Indie Sales reappears after a bit of a hiatus. Several sales this week; some little, some big and all awesome. Let’s take the tour.

Direct2Drive, often absent from our inconsistent weekly segment, boasts the best offer both in discount and quality of game. Multiplayer Robot Exploder Plain Sight is 50% off, taking the title down to just $5 through the middle of next week. Check out Geoff’s review for more on the game.

Impulse is running a couple of deals as part of their weekend sale. Christian Teister’s Grappling Hook goes for $9 instead of the standard $15–Arsen and I have covered it fairly extensively. Sigma’s top-down action title Alien Shooter is just $3 instead of the typical $5. However…

GamersGate is offering a better Alien Shooter discount in the three-game Alien Shooter Gold Pack which contains Alien Shooter, Alien Shooter: Vengeance and Zombie Shooter. A $15 price tag slashed down to just $3.73! Not to be overlooked at all, The Scourge Project Episodes 1 and 2 is still 75% off. Check out our coverage here.

In the wake of its enormous discountocalypse, Steam isn’t running any standard sales this week. However, they are offering a few launch discounts including dollar discounts for Binary Takeover’s music-powered title Turba and Telltale’s adventure game Puzzle Agent. The new “Class 02 Shunter Pack” DLC for RailWorks is 33% off as well.

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Stardock’s Digital Distributon hub Impulse has been adding independent titles out the woodwork over the past week or so, and as such I thought it’d be thoughtful to share what titles now are available in a new area, gaining the extra exposure and new audience from the partnership. Here are the recently added games to the service and their descriptions:

Zombie Shooter – Sigma
“Where is the line between life and death? How far can human science go trying to understand this? Take part in the great battle to rescue humanity and find out what’s happening! The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope with the imminent threat and became monsters themselves. Crowds of zombie people filled the secret research base and the dreadful contagion is about to spread earth wide. Use this last chance to save humanity from total annihilation!”

Guns of Icarus – Muse Games
“In an apocalyptic steampunk future, you are a privateer ferrying goods across treacherous airspace. Protect your airship and yourself from an onslaught of pirates, and safely reach your destination to reap the rewards. Guns of Icarus combines aspects of first-person shooters with time management in a richly detailed steampunk setting. The effect is a thrilling, frenetic aerial showdown that quickly takes hold and doesn’t let go.”

Fishdom: Spooky Splash – Playrix Entertainment
“Build up your spooky Fishdom! Earn cash as you complete addictive tile-swapping levels and spend it to fix up your spooktacular tank. Create the eerie atmosphere of an underwater haunted house with witches, vampires and ghosts in your aquarium. Have fun taking care of quirky tropical fishies and adding boo-tiful accessories to the virtual aquarium of your dreams! Win trophies as you polish your aquarium design skills in this brrrilliant match-3 sequel to Fishdom™! Get splashed with Fishdom fun!”

Vizati – Different Pixel
“Vizati is a puzzle game that will put your mind to the test. You have to rotate a magical cube to connect (group) the little vizati stones by color and figure out the best way to do it with a limited number of rotations/moves. You can play the Story Mode and follow the story between Julie and Peter who discovered the Vizati cube, or play the Arcade Mode, which is a rawer, faster and even more teasing mode.”

Mad Skills Motocross – Turborilla AB
“A motocross game that focuses on pure, simple fun. Race like a mad man. Do backflips over spectacular jumps. Land perfectly, full throttle, hit the Nitro-button and off you go. You will collect achievement-like stars for tricks. You will get power-ups that might seem silly and useless at first. But these power-ups will be very useful once it ‘clicks’ for you and you figure out when and how to use them. Unlike most other sidescrolling motocross games, Mad Skills Motocross is not about puzzles and obstacles. It is about racing. Pure and simple. Getting to the finish line in the shortest time possible is the primary goal, while pulling off backflips, frontflips, wheelies and more is the secondary goal.”

Qwak – Jamie Woodhouse (50% Off!)
“Qwak is a 2D platform/puzzle game where the object of the game is to guide a green duck through eighty levels. Fruit and gems can be collected for points, and enemies are eliminated with projectile egg weapons. Progress through the game is earned by collecting gold and silver keys. There are a variety of power-ups also available, including ‘chocolate egg’ weapons and extra shots. In addition to the normal-style levels, the challenge levels require the player to complete levels and collect all fruit within twenty seconds. Can you complete all eighty levels?”

Toki Tori – Two Tribes
“The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it’s a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must find each egg in a level using a set number of tools. Players will have to look and plan ahead carefully while using items such as the Telewarp, Freeze-o-Matic and InstantRockTM. Additional tools are gradually introduced as the player progresses through the games 80+ levels covering four unique worlds.”

Grappling Hook – Christian Teister
“Grappling Hook is an innovative first-person action puzzle / platform game. You use the Grappling Hook as a mighty high-tech tool to overcome various challenging obstacles by performing incredible moves and fast combinations of daring tricks. The dynamic and surprising levels open opportunities to use the Grappling Hook in unique ways never seen before in a game. Making your way through the levels requires both skill and creativity, while the increasing difficulty pushes you to become a real master of the Grappling Hook. All this comes together to create an intense, challenging, and rewarding gameplay experience.”

2010 is under way and we already have news about indie favorite Grappling Hook. Although this news is mostly beneficial to those who do not own the game currently, it should be made note of regardless. SpeedRunGames’ successful PC title Grappling Hook–in which gamers take control in the first person and work through a 3D puzzle-platformer by using their high-tech grappling hook–has been released to the Archive Games digital distribution platform.

Best of all, however, while Grappling Hook is normally priced at $14.95, Archive Games is celebrating its addition to their list by offering the game for 20% off at $11.95. Archive Games is a distribution platform available on Windows and Linux. With 30 levels, 30 achievements, and 240 challenges, Grappling Hook is sure to keep you busy in what we hope to be an amazing year of 2010. Oh, and it also comes with a level editor so you can make your own levels! Sound good? We know.

Check out the trailer right here!

In celebration of the holidays developer Speed Run Games has offered up a 25% off coupon code for its first-person action puzzler Grappling Hook, now available from the game’s official website. Just enter ‘BMWS000H3′ at check out through Sunday, December 27 to claim the discount.

In the game you use a grappling hook to overcome various challenges and obstacles by performing incredible moves and fast combinations to pull off otherwise impossible tricks. The game features 31 levels, 30 achievements and 248 challenges.

An editor is also included, allowing players to create their own levels. Grappling Hook is available now for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Grappling Hook‘s 1.07 update is now available for Windows and Mac users. Here is a rundown of what’s been revamped for this version:

- Storyline extended with a lot more messages throughout all levels.
- One more level in the storymode.
- Improved the guiding in many levels.
- Console-output will be saved in a log-file.
- Fixed a small glitch with the record-messages.
- Fixed a glitch, when a player switched to the menu at the end of a level.
- Users can save/load their levels on every platform even without administrator rights.
- The game will display levels that are inside the user-folder.
- Ingame-news will be loaded only once at startup to improve menu-performance.

Also, don’t forget that you can download the demo for the game on Windows here. For Mac users, the demo is available at this location. Happy grappling!

[Via Speed Run Games]

That’s right, the ever-popular Grappling Hook has now permanently gone down in price to $14.95. This is great news for fans of grappling hook games in general. With 30 levels for you to explore and enjoy in all their grappling hook-y glory, you are given 240 challenges to master in addition to 30 achievements. Best of all, Speed Run Games has even added a new level editor so you can create your own levels!

Every time we post something about this game, there’s a spectacular response so I figured you would like to know that the game is now obtainable for $14.95 right here. Happy hooking!

Wow, is everyone excited about Black Friday? Is that where all the hopelessly brilliant deals are coming from? In the same vain as Time Gentlemen, Please! comes the 50% off sale for the indie hit Grappling Hook. If you have not picked this title up yet, this should be the perfect opportunity as the price has been reduced from $19.95 to $9.99. You may find this deal on SpeedRunGames official website or at GamersGate.

In either case, you should hurry as this offer is only good until Monday! Grappling Hook is an excellently crafted title for the PC and has garnered massive attention in the last several weeks. Don’t miss out and wait until it’s too late!

The first person action/puzzle-platformer Grappling Hook continues to wow audiences by now adding content to its already impressive reservoir. In Grappling Hook, you use a grappling hook (surprise surprise!) to overcome obstacles swiftly (stressing this word), otherwise you lose. Well, the good news is that SpeedRunGames has added eight new levels as well as an editor (which allows you to create and modify your own levels).

If you’re still iffy about the $19.95 price tag…don’t be. Instead, check out the five-level demo and a video after the break to reaffirm what I am about to tell you: the game looks in-freakin’-credible!

Good news for Mac users as Speed Run Games has announced via press release their first-person action puzzle game Grappling Hook is now available for the alternate computer platform. A Linux version is promised to be on the way as well.

Additionally, the dev has announced the release of eight new levels for both PC and Mac sometime within the next two weeks. Marking the game’s first DLC update.

Both versions of the game and the demo can be found on the Grappling Hook’s official site.

Speed Run Games has released the latest patch for Grappling Hook, updating the action platformer to v1.05 and adding Twitter-integration to the game. Other changes include fixes to the Hook Devise, an edge of the map bug and memory leaks as well as improvements to the performance in the menu and the GUI of the launcher.

Additionally, The demo for Grappling Hook has received the update and is now available for download. The game itself can be purchased and downloaded as well.

Full notes after the jump.