The Indie Game Legend 3D

About this game

Independent game developers have gone missing and your only lead on their whereabouts is a distress signal from a remote alien base. It’s up to you to infiltrate this hostile labyrinth and uncover the answers you need to rescue them. Explore five diverse biomes while surviving dangerous hazards and obstacles, solving clever puzzles, and taking down ruthless and relentless enemies. The lives of these indies, and the future of independent games, depends on it.

Immerse yourself in this nostalgic, colorful, and quirky handcrafted FPS as you uncover the secrets and lore of a retro world that blurs the line between game and reality. In the process, enter the storied and autobiographical psyche of an independent game developer facing their inner demons while battling the challenges of making games for the love of the medium.


Inspired by the NES cult hit The Guardian Legend and other classic titles, The Indie Game Legend 3D provides a fresh lens to what a classic 8-bit game might look like through the eyes of the player character.

Your mission, critical to the future of indie games, will become The Indie Game Legend.

• Over 250 handcrafted rooms across 10 distinctly themed areas
  
• Solve puzzles and avoid traps in a non-linear sci-fi world
  
• Blast hordes of enemies and take down unrelenting bosses
  
• Discover weapons, equipment, and upgrades in hidden shops
  
• Rescue some of your favorite iconic indie game developers
  
• Retro pixel art style in a low-poly, full 3D world
  
• Unlockable secrets, surprises, easter eggs, and more!
  
• Original chiptunes soundtrack by a guy named Stevie
  
• Nearly 8 hours of classic action adventure play
  
• Your commander is a hairless guinea pig

Latest news

• Announcements·27 Jun 2019Official

  Launch day has come!

  We're out of Early Access and happy to say the final price is a dollar more than the Early Access price. That's twice the content for only a dollar! And of course, Early Access purchasers should be getting an update with the full game. We also have a launch trailer to share with you all. We had a lot of fun making it, so hope you enjoy it. And the game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoadiruUI8 It's been a crunch to get everything done and with Paul also working on UFO 50, we haven't had as much QA coverage as we'd like by now. However, we're keeping an eye on the forums and will be pushing updates to any critical issues we missed.
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• Announcements·6 Jun 2019Official

  Date Announce and Early Access Sale

  Today we're announcing the release date of the full game: June 27th! And we made a video for it, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUG6nQIK84 ALSO this week there is a 50% off sale on early access! Take advantage of being an early discoverer of the game and get it for cheap. Of course, early access buyers will get the full game on the 27th.
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• Announcements·25 Apr 2019Official

  Home stretch!!

  We're almost done with the game! I haven't been able to get any devlog videos made, but I hope to make two more over the next month or so leading up to release in ... shhh ... June. Release date announcement coming soon! In the meantime, be sure to tell your friends to wishlist and follow along with me on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/progrium
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• Press Coverage·12 Dec 2018

  This indie game is all about saving indie devs (from aliens)

  The Indie Game Legend was originally created in 2011 and released for free on the TIGSource forums. Six years later, a friend of the developer began experimenting with a first-person take on the project, leading them to team up to develop a larger-scale release. And thus was born The Indie Game Legend 3D, an NES-style first-person action-adventure in which you, the intrepid hero, must rescue five indie game developers from the clutches of a hostile alien race, that's now available in Early Access on Steam.  "Immerse yourself in this nostalgic, colorful, and quirky handcrafted FPS as you uncover the secrets and lore of a retro world that blurs the line between game and reality. In the process, enter the storied and autobiographical psyche of an independent game developer facing their inner demons while battling the challenges of making games for the love of the medium," explained developers Phubansoft and Progrium Games—also known as Paul Hubans and Jeff Lindsay. "Inspired by the NES cult hit The Guardian Legend and other classic titles, The Indie Game Legend 3D provides a fresh lens to what a classic 8-bit game might look like through the eyes of the player character."  The game will put players through more than 200 rooms spread across nine "distinctly themed areas," each cluttered with puzzles, enemies, and dangerous traps. Hidden shops sell weapons, equipment, and upgrades, and naturally there are all sorts of secrets and Easter eggs to discover as well. Multiple endings are available, and "your commander is a hairless guinea pig," a point that's important enough to make it onto the "features" bullet list, but I honestly have no idea what it means. The Indie Game Legend 3D is $9/£6/€7 on Steam Early Access, with five of the nine planned biomes available to play in. The developers expect to have it ready for full release in 3-4 months, and said that the full version will be pr...
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• Announcements·11 Dec 2018Official

  We reached early access!

  Thanks everybody! We made it. Who cares if it sells, we got it out there. Well, mostly. Even though we have more done, early access is the first half of the game. Luckily it works because this is basically the length and arc of the original game. When we release the final version, it'll include part 2 and hopefully your great feedback! See you in the forums.
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