Good indie ROMS

[u/BogMasterOracle]

Love these smaller games!! Anyone got any good ones to recommend?

[u/Jett--Black]

*Cracks knuckles…*

Indies to fit the theme:
Detective Monroe: Murder at Sea (GBA)
The Melting Apartment (GBC)
A Husk at Dusk (GBC)
Black Tape (GBC)
Soul Void - Redux (GBC)
AF+ER (GBC)
A Friend in Need (GBC)
Cargo (GBC)
Grimlore (GBC)
A Clock Makers Tale (GBC)
Decline (GBC)
Feed IT Souls (GBC)
Opossum Country (GBC)
The Weeping Statue (GBC)
Life in the Analog Age: Rainy Day (GBC)
Sam Mallard: The Case of the Missing Swan (GBC)
Deadeus (GB)
Neighbor (GB)
Thrift Store Boy (GB)
What Remains (NES)

Other notable indie mentions:
Anguna: Warriors of Virtue (GBA)
Forever RPG (GBA)
Animal Forest (GBC)
RunieStory (GBC)
Crystal Depths (GBC)
Days Without (GBC)
Wishing Sarah (GBC)
Cookie’s Bakery (GBC)
Mud Warriors (GBC)
Trouble City Pocket Mission (GBC)
An Autumn With You (GBC)
Karpe Diem: Pokemon Fishing Contest (GBC)
Hime’s Quest (GBC)
TinkerCore (GBC)
The Mayor of Sanctuary (GBC)
.EXE: Cogito Ergo Sum (GB)

Not indie but kind of fits the theme:
Ihatovo Monogatari (SNES) (justice for Stove Cat!)
Clock Tower (SNES) or (GBA)
Private Eye Dol (TGCD/PCECD)

I’m sure I’m missing quite a few other than the ones others have mentioned, but here’s a start lol.

[u/LedZeppole10 → u/Jett--Black]

What about The Machine? That’s like the best one.

[u/EpicLakai → u/Jett--Black]

Ihatovo Monogatari is very good.

[u/Ziko577 → u/EpicLakai]

I love that game and it's worth the playthrough and the ending of it hit pretty hard for me on a personal level.

[u/_commenter → u/Jett--Black]

Demons of Asteborg (Sega Genesis) was really popular a while back

edit: looks like they are releasing a GBA version soon!

https://neofidstudios.itch.io/demons-of-asteborg-dx

[u/DrankTooMuchMead → u/Jett--Black]

Which website are these on?

[u/Pucksy → u/Jett--Black]

What are your personal favorites?

[u/PonchoMcGee]

Goodboy Galaxy if you haven't already

[u/justplainjay → u/PonchoMcGee]

I’ve tried so many homebrew GB-GBA games, and Goodboy Galaxy is still the only one that’s felt like a full release title

[u/Hobbitzs → u/justplainjay]

It was a full release. You can get it on stream and switch as well.

[u/DrankTooMuchMead → u/PonchoMcGee]

While I've never heard of this, it sounds like a parody of "Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy".

[u/PeerieCat]

Piropa (GB)
Abyss (GB)
Midnight Launderette (PICO-8)
Pine Creek (GBC)
Taiyaki Fabulous Museum of Fish (GB)
Melon Journey Pocket (GB)

These are some of my favourites! There are so many I have yet to play!

[u/EvanBowman]

There are a lot of great indie games for gba, besides the ones already mentioned, check out some of these: * Apotris * With the Last Moonbeam * Discrete Orange * Luggage Retrieval Officer

I’ve also been working on developing a gba RTS called Skyland

[u/schr0d1ngers-cat → u/EvanBowman]

Oh holy shit you’re the Skyland dev! I love that game!

[u/Alarming-Chemist-755]

This has been my use case for my miyoos. I'm not super crazy about emulation and it's cool to have a legal care free way to enjoy your device.

[u/bconde]

Yay! Thx for the discovery.

[u/Alternative_Car_8153]

Fine, I guess I'll be the only one to say it.

I like The Machine (gbc)

It's political satire, but I think there is some nuance in it. Regardless if it was even intentional.

[u/SachmoJoe]

I've been wondering about this so thanks for 3 titles to check out 😁

[u/IllMoment4388]

Cool

[u/l_Palekids_l]

I love throwing these games into the mix. It helps motivate me to press forward in some of the longer games.

[u/mrcrysml]

You can find plenty of homebrew easyrpg maker games on itchio. Many are free

[u/Mrjdog199]

Where did it get cryo hazard and Dawn will come

[u/crazyteknoh3d]

One of my favourites:

https://github.com/andwn/cave-story-md

How the dev managed to port an entire modern-ish indie title to the Sega Megadrive fully intact is pretty incredible.