Best Independent Game 2009

[Daniel]

Keep your posts clean and to the point. If you would like your comments to appear in the magazine, please keep comments to under 100 words.

The Reader's Game of the Year special will appear in issue 198.

[JubeiSaotome]

Shatter

Rather than being another breakout/arkanoid clone, it redefined the genre in the same way Space Invaders Extreme did for 80s shooters.

[AranchineD]

Miami Shark

Taking down military aircraft as a shark has never been more fun

[Nic Xtreme]

Bonsai Barber

[Filthy Old Drunk]

Machinarium

[Mr.Mew]

Igneous

Everything explodes and you roll away from it. Sometime's you roll towards it. Either way it's intense fun.

[Twisted Conspiracy]

I assume Spelunky counts? Coz that was freaking awesome...

[BB2K]

Spelunky

Far and away the best game I've played this year. And it's free.

[Natrak]

Torchlight. I assume that counts.

[punkgorilla]

Spelunky

It's games like this that give me great hope for the future of gaming.

[TAT]

RUNMAN

because he runs like a ****ing champ

[Clockw0rk]

Torchlight
Because Diablo 3 is never coming.

[9warbane]

Torchlight.

[lastitachionearth]

velvet assassin

[T Strife]

Spelunky