A slap in the brain - Antichamber

I have finally got my hands on Antichamber and I gotta say it is pretty amazing. In principle the game looks like your average first-person puzzle-platform game, maybe sort of like Portal, only with weird graphics. Once you start playing though you realize you are in for a crazy trip.

The game basically consists of a series of puzzles which you must solve to reach the exit. What makes the whole experience interesting is that it will often kick you into a state of surprise, most of the time because you (sensibly) expect the mechanics of the game to follow some real world logic and they usually don't.

If you have always wanted to know what it feels like to mess with psychedelic drugs but are too much of a wuss to actually do it, I'd wager Antichamber is about as close you can get to it.

Still playing Super Meat Boy

One of the most challenging (and addicting) indie games you will ever try is Super Meat Boy. There you take the role of Meat Boy, the hero on a quest through hundreds of hazardous levels to save his girlfriend Bangage Girl from the mentally unstable Dr. Fetus. It's one of those platform games where perfect control and timing is crucial to win, it starts off easy but the difficulty scales up fast and soon enough you find yourself often dying (and if you're like me, cursing the world and smashing your keyboard) a million times before finally managing to get through some levels.

Bandage Girl loves Meat Boy (Photo credit: PaRaP)

It's sort of reminiscent of I Wanna Be The Guy, albeit with the borderline-masochistic difficulty slightly tuned down. The game becomes specially hard if you're a completionist nut that just has to collect every single item, pass every single level with the A-grade time and unlock all the extra characters. But it's all in good fun.

I for one can't get enough of it, you probably won't be able to either.

Relaxing Coma

Coma is an amazing little flash game that is really as much of a game as it is a piece of art. It's vague plot will have you running around dream-like landscapes and meeting some very strange characters along the way. There is not much to be said about the gameplay: you can run, jump, interact with stuff you touch and that's about it - but an adventure platformer as beautiful as this one doesn't really need more. What really shines about this game is the art and music, which together compose a surreal and relaxing experience.

As with most dreams, the only fault with it, I think, is that it is rather short and will be over before you know it.

(Photo credit: mutsmuts)