The Retro Indie Game Watchlist
This is a non-exhaustive watchlist of unreleased NES indie games of interest to Retro (with those games known to be slated for a “CIB” release demarcated with a “🎴” icon):
8bit-Strike
Almost Hero 2
At Doom’s Gate
Attack From Planet X
Bad Hare Day 🎴
Banana Bash
Bat Hunt
Beastly Battalion
Blades of the Lotus
Bleu Bleu’s Adventure (^)
Bloodbath (^)
Brizzle
Bullet Bros.
Casablanca by Night
Cat Zap
Cauldron
Choumiryou Party 🎴
Clean-Up Crew
Cobol’s Laboratory
Code Name: Silencer (^)
Cronela’s Mansion 🔹
Crypt Stalker
Cyber Rogue 🔹
Data Man
Deal or No Deal
Deep Blue (^)
Demptronic NFL Football
Desolate Love 🔹
Diary of a Zomboni Driver
Doodle World 2
Ember Hollow
Epicade (^)
Estique 🔹
Even Goblins Fall in Love 🔹
The Excitables
FamiJammers
Flap Happy and Fancy Free 🎴
Forest Tracker (^) 🔹
Former Dawn
Foxyland
FX Unit Yuki
Gamer Quest 🎴
The Gift of Discernment
Googie Toons (^) 🔹
Gorodki
HABit! Carnival Shooting (^) 🔹
High Noon Knockout
Hot Pot Runs 🔹
Hyperdrive Soul
Hyperion
Icescape
In Cod We Trust
Interstellar Slipstream 🔹
Isolation
Isometric Survival Horror
Isshokuta
Jester 🎴🅿️
Journey to Cygnus
Knil
Knuckle Knight
La Patifferie
Legacy of the Vagrant
Leon: Tactical Asshole Cat
Lumber-Jerks! (^)
Malasombra
Mega Commando
Mr. Lee’s Alishan Tea Collector
Mutant Island
Mystic Searches 🎴
NES Breakout (^)
October Sinclair
One Last Bloody Gasp
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Pio Pow
P.O.W. 2
Powerglove
Project Chocoblip
Pyronaut
Rally Rally Rally
Ramses
Ravi n’ Navi 🔹
Retro Space Championship
Rival Swarms
Robo Factory
Rugrats 🔹
Saru Kani Panic 🎴
Save the Leopards 🔹
Senseless City: Space Jesus
Shadow of the Beast (^)
The Shapeshifter 1 & 2 🎴
Shark Pirate (^)
Skeler Boy 🎴
SnailNES 🔹
Snakey
Soda Drinker Pro 🔹
Space Beats
Street Fighter II: Deluxe (^)
Super Cambur 🔹
Super Hiking League
Super Sunny World
Sushido°
Sword of Ianna
Sydney Hunter and the Caverns of Death 🎴
Sydney Wang’s Great Adventure 🔹
Tamfor (^)
Tattoo Apprentice
Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio
Tomb Gator 3: The Search for Tomb Gator 2 (^)
Turtle Rescue: Storm Watch
Vice: Magic City Mayhem
Vigilante
Walter & Billy’s CONQuest
Walter Nate: Timeline Agent
Wartide 1990
Witch City
The Witch Guild
Wizz Scape
Wolfholm
You Are Error 🎴
Your Pizza Sir
Zombie Siege: Lumberjack Defense
Zombiejack°°
NES indie titles that have been released but cannot yet be tracked down for review:
Meathook Massacre (^)🎴
° An 8-bit demake of Sushido was released on Game Jolt in 2015. Retro holds out hope that a ROM or cart of this demake will eventually be released by developer Yal.
°° In 2017, this game existed (with screenshots) as a collaboration of developer Shiru and Mega Cat Studios (MCS) that played like Germ Squashers or Yeah Yeah Beebiss II: a co-op-oriented single-screen 2D arcade shooter. All traces of this version of the game—which may be related to what is now Log Jammers (MCS)—have been erased from the internet. The game is listed here on the assumption it may one day reappear.