Here‘re some people I follow who I don’t think've been mentioned yet:
(Looks like all the ones I picked are people I know from Glorious Trainwrecks)
Also I think all the entries in these two jams are worth checking-out:
Also slightly off-topic, but here's an amazing software recreation of the Fairlight CMI IIx:
25 tiny games!
https://hauntedps1.itch.io/demodisc2021
I just finally started PC gaming and becoming interested in indies (wow) and downloading tons from itch.io, so I'm bumping this thread.
I redownloaded everything good from the bundle for racial equality
Pizza Tower Halloween demo as well
of course, I love A Short Hike
I actually haven't read the recs in this thread yet, I'm away from home. bumping anyway hehe
https://rubeki.itch.io/hatch (in the racial justice bundle)
Game about climbing. Great sense of progression (you just keep going up), I felt tense near the top and surprisingly fatigued by the end, in a good way!
I really like 10s! https://owch.itch.io/10s
I mean all of chloe's games are extremely good, but I really liked the aesthetic of this one.
I‘m sure most folks know about it already, but the bundle in support of Palestine goes up this week and it’s shaping up to be about the same size as Racial Justice BLM bundle. I haven‘t taken a dive into the developers who’ve signed up, but it's a good thing to support nonetheless.
https://insertdisc5.itch.io/start-again-prologue
This is a lil RPG that deals with a time loop. Has a few endings, some good humor, and also just, REALLY good take on video game time loops. Its pretty short, you can probably burn thru all the endings in less than 5 hours, but i remember more from this game than I do from several games I've paid AAA prices for. The characters are just so well written and its a real delight.
https://big-heart.itch.io/castle-on-the-coast
I just bought Castle on the Coast, which is best described as an N64 platformer collectathon. It’s pretty cool. I don’t like the NPCs at all and immediately muted all the voice acting. The lack of gating is refreshing and it’s nice to wander in a direction and see what can be reached.
It’s better than Willy Wombat and Blinx.
Here's a few from the racial justice bundle that I enjoyed:
ISLANDS: Non-Places - A series of intractable dioramas that transform and shift in unexpected ways. Looks and sounds great too.
[Mu Cartographer](titouanmillet.itch.io/mu-cartographer) - If you like interacting with knobs to figure out what they do, you'll love this. This is like trying to navigate an alien world with an inscrutable compass. I haven't played much of it, but what I have played I have enjoyed.
[Quadrilateral Cowboy](blendogames.itch.io/quadrilateralcowboy) This one has stuck with me in a rather mysterious way. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a game about breaking into buildings with a unix terminal. It's short, too; you can complete the game in about 4-5 hours.
okay I got reccs from the palestine aid bundle
good gb studio
https://bryanrollins.itch.io/cosmic-courier-trapped-in-limbo
previous guest on the shows latest creation
https://twinbeard.itch.io/glittermitten-grove
good lil shmup
https://pillbuginteractive.itch.io/cycle-28
cool 1 button arcade game
https://crowbarska.itch.io/switch-n-shoot
Hacknet, framed collection and Orwell, all good mildly abstract games
https://fellowtraveller.itch.io/
boppin tunes from a great game
https://samwebster.itch.io/grindstone-original-game-soundtrack
many good puzzle games from
https://draknek.itch.io/
devs of the upcoming Goodbye Volcano High‘s older work is free including something that looks related to it
https://ko-op.itch.io/
devolver put Minit and Pikuniku which are probably two of their strongest releases of the last few years(also sludge life is finally on there….)
https://devolverdigital.itch.io/
good shmup but I wish they’d put graceful explosion machine and super crush k.o on itch also. still good inclusion
https://vertexpop.itch.io/we-are-doomed
smile for me which is absolutely phenomenal
https://daylane.itch.io/smileforme
also check out Yugo‘s YouTube work
https://youtu.be/35jqNQJbD0E
the original, wonderful anodyne
https://han-tani.itch.io/anodyne
other friends of friends of the shows work, great cerebral minesweeper/solitaire likes? good.
https://hexecutable.itch.io/beglitched
https://apthomson.itch.io/fortune-499
the best metroidvania released in years
https://malec2b.itch.io/and-all-would-cry-beware
a game I’ve only seen online but am now excitedly looking forward to finally playing
https://trampolinetales.itch.io/luck-be-a-landlord
one of the best games of 2020
https://echodog-games.itch.io/signs-of-the-sojourner
next best thing to dialhex
https://davemakes.itch.io/
sorry for huge post and tiny descriptions but this was just a first pass for ones I know , crazy that its already past 3̶0̶k̶ 50k and games will only be added to the bundle. pay what you can when you can
nice. thanks for the recs. there is so much in this bundle that it's hard to even read all the names, let alone figure out what they are
opened up a few just by scrolling through the thumbnails and played some. lots of good looking but kinda broken things. i liked The Crystal Golem, a stripped down souls-like that shows how the tension in those games is achieved pretty much with the mechanics alone. i didn't feel like playing past the second level, though, which i guess shows that atmosphere and world-building is what invites/rewards players to keep pushing forward in those games as well.
https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvODA3NzI3LzQ1Mjc4MTgucG5n/original/pJC%2Foy.png
I know it is an incredibly hard UX problem, and if there were an easy solution they would have already done it by now… but I really wish there were a good way to view/navigate all the stuff I now own on Itch after buying these two big bundles. Often I see recommendations for games with a comment like “… you probably already have this!”.
Thank you @Just_Walli#32541 for the quick list. Whenever I see things like this I at least know I can do a quick search on the bundle page, and just clicking the download button (don't actually need to download) is enough to get itch to add the game to the Library for future reference
yeah they really need to figure out a better way to sort these
does anybody remember a lil program from like 2013, called like “indie game mix tape” or the like, that was a winamp-looking thing in the shape of a tape, and you could select a bunch of executables to have on it and when you pressed play one would start at random? i thought it would be nice to make a selection of these ^ for a friend who doesn't play many games and that would be a good way to showcase them. searching for “indie mixtape” brings up a game collection from 2015 and little else 
did i just dream this and assumed it was a thing that existed?
@tombo#32598 this seems like it should exist! I was trying to make something like this happen a long time ago and it never got off the ground, I couldn't be the only one!
Also I was gonna post the palestine aid bundle but I'm glad it's in here! I hope everybody enjoys the chance to get Gunhouse for the 5th time in an itch bundle lol.
Would be cool to see more recommendations from the bundle now that it's live!
@exodus#32860 not a programmer so no idea how hard to make that would be, but it'd be super useful!
dreaming further, i think having something like Plex but for videogames -a program that could scan your computer for games from Steam, Epic, Origin, itch, etc... and present them all in the same library pulling metadata from the web, with the ability to launch them keeping the proprietary clients in the background, would be extremely cool. the main reason i still think twice before buying a game outside of Steam is the annoyance of having it be in a separate library. also the UI kinda sucks in all these for some reason. i imagine there's a lot of technical and financial reasons why that doesn't exist though :P
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@tombo#32861 a program that could scan your computer for games from Steam, Epic, Origin, itch, etc… and present them all in the same library
the GOG client, GOG Galaxy, kinda does this
@rejj#32954 sleek! still, looks like it can't easily identify itch games, which is the main one for me.