Indie Excavation No. 1: Dark Christmas

Featuring Castle of no Escape 2, Haimrik, Mastema: Out of Hell

Steam is a bottomless cave in which games at the bottom receive little light, but if you’re willing to dig, there are gems down there.

I like indie games, which is why it’s a shame that finding new ones — beyond the mega-sellers that everyone already knows about — is so difficult. The interesting ones are quickly lost beneath multitudinous strata of cheap titles that algorithms don’t know how to navigate. It takes a human to find anything worthwhile.

So I’m trying my hand at it. Three interesting indie titles per article, all unknown or underappreciated games that aren’t getting enough attention.

Going forward, I’ll be looking for unnoticed games released in the last few years, but for the inaugural article I’m picking three titles that were already in my library. Being December, I obviously picked three really dark ones that are more appropriate for Halloween, because I can be as ironic as the next person.

If you know of any titles I should feature, please send me a message and I’ll take a look.