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Gamefinds: Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good
sylvie's Games Don't Have To Be Good To Be Good is an interesting little browser game where the point is figuring out how to play, then what to do. It's really short! You can probably finish it in five minutes.

The description calls it a manifesto, and I can see t
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-games-dont-have-to-be-good-to-be-good/
#gamefinds #indies #free #gamefinds #GamesDontHaveToBeGoodToBeGood #indie #itchio #puzzle #sylvie #web

Gamefinds: Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good
sylvie's Games Don't Have To Be Good To Be Good is an interesting little browser game where the point is figuring out how to play, then what to do. It's really short! You can probably finish it in five minutes.

The description calls it a manifesto, and I can see t
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-games-dont-have-to-be-good-to-be-good/
#gamefinds #indies #free #gamefinds #GamesDontHaveToBeGoodToBeGood #indie #itchio #puzzle #sylvie #web

Gamefinds: NANDgame
NANDgame is one of those puzzle games that's really an educational game in disguise. By hooking up wires and relays, then logic gates, then larger pieces of basic computing hardware, you construct a basic processor from first principles, step by excruciating step.

This is actually a puzzle solution, which I don't usually in
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-nandgame/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #ComputerArchitecture #gamefinds #indie #LogicGates #NANDgame #niche #puzzle

Gamefinds: NANDgame
NANDgame is one of those puzzle games that's really an educational game in disguise. By hooking up wires and relays, then logic gates, then larger pieces of basic computing hardware, you construct a basic processor from first principles, step by excruciating step.

This is actually a puzzle solution, which I don't usually in
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-nandgame/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #ComputerArchitecture #gamefinds #indie #LogicGates #NANDgame #niche #puzzle

Gamefinds: Return to Castle Monkey Ball
Some time back, I don't remember how long, I made a Metafilter post about Nickireda's weird and fun mixup game Return to Castle Monkey Ball, free on itch.io.

In a place like Metafilter, it's not always obvious what will work and what
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-return-to-castle-monkey-ball/
#gamefinds #indies #EscapeFromCastleMonkeyBall #free #gamefinds #idsoftware #indie #itchio #mashup #monkeyball #Nickireda #sega #Vinesauce #wolfenstein3d

Gamefinds: Conservation of Bass
There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of quirky little games and things on itch.io. Lots of them are worthless, some are mere cash-ins, and a few are really nice, but good luck finding them with the towering piles of meh blocking view of the horizon, or indeed anything else.

So it's nice when
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-conservation-of-bass/
#gamefinds #indies #ConservationOfBass #Emlise #free #gamefinds #indie #itchio #platformer #puzzle

Gamefinds: Conservation of Bass
There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of quirky little games and things on itch.io. Lots of them are worthless, some are mere cash-ins, and a few are really nice, but good luck finding them with the towering piles of meh blocking view of the horizon, or indeed anything else.

So it's nice when
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-conservation-of-bass/
#gamefinds #indies #ConservationOfBass #Emlise #free #gamefinds #indie #itchio #platformer #puzzle

Gamefinds: Expedition Sasquatch
Expedition Sasquatch is a homebrew Gameboy Color rom that can be played on itch.io in your browser for free, or you can pay five bucks to download the rom image to support the makers and play it wherever you like.

It's a short game that's like Pokemon but without the battling. You go out and catch cr
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-expedition-sasquatch/
#gamefinds #indies #AndrewRoach #Elvies #ExpeditionSasquatch #gameboycolor #gamefinds #homebrew #indie

Gamefinds: enclose.horse
Less a game than a puzzle, and not so much runnable software than a website, enclose.horse is a very nice thing to spend a few minutes of your day, each day, on.

Every puzzle is a map of a field, with an arrangement of lakes and a horse somewhere in it. You have a number of square blocks to try to completely surround the horse. The horse does not like
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-enclose-horse/
#gamefinds #indies #EncloseHorse #gamefinds #indie #puzzle #web

Gamefinds: enclose.horse
Less a game than a puzzle, and not so much runnable software than a website, enclose.horse is a very nice thing to spend a few minutes of your day, each day, on.

Every puzzle is a map of a field, with an arrangement of lakes and a horse somewhere in it. You have a number of square blocks to try to completely surround the horse. The horse does not like
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-enclose-horse/
#gamefinds #indies #EncloseHorse #gamefinds #indie #puzzle #web

Gamefinds: Urjo
A second webgame in a row, Urjo is a logic puzzle game about choosing which of each space in a grid should be red or blue, with the following conditions:

1. Every row and column must contain the same number of red and blue spaces.

2. Every numbered space must have the same number of spaces touching it (in the eight spaces around it) as its color.

3. No two
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-urjo/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #gamefinds #indie #niche #ohh1 #puzzle #Urjo

Gamefinds: Urjo
A second webgame in a row, Urjo is a logic puzzle game about choosing which of each space in a grid should be red or blue, with the following conditions:

1. Every row and column must contain the same number of red and blue spaces.

2. Every numbered space must have the same number of spaces touching it (in the eight spaces around it) as its color.

3. No two
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-urjo/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #gamefinds #indie #niche #ohh1 #puzzle #Urjo

Gamefinds: words.zip
words.zip is a fun word search kind of game. It's an infinite field of random letters. You try to find words snaking through the array. Words can twist and turn, and can also go backwards, but can't go diagonally, cross themselves, or intersect with any other word that someone else has ever found.

Here I've found the word RO
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-words-zip/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #collaborative #gamefinds #indie #niche #puzzle #webgame #words #wordszip

Gamefinds: words.zip
words.zip is a fun word search kind of game. It's an infinite field of random letters. You try to find words snaking through the array. Words can twist and turn, and can also go backwards, but can't go diagonally, cross themselves, or intersect with any other word that someone else has ever found.

Here I've found the word RO
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-words-zip/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #collaborative #gamefinds #indie #niche #puzzle #webgame #words #wordszip

Gamefinds: mumble mumble Dungeons of Infinity
Writing about Nintendo fangames is fraught. Not that something might happen to me, the insidious grasp of their legal team doesn't stretch that far yet, but for the games being written about. Remember AM2R, a fan remake of Metroid II that many believe was superior to Nin
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-mumble-mumble-dungeons-of-infinity/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #roguelike #play #DungeonsOfInfinity #fangame #gamefinds #indie #niche #roguelike

Gamefinds: Primesweeper
Primesweeper is a recreation of Minesweeper, but with two changes:

You can't mark squares where you think there are mines. This isn't as bad as you'd think it would be, partly because...

All the spaces have three digit numbers on them, and the mines are hidden by the spaces with prime numbers.

Don't let the math terms scare you
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-primesweeper/
#indies #gamefinds #indie #minesweeper #Primesweeper #puzzle #volewtf #webgame

Gamefinds: Labyracer
Coming in on the heels of his previous game Blasnake, which he unveiled less than a month ago, Kenta Cho, a.k.a. ABAgames, releases another absolute banger in the form of Labyracer. Like Blasnake and most of Cho's games, it's absolutely free!

Check out that high score I set! You'll find it difficult to surpass it, but I won't say it's imposs
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-labyracer/
#indies #abagames #gamefinds #indie #itchio #kentacho #Labyracer #PacManCE #RallyX

Gamefinds: Blasnake
ABA has returned! The brilliant creator of dozens and dozens of short but incredibly catchy gamethings, like PAKU PAKU (the one-dimensional Pac-Man variant, we've linked it previously) has made a new one, and you really should try it. It's free and playable in your browser!

Don't be fooled by the pseudo-terminal graphics, this game is nearly perfect.

It's a variant of
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-blasnake/
#indies #aba #Blasnake #free #gamefinds #indie #itchio

Gamefinds: Wor Games
This one's another of Paul Hammond's series of classic arcade games recreated in Pico-something. Most of these have been in Pico-8, but today's find uses its more-powerful successor, Picotron. To us end users though, the result isn't that different.

Wor Games is a remake of Bally's classic arcade game Wizard of Wor, probab
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-wor-games/
#indies #niche #gamefinds #indie #itch #maze #niche #PaulHammond #picotron #wizardofwor #WorGames

Gamefinds: ioBaseball Demo, Fusion of Balatro and Blaseball
It's been over a year now since Blaseball, beloved highlight of the pandemic lockdown, set its multiple suns for the last time. Its malevolent spinning peanut god ceased its ranting, and its guardian angel squid put away its
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-iobaseball-demo-fusion-of-balatro-and-blaseball/
#gamefinds #indies #niche #Balatro #blaseball #deckbuilder #gamefinds #indie #ioBaseball #niche #roguelite #simulation #webgame

Gamefinds: GAR-TYPE
It's a new year, and probably going to be an exceedingly crappy one, so let's at least start it out with something amazing and wonderful. For while it's a world where millions of people make extremely stupid decisions, it's also one where some people work diligently to make bafflingly detailed works of art like Lumpy Touch's GAR-TYPE,
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-gar-type/
#indies #niche #gamefinds #GarType #garfield #indie #irem #itch #itchio #niche #RType #shooter

Gamefinds: Alphabet Soup For Picky Eaters
I found it through Metafilter (here), but it's simple and fun enough that I felt I could extend its reach by a few more players. Alphabet Soup For Picky Eaters is a logic game, by Danien Linssen, where you have to find some bit of text that satisfies six different hungry blobs.

In this exam
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-alphabet-soup-for-picky-eaters/
#indies #AlphabetSoupForPickyEaters #DanielLinssen #gamefinds #indie #itch #puzzle #WordGame

Gamefinds: The Silly Knight Prologue
Both Frogfall from the day before yesterday and this one were recent itch.io highlight honorees, and both are interesting enough to feature here too, although they're very different kinds of games, and for very different reasons.

The Silly Knight is a classic-style point-and-click graph
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-the-silly-knight-prologue/
#indies #adventure #alexanderpreymak #gamefinds #indie #itchio #short #surreal #thesillyknight

Gamefinds: Nip For Speed
From itch.io's Youtube account, this barely qualifies as a game, but it's funny. Surreal. Absurd. Bizarre. But mostly funny. It's Nip For Speed, and it's from knackelibang.

You're riding in a car with an orange cat behind the wheel. Not a cartoony cat, a realistic cat, or at least its low-poly model is kind of realistic
https://setsideb.com/gamefinds-nip-for-speed/
#indies #funny #gamefinds #html5 #indie #itch #itchio #knackelibang #nipforspeed #silly #windows

Game Finds: Cosmic Collapse
A fair amount has been said about Suika Game, an inexpensive and addictive Switch game that has players dropping fruit into a physics-enabled bin. Two fruit of the same type that touch immediately merge into a larger fruit, and the goal is to join them together like this until you create a mighty Water
https://setsideb.com/game-finds-cosmic-collapse/
#indies #aladdinx #cosmiccollapse #fad #gamefinds #indie #itchio #johanpeitz #physics #steam #suikagame #switch

Game Finds: Mobile Suit Baba
Hempuli, the creator of the indie hit Baba Is You, certainly has been busy! He made a number of solitaire games, some with Baba characters; then a number of board games. Now he's returned to the Baba Is Youniverse, with another charming game that uses some of the ideas and rules of Baba Is You, with a helping of Into The Brea
https://setsideb.com/game-finds-mobile-suit-baba/
#indies #babaisuniverse #babaisyou #gamefinds #hempuli #indie #itchio #mobilesuitbaba

Game Finds: Ghost Hunter
Another game jam entry, Róger Goulart's Ghost Hunter is a short and silly game about a young lady who loves ghosts, maybe a bit more than she should.

Here are some opening screens:

Take a moment to enjoy this screen.

They may have a point.

And a new unholy quest begins.

Most of it is a kind of guessing game. Each of three cemet
https://setsideb.com/ghost-chaser/
#gamefinds #indies #free #gamefinds #ghosthunter #indie #itch #itchio #rogergoulart

Game Finds: Feydome
There's hundreds of new games released every day, and there's no way to can even find out what they all are, let alone try all of them. So there's an inescapable element of randomness to what meets my eyes, and thus to what I bring to you. It's useless to ask, "Why did you link to that silly little trifile when Important Game by Known Developer goes wi
https://setsideb.com/game-finds-feydome/
#indies #exploratory #feydome #free #gamefinds #gamejam #indie #itch #itchio