Arcade Game Central

GameTunnel.com has written an article detailing the 2005 Top 10 Games of the Year. These are the best independent games of the year, according to Russell Carroll, editor of the site:

1. Oasis
2. Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
3. Zombie Smashers X2
4. Tribal Trouble
5. Mexican Motor Mafia
6. Democracy
7. Darwinia
8. Professor Fizzwizzle
9. DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold
10. New Star Soccer 3

Just looking at the titles give you some idea of the vitality and originality present today in independent games.

GameTunnel has also produced these top-10 lists for the last several years: 2004, 2003, and 2002.