Xbox 360's Indie Game Library

Small warning for 2010s gamer-style objectification of women. It was the Xbox 360, after all.

Ahhhhh, the Indie Game library. What a grab-bag of mediocre and haphazard games made by developers either just getting their footing or looking to get some notoriety. Despite its very disheveled and crazy state, especially now since the program has shut down, it is a point of nostalgia for me. I grew up in a relatively cheap family during the Great Recession and its subsequent years, meaning that every game I got was special and would have to be played to the fullest. This is where the Indie Game program came in, it allowed for incredibly cheap games that you could sink time into without having to worry about being unable to buy a game next time. I remember when Microsoft Points were around (god, what a hunk of shit, am I right?) and every game from the Indie Game section would cost one or two dollars. I believe that was the case up until the program's rather uncelebrated but unsurprising slow demise with the advent of the new console in the Xbox lineage, the Xbox One.

This is a list shambling together games from this catalogue. Do note that this will not be covering games that could've been considered 'indie' but were released through normal means on the 360 (like the digital Arcade catalogue or in standard downloads or discs), but will only catalogue the games found within the Xbox Live Indie Games service.

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