Every couple of weeks, we recommend some of the best games on the Xbox Live Indie channel. These are the games on the fringe of the Xbox 360 platform, made by average Joes and indie dreamers. They're peer-reviewed, not Microsoft-approved and thankfully they're not all about posing your Xbox Avatar or a vibrating controller.

Our favorites-a mix of new and established Indies, all of them cheap-are listed here and listed in the Kotaku's Favorites channel in the Indie Game part of Xbox Live's Games Marketplace.

We'll have new recommendations, here and on Xbox Live, in two weeks. Enjoy!

Apple Jack (80 MS Points): Unique, odd, and with its own sort of beauty, Apple Jack is everything a strange indie platformer should be.

You play the apple-headed Jack as he traverses an English countryside filled with roaming washing machines, upright pandas, and pigs in tutus. Your job is to chuck enemies into each other for coins, gaining a higher multiplier with the speed you get rid of your foes. The enemies must also be used to cart Jack across spiked areas and as platforms to get to higher areas. The game gets more complicated as Jack climbs its 100 levels, adding color-specific enemies that must be destroyed in a specific order to solve puzzles. One hit to Jack and he's dead, back to the beginning of the level, but the soothing, hypnotic music keeps the game from becoming a controller-throwing competition. With bright shiny graphics and an extraordinary feeling of accomplishment after completing a level (or filling the screen with falling coins), Apple Jack is not only an outstanding bargain, but an incredible and surreal experience. -Max Abrams