Mark Sheeky (no mean indie game developer in his own right) runs an indie game review site called Bytten; Bytten does annual "Ernie" awards for what they think were the best indie games of the year.
Their picks for 2007 are up here. Among their choices is Dave Gilbert's The Blackwell Legacy.
Making History reminds me of the games from Paradox, most famously Europa Universalis. That's a bit of a paradox (hem hem), because Paradox has its own (excellent) WWII game, Hearts of Iron -- but HoI is very much a war game, and while military conflict is central to Making History, the war side of the game is much more abstracted, and at a more grand strategic level, and it pays much more attention to economics and diplomacy.
