| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A
Coming to us from Ron "X-Out" Bunce and just seven months before the release of Gravitron 2, Blocks n' Bricks is a fairly common Breakout clone with a whopping 50 levels and having been made in 48 hours! If you've played Breakout before, you know how the game works, but hey, it's free and it's fun!
| Steam Net Revenue: $5,279.79 5k
Coming to us from Targem Games three years after becoming a subsidary of Nival Inc, Sledgehammer is a really...awfully silly game! You play Jack Hammer, who you are told through cutscene is a Punisher-type vengeance killer who is sentenced to death, but inexplicably gets rescued by a mysterious benefactor named Jorge and given a bad-ass truck that tears through any car with ease and has multiple mounted guns, AND jet propulsion! It's not a deep game but it really tickles an itch in the old basal ganglia because not only is it unabashedly a late-2000's video game and plays like it, but it is serious about being unserious and makes no bones about how silly it is. Like, I'm incapable of doing justice to just how many weird plot decisions this game makes, you should try it out for yourself!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A | Game Engine: RPG Maker 2003 
A truly mystifying work of art, OFF is the culmination of hard work between Mortis Ghost and Alias Conrad Cornwood. You take control of the Batter, an entity that has been tasked with purifying the world. Whether you both succeed is up to fate. This game in particular has a committed fanbase long after its release in 2008, and upon playing it, it won't be hard to understand why!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A | Game Engine: RPG Maker
From developer Kan Gao comes the earliest release from Freebird Games, The Mirror Lied is a very pretty and enchanting game in which your motivations and very character elude the player. There are some truly compelling theories concerning the plot of the game, but the only thing you know for sure is that 'Birdie' has taken flight and your plant needs water - everything else is a mystery. The game is suggested to be played in one sitting, and that's not just for styles' sake, as the moment the game boots up, the clock is ticking. You need to satisfy certain conditions within 30 minutes game time, including time spent on the main menu, before the clock strikes midnight. Godspeed!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A
"A puzzle game where the premise is a joke about the suicide rate in Japan? Really, Edmund?" I know, but this is Jesse Venbrux we're talking about, I promise it's good! In this particular iteration, you have 25 levels of switching between two salarymen and assisting each other with turning into gibs. Can you solve them all?
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A
I'll be plain about it and say that Daniel Remar is an indie dev I have a mammoth amount of respect for, and Iji is the core reason for that appraisal. You play Iji, a young lady whose life is thrown into bedlam as she has to survive against an alien threat by any means necessary. Along the way she is aided by her brother, who seems to be keeping secrets from you, and a powerful gun that can be augumented into all sorts of powerful devices. I really can't undersell this particular game, and that's not just a joke about it being freeware - the story is captivating, the gun upgrades allow you to persue any sorts of avenues of dealing with your situation, enemies leave beind PDAs that comment on your decisions level by level, the levels themselves are labyrinths that can be traversed any number of ways...simply put, this game is a labor of love, to say nothing of being an important piece of internet gaming history. You should check it out!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A | Game Engine: Adventure Game Studio 
Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? Life of D.Duck 2 is an incredible game brought to us by Bjørnar B. and Arden M., in which D.Duck attempts to win the hand of Daisy but encounters misfortune after misfortune in his attempts. Can you help D.Duck get his uncle Jubalon out of his house and get Grandmother Duck her heart medicine?
Steam (Enhanced Ver.) | Humble Store (Enhanced Ver.)
| Steam Net Revenue: $54,053.68 54k | Part of the TIGSource Commonplace Book Competition
An absolute classic! Originally freeware, developed by Guilherme S. Tows and published by his company Zaratustra Productions (not to be confused with Zarathustra), Eversion is a simple looking platformer that, unless you pay attention to the H.P Lovecraft quote at the opening of the game, will take you completely by surprise. Collect all the gems, and save the princess!
| Net Revenue: Freeware N/A
As the name suggests, the team behind Shrapnel Games have released a game in which you travel along a 'brain pipe'. It is difficult to say if you are an electrical pulse fired from some neuron travelling along a pathway to its destination (I guess, technically as the player controlling the game, you are o.o), but the game is a wonderous psychotropic vision of color and sound. Winning the "Excellence In Audio" award at the 2009 Independent Games Festival, this game is an excellent example of using discordant noises in a level to create peculiar soundscapes that really make you feel like you're plunging into some kind of altered state. The score system also has a delightful setup where it animates by moving certain parts of the number into new positions like stars realigning. I LOVE this game!