Hey all,
Looked through both these sites recently - but there's so many games i never heard of.
Any games people would recommend off these sites?.
Anyone got Xenonauts recently?.
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Good thread nijuu. I was going to ask the same question myself.

A lot of Desura's most interesting stuff are the alpha funded games like Project Zomboid. Indievania has a solid selection but you'll find a lot of their best titles elsewhere.

Conquest of Elysium 3

It's awesome.

Can you remove the exclamation mark from the link.(like i did now with the quote) It doesn't work with it.

From Indievania, I'd especially recommend:

MotorHEAT: Simple, but very enjoyable racing game that rewards you for risky maneuvers.

Climb To The Top Of The Castle: Platformer with comic-style artwork and funny cutscenes.

Didgery: Free single-player card game with a very soothing atmosphere.

Done. Thanks for pointing that out.

From Desura:
Frayed Knights

The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic and all of the NinjaBee games!

My favorite games on Indievania are hardly underdogs anymore, but just in case:

- Blocks That Matter: Ingenious puzzle platformer, with challenging levels, unlockables, achievements that pay hommage to other classic and indie games and awesome soundtrack.

- Wizorb: Very nice Breakout clone with cute SNES-style graphics, shops, spells and the option to spend your loot on helping to rebuild a village.

- Vizati: A simple casual but nonetheless challenging puzzle game with relaxing atmosphere.

- Climb to the Top of the Castle (as already suggested by others): Not quite on par with the first two suggestions above in terms of quality, it has a bit more amateurish feel, but in a way that also makes it charming. It's a common platformer but enjoyable and the handdrawn graphics make it stand out. It also features a game-within-a-game.

I've bought Metal Dead but haven't played it so far, maybe worth checking out, too, if you like point-and-click adventures. I also haves hopes for enjoying ThreeDeadZeds and Corril Slayer, but I haven't got the chance to test them on my desktop PC yet; sadly they don't run so well on my traveling netbook.

Apart from that, I have an eye on Out There Somewhere and Qasir Al-Wasat (still in development) but haven't bought them yet, so I can't recommend them from personal experience; they look quite cool to me though. Last but not least I played the demo of the puzzle game Crystal Hunters and even though it's nothing special, I quite enjoyed it and consider getting it, especially since you can Pay What You Want.

Desura has too many games for me to go through its library right now, but I recommend checking out Soulcaster and Soulcaster II.

EDIT:
Additionally to the suggestions you get here, you could also have a look at the Recommended Indie Games list sorted by genre and use your browser's search function to find out which ones are sold on Desura and Indievania.

Heard good things about To The Moon. I believe that is Desura.

To The Moon isn't very interesting as a game but it's a great interactive story / movie, and I didn't regret buying it. (From my experience it takes about 4 hours to 'play' through.)

I have had lots of fun with BEEP, it is on both and [url=http://www.indievania.com/games/beep]Indievania

Shall I? Yes... yes I shall.

http://www.indievania.com/games/pit-bite-sized-shooter