Indie Games That Could Use Some Sales

[MonkeyHead]

If you wanted to throw some financial support to damn fine indie game developers where would it go? Assuming a budget of roughly $150 and a bias towards RPGs what would you purchase? I prefer supporting studios that are still actively developing but there's no reason to deny legacy game sales to someone.

Off the top of my head I would start with:

Eschalon: Book I $19.95
Mount and Blade $25.00
Depths of Peril $19.99

 

[Dark Elf]

Teudogar and the Alliance with Rome

 

[Jasede]

Definitely Eschalon. Might have many flaws and not be that good of a game to some, but I think with some encouragement, its developer is capable of great feats.

Teudogar too, but I really don't like it, so it'd be more of a moral donation so as to encourage him to improve the engine.

And, of course, Mount and Blade, which is good for what it tries to be.

 

[Mr Happy]

Quite obviously, the developers of Prelude to Darkness. $150 probably isn't enough to get the studio up and running again, but it should at least make up for me only hearing about it after it was released for free.

 

[Antagonist]

I'm currently playing the first 3 parts of Geneforge for the first time and I'm having a lot of fun, much more than with most "mainstream" PC games in the past 5 years. I recently finished the second part and am taking a short break before beginning with the 3rd but I can already tell that my 55 Dollars were well spent (actually, it was pretty cheap considering the exchange rate between Euro and Dollar). The games offer an interesting setting, a lot of c&c (and therefore replay value), good writing and an acceptable character system.

Since the games are sold as shareware you can play a pretty huge part of each one and purchase a registration key in order to continue in case you like the game.

Here's the link to the Geneforge games (and other Spiderweb Software games):

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/products.html

 

[Jaime Lannister]

What's wrong with the Teudogar engine? I played the demo and it seemed like a higher-res Ultima VII. Since you still play the old Wizardry games, Jasede, I'm suspecting it's something besides age.

 

[Gragt]

Definitely Depths of Peril.

 

[Kortalh]

Zombie Nightmare of Fillibree County. Granted, it's a freeware game, and has been ditched long ago by the developer, but it's got some of the best gameplay I've ever seen. If it wasn't free, I'd have bought ten copies.

http://www.codedread.com/games.php#ZN

 

[Jeff Graw]

Bought 'em all. M&B was the only one really worth buying. DoP was just a sub par ARPG with one unique feature, but a multiplayer mode would have saved it . Book 1 was better, but besides looking better was just a worse Spiderweb game, I still have some hope for Book 2 though. In any case, I don't care if I buy the occasional crappy indie game because it's not that much money and I'd rather give the money to someone who tries to make good RPGs instead of simply popular ones.