Last year we did 50, this year we're taking it 100.
So without further ado, here are you best upcoming indie games of 2017.
Absolver is set to grace the world of online multiplayer, with its elegant brand of martial
arts-inspired combat.
In AER, you'll play as a bird-morphing girl swooping through floating islands to discover
secret-laden ruins.
The American Dream is Samurai Punk's first major title since 2014's Screencheat.
A satirical take on the second amendment, The American Dream will be VR exclusive.
Transitioning from scene to unrelated scene without notice, Anamorphine is sure to be
a trippy ride.
Multiplayer turn-based game Antihero has jam-packed their bite-sized Victorian era characters
with swagger, snicker, and scheming.
If David Bowie went on a space journey to become Ziggy Stardust, The Artful Escape of
Francis Vendetti is what it would look like.
Spectacular.
Take charge of humanity's first settlement on an alien world and encounter new environments
and lifeforms in Aven Colony.
Beta playable now.
The terrific sketchbook art has got our attention, and now we wait to see what horrors Bad Dream:
Coma has for us this February.
Battle Chasers: Nightwar will reboot the 90's comic series of the same name as a JRPG, with
wonderful hand-drawn cutscenes.
Take Iron Chef, add a pinch of magic, a healthy dose of hunting, and voila, you have Battle
Chef Brigade.
Looking like a game made in the 80's wasn't enough for Beat Cop.
It's also set in 1980's New York and full of 80's cop movie references.
Beat The Game asks you to go around collecting sounds to compose a live performance at the
game's end.
The much delayed Below does not have an official release date, but we hope 2017 is the year
we get to uncover its roguelike mysteries.
On early access since early 2015, Besiege is an in-development physics-based game about
construction and destruction.
If you've already binged Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', you can continue
to get your fix of tragic orphaned children via narrative-driven Blackwood Crossing.
Metroidvania Chasm is another game long in development, but hopefully arriving in 2017.
Children of Zordiacs mixes the combat of handheld JRPGs with a deck builder, whilst looking
incredibly cute.
A group of teen friends uncover a magical world sometime in the 80's - Crossing Souls
sounds a lot like Oxenfree, and that's music to our ears.
Get ready for some old-school cartoons, as the much anticipated Cuphead arrives in the
middle of the year on XBOX ONE and Windows computers.
From the creators of Death Road to Canada comes Dad by the Sword—a puntastic dungeon
crawler with videogame's coolest father since Octodad.
Both the influence of Castlevania and Dark Souls are evident in Death's Gambit, but
it's the epic moments of giant climbing and dragon surfing that has us pumped.
We played a preview of the challenging Desync at PAX AUS last year, and were left impressed
with its creative kill combinations.
Arena shooter Diabotical hopes to make a splash in the competitive scene when it ships midyear.
Disc Jam is a ridiculously amped up version of air hockey, and we already love it.
2016 gave us Redout, but 2017 has more hover racing action in-store with early access title
Distance on the horizon.
If you're ever peckish in 2017, forget Uber eats and try Donut County – a game where
you take control of an expanding hole in the ground that's consuming everything from
donuts to mountains.
Yum.
It didn't make it in time for 2016, but we're still excited for EITR and its stunning
visuals.
Just look at that lighting!
Guide a young boy through the deserts, monasteries and saloons of the west in stealth game El
Hijo.
Steam and iOS.
A Newgrounds game in 2013, Eldritch Hunter has received a major overhaul ahead of its
Steam release.
Early Access title Element offers a real-time strategy game that cuts down on time, but
not depth.
Finding Paradise is the follow-up to 2011's To The Moon.
Again, two doctors traverse the memories of a dying man to fulfil his final wish.
Framed 2 is the sequel to Hideo Kohima's game of the year, and will navigate the series
into the waters of China's harbours.
From the creators of This War of Mine comes Frostpunk, a game that'll test whether morality
can survive a mercilessly cold world.
The head-turning GNOG will trip out your noggin, with its kooky, contraption-filled robot heads.
Gorogoa takes the Framed formula, and adds exquisite illustrations and more mind bending
puzzles.
Mac and Windows first, mobile later.
Hand of Fate 2 will up the scale of the original with companions to fight with and more enemies
to contend against.
Recently announced as a Nintendo Switch launch title, Has-Been Hereos takes the retirement
home on a comeback tour.
Will also come to XBOX, PS4, and PC.
The little heralded Hireath: Songs of Stone is currently delayed, but our anticipation
for it hasn't dimmed.
Hob around a ruined planet and repair it as you go in this puzzle-centric title from the
creators of Torchlight.
Despite its many bleak settings, Hollow Knight never feels dreary - it's got a unique charm,
and we can't wait to fight our way through it.
Innerspace puts you inside inverted planets and lets you fly where you like.
Chilled soundtrack and powerful Abzu vibes.
Jenny LeClue is the point and click Nancy Drew in this choice-driven murder mystery.
It'll be on Steam first, then iOS and PS4.
Slice 'em up side-scroller Katana ZERO has a very cool neo-noir vibe and carefully designed
levels that emphasise action.
The fifth and final chapter in the much-loved and lauded Kentucky Route Zero series is almost
here to take us on the road again.
Kieru blends the stylings of Sin City with Samurai Jack to create a deathmatch cast in
the shadow of tactical subterfuge and assassination.
The King's Bird is a momentum-driven gilder of a platformer with specs of Dustforce influence.
Being stuck in the past isn't all bad.
From clothes to music to castles to combat, everything in Kingdom Come: Deliverance is
historically accurate and wowing.
Puddles, wellies, frisbees, and tricked out rides - Knights and Bikes boomerangs your
childhood right back to you.
As it graduates from early access, frosty adventure Kona will double in length and tie
up its loose ends.
A resurrected detective investigates his own murder in Last Life's stylistic vision of
colonial Mars.
The Legend of Bum-bo is a Binding of Isaac spin-off that'll trade intense action for
turn-based play.
The scares are big in Little Nightmares.
Reminiscent of Playdead's Limbo and INSIDE, it releases April 28 for XBOX, Playstation
and Windows.
Already an astounding sandbox survival game, the long wait for The Long Dark's story
mode continues.
Loot Rascals is an outer space roguelike, in which the ghosts of other players haunt
or hinder you.
Unfinished version now playable on itch.io.
Confusing, yet amazing.
Manifold Garden is drawing up some impossible architecture that's filled with gravity-defying
puzzles.
By daylight, a shopkeeper.
Come nightfall, a fighter.
Such is the tale of Will the Moonlighter.
The change from Atari-like graphics to a goofier cartoon-look has drawn a mixed reaction, making
Nidhogg 2 a must-watch release.
February 21 we get character-driven adventure Night in the Woods on Windows, Mac, Linux
and Playstation 4.
Freshly funded on Kickstarter, Nykra boasts a glorious soundtrack, diverse landscapes,
and a fully customisable drone.
Old Man's Journey is a slow and contemplative journey through the memories of a well-travelled
man.
The return of arcade sports titles continues with Old TIme Hockey and its violent brand
of bush league play.
Outer Wilds takes the rocket simulation of Kerbal Space Program and throws it into the
world-ending time loop of Majora's Mask.
Outreach puts you on a covert space station and in the middle of a Cold War conspiracy.
Also has this incredible cinematic as a prologue.
Fitting its world into one screen, Overland makes squad-based tactics accessible to a
wider audience.
Like a bat using echolocation at night, horror-game Perception uses sounds to create its visuals.
It's also just been confirmed for PS4.
Police Stories is a top-down shooter that reminds us a little of Door Kickers.
Bastion, Transistor and now Pyre.
Supergiant Games' latest offering is a party-based RPG, with head-to-head local multiplayer.
Quote wants you to burn every book, author and word and cleanse its lands of wisdom.Bizarre
yet fascinating.
Everyone's going nuts for Rain World - a platformer in which you play a bottom of the
foodchain slugcat in a world of acid rain.
Rattletrap Racing is the Gang Beasts of racing games with some Ultimate Chicken Horse chaos
slapped on top.
Papers Please creators Lucas Pope's next game is The Return of the Obra Dinn - a rummage
through a long-lost ship.
With the IP rights re-acquired from Sony, island wonder Rime is prepped to blow us away
this May.
Coming to early access in Q1, ROKH is a sandbox MMO on a damn fine looking Mars.
Above the temple, but under the radar, Roof Rage is an acrobatic brawler with fast gameplay
and beautiful maps and sprites.
RUINER is a cyberpunk beat-em up that has you play as a sociopath searching for his
kidnapped brother.
It's appropriate that immediately following Ruiner, we have Saviour.
Billed as the first Cuban indie game, it is a fully animated 2D platformer.
Before Tequila Works launch Rime in May, they'll release The Sexy Brutale in April.
The game is groundhog day at a murderous masked ball.
Shio is a chain-jumping platformer that promises a serious challenge that can be tackled at
a casual pace.
Shovel through procedurally generated ruins in Skytorn.
Sound design and animations are top-notch.
We're already wrapped up in the goofy delight of Snake Pass.
Coming to XBOX, Playstation and PC.
Soulblight takes the role-playing part of RPG very seriously, making for a peculiar
and different roguelike experience.
The second Shovel Knight expansion, Specter of Torment, will give you reign of Specter
Knight as he recruits the Order of No Quarter.
This April for free.
From the devs behind Dustforce comes Spire.
Expected to release late in the year, the game revolves around an ever-changing tower.
We may now be in 2017, but as far as old-school shooter Strafe is concerned, it may as well
still be 1996.
A first-person story on a space station teeming with mysterious artificial intelligence - Tacoma
hopes to take Gone Home's formula to new heights.
To Azimuth is a search for a missing brother in 1970's Alabama told from two perspectives.
Made by team behind Three Fourths Home.
A super zoomed out perspective gives assasinator Tokyo 42 this great scale to show off its
smooth structures.
The makers of Monaco are now putting out Redwall meets Russian Revolution RTS Tooth and Tail.
Paying ode to the games of the Commodore Amiga, Tower 57 is a bloody quick shooter in a neo-retro
world with a smashing soundtrack.
Dust storms tear through the sandy world of Vane, filling you with dread and conjuring
mystery.
Arriving on PC and Playstation.
The mundaneness of a slightly tacky but humble suburban family home is not where you'd
expect horror to lie.
And that's what makes Visage so scary.
Voodoo will have a lot to sort out when it releases in early access, but we've never
seen anything like it and can't get help but get excited.
Voici is bringing 19th century illustrator Albert Robida's vision of Paris in the sky
to life.
We are Chicago is a game about the struggle of staying on the straight and narrow whilst
growing up on the seedy south side.
February 9.
Already an early access hit, we can't wait to get our full fix of the We Happy Few narrative
in the next few months.
Edith Finch is the last member of her family left alive.
Relive the lives of her relatives on the day of their deaths, and discover What remains
of Edith Finch.
Where the Water Taste Like Wine is a collection of short and bleak American folk tales, but
whilst we gaze at its wondrous visuals, bleak is the last thing that comes to mind.
We didn't start the fire.
We took it from the wild, flung it, distracted the guard, and snuck by her.
Wildfire is a stealth game that lets you control the elements.
On April 12, Yooka Laylee will bring back the kooky and lively joy of 90's 3D platformers,
as well as the spirits of a much-loved honey bear and red bird.
Ziba is a block-pushing puzzler with some damn pretty environments coming at the back
end of the year.
And that's it, 100 games.
2017 is going to be a wild ride, and we can't wait to cover it.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you all soon here on Indieformer.
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