I don't normally play that many games, but once in a while I find some quick indie ones online that I give a go usually just to unwind between other stuff I'm doing. I recently played three that are pretty interesting- nothing big or complicated- and I thought I'd share.
…But That Was [Yesterday]
A very
quick game (takes around 10 minutes), but a good concept that’s executed simply
and beautifully. Quite a morose and melancholy journey of someone running away
(…and ultimately towards) their memories and past, and what they lost. It’s
more or less a platform narrative, but a touching story. Go ahead and give it a
play.
no-one has to die
Trigger warning for death
Wow.
This is an incredibly intelligent and thought provoking game. Talking about it
at all will spoil it, so please just go play it. It won’t take long- probably
just half an hour. Very clever, very well written, I loved it. (Heads up: It
didn’t work properly on my Chrome browser, I used Firefox- if you can’t see the
scenes where the characters are chatting to each other and can only see the
“Skip” button play the game in another browser. Also if you’re like me and
you’re easily spooked by really the strangest things, don’t play it alone in
the dark in the middle of the night like I did)
the thing i dont want to think about
I played
this a while back when I was on holiday with a complete lack of wifi. An
interesting game with a great concept- as the title implies, you are running
from something dark and obscure (you don’t quite know what it is, it’s only
called The Thing) that you’re trying not to think about or deal with, comforted only
by Frinchfry, your childhood friend teddy bear. Eventually though you can't run away from it forever, and you're forced to face it for what it really is. A bit longer than the other two but I think it's worth a go.