The 10 Best Indie Games of 2013 That You Should Play

<br><img src="https://www.bokmcdok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/20240723140856_1.jpg"; style="max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />The nominations are in and the finalists have been officially selected for the 2013 Canadian Videogame Awards. This year, the fifth for the relatively young award ceremony, is quite a bit different. Reboot Communications and EP Media are moving the show this year from Vancouver FanExpo, where it's traditionally been held, to Toronto but recently delayed the production to the fall where the 2013 awards will be announced alongside (but separately from) the 2014 awards as w<br><br>Don't Starve originally came out on PC and created a solid fan-base for itself by being a really fun survival/crafting game with a humorous gothic-lite style. 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