GamerTorrent

Introduction

When indie gamers set their mind on playing a particular free indie game, they only rest when they complete all the levels and beat the final boss. Once an free indie game is completed, indie gamers then set out on a new quest to live another thrill through a new free indie videogame. In this entire cycle, the primary requirement of indie gamers is good free indie games. And to help them overcome the hurdle of scarcity, we have websites like Gamer-Torrent.

What is Gamer-torrent?

As the name suggests, Gamer-Torrent is a torrent tracker website that provides indie video games for free. The website is an open portal and requires no registration or membership. It has a wide variety of popular high-quality free indie games that are played by indie gamers from all over the world. The simple interface coupled with a stacked free indie content library is what attracts users to this website.

Is Gamer-torrent safe?

For a torrent site to be safe for browsing, it needs to have an SSL certificate, which Gamer-torrent does have. By using tools such as SEOQuake and MOZ, you can easily check the credibility of a website by gauging Domain Score (DS) and Trust Score (TS). Based on my research, Gamer-torrent has a domain score of 21 and a trust score of 31 which is impressive. It’s not uncommon for torrent sites to have a DS less than 15 and a TS less than 40. Thus, with a DS of 21, Gamer-torrent really exceeds the expectations in terms of domain reputation. Add to the fact that it has established itself only within the last five years, the whole thing looks even more impressive.

What should you expect from Gamer-torrent?

Gamer-Torrent is one of the best ad-free websites for free indie games on the internet. The website has no access barriers and has high traffic as it is marked popular by Alexa ranking and has a score of 284421. Apart from free indie games, there are many other things that the website offers. Here are some of them.

Varied Free Indie Content Library – Gamer-Torrent was launched in 2015 with an aim to provide free indie video games to gamers all over the world. From the time of its launch, the website has managed to collect hundreds of free indie games that can be downloaded and installed.

The website has free indie games for consoles like PC, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE, PS3, and PS4. You can download the latest and the oldest free indie games for your preferred console.

Multiple Genres – There is a wide variety of free indie games that are played all over the world. While occasional gamers are fine with playing any free indie games given to them, serious gamers prefer to stick to a particular category. To cater to both the audiences, Gamer-Torrent has a plethora of games that span across numerous categories.

The categories of free indie games on Gamer-Torrent include ‘Action’, ‘Adventure’, ‘Arcade’, ‘Fighting’, ‘Horror’, ‘Quest’, ‘Racing’, ‘RPG’, ‘MMORPG’, ‘Shooter’, ‘Sports’, ‘Simulator’, and ‘Strategy’. The categories comprise various free indie games both new and old.

Easy download – When you already have the adrenaline pumped and are ready to battle it out against the bosses, why waste it on complicated download processes? Gamer-Torrent has a very simple downloading process. To download the torrent file of any game, all you have to do is find the indie game that you want to play and then click on the page link to get the torrent file.

Speed – Gamer-Torrent does not let you lag behind when it comes to downloading speed of torrents. The entire seeding is done by the website developers and internal contributors. Moreover, Gamer-Torrent has a 3-server setup which allows the website to balance the data distribution amongst the different users around the world. All of these processes help the website to offer commendable download speeds to its users.

No Restrictions – It wouldn’t feel good to come across a website that has your favorite free indie game but you are unable to download it due to the monetary or regulatory restrictions. Gamer-Torrent ensures that you don’t face such disappointments and enjoy free indie games to your heart’s content. To which the website has no restrictions on the number of free indie games you download in a day.

Gamer-torrent in numbers

Gamer-torrent is a reputed website that attracts more than 16,000 unique users a month. Sure, it’s not as huge as the big gaming torrent sites that we reviewed earlier, it’s still growing pretty quickly. It’s not the free indie content library that attracts the user’s attention but the compatibility. You’ll find free indie game torrents for the majority of the popular gaming platforms.

As per the Alexa rankings, Gamer-Torrent is ranked at #352,600 which makes it among the top 400,000 websites on the internet. An average visit on the site lasts less than minutes and each user engages with about 1.86 pages before bouncing off the website. Regardless of the terrible onsite interaction stat, Gamer-torrent has a commendable bounce rate of just 40.00%.

How to access Gamer-torrent?

You can access Gamer-torrent by searching for the term ‘Gamer-torrent’ in your search engine. Alternatively, if you want to access the platform directly, you can use the following link: Gamer-torrent.

Design

Gamer-Torrent has a very well designed website that caters to the needs of indie gamers and has a dark gaming appeal. It is among the few websites that have loads of functionalities like links, search bars, buttons, text, icons, images, social media links, videos, and checkboxes.

Header – Technically, Gamer-Torrent has no header; it just has two different variations of the homepage and the ‘Contact Us’ option. The two homepage options mentioned before are labeled as ‘Gamer-Torrent.com’ and ‘Games Torrents’.

On clicking ‘Gamer-Torrent.com’ the home page reloads to show torrent links in a categorized form and upon clicking ‘Games Torrent’ the home page reloads and you get a list of torrents that are available on the website.

The ‘Contact Us’ button takes you to a page where you can fill a form and send a query to the website admin.

Inner Pages – The category pages of the website can be considered as the inner pages of the Gamer-Torrent website. These pages are designed to provide information about the free indie games to the users. It has a list of torrents of the games with images, descriptions, and downloading options.

The inner pages of the website have functionalities like links, text, checkbox, search bar, visitor counter, and more.

Content – Gamer-Torrent does not have any shortage of content, on the other hand, there are so many free indie games that you can play for days and months without worrying about repeating one. Moreover, the development adds new games to the website as soon as they are made available in the market. You can also try free indie games from different categories that are available on the website.

Desktop/Mobile experience

Gamer-Torrent has an amazing website layout that looks great on desktops and laptops. The website fits the aspect ratio of the desktop while maintaining text visibility and navigation convenience. Due to the images, videos and extensive links the website can be a little slow on low-speed internet devices.

The website has a dedicated mobile layout that easily adjusts the website according to the device’s aspect ratio. However, when accessing the website with mobile you need to have a high-speed internet connection. Navigation may be a problem as the website’s mobile version has an extended scroll time and the text may look a little overcrowded.

Suggestions I have for Gamer-torrent

The website needs to fix the loading speed issue and should have console-based segregation.

Conclusion

Gamer-Torrent is a great website for indie gamers as they get the latest and most popular indie games for free. With minor improvements and helpful additions, the website will surely gain more popularity among indie gamers.