I'll mention stuff I have experience with, and I'll post some well-known gems for those who are interested. I'm combing through what's out right now (1637 titles, 55 pages)

Pico 8 is there: It's a "fantasy console," that is designed as an 8-bit game console. You create your own sounds with a simple tracker, graphics with a minimal sprite editor, and program in a built-in text editor to develop games. Or, you can download everybody else's games and play them, modify them, and not have to do a darn thing but play. They're more or less "microgames," but there's plenty of good stuff if you just want to consume.

Lenna's Inception, but @cfabbro got that comment from me.

Micro Mages: It's actually an NES game. It was developed as an NES ROM, and the only way I found to install it via the itch platform was to get the rom and run it in an emulator (I use RetroArch with FCEUMM). If you've got an everdrive, it should work on hardware. It has a vertical scroll like Ice Climbers, and supports up to 4 players (I think NES has a multi-tap, but you can also network with many emulators).

Some well known ones are obviously Celeste (which I plan to play) and Octodad (also plan to play it), but these are some ones I found that people may get a kick out of.

This is dizzying! It's at 1,637 items now. It's also definitely not just shovelware (although on itch.io, even the "shovelware" tends to have heart). This might finally force me to do a deep dive into itch.io weirdness, which should be rather rewarding. I haven't had a chance to dive into it too deeply, so here's a few games that I either already own or which already were on my radar (I'll leave out obvious picks like Celeste, A Short Hike or Night in the Woods):

Glittermitten Grove: It's weird that this is a spoiler but,

Dominique Pamplemousse: Weird, quirky indie point-and-click adventures is a rather saturated field now, but this is one of the originals and somewhat pure.

Quadrilateral Cowboy: Maybe the best known game from Blendo Games, square shaped heads, hacking, general weirdness.

Old Man's Journey: Simple, charming puzzle game with beautiful art style. I got this for rather cheap on the Switch. It works great with a touch screen, it's basically a model for "how to do actually good mobile games".

Secrets of Rætikon: Same studio as Old Man's Journey, I rather like them. You fly around, explore secrets, enjoy the rather cool 2D-polygon environments.

Hidden Folks: Black and white version of Where's Waldo, it's quite lovely in its simplicity.

Pikuniku: Surreal physics-y platformer. I know there's a ton of those, nowadays, but this is one of the cuter/more interesting ones.

Starseed Pilgrim: A bunch of squares growing like plants, shifting from being space to solid and other weird rules that make the play field constantly change. It's hard to explain but kinda brilliant.

Heavy Bullets: I think I remember this one from some year's Experimental Gameplay Workshop, which is usually a quality guarantee (and often a potential hit predictor). It's a first person shooter but the gag is that each bullet really counts, like you have to plan ahead and be really careful? I haven't had a chance to play it but expect it to be in the excellent tradition of games like Super Hot or Devil Daggers, gotta check it out!

Parallax: Some Portal-esque 3D puzzler with some interesting twists.

Windosill: A super early indie point-and-click-y thing I remember rather fondly.

Receiver: An FPS game with an absurdly detailed gun-model, kind of a commentary how modern games tend to get guns wrong.

Lieve Oma: I'll be honest, for a lot of games it's the art style that gets me, it just look super cute.

Dorfromantik: Looks like a great, chill citybuilder/board-game-ish type thing that I wanted to check out for a while, now.

aaaand that's like... page 26 of 55 of clicking through the list. Again, dizzying. I like how on itch.io, you can just download a zip and whatnot, without needing to install a whole launcher app thingy, I downloaded many of the above and maybe try and have an indie weekend. Maybe it's worth just downloading a few of the weirder games blindly. I'm also into the new trend of low-res 3D indie games kinda channelling PS1 era graphics, it's still mostly a bit clumsy but it has potential. Might check out a few games just looking for that.

I honestly don't know where to start, lol.

One that caught my attention was Lenna's Inception, which @knocklessmonster mentioned in the recent "what games have you been playing" topic:

From Itch's social justice bundle, i figured I'd check out Lenna's Inception. The best way I can describe it is a hilarious woke parody of The Legend of Zelda, around the time of Ages/Seasons, and maybe a handheld game in either direction. You're Lenna, and you're trying to prevent the game world from being corrupted. The characters don't actually acknowledge or know they're in a game, just that stuff's getting corrupted. It's so good, too, though, because it plays exactly how I feel one should expect this sort of game to play. As a parody it's really great because it also has a lot of rather original stuff from the mechanics to the story development, at least after two temples.

I found this list of TTRPGs. My group is talking a few weeks off for one member’s Zoom wedding. Going to run #birdsecrets next week!

I haven't gone through the full list, especially since that list seems to keep growing. But I loved Fortune 499 when I got it through Humble Monthly. It was a really unique take. I didn't think you could make rock-paper-scissors interesting.

I've also seen a good number of art assets, I periodically do stuff like run TTRPG games, and having a collection of art assets in my back pocket can be a huge help. They're also really helpful if you're at all interested in game development, especially during the prototype phases.

This is a great bundle for a great cause, I would encourage as many of you as possible to give more than the minimum. If you have the means, of course.

I've not had the time to play any of these at all. ;_;

That being said, I have been looking forward to playing Anodyne since I've already heard good things about it (as well as its sequel).

I'm actually looking forward to the "other" content in this bundle. There's amusing titles that allude to Japanese light novels like My Friends And I Were Granted Three Wishes By A Cat Goddess And I Swear I Got Distracted When My Turn Came Around which seems like it would be a fun short read. And as an avid reader of Hardcore Gaming 101, I would recommend everyone to read HG101 Presents: The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures.

I'm also interested in some of the tabletop games, though I don't see a realistic way to play any of them both because of lack of time and interested parties.

I also both love and hate the concept of Electric Zine Maker.