Desura
was a Digital Distribution platform that changed hands a number of times, including Linden Research, Inc. The service distributed games and related media online, with a primary focus on small independent game developers. Think of it as an obscure version of Steam.
Archived Link here. The Desura website has changed hands and is now a hub for web gaming.
They also did Indie Royale bundles.
Desura provides examples of the following tropes:
- DRM: Has an agnostic attitude towards this.
Games once on DESURA include:
- A Virus Named Tom
- Abuse
- Acceleration of SUGURI X-Edition HD
- The Adventures of Shuggy
- And Yet It Moves
- ARMA: Armed Assault series
- AirMech
- AlienShooter
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Ancients of Ooga
- ARES Extinction Agenda
- BANZAI PECAN: The Last Hope for the Young Century
- Beat Hazard Ultra
- Black Mesa
- Bleed
- Blocks That Matter
- Breath of Death VII: The Beginning
- Cthulhu Saves the World
- Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
- Cave Story+
- Chester
- Cloning Clyde
- Conquest: Divide & Conquer
- Cröixleur
- Darwinia
- Multiwinia
- Dead Pixels
- Dear Esther
- Defcon
- Dino Run SE
- DLC Quest
- Dominions
- Dreamscape
- Dwarf Fortress
- Eryi's Action
- ETHER VAPOR Remaster
- eXceed
- Frozen Synapse
- Flying Red Barrel ~A Diary of Little Aviator~
- Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne, and Hitogata Happa from the Gundemonium Series
- Hack Slash Loot
- Hard Reset
- Hearts of Iron 3
- Higurashi: When They Cry
- The Horror At MS Aurora
- Irukandji
- Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
- A Kingdom for Keflings
- La-Mulana (2012 remake)
- Laser Cat
- Millennium: A New Hope
- MDK
- Monster RPG 2
- Mount & Blade
- Mount & Blade: Warband
- Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
- MutantStorm Reloaded
- Night Sky
- Noitu Love 2: Devolution
- Noxious
- OffspringFling
- Oh Wow! An RPG Game!
- Open Arena
- OpenTyrian
- P3 Biotic
- Penumbra
- Pixel Junk series
- Portal: Prelude
- Qlione (QUALIA)
- QUBE
- Reprisal
- Satazius
- Scoregasm
- Serious Sam series
- Silver Nightmares
- Soulcaster and Soulcaster II
- The Sparkle and The Sparkle 2: Evo
- SUGURI
- Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
- Symphony
- The Tale of ALLTYNEX series
- Kamui
- RefleX
- ALLTYNEX Second
- The Tank Game
- Trine and Trine 2
- Vizati
- VVVVVV
- Wiz Orb
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- World of Goo
- Xotic
- Zeno Clash
- Zombie Grinder