Axel's Blog: axelmagn.com is under construction at the time of this episode release, but you can read his initial post here on Medium.

Recommendations from Axel:

Ludum Dare - original game jam

itch.io - to explore indie games

Axel's List (indie games that influenced him or that he keeps coming back to):

- Celeste: an artful, heartful platformer with wicked difficulty that is justified by a story that made me cry when it ended.

- Outer Wilds: a national-parks-themed time loop puzzle game about being an astronautical archaeologist and solving the mysteries of the universe

- Chants of Senaar: a linguistic puzzle game about deciphering languages in the tower of babel.

- Kerbal Space Program: A space simulator where you build and pilot realistic-ish rocket ships for little green aliens.

- Stardew Valley: A cozy pixel-art farming game modeled after harvest moon, so successful now that it has arguably eclipsed it.

- Spelunky: A classic roguelike platformer where you need to learn about the world to survive.

- Satisfactory: an automation game about building massive factories on an alien planet. Factorio is the OG, but I've gotten way more enjoyment out of satisfactory.

- The Case of the Golden Idol: a detective game where you must solve a series of whodunnits in a frozen moment of time by rifling through the pockets of the suspects.

- Opus Magnum: My favorite Zachtronics puzzling game, where you build a series of alchemical mechanisms in a steampunk world.

- Balatro: Last year's indie darling, with good reason. A gambling person's solitaire.

- House of the Dying Sun: A modernized space combat game in the spirit of old classics like Tie Fighter or Wing Commander.

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