LIMBO

The captivating puzzle-platformer LIMBO is a modern classic, putting players in control of a boy's journey through a tense and hostile world. The protagonist is as fragile and hardy as you'd expect of a young kid, making for a novel and sometimes surprisingly intense adventure. With incredibly tight platforming, detailed 2D graphics, and well-designed puzzles, LIMBO has rightfully earned critical and popular acclaim for the Danish indie studio, Playdead.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is Frictional Games' first-person, survival horror masterpiece, pitting a weaponless protagonist against the darkest secrets of the castle he's trapped in. With an emphasis on puzzle-solving and maintaining sanity amidst unspeakable abominations, Amnesia's tense adventure breaks new ground for a well-loved, but challenging genre.

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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP delivers a completely fresh adventure gaming experience, defying conventions to develop a unique kind of storytelling. The plot is unveiled in "sessions," each of which involves traveling through the countryside and solving puzzles and combat challenges. Every scene overflows with rich graphic and auditory details, featuring distinctive artwork by Superbrothers Inc. and music and sound design by Jim Guthrie.

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Psychonauts

The acclaimed action-platformer Psychonauts bears all the marks of a mad Tim Schafer/Double Fine creation: a zany premise, standout characters, and fun-above-all gameplay. In Psychonauts, you play as Raz, a psychically gifted kid at a summer camp-slash-training facility for mentalist super agents. When the camp falls to a dastardly deception, it's up to Raz to traverse through the minds of various camp characters to save himself and his friends.

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Bastion

The action-RPG Bastion won over the gaming public with its incredible attention to every detail—from the tight combat controls, to the inspired, narrator-driven storytelling in a novel, post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Players take on the role of the Kid, entrusted with the thankless task of restoring the world after a disastrous calamity. With a none-too-small arsenal of stylized weapons, jaw-dropping art, and amazing music, Bastion truly deserves its reputation as a must-play indie game by Supergiant Games.

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Braid

Braid challenges players to solve incredibly clever platforming puzzles by manipulating the flow of time. It released to near-universal praise, surprising audiences with its refreshing gameplay, while also upending notions about game design and independent game development. As part of Humble Indie Bundle 2, and now Humble Indie Bundle V, Braid is absolutely a must-play among must-plays.

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Lone Survivor

Lone Survivor is a psychological survival adventure, with art, design, and music by the one-man studio, Superflat Games. The surgical-mask wearing protagonist has survived a disaster and must now face the world's twisted creatures, as well as the potential unraveling of his own mind.

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Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is what you get when you mold a little man out of ground meat, and put him in a world full of tricky gaps, slides, and hazards. Plan to perish many times in the course of saving Bandage Girl from Dr. Fetus, but prepare to bask in the glory of pulling off impossible platforming feats, unlocking secret characters, and triumphing over 300+ levels.

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit that defends your rights in the digital world. The world-class team of tech-savvy attorneys, activists, and technologists fight in courtrooms and Congress to protect privacy and free expression online and throughout the world.

Child's Play Charity

The Child's Play Charity works to channel the goodwill of the worldwide gaming community into video games and game systems for sick children in hospitals. Child's Play works directly with hospitals worldwide to identify what kinds of games and systems can be installed in hospital wards and distributed "for keeps" to child patients. Since 2003, Child's Play has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars of games and game systems, making them a premier charity for helping children in need of the joy that games can bring.

LIMBO (Original Videogame Soundtrack)

The LIMBO (Original Videogame Soundtrack) by Martin Stig Andersen is a collection of tremendously eerie, heavily ambient works, each one depicting a unique facet of the dark world of LIMBO.

Amnesia: Dark Descent OST

The Amnesia OST by Mikko Tarmia features a tremendous range of songs, from grandiose compositions evoking the majesty of the game's castle, to stark, paranoia-inducing soundscapes.

Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies

Jim Guthrie is an accomplished, Juno Award-nominated indie artist, so it's no surprise that his work, Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies, features a number of amazing compositions that do more than complement the world of the game. In many cases, they drive the action and energy of a given scene with a completely invigorating pop-sensibility.

Psychonauts Soundtrack

The zany tone of Psychonauts owes a lot to the playful soundtrack composed by Peter McConnell. Each of the tracks winks knowingly while taking the listener through the wit and whimsy of a theme park, a circus, a secret lair, or a cartoon.

Bastion Original Soundtrack

Darren Korb's amazing Bastion soundtrack brings the intense discombobulation of the game's disaster-stricken world to life, while imbuing it all with a Wild West-ian sense of adventure and heartache.