them as honorable mentions:
- The Fall of Lazarus by No Wand Studios, johnny.JPG, Nazhor
- Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows by Last Quarter Studios
- The Stillness of the Wind by Fellow Traveller, Memory of God
- Un Pas Fragile by DocGeraud
- SOLITUNE by Rat King
- VEKTOR 2089 by Impbox Games
- Oceanwork by Warkus
- Tic-Tac-Crow by droqen
- The Majesty of Colors by Future Proof Games, M Avery-Weir, Gregory Avery-Weir
- ART SQOOL by Glanderco
- Nuclear Throne by Vlambeer
- Spring Falls by SPARSE//GameDev
- Fit For A King by Kitfox Games
- Fortune-499 by apthomson