View Poll Results: Where do you look online for new indie/casual games?

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  1. #1
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    Question Where do you go to find new indie/casual games?

    We aren't just a bunch of programmers here. We are also gamers at heart. So where do you guys look to find that next cool indie or casual game title to occupy your other bit of free time?

    Here are just a few gaming communities and stores that I know about myself... (off the top of my head)

    Stores:
    - Steam
    - iTunes / Mac App Stores
    - Big Fish Games
    - Desura
    - Indievania (new)

    Review Sites:
    - Indie Games The Web Blog
    - Bytten
    - IGN

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    Well, PjW is now on IndieDB, and as far as I know Desura is their own store. But I must admit that I'm not a casual player, and prefer deep and long-lasting games, so many Indiegames fall out of my target. But I have found several interesting games over at IndieDB and I also think it's a good place to promote your games.

  3. #3
    Steam and their sales is a major source for indie games. gog.com has also started selling indie games.
    Otherwise bundles like humblebundle.com, indiegala.com and indieroyale.com are a good source for indie games.
    Lastly I hear about the latest indie games from my co-students at the university. After all we are studying games, so I'm constantly informed about the next big thing in games.

    Edit:
    And of course kickstarter is a dangerous place to browse, if you don't wanna spend a few bucks. I just ended up backing this project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...the-universe-0
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  4. #4
    Sadly, I feel that an indie game must come with good reviews. Wading through the piles of games at AppStore, GoG, MacGameStore or Steam will only lead you to infinite numbers of tower defense (can be good but usually just more of the same), make-groups-of-jewels (usually not very interesting), find-hidden-objects (worse, extremely boring and there are a lot of them) or match-tiles-with-mahjong-tiles-without-even-telling-it-isnt-mahjong (worst, I absolutely hate them). It just isn't worth trying, the market is flooded with overpolished garbage.

    So I go for indie games if they are recommended by a trusted source, or if they come in Humble Bundles. Reviews can help, except that I don't read many magazines/websites that have them.

    Not much help I am afraid. It isn't really getting easier to get attention in the market.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Ingemar View Post
    Sadly, I feel that an indie game must come with good reviews. Wading through the piles of games at AppStore, GoG, MacGameStore or Steam will only lead you to infinite numbers of tower defense (can be good but usually just more of the same), make-groups-of-jewels (usually not very interesting), find-hidden-objects (worse, extremely boring and there are a lot of them) or match-tiles-with-mahjong-tiles-without-even-telling-it-isnt-mahjong (worst, I absolutely hate them). It just isn't worth trying, the market is flooded with overpolished garbage.
    I absolutely agree with this.

    Throughout many attempts that I've made on my iPhone and iPad through Apple Store and Samsung Galaxy through Google Play, I only found countless "casual" games based around the model of harvesting as much cash from you as possible - be it from banners or ingame payments.

    There are really only few indie and non-indie that I found interesting and mostly these come from word of mouth - either from a friend or a colleague.

    In my point of view, there are very few *really interesting* games coming out these days, the rest is a flood of poor remakes/recreations with huge effort of sucking your pocket.

    Recently I'm no longer trusting reviewing sites as I've found a lot of sort-of biased reviews, which look like they were paid to give good feedback about a game that utterly sucks and only wants to gets your cash off. Just recently my wife purchased a game of throwing balls, which kept nagging about purchasing even more expensive version and to get more content you need to pay even more or share this crap on Facebook (which none of us use) to unlock more levels - a money-hungry Shovelware.

  6. #6
    I agree too with this.

    I using review websites and after that I buy them directly on their stores (not gog, steam or other sh*t as them).
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  7. #7
    My favorite gaming info sites are http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ and http://www.tigsource.com/ . I gave up on games for ipad/ android, too much crap in both stores to dig through and usually most interesting are ports of old pc games..

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