Great Downloads: Award-Winning Indie Games

15 mostly free downloads selected by PC World were among the winners and finalists at the 2007 and 2008 Independent Games Festival. Playable, fun, and sometimes quite weird, here are five of ‘em:

flOw
Wriggle your way through the ocean deep as an insatiable worm-thing.

Battleships Forever
Dismantle your enemies piece by piece in this tactical real-time strategy game.

Synaesthete
Guitar Hero meets Diablo in this brilliant synthesis of funkadelic music and isometric action.

DEFCON
Everybody dies in this real-time global thermonuclear WarGames homage.

Poesysteme
It’s The Sims meets magnetic refrigerator poetry!