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Cyber Monday Indie Game Sales!

Happy Cyber Monday everybody and welcome to the best shopping day for the rest of the year for, you see, there are no lines, crowds or any loud, obnoxious, temper-tantrum throwing children anywhere near you… unless they are yours. Truly, today is the best day to do all your online shopping as deals deals are overflowing, even for a few choice indie games.

Like with Black Friday — or in Steam’s case this entire last weekend — each of the four main digital distribution services are offering ludicrously good deals on indie games for the rest of the day. While they are mainly focused around the mainstream games, Impulse, GamersGate, and Steam each have a couple choice indie game offerings as well.

So, just like with our Black Friday post, here are the indie games that are on sale. For those who want to browse all of the games, simply head to the bottom of this post and you’ll find links for the main sale pages of each site.

1. Quantz- $2.00

Experience a new dimension of puzzle action game fun in QuantZ for the PC; a fabulous adventure that goes beyond the Action-Puzzler, Match-3 and Marble Popper genres. The gameplay is simple yet addictive: you have the power to control a cube with your mouse and drop marbles onto it. Create explosions of colors, chain reactions and win special rewards. Explore an immersive universe and become the QuantZ Oracle! With 24 unique and beautiful worlds to go through, 100 puzzles to complete and innovative game physics, QuantZ will amaze you!

[via Steam]

2. Aztaka – $7.47 (our Review)

Inspired by Aztec legend, Aztaka will cast you into the middle of a war between the Gods and Mankind. Who will prevail? As Huitzilo, heir of the Sun God, skilled in both the arts of combat and magic, only you can save your people from the wrath of the Aztec Gods.

Aztaka features graphics of a quality never before seen in a game of this type. Grand, richly-detailed backdrops and fluid character animations will plunge you into the legend of Huitzilo and his quest to collect the seven Phonograms.

With 21 levels, Aztaka provides a veritable new universe for Action/RPG fans to explore.

[via Impulse]

3. Evochron Legends – $19.95

Evochron Legends is a freeform mercenary space-sim that focuses on ‘lone-wolf’ survival gameplay. You can play the game in a variety of ways and complete many activities including buying, trading, negotiating, bribing, spying, racing, escorting, transporting, mining, exploring, cleaning equipment, clearing paths through asteroid fields, recruiting, protecting, hiring crew members, fuel harvesting, and designing your ship. Evochron Legends is a technical simulation, not a character based simulator, so you are not limited by pre-selected character roles, skills, or attributes. Your decisions and actions define your role in the game and establish your reputations, wealth, progress, and ranking. The emphasis is on real-time tactical gameplay strategy for both combat and non-combat objectives. You are in control of your ship virtually all of the time in open space, including player controlled combat and planetary descents. Your ability to successfully pilot around or through dangerous objects in space, develop trade strategies, evade detection, harvest resources, efficiently explore for hidden benefits, and transport people and items can be just as important as your skill in combat. The game also rewards players who devise their own gameplay strategies and ‘think outside the box’. With diverse optional objectives and many paths to choose from, Evochron Legends offers an amazing level of freeform gameplay.

[via Impulse]

4. Hero’s Tale Enhanced Edition – $2.98

Hero’s Tale Enhanced Edition is a JRPG game which captures the basic gameplay of the genre. Those unfamiliar with the genre will be in for a pleasant surprise to find out that Hero’s Tale EE is simple to play and get in to. Additionally, veterans in the genre won’t feel overlooked since they’ll also find plenty of challenge in the game.

The story revolves around a young boy named Elrik. He goes on an epic journey in the search of the seven elemental keys of the goddess Aeria. During his adventure Elrik will meet with some new friends who include an elemental mage, a dragon hunter and a nature mage. Together they’ll have to overcome various obstacles, traverse many locations and defeat lots of dangerous enemies.

[via GamersGate]

5. Light of Altair – $7.49

Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building game with a deep plot. Grow colonies from landing pod to metropolis, while sending off new spaceships to expand your territory to other worlds. You are not alone in space, 8 factions from different parts of the world are all following their own agendas in the solar system; diplomacy and orbital-combat are essential to learn.

Light of Altair is based on a custom built 3D engine that enables easy zooming from galaxies all the way down to individual moons and asteroids covered in the colonies with their glass domes, mines and launch pads. Advanced shader technology is used to add rich details and lighting to surfaces.

[via GamersGate]

And that’[s just about it. Keep in mind Direct2Drive has yet to officially list their Cyber Monday picks, but as soon as they do, provided there's any decent indie games offerings I'll be sure to add em to the list. Until then, enjoy the haul!

[Steam Mega Sale, Impulse Mega Sale, GamersGate Mega Sale]