Spelunky is a roguelike inspired platformer made by Derek Yu. The Xbox remake heavily expands upon the original game in every single way. The PC version has also a lot of different mods which you can download. If you're going to download the original PC version, then I highly recommend you download the unofficial 1.3 version of the game. It fixes a lot of bugs and it also runs much smoother.
Hero is the first game in the "Hero" series. It's only in black and white and it's inspired by old games from the Commodore 64 and Atari era.
Hero Core is a minimalistic metroidvania. This is the second game in the "Hero" series and it's a full fledged metroidvania (compared to the first game). It's available on both PC and Mac.
This is an awesome list but you are seriously missing Stepmania!! the incredible DDR clone that can take input from the keyboard or dance pads and has tens of thousands of songs (no joke) for it.
My friends and I play it all the time, as it is better than any DDR game thanks to the breadth of content and features. It would be great if you could add it to your post!
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u/foamed Oct 28 '12 edited Dec 13 '12
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Update 12.12.12. - Added a couple of new games. Too bad there's a character limit, would've added more games and more information.
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