2017 Indie of the Year Awards — My picks!

IndieDB's 2017 Indie of the Year Awards has begun. We have now 10 days to nominate our favourite indie games to make it to the final Top 100, which will be announced on the 11th of December.

So, I'm going to pick my favourite games from the last 12 months and I'll make an entry for each one of them. I'll start with Steam games, so these entries will be tagged as "Commercial games".

Lastly, a couple of disclaimers: There are a few games I would have loved to have here, but sadly, they are not on IndieDB. And... I must say I haven't played every one of the entries! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but it's a small concession I want to make. IGP is a one-man project, and I only have so much time (Well, and money) to play games. But I want to support these devs anyway, even if this is just a very small shout-out.

Rest assured they are all going to be wonderful games. I've done my research! User reviews, gameplay videos, and most of them have also been recommended by folks I trust, like the nice people at the RPG Codex (specially the Adventure Gaming subforum). *wink wink*

Don’t Kill the Cow (2013)

A sim­ple sidescrolling crit­i­cal game that ques­tions the impor­tance of goals and author­ity in games. There is only one way to win the game: ‘don’t kill the cow’, but is win­ning the game worth it? How much do the sim­ple phrases like ‘you win’ and ‘you lose’ mean to the player?

http://seeminglypointless.com/

DOWNLOAD / PLAY ONLINE — http://seeminglypointless.com/dktc/

A team for the job (2013)

The king has a mission with a high reward.
But he will only select a team of adventurers that has a member of each one of the 5 classes in it.

Will you gather a complete team before your opponent?

http://stormalligator.com/

PLAY ONLINE — http://www.kongregate.com/games/StormAlligator/a-team-for-the-job

Typespeed (1999)

Type words that are flying by from left to right as fast as you can. If you miss 10 or more words, game is over.

You can play Typespeed on your own or with a friend using TCP/IPv4.

http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/

DOWNLOAD — (Linux/Windows) http://typespeed.sourceforge.net/#Download
entry suggested by @joakimikel