I was messing around and looking at the XBL Indie Games and I found a pretty cool one. It's called Solar for 240 Microsoft Points. It's a top down game Basically you play as a Star moving through the Universe. There are asteroids and planets floating around as well. When you float up to a planet it's starts to orbit you and then the asteroids will start to orbit the planet and become it's moon. There are also other stars floating around as well and they will steal your planets or throw your planets' orbit off and sling shot out into space. You can of coarse start ramming the other stars and destroy them if you want. It's a kick back and whine down at the end of a intense night of Modern Warefare 2 or Left 4 Dead 2. So for 240 Points you can either buy this game or a goldfish for your avatar.

The other sweet Indie game that I discover is Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam for $19.99. Again it's a top down view. It's another kick back and watch the game play itself. You contol a fleet of ships; kind of. There is no direct control or even ordering one ship to attack another. You are giving the number of ships you can use and a set amount of money per battle. There are 4 different races in which you can play. Each with their own style of ships. There are three different types of ships; Fighters, Frigates, and Cruisers. Each race has 4 different hull designs for each type. Each ship as a set number of slots; hexagons and squares. Hexagons are weapon slots and they can be anything from pulse lasers to EMP missiles to Self-Defense lasers that shoot down incoming missiles to Decoy missiles that trick the Self-Defense lasers. The squares are for engines, shields, power, crew modules, armor, repiar equipment, etc. Everything has stats, and it goes deep into the stats for example with the weapons you see the max and min. range, damage, how much power it uses, how many crew members it takes to run it, how many hits points it adds, how much the price is going to go up, and much much more. You can save each load out of a ship so you can have 3 ships of the same hull design and each one has different weapons, armor, and engines. Before the battle you have to buy all the ships and load outs you want to use for the battle. You can also get each ship some orders, and I don't mean order to attack that enemy ship. I mean orders like fire on ships with the lowest HP, or if that ships HP drops below a certain percent that ship will retreat, or protect this ship, and on. After all that is done you press the fight button and from then until the end of the battle the only control you have is over the camera. If you win the battle you get honor points which you use to buy weapon upgrades, power upgrades, engine upgrades, new hull designs, and unlock the other races. Sometimes the battles can last a while so you can have this game run in the background while you do other stuff on the computer.

Both of these games are great and tons of fun. If you don't buy either of these at least try out the trail of Solar.