NEWS The 12 Indie Games to look out for in 2017

1. Night in the Woods
Centered around a small town, to which college dropout (and anthropomorphized cat) Mae returns to rediscover old friends and settle back into her old life, Night in the Woods appears to capture a feeling of aimless drifting with a creepy, foreboding sense of something dark going on just behind the curtain.

2. Pikuniku
You play a little blob-guy who can kick people, which sounds simple - but the simple interaction leads to the best stories.

3. GNOG
GNOG is a puzzle game about exploring huge heads that are full of secrets to discover, like an interactive children's toy.

4. Wattam
It’s a sweet toybox of a game where everything is a new friend, where the button prompts are strange and unexpected verbs from “bomb” to “poop”, and where the bright, colourful world takes you by surprise every few seconds.

5. Cuphead
Cuphead is an action game that focuses on what might be called “boss battles”, but with everything done in a memorable art style that’s heavily inspired by 1930s animation.

6. Overland
Just as the best survival games do, it constantly makes you feel like you’re two moves away from death, micro-managing supplies and health and happiness as your priorities change over time. Also, it has dogs!

7. Knights & Bikes
When things go wrong in their little hometown, it’s up to best friends Nessa and Demelza to save the adults - and the world! - from mortal peril.

8. Secret Legend
Combining the intricate combat of Dark Souls with the mystery-filled intrigue of early Legend of Zelda games, Secret Legend aims to straddle the fence between the nostalgia of your early childhood and the excitement and innovation of modern games.


9. Old Man’s Journey
Bright, pastel colors evoke a Mediterranean seaside feeling in a world that you gently, slowly explore as a sweet old man who just wants to sit down for a while. Each stop you take along the way unravels more of his sad, sad story, told entirely through beautiful, heartbreaking art.

10. Finding Paradise
Style-wise, Finding Paradise - the sequel - is very stylistically similar to To The Moon, with the same kind of detailed pixel-art and melancholy music that made it so memorable.

11. Below
It’s a top-down action-adventure roguelike with a teeny tiny protagonist - but there’s a lot of mystery around it still, it’s going to be super difficult, and include permadeath, and probably a billion reasons to swear and throw your controller.

12. Flinthook
If you love your games fast-paced and tricky, you will get a kick out of Flinthook’s main mechanic, in which you grappling-hook your way through platforming rooms, grabbing coins and zapping enemies along the way.