the weird forgotten world of xbox indie games 

Bro was the leader of the clan but not RU-vid

Castleminer Z and Total Miner were some of my most treasured childhood memories, and I wish somebody would kind of like bring them back in some way

It’s sad that Xbox doesn’t really use avatars in games anymore. Even the new avatars, I’ve hardly seen any game use them. I remember seeing a few XBLA games utilizing them

The xbox avatar at this point is a relic of a kinder past. Theyre still there but not in the spotlight anymore let alone even seen on the new consoles

I remember playing ApocZ and barley running into people what's so weird is also remember meeting someone one day looting stuff and getting a car it was such a blast a core memory of my childhood ill never forget those days

i'm actually thankful i got to grow up with the 360 it truly was the golden age of gaming

Real ones continued to play castle miner Z even after minecraft was on Xbox

Castle Crashers, I MAED A GAEM WITH ZOMBIES 1N 1T, White Noise Online and Doritos Crash Course were top tier arcade/indie games

I miss the Doritos Dash of Destruction game where you either played as a car trying to hit checkpoints or a dinosaur trying to eat the car. Used to play that with my young cousins (5-7) because I didnt have a lot of appropriate games for kids.

Oh how I miss the Xbox indie marketplace. If I log onto my 360 right now, my library is full to the brim with Xbox indie and arcade games.

I forget if it was indie or arcade, but I loved a game called Beat Hazard. What it did was, you could scan in your music CDs and it used the tracks as levels of a twin stick space shooter. So when the music got heavier more enemies would appear. It wasn't perfect but the idea came across clear, and it had more structure like mini boss fights and such, and it gauged the difficulty rating. Also the beam from your ship pulsated with the music, so it felt like the music was your weapon. The great thing was it worked with any song so the gameplay was endless. A great offshoot of the Guitar Hero music game revolution, and it got an upgrade in Ultra Beat Hazard. I think it would work just as well now as it did then.

Oh my god I hope they talk about that one village management game where your avatar was a giant. That game was a core memory. Edit: A Kingdom for Klefflings!! Haha no way, you guys even talked about ApocZ. Great research guys, this vid brought back so many memories.

Total miner was so much more then a Minecraft clone. It had rpg elements, shop blocks, had to find blue prints to craft new things, skills. I miss total miner

Daaamn, I forgot all about Avatar Warfare. Never got to play it as I was at a friend's house back in the day. This is a nostalgia trip.

Best indie game was definitely I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT. Then Castle Miner Z in 2nd, Total Miner Forge in 3rd, and Murder Miners in 4th. For most of the 360's lifetime, I MADE A GAME WITH ZOMBIES IN IT was the highest rated indie game then the last year or 2 of the 360's life Castle Miner Z passed it even though it didn't have near the number of reviews.

This is honestly the only channel that has videos more than 20 mins that I actually enjoy and fully watch. Love the channel and content.

I miss these days. Everything felt much more social back then. A far cry from what we have today on Xbox

bro, you just brought back some memories with murder miners. i used to play this game 24/7 and i never seen anyone else talk about it until now. thank you for sharing this

Absolutely wild to see Speedrunners introduced as "this other game" at 3:24 when now it's a full and popular party game that was a hit with the RU-vid greats in the 2010s

Dude, thank you guys so much for the new episode. I needed this tonight, kinda' down. But yeah man I forgot ALL about Rainbow Unicorn. Seeing that footage was a blast from the past man. Great topic in this one. 👍

Murder Miners is still available on modern Xbox platforms, and Steam. It's great. And they're working on a sequel Murder Miners X

I will never forget these xbox avatar games. So glad youre covering this

16:00 as far as custom maps on Minecraft on 360 for the time, there was a way to import them via USB using a save state editor. My friends would send me maps and custom games and I just use the same program I used to edit our borderlands characters.

so glad youtube algorithm has been suggesting more content like video essays or just this

My xbox 360 avatar is still my profile picture and its kinda blurry lmaoooo. im glad it carried over and I don't have the heart to change it.

This was such a nostalgic ride. My 3 favorite Xbox Indie games were Try Not to Fart, I Made a Game With Zombies in it, and Cthulhu Save the World.

Total miner forge, castle miner z, chopsticks, zombie turkey outbreak, arcade craft, avatar legends. These are some of the best!!

12:00 woah the fact this game had multiplayer is insane 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Me and my friends played so many avatar and indie games. CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Apocz, Shark Attack, Avatar Warfare and so many others. From time to time i still boot up my 360 just to get on the games and play them. I will always remember CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, Total Miner, Apocz, and Shark Attack. All buggy but fun indie game you could play multiplayer.

Oh lord I came ready to see Total Miner, Castle Miner, and Fortress Craft and now that I’ve been reminded of Mount Your Friends, I had such a crazy flashback of awesome memories lmao

I remember Avatar Warfare as the first digital game I ever bought when I wasn't allowed COD. Avatar Legends was also a cool game, its graphics are what I immediately think of when someone says Xbox 360. I bought Avatar Paintball but the playerbase was dead by the time I got it

Soo many games we played as teens so much fun

the avatar games were so good, it really felt like i was able to represent myself the way i wanted in the games. like the motocross madness game was so cool to see my avatar in it

Bro the paintball, avatar warfare, dorito crash course, and keflings were unlocked memories thank you

i was waiting on somebody to document this, thank you

Speed runners was always one of my favorite games growing up

Apocz and total miner forge, the memories are golden! Still gutted someone looted my base I had in a glitch spot 😂

I used to enjoy an indie game called Concept Coaster Craft back in the 360 days. It wasn’t anything special but it was a neat little coaster creator with Xbox avatars and I enjoyed it more than I should have

Great video guys you just unlocked my memory Vauld Good times

Indie games where half of my xbox childhood it was halo call of duty and indie games and roblox that were booming back then

There really isn’t anything like these games anymore..

There was one zombie game I remember playing a whole lot. It was a really poor copy of call of duty zombies, but it had avatar support and it was really easy to adjust rack up a whole bunch of points, and just go on instantly I remember sinking so much time into that

On my original Xbox 360 I still have a couple of these indie games still download like total miner, castle miner z, avatar laser wars 2, and a few more I can’t remember

A bit of these Xbox Live Indie titles are not yet preserved, and can no longer be downloaded. They also can't seem to be played in the Xbox 360 emulator Xenia. If anyone watching this still has an Xbox 360 with Indie titles downloaded on it please look into getting them backed up and archived.

The indie games were some of my favorite memories ever gaming. My buddy and i would find the funnest looking one of the week and go to town. We absolutely loved total miner forge, castleminer z, murder miners, shark attack deathmatch and the laser deathmatch just to name a few. There were so many options with 99% of them being a dollar... good times

This was an immense nostalgia trip for me! I lost my Xbox 360 in a move and this was an awesome way to relieve some of those weird games (I got a few on steam)

16:06 Essentially when the Legacy versions of Minecraft released (console versions prior to the switch, though PS4 and One would get updated to the new one) They had MINIGAMES! Which were absolutely phenomenal. There was a Spleef game called Tumble, a flying game with the elytra called Glide, but most importantly there was Battle. A hunger games style game. So great. So many amazing memories.

I had several of these on my 360 - the massage one, total miner, constructor360 (a neat little Lego-like thing), and a fantastic one called The Most Addicting Sheep Game, which got rereleased on iOS and Android a few years back Fast forward to now, I’m going into the game dev industry and unironically learned XNA, which the 360 indie games were built on. These games and the Xbox 360 had such a profound impact on me

Avatar Adventurers Online, Miner Dig Deep, and I Maed a Gaem with Zombies in it were some of my most played games on 360 after things like Gears and Halo.

Doritos crash course was great.. me and my friends would play it so much back in the day, it was basically the show Wipeout but with your Xbox avatar.

You unlocked many memories for me thank you

You look like Andrew Horowitz, nice video I liked the chatting and memory lane

I made a game with zombies in it, and super amazing wagon adventure were the two I remembered so fondly I picked them up on steam years later

I once was in a mount your friends competition between me and 15 other people at a party, let’s just say it was one of the best times I’ve ever had in all my years. Ended up in third place at the end so you can imagine the pressure after all that time. Wish I could go back to those nights. Also this sounds bad out of context but if you know you know

Oh my godddd techno kitten adventure. I LOVED that game. I put so many hours into it. I miss it 😭

I have such nostalgia for Total Miner Forge from playing it with my school friends over the Christmas break all those years ago. There was actually some things it did better than Minecraft at the time like the underground going way way deeper than Minecraft and that had biomes related to the depth you were at and right at the bottom was like a Hell biome. It was pretty cool.

Murder miners was, and still is, seen by several halo pro players as a good halo game. They are making a sequel now. Recently a very popular map builder had passed and the whole community got together to celebrate his life and what he did for the community.

A Kingdom for Keflings and A World of Keflings are both backward compatible on the Xbox One and by extension Series X/S! I still play them every so often!

I remember getting Minecraft for the first time for my 360 my uncle bought it for me and I was so excited I wish I could relive this moment again

Xbox indie games was something alright.

The one Xbox Live indie game I sorely miss out on the most is a game known as Star Cross, it was an interesting RPG, I remember watching my older sibling playing the game quite religiously, and got stuck on one boss that we thought for sure was the final boss due to its difficulty, but much to our surprise, there was still more of the game left. Alas, we never got to see how the game ended, because eventually, the Xbox 360 updated with this two-step authentication process, which, locked us out of our primary Xbox Live account, and still cannot be accessed to this day. Other Xbox Live indie games I fondly remember playing are games like Abstacked, On A Roll, Polywobble, Avatar Grand Prix (or, whatever its name is), Smashell, Wacky Kart, Bobbin's Quest, and Avatar Glides 1 and 2. (Oh, there was also this one game known as Artoon, and that was cool as well, shame it's hard to find information on it)

Bro seeing murder miners apoca z and majority of the indie I used to play especially castle miner z great memories

Bro me and my Buddy used to pick people up in apocz and just drive around. It was my favorite past time in that game. That game filled a void in me.

I played a ton of Kingdom for/World of Keflings. Loved those games.

This video brought me back to my childhood such a beautiful era glad we all feel the same about it

I remember fondly enjoying the Kefling games a lot when I was a kid

Miss the xbox indie games, actually played murder miners on PC recently and was surprised to see people still playing it. That game, total miner, and castleminer z were some of the best :)

I remember being able to do basically movie parties with friends on Netflix on the 360 and it would put you into a movie theater with your friends and you would just talk and watch movies with friends it was the coolest feature to me on the 360 I used to always watch movies with my cousins and friends online

Murder miners and Dishwashers brought back crazy memories. Its actually so crazy this vid came out because me and my brother was searching for murder miners not too long ago but couldnt find the name, we just called it that minecraft halo game lol. The game had the creativity of minecraft and halo forge, with all the cool game modes (especially infection). The customization was sick, the game was very active and we enjoyed every moment of it till we ran out of xbox live gold :/. Dishwasher tho… i think thats a game everyone should experience, the art, gameplay, and story is great. It reminded me if that edgy stickman/newgrounds era and was perfect.

Brooo!! The comedy club one , was so great , it either built you or broke you, man me and a group of friends would go one once a week and just roastt each other , man that built character and I feel like it’s where my humor was built for today , The Netflix one where you could go in as your avatar and friends and watch movies together was such a bonding and amazing experience, surprised they didn’t bring them back for the pandemic when people were locked down .

Who played Try Not To Fart? Your character was on a date and you had to press controller button combos with what was on screen. Miss one and he lets one rip

The avatar laser tag game was FIIIIIRE

Murder Miners was easily one of my favorite game from my xbox 360 days. It's on steam now, but its pretty much deserted compared to the xbox version. It was such a nice game, and still is. Had a pretty active player-base as well.

Kingdom for keflings was goated

The indie games were interestingly fun, scary, and also weird. I remember playing Avatar drop, Castle Miners Z, and including several Avatar games, like the laser tag game and fighting games. And most of those games only costed a buck (80MSP). The good old days.

The vibrating control game had me laughing so hard. One of my favorites is Zombie estate it is a forgotten indie Xbox game that I love

I remember the massage "game" and I have to say, i used it on my back and it was actually pretty awesome !

apocz was amazing i also remember meeting someone and playing with them for a bit

CastleMiner Z will always remain one of the most fun Xbox indie games me and my friends had the most fun on

I recently repicked up one of keflings game because I played it as a kid to feel nostalgic about playing it again

The draw of Avatar Legends was the game creator mode. You could make your own massive RPG with their tools and it was fun.

16:30 you could play Minecraft Hunger Games on the 360 at a certain point. I don't remember the process or if it was even legal, but you could download maps onto a USB stick and inject them into your save data and then play them on the 360. You just had to host it and invite people to play, but you could do it.

ApocZ was such a nostalgic rush man. As soon as you said zombie I knew what it was gonna be 😂

I used to play apoc z all the time back in the day. I got my buddy to buy it too but I remember running into more than 1 person. It was never more than like 1 or 2 people but I remember we used to all fight over the military base at the top of the map

Comedy night was one of my favorite games it’s on steam and it’s basically the same game to this day I still enjoy it playing it 😂

Pretty sure I had Avatar Racedrome, and played the demos for a lot of other games mentioned here, including Avatar Warfare. I'll have to get my 360 set up so I can see what I've got lol.

Just from watching the few seconds shown here, Miner Dig Deep looks a lot more like the flash game Motherload which was released in 2004.

avatar legends was dope you could make your own maps (whole games) etc too

Glad to be apart of the Xbox 360 Indie Game Community! 🙏

Dudeee, Murder Miners was incredible!!

Baby maker extreme is like that one Xbox commercial where the guy lives his whole life in the air

3:23 There's a multiplayer party style game directly based on it afaict called Speedrunners. Fantastic game, highly recommend.

Doritos crash course 2 was actually amazing! I still have it on my old Xbox. You literally can’t get it anywhere now.

Castle miner x and avatar paintball were so much fun.

Baby maker extreme is a classic I'm glad it's being recognized after all these years lol

Doritos Crash Course was a fun game with the use of avatars

I LOVED the Indie games on Xbox 360. I have so many happy memories of so many indie games! I can't even remember the name for half of them because they were so niche. But Total Miner Forge, Castle Miner, APOCZ were my main ones, i'd do anything to have the Indie store back or them brought to Xbox. And there was this top-down, 8-bit zombie game along with like.. a blocky, zombie survival on island with ghost dogs or something? Man i miss those times, i want them back!

I had all the Castleminer games when i was about 10 years old. Good times.

I played the Fortress Craft and the Zombie like one I loved the old Arcade. even the Demos were cool to be able to have

1:02 that’s just the Doritos Xbox game but with less graphics XD