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Hey guys! I haven't been too active lately, but I'll try and pick up the pace, along with the introduction of a new series: This one! In Cool Indie Games For Free, I'll be highlighting some random free indie game (Probably on Itch.io), or a bunch of miscellaneous ones that are too small for their own article. This time I'll be going over two games to really kick off the series.

RAFT:

Raft is an interesting and fresh take on the survival genre. While we see so damn many indie early access survival games these days (And I am certainly one of the critics of such titles, Unturned excluded,) Raft really is a bit of a breath of fresh air. While it's extremely short-lived due to a terrible content drought, Raft has serious potential. You start the game with nothing but a single square log raft and a hook on a rope, and you must pull in floating objects to gain materials. This is where the game is truly lacking, as there are very few objects here, but more is certainly coming. The thing that's interesting about Raft, though, is that you are limited to this method of gaining materials, and you are stuck endlessly on the raft, unless you would like to take a swim with your shark f(r)iend to grab that barrel you missed, and oxygen depletes fast, so this is obviouly a last resort. Aside from that, it's pretty straightforward: Build a raft, cook food, dont die.

YOU'RE IN SPACE, AND EVERYONE WANTS YOU DEAD:

Oh boy, an arcade game! Yeah, who ever said that, right? The strange thing is, YISAEWYD (Jesus, even the acronym is long) is just that: an arcade game. However, it is probably the most interesting one I've ever seen, because its first person and it plays faster than an arena shooter. As you run and double-jump between planets with Super Mario Galaxy (Probably the second-best Mario game ever) - like physics, you fend off your alien attackers with blocks, bombs, and even other aliens, fighting for a new high score. If the core idea doesn't draw you in, the insanely unique rendering method surely will.

Anyway, that was it for the first week of RSG's Cool Indie Games for Free! If you like what I'm doing here, let me know in the comments, and I will see you later for another article of upcoming games.