The 8 Weirdest Indie Games Ever Made

The increasing popularity of indie video games has been great for the industry. Free from the constraints of sales targets and marketing requirements, indie developers can focus on achieving their artistic vision. Sometimes these visions are brilliant. Other times, as the following titles demonstrate, they’re the product of hallucinogens and insanity, driving us all to madness.

8. Mr. Legs.

The relative ease of developing for mobile platforms has allowed countless strange little games to pop up on smartphones. Perhaps none of these is creepier than Mr. Legs, and not just because anything named Mr. Legs has to be either unsettling or gay pornography (or unsettling gay pornography).

In what looks like a 1920s cartoon gone horribly wrong, you lead your titular protagonist on a quest to devour cherries. You do this by lengthening or shortening his legs, either shrinking them down to subhuman nubs or stretching them until they’re the spindly appendages of a human-spider hybrid. But don’t hit an obstacle, or Mr. Legs’ dead-eyed gaze shifts to an angry glare that suggests he’d be just as happy to devour our children as he would fruit.

The twisted piano music only reinforces the creepiness. Sure, he’s eating cherries now, but come nighttime he’s going to be chasing you through your nightmares, happy music tinkling away in the background as his long strides effortlessly defeat your attempts to escape.

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