The Top 500 Indie NES Games: The Retro Indie Game Watchlist
The Retro Indie Game Watchlist (June 1, 2024)
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
Bad Hare Day 🎴
Banana Bash
Bat Hunt
Beastly Battalion
Bionic Girl (^) 🔹
Blades of the Lotus
Bleu Bleu’s Adventure (^)
Block Em Sock Em (^) 🔹
Bloodbath (^)
Brizzle
Bullet Bros.
Burnin’ Building (^) 🔹
Casablanca by Night
Cat Zap
Cauldron
Changeable Guardian Estique (^)
Choumiryou Party 🎴
Child of the Damned (^) 🔹
Christmas Crisis 2 (^) 🔹
Citypop Project (^) 🔹
Clean-Up Crew
Cobol’s Laboratory (^)
Code Name: Silencer (^)
The Creeper Returns (^) 🔹
Cronela’s Mansion (^)
Crypt Stalker
Cyber Rogue
Deal or No Deal
Deep Blue (^)
Demptronic NFL Football
Desolate Love
Diary of a Zomboni Driver
Doodle World 2
Drac Attack (^) 🔹
Dungeon Game (^) 🔹
Ember Hollow
Epicade (^)
Even Goblins Fall in Love
The Excitables (^)
FamiJammers
The Five Clans of Tesibra (^) 🔹
Forest Tracker (^)
Former Dawn
Foxyland
FX Unit Yuki
Gamer Quest 🎴
Gates of Antiquity (^) 🔹
The Gift of Discernment
Googie Toons (^)
Gold Guardian Girl 2 (^) 🔹
HABit! Carnival Shooting (^)
Hectico’s Adventures (^) 🔹
High Noon Knockout
Hopperton Frog (^) 🔹
Hot Pot Runs
Hyperdrive Soul
Hyperion
I Ran (^) 🔹
Icescape
In Cod We Trust
Interstellar Slipstream
Isolation
Isometric Survival Horror
Isshokuta
Jingles Defense (^) 🔹
Journey to Cygnus
Knil
Knuckle Knight
Konomi’s Monster Party (^) 🔹
La Patifferie
Legacy of the Vagrant
Leon: Tactical Asshole Cat
Lumber-Jerks! (^)
Magical Chase (^) 🔹
Malasombra
Mega Commando (^)
Metal Cancer (^) 🔹
Monster Juice (^) 🔹
Mushroom Tim (^) 🔹
Mutant Island
Mystic Searches 🎴
NES Breakout (^)
October Sinclair
One Last Bloody Gasp
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls
Peter’s Game (^) 🔹
Pio Pow
Platformer (^) 🔹
Powerglove
Project Chocoblip
Pyronaut
Rally Rally Rally
Ramses
Ravi n’ Navi
Retro Space Championship
Riewe’s Game (^) 🔹
Rival Swarms
Robo Factory
Rugrats
Saboteur (^) 🔹
Saru Kani Panic 🎴
Save the Leopards
Shadow of the Beast (^)
The Shapeshifter 1 & 2 🎴
Shapeshifter 3 (^) 🔹
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
To the Basement (^) 🔹
Tomb Gator 3: The Search for Tomb Gator 2 (^)
Trial By Fire (^) 🔹
Turtle Rescue: Storm Watch
Twin Peaks (^) 🔹
Vice: Magic City Mayhem
Vigilante
Walter & Billy’s CONQuest
Walter Nate: Timeline Agent
Wartide 1990
Witch City (^)
The Witch Guild
Wizchick (^) 🔹
Wizz Scape
Wolfholm
You Are Error 🎴
Your Pizza Sir
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.
The Retro Indie Game Watchlist (April 30, 2024)
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
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.