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138. Grow Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR-4ZoDo_yg

So I might've fucked up with this inclusion. I was like 100% sure it was an indie game without looking into it, but on a second look, it's a Ubisoft game, developed by Ubisoft Revelations, the developers of The Crew, the Driver series, and a few Just Dances. But it was apparently also made by an eight-person team as an experimental project that was never intended for public release. So calling it an indie game is a stretch, despite feeling like an indie game. It's the concept of the awkward movement, this time by a robot just learning to walk, who needs to climb giant plants all the way up to its spaceship. It's a game full of frustration, but B.U.D. is such a lovable little guy that it makes you want to keep going. He's basically the little engine that could.

137. Crayon Physics Deluxe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9R1MYxK2C8

Hundreds of shitty mobile games have tried to use this same concept, but none have ever done it as well or as iconically as Crayon Physics Deluxe, which is equal parts cute, challenging and extremely satisfying when you see your first-grader-with-imagination contraption actually manage to do the seemingly simple task of moving a ball to a star. This game came out in 2009, when I was about 16, pretty much the perfect age to start appreciating the style and challenge presented here, and I ended up spending a lot of time playing through as a teen.

136. Pandemic II and Plague Inc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMxuZiS1mMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO6zmD4Nd2s

Speaking of games that specifically appealed to 2010s teenager me. Including both here because they are quite literally the same game. Create a virus/bacteria/etc., stealthily spread it across the world and crank up the deadliness with the goal of causing mass extinction. These games definitely feel a little different past Covid.