Feature: Best Freeware Remakes 2008
[From now until early January, IndieGames.com: The Weblog will be counting down the best independent and freeware games of 2008, with descriptions, screenshots, and links of the best games in each major category.]
The fifth of the 2008 Best Of Features here on the IndieGames.com blog, we're proud to present ten of the best freeware remakes released in 2008.
From upgraded remakes with painstakingly redrawn and recolored graphics, to the most retro of downscaled remakes with blocky pixel art and noisy chiptunes, IndieGames.com has rounded up ten remakes of classic games that you should not miss the second time around.
Here's the top freeware remakes (and demakes) of the year:
1. Soundless Mountain II
2. Voxelstein 3D
3. 3D Starstrike
4. Left 4k Dead
5. Guru Logic Champs
6. Rock Boshers
7. Ultimate Bruce Lee
8. Kung Fu 2
9. The Eggyard
10. Scramble
[Got feedback? Reasons to disagree? Post a response and we'll do a special 'best of reader comments' round-up at the end of our chart countdowns.]
Comments
I would have had Spelunky up there. It's an obscure remake of the NES game Spelunker.
AND IT'S HELLA AWESOME.
Posted by: Coded One | December 31, 2008 3:24 AM
Don't know how you found out who Yxxa Zu is, but me and Monochrome (authors of the Eggyard) are actually two different people.
Posted by: Ilia Chentsov | December 31, 2008 8:43 PM
Oh man, you missed the Wizball remake.
Posted by: Afterbirth from rllmuk | January 6, 2009 10:01 AM
Left 4k Dead is great
Posted by: Cheetos | January 25, 2009 1:04 PM