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OnLive Offers Free Samples of Indie Games

OnLive is bringing Indie games to the masses, from today until March 11, users of the streaming game service in the UK and US will be able to sample the 16 Independent Games Festival nominees and honourable mention for free. Trials last thirty minutes, same time as their current setup for demos.

For users not familiar with the service, you can sign up for free at the OnLive website and the games stream to you much like a YouTube video does, so no installs, no downloading, awesome!

After playing a game, you’ll be able to ‘Like’ your favourite titles on OnLive’s Facebook page. It will reveal which game got the most ‘Likes’ and which was the most played on March 12.

The full list of games to sample is as follows:

Atom Zombie Smasher (Blendo Games)
Be Good (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
Botanicula (Amanita Design)
Dear Esther (The Chinese Room)
Dustforce (Hitbox Team)
English Country Tune (Stephen Lavelle)
Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games)
FTL (Justin Ma and Matthew Davis)
Lume (State of Play Games)
Nitronic Rush (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
Once Upon a Spacetime (RMIT)
POP (Rob Lach)
SpaceChem (Zachtronics Industries)
To the Moon (Freebird Games)
Toren (Swordtales)
WAY (CoCo & Co.)

Source: IGN

Peter Donnell

As a child still in my 30's (but not for long), I spend my day combining my love of music and movies with a life-long passion for gaming, from arcade classics and retro consoles to the latest high-end PC and console games. So it's no wonder I write about tech and test the latest hardware while I enjoy my hobbies!