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Here are IGR’s nominees for the best of 2010. If you would like to see any of these on our year end list, please feel free to mention them in the comments, or, if there is game you insist we must consider, please include them as well in your response to this post – we are always ready to be convinced.
From developers QCF in Capetown South Africa, Desktop Dungeons is an official entrant to IGF’s 2011 Festival that pays tribute to the early dungeon crawler Rogue which used randomly generated dungeons and has since become its own genre. QCF adds a twist by giving the player a finite amount of choices with which to solve the micro maps. Read on for the full review.
IGR Chooses Its Favorite Original Scores and Game Soundtracks of the Year
Mixing dungeon-crawling with rhythm action, Crypt of the Necrodancer from indie developer Brace Yourself Games, is perhaps unlike anything else that has preceded it.
Indie Game Reviewer’s top ten indie games of 2011 with a long list of honorable mentions for best independent games of the year.