>indie game
>it's actually good
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>indie game
>it's actually good
What's her name, Yea Forums?
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Darkwood.
>Stardew Valley
mount and blade
I really gotta finish this
Anything by pic related, and its subsidiaries.
Hotline miami
Braid
Limbo and inside
Hyper light drifter
My friend pedro
Lisa
Ori and the blind forrest if we're gonna stretch what indie applies to
hollow knight
Iconoclasts.
Took 9 hours for me to notice though.
finally got around to it thanks to the summer sale, fun and tough
pulsar a fucking shit
also deadbolt and hylics from the sale as well
>Crosscode
Post-game chapter WHEN
I need to see that mute idiot and the french idiot scissor
The Last Door Season 1&2
Terraria
Crawl.
Pokemon Sword/Shield
Madden
It's almost impossible to tell how close you are to the end by internal context. Did you make it to the swamp?
Wargroove
Witcher 3.
Thought that was Zenonia at first. Would have been based as fuck if it was. I think I'm the only one who's played it
>mobileshit
is it actually good or are you pulling my leg?
As previously mentioned
>Darkwood
>Mount and Blade
>Hotline Miami
>Lisa
As for games that haven't been mentioned yet,
Dwarf Fortress
Gunpoint
Super Meat Boy
Shovel Knight
Risk of Rain
Dominions 5
Hollow Knight
Subnautica
Factorio
Cult Simulator
DEFCON
Pathologic 2
Monaco
Papers Please
Talos Principle
La Mulana
Hereoes of Hammerwatch
Golf Story
Baba is You
Skullgirls
Exile Trilogy
Geneforge Trilogy
>Ori
It's just a 5/10 platformer with horrible writing and good visuals.
Limbo and Inside are a little better but still pushing it.
Yeah I really enjoyed it. Zenonia 1 was on ds but after that the series went mobile. Imo 3 is the peak of the series. They kinda play like a mystery dungeon game. Movement is real time until you enter a battle, and battles are in the overworld like in chrono trigger. 3 added some cool movement options, which is why it's my favorite. It's a class-based rpg. Also, English translation is pretty rough usually. Sounds Google translated at parts.
what causes a person to post the same thread over and over for seven months straight?
to your credit, you didn't post every single day, but still.
Good list
Talos Principle is not indie though, still fun puzzle game tho
Also,
Cave Story
Touhou
Furi
Everspace
Faeria
Mighty Switch Force
Outward
Lovely Planet
Bit Trip Runner
Anyone know if Prison Architect is good?
Why would you not post a thread if it consistently gets 100+ replies? It's literally free (You)s.
Is there any way to play Zenonia 3 ? It crashes every time I open it.
factorio
darkest dungeon
despotism 3k
slay the spire
thumper
one finger death punch
creeper world
momodora
nimbatus
i'm not sure if those are even indie
>indie game
>sprite work is great
>character artwork in game is god awful tumblr tier shit
ain't that just a shame
undertale
Only ones I can think of off the top of my head
>Cave Story
>Lobotomy Corporation
>Cross Code (which is in the OP)
Mogeko Castle and the other games the guy made are interesting to play too. Can't think of anything else though.
Kero Blaster
Could be an issue with recent software versions. I played it back in 2012ish and it worked fine. Sad to hear that it wont work
Deep Rock Galactic
Just like Zenonia 1 and 2 it might not be supported by your android version.
Zenonia 2 was peak, the game went downhill after that. Anything after the 3rd game is shit.
B-but you can't get (You)s if you're OP
Faster than fucking light.
It's certainly pretty and the soundtrack is a go-to for me, but those are really its only two traits. Gameplay's alright, but there's just no story.
>"it's actually good"
>game isn't even released
>Chucklefucks
Shill begone!
remember to boycott eastward
Undertale and Deltarune
based
>copy sd3's 25 year old art style
KINO COMFY SOUL
>he doesn't know
crosscode is legitimately great though
this but, and i want you to read this next part carefully, as it's really important: unironically
explain
Don't buy Chucklefish games.
Nuclear Throne
Darkest Dungeon
Grapple Force Rena
yes but why? Did they do something bad?
Bought a chuckfish game, and enjoyed it. :)
Shovel Knight
I got bored with Crosscode three or four areas in. Kinda realized it would be the same shit in each area and the gameplay loop was already getting boring and the story wasn't interesting me.
Stephen's Sausage Roll, best game of this decade
why would you buy an indie game when GOG always provides them for free
Rabi Ribi
this was a lot of fun
>why would you buy an indie game when GOG always provides them for free
wait what?
every single character in that game except the prince infuriated me to no end
and then he died so i dropped it
GOG provides installer without any strings attached, since they sell DRM free games. All you have to do is find a GOG installer online and those are mostly safe.
caveblazers
goodolddownloads.com
Even though the website has been taken down, it links to other safe websites.
To be fair, its serving a good purpose of getting good indie games buried in steams endless lists. Its the inflammatory bait threads that get posted every day that need to be shit on, not a good relevant thread with a purpose.
indie games are sometimes good yes, not that one though, that one sucks
Pretty much anything made by spiderweb software, with special mention of the exile trilogy (remade in a new engine as the avernum series) and the geneforge series.
its good though
BallisticNG
ah yes know I know what you might.
still if you like the game you should pay for it afterwards
Anyone else only able to play inide game anymore? I can't stand triple A shit except if it's to fuel my lust for night elf girls.
i thought it was pretty good
what did you enjoyed about it? (honestly asking because I found it boring and kind of uninspired)
>Grapple Force Rena
has a demo on its steam page, feels like a treasure game
The story is cute and I like the combat and bosses. I get that it has basically MMO tier sidequests but it gets you to explore at least. I would just go through the mainquest if I were you.
I really liked the gameplay, both the puzzles and the fights were fun and I liked how many enemies and most major bosses incorporated the use of the elements you learned in the puzzles to beat them.
And all in all I liked the story.
when someone gets a game on gog they get a drm free download link they can share
>MMO tier sidequests
Really? I like the sidequests, there wasn't a lot of kill X things, it was usually a new dungeon or minigame to play.
The areas were pretty boring actually, but I liked the plot (even if it wasn't that good) and the characters. My favorite part was probably the interactions with the nameless characters
Based. Ori is terribly overrated
Story, setting, artstyle, characters, music, battle. Puzzles were sometimes infuriating but I got through them and the battle system + bosses more than made up for it.
bought this during the sale and haven't played it yet but this picture intimidates me
The only puzzle I struggled on was the brewing minigame.
Dusk, Amid Evil, and Ion Maiden
To be fair, CrossCode overstayed it's welcome for me, after the 4th dungeon i only kept playing because it was already close to the ending
I don't see why GoG even gets a mention here. You could always pirate indie games from people who shared it online before the site even existed.
The ones that fucking rattled me were the "make sure the slowed-down projectile does the full journey" puzzles. I mean I liked them but god they were frustrating because sometimes I would time them wrong or not do it in time.
That last floor in Vermillion Tower really drained me but it felt satisfying when I finally did it.
Recettear
Early game they're quite similar in structure. For example there is always a quest to find probes for the scientist dude, one for meat recipes, one for calming some creatures in a frenzy.
Later on you get faction quests which are more varied.
It has some really neat puzzles and tough platforming segments. Especially the windy area with all the spikes
i loved the Spectre DLC the most. It plays really good. So much soul in that game
Rimworld
FTL
Darkest Dungeon
Undertale
HM/HM2/Katana Zero
Underrail
Slay the Spire
Pathologic 2
Risk of Rain/2
I actually enjoyed playing Wasteland 2 despite its many faults, so I'll say that as well.
Outer Wilds is unironically my western GOTY
thats what pissed me off the most.
Why is the bratty pirate who doesn't give a fuck about anyone but herself, never thinks ahead for more than 1 second and doesn't give a fuck about her crippled mother get a happy ending, while they torture Robins brother who just wants to protect her after he lost his family and kill Royal the most disgraceful way possible after all the character development he went trough?
Secrets of Grindea
>he doesn't edit sprites to give everyone giant honkers
This game is held back by being set inside an MMO. It includes MMO tropes inside a singleplayer game and even lampshades them with some NPCs complaining about the mechanics, but this sets up for the best parts of the game where it actually does something with the setting and breaks the boundaries of the MMO Like the whole Vermillion Wasteland sequence where they started using glitches to gamebreak the dungeon
I also like the combat mechanics based around breaking enemies and exploiting elemental weaknesses with some really fun to use combat arts.
The dungeons and puzzles are pretty decent with the best one being the wave dungeon which really tried something creative and new with this imaginary element compared to the pretty standard puzzles for the other elements
>still in early access
vaporware
Valdis Story is pretty good and no one talks about it.
Golf Story
The only correct answer
I love this game, but I'm getting frame-drops on my rig with an i7-6700K/GTX1070. Is it because it was coded on HTML5?
Maybe he made the thread once and got a ton of replies with good indie games, so he's like an animal that can't change his behaviour and just repeats the same format to ask for new indie games to play. I rather have this than the retarded spammers that post bait threads, at least in this threads we get good recomendations and discussions.
The first Zenonia on the ds was the shit. Tried the mobile sequels a few years ago but they just weren't the same.
Minecraft
The game started running better with pixel size 1 for me, if you don't mind the game not looking as sharp.
Papers, Please
Obra Dinn
INFRA
Pretty much. It was made in html5/javascript.
INFRA
DROD
Rain World
Rinworld
Darkwood
Elona
Wizard legend
Darkest Dungeon
Deep Rock Galatic
DUSK
RUINER
Underrail
>no Terraria
come on Yea Forums
>Subnautica
didn't one of the devs have a straw poll on what the playerbase would want in a new update and have a hissy fit after everyone chose QOL changes over being able to play as a female character
Levelhead
Got it due to a mario maker comparison video and I have been enjoying it ever since, you can do some really creative shit with it and the controls feel pretty tight (I hear from a lot of people that mario maker 2 feels kinda slippery).
If there was a game I could reccomend to people right now, it'd be levelhead.
Alternatively, celeste, baba is you, king arthur's gold, or risk of rain/ror2.
that doesn't mean the game is bad. its easily the best underwater exploration game right now
yeah I know what gives. I guess no one talked about it we will never get another game from that company.
>Touhou
>being good games
that's real funny there user
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Environmental Station Alpha is pure soul. If graphics are too fancy for you, play Hero Core.
Literally none and if you say otherwise you're lying
Even when it's in very early stages it has the potential to be the best h-game. It'll probably take 5 years until it done though.
I chilled it before was cool
> expect happy metroidvania
> get brutality, death and a planet near death
Also that fucking final boss fight was one hell of a ride
Doesnt have the production value of Danganronpa but I think it's better written. Also the minigames are WAY better integrated.
Garbo music aside, I wish there was more.
The game's lore and setting was super interesting to me, it played fun and looked good.
I normally hate when people say this, but this time it's really true. Her spine is broken.
WTF is this game?
Witches ain't human :^)
This didn't help, but thanks.
Did you close and reopen the game after doing it? The only other thing I can think of is not stretching the game at all.
Dark Devotion turned out to be far better than expected
Also the "it's just like Dark Souls!" reviews are misleading since it just has a stamina management combat system, that's literally it, everything else is nothing even close to Dark Souls
based
I don't really see a problem, it's much better than people who post stuff intended to cause arguments, these threads are just indie discussion and recommendations. Hell I found Crosscode because of these and I'm considering putting in my 5x5.
Westerado
Yeah, you have to restart for pixel settings. The game looked like ass, like you said, and I was still getting drops according to afterburner. Maybe I should turn off environmental effects? It's such a shame there are performance issues, the game is great otherwise.
Yeah most big vidya are just a huge letdown for their price.
Even if an indie game is meh I never pay too much for it.
60 bucks is retard pricing I haven't bought a big game in 10 years
I never said it was bad. i'm just asking weather or not the thing I said in my post happened or not
RoR is based and worth the price tag
RoR 2 has a long way to go. People need to wait a year before purchasing it.
>>Rinworld
Ebic typo
Ruiner was a huge let down.
The controls are such trash
I finished Spectre of Torment first but couldn't get through the first 5 levels of Shovel Knight's campaign.
true but the sequel looks like a promising improvement.
fucking BAAASED
>Dark Devotion
Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't this game's gimmick that it gets so dark you can't even see your character?
Crosscode
A SNES style Secret of Mana kind of RPG
Epic Battle Fantasy
There is supposedly a switch version coming soon
If my three year old high-end rig can't handle the game, then I doubt the Switch would fare any better, unless the game is being remade from the ground up with a new engine.
No?
Well not that I've noticed. There are some darker areas, but it mainly just prevents you from seeing too far, which you can use a torch for but possible sacrificing your off-hand
The "gimmick" for the game is that it has rogue-like elements in the sense that it's perma-death and you lose everything on death, but it has permanent upgrades as with all good rogue-likes where you unlock starting gear, stat upgrades and some perks/passives
A lot but recently it's Blazing Chrome. Pretty much everything I wanted out of a run n gun, satisfying lengthy levels, good bosses, great art, solid music. The only complaints I have really is the autoscrollers and extra life spam, otherwise it would be perfect.
Lone Survivor is a pretty good 2d silent hill clone with serious Lynchian inspiration. played it because it was """""""free"""""" on PSN ages ago and it really surprised me. too bad it's too short
It sounds like Dead Cells with an extra layer of autism (light and stamina management). Would yu say it's a better game?
yes it did happen
Because penis bad.
Hold on, try the steam beta branch and see if it works
Play Amid Evil
It's very different to Dead Cells, so can't really say if it's better.
The stuff I've mentioned are the only rogue-like elements in it. The map is entirely static, so it's a "campaign" type game.
You always get checkpoints before bosses so you can keep retrying, even with starting equipment.
Exploring all the floors is fun, though it might look like a platformer it actually doesn't have a jump button, so if you are falling somewhere for example, you have to commit, since there might not be a way back up, and going to the next floor closes the door behind you.
You also get a lot of difficult utility pickups such as armor repairs, bandages, bombs, needles that improve stats for a room etc. along with occasional negative statuses that can occur, not only from enemies/environment but from things like not repairing your armor for a few rooms which will slow you down, or reading dreadful texts too much
It has tons of solid bosses and the gameplay loop itself is great once you get settled in. A lot of bosses are optional too, so if you want to rush through the game you can do it easily in like 10 hours (personally took me 20 to kill all the bosses and check all the areas, but didn't go for full 100%)
Whatever happened to Deaths gambit? Wasn't it one of the more anticipated Metroidvanias?
Machinarium is lovely. Hylics is one of my favourites- gameplay is bog-standard but fuck it's £1.99 and really charming
Kero Blaster was great.
It was fun. Finished it both on PS4 and PC, doesn't have a lot of replay value I found after doing NG+, even though it scales further
It's a lot more inspired by Souls games with various equipment and only have some Metroidvania elements
i didn't like how the melee attack was implemented. you couldn't map it to its own button and often i'd end up shooting when i meant to melee. it's clearly meant to be used too because the enemies are little more bullet spongey than in contra/metal slug.
Based
Add in
The Messenger
FTL
Into The Breach
Bastion
Transistor
Skullgirls
Enter The Gungeon
Nuclear Throne
Binding of Isaac(inluding Rebirth and later releases)
Retro City Rampage
Shakedown Hawaii
But I have, an it's a wonderful game.
>first entering the Void
And here I thought the Arcane Expanse was confusing
I didnt have a problem with it since the range is massive, though switch to the machine gun during melee heavy sections since from what I read on the steam forums the devs fucked up recovery frames making it tied to weapon or some dumb shit like that which is gonna get fixed. Besides that yeah I used it all the time and it was np, found it better than Metal Slug even because of huge range and the fact that its quicker with few recovery frames. Now, the fucking roll on the other hand is not just useless but actively detrimental in some parts where you wanna shoot down and jump
Supraland, kind of a fusion of Zelda, metroid and portal
Why? I liked Starbound, Stardew Valley, and Wargroove.
>implying touhou games are bad
spotted the faggot who can't 1cc
Hotline Miami and Lisa
I'll have to keep playing to confirm it's not a placebo effect, but this seems to have helped a little bit with frame-drops.
risk
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>has a demo
Looks neat, will have to try it out
sort of yes, sort of no. it was a twitter poll where the question was something along the lines of 'what would you prefer we do' and the only two options were 'add a playable female character' and 'improve the game'. also it wasn't the devs who threw a fit over it.
>literal who studio
>shoestring budget
>somehow one of the best horror games ever made
It’s a miracle
Puzzles including map design are top notch
lighthearted story with some cool characters (every area you 1v1 that green haired dude)
I don't think there is a bad boss fight - they're all okay or good
>hm/hm2/k0
Outrun-themed games need to pop up more.
Actually unironically BASED.
>I don't think there is a bad boss fight - they're all okay or good
The last fight kind of blows, both because the initial buildup is WAY too good for the second form and the music is lame as hell compared to earlier tracks.
Prison Arch is good, though easily broken. It’s fun and a challenge so long as you play by the rules.
Scammy crowd funding for a bad game. They also killed a dog.
>ctr+f
>"dustforce"
>"0/0"
Because they're hacks.
>started by one sprite artist thet got booted out of Re-Logic
>decided to make a terraria clone (maybe purely out of spite)
>starts out good
>proceeds to dumb down/remove a lot of what made that game fun
>fails to follow up on backer rewards
>doesn't add to story/lore in a meaningful way
>decides that making games is too hard and buys the right to publish other games instead because fuck you
You shouldn't support them at all.
They did on the other hand kick out their music guy (who is transsexual himself) for making an attack helicopter joke.
fuck that shitty meme difficulty platformer. play a real platformer like yoshi's island or tropical freeze.
What even is it?
>They also killed a dog.
wait WHAT!
absolutely based. loved how this game made fire such a big deal.
>Bought a lab puppy as an office pet
>Put her bed next to electrical cords
>No pictures for months
>Start getting pictures again, but now the dog is a terrier
You might be correct. I played the game on release so it's been a while. I'd have to replay.
It's the giant elephant that just reuses the exponential growth mechanic from earlier only way less cool because even the with the glasses starts complaining about how lame it is.
I couldn't get into it because they decided to throw in MMO style filler quests just for the sake of "feeling like an MMO" when the whole point of those filler quests in a real MMO is just to eat up your time
Only a true patrician can appreciate the progy/ff6 final boss kind of music of the Ultimate experience.
Nigger, they're not even comparable. TUE's theme is like five minutes and loops like four times through the fight. Dancing Mad is like twenty fucking minutes long.
> exponential growth mechanic
oh yeah, from the turtle thing. It's all coming back to me.
Yeah. The turtle thing was cool as fuck, but the way it was reused for the final boss felt genuinely lazy.
I just mean the style, not the length
Yeah, and I'm saying that TUE's theme is shit because you end up hearing it look like four-five times over the course of a fight that's pretty lame in its own right.
Hate to make comparisons here, but since this is an indie recommendation thread, I'd like to recommend you all play Zero Ranger, but holy fucking shit does that game know its way around a boss theme.
youtu.be
God i love lea so godamn much
do not talk about my wife like that, you may have emilinator
How is that the fault of the composer? They released an OST and that's all I need
Ok the frenchie will do i guess you can have lea
Excellent Shizuka is mine then
>How is that the fault of the composer
How the fuck is it not? A composer's job is to compose a theme that works for the situation. TUE's theme is weak and has too obvious a repeating point.
this
I want to put my DICK between Robin's lips
but yeah fun game with a unique setting, very good overall
gonna need to repeat the question what game?
Project Warlock is decent as well.
great game held back by shit ass faggot devs
Hi!
Dustforce
Darkest Dungeon
Enter the Gungeon and Nuclear Throne
Slay the Spire
Darkwood
Risk of Rain 1 and 2
Hotline Miami 1 and 2
Katana ZERO
Into the Breach
Hollow Knight
LISA
Wizard of Legend
Deadcells
Deadbolt
theres too many desu
Zachtronics anything
>only a few posts say Hollow Knight
I've had 0 issue playing it on all three of my rigs. Weakest one was mobile i3+520mx, and the current one is 7600k + 1060
I even know a guy who beat the game on integrated graphics
the controls are fine
the biggest issue with that game is doesn't do anything to teach the player not to get hit. so the player could take a bunch of damage without knowing it then die.
I started a game to take that screen shot. I'm pretty high and just wanted to chill, but my first mutation was long arms. Cleared the second level and got trigger fingers and a wrench. Next mutation was bloodthirsty then got euphoria. Bludgeoned bandit and big dogs asses, lost because my high ass was paying attention to big dogs big explosion instead of moving away from it.
The boss fight length is not dictated by the OST, but by the player. If you beat a boss in a few seconds should the composer really care?
GF bought it during the summer sale, so I'll give it a try soon enough. Been on my list for a while.
It has been spammed enough on Yea Forums for most people to know about it, to be fair
This thread has quite a few obscure ones, so that's great to see
I have never played and loved a farming game as much as stardew. Should I get into Harvest Moon? Which ones are best?
It's crazy not many games tried the Majoras Mask formula, this one does it brilliantly
Nigger, the TUE fight is almost entirely scripted thanks to how the health "checkpoints" work.
Look into Story of Seasons. Its made by the original harvest moon devs, while harvest moon has been owned for some time by a new studio. It is a huge game, some vendors may take in-game years to unlock fully if you don't plan your finances and farming choices carefully. Its pretty grindy late game, but still fun until you perfect your profits with sheep and flax.
can someone redpill me about Dwarf Fortress
Either play Back to Nature on the PS1 or Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA. They're basically the same game, but both are great.
Currently playing Unavowed, having a blast.
The nods to the Blackwell series (which has its ups and downs, but I overall like) are great.
Need to check out Lamplight City next, by that guy that did Shadlight (which was good, albeit a bit underdeveloped).
Mah nigga.
Dumbed down Rimworld
Cave Story and Kero Blaster
I loved RoR1, haven't tried 2 though
Outer Wilds
Consortium
Creeper World 2
Scavanger SV-4
Eastshade
Xenonauts
katana zero
Only going to list ones that HAVEN'T been mentioned already in this thread.
Iji
VA-11 Hall-A
2064 Read Only Memories
SteamWorld Heist
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
Unworthy
Fran Bow.
Is it really indie anymore with publishers behind it?
Being a marketing employee at the company that made that game.
>picks the angier, flatter version of Lea
Everything by Amanita Design.
Penumbra series, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Soma.
Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers
Currently playing Jump King and Blazing Chrome
Also have around 350~ hours of Darkest Dungeon (bought during early access)
Was thinking of playing it again but the game has changed a lot from when I last played it.
I want to love this game. I want to enjoy it. It feels so clunky thought the controls are so sluggish. I get why they did it but I can't shake that jank feeling.
Primordial will always be my favorite
If I could have automated or delegated some parts of the shop part of that game toward the end it would have been 10/10
Lea is less my waifu and more my daughteru. I want to protect and make that mute retard happy.
>2064 Read Only Memories
first point and click adventure i played AND beat in literally 20 years
Mein nigga.
How you doin Clarence?
I want to replay Gemini Rue now. Thank you, user
>discord emoji
You need to go back
Odallus: The Dark Call
Cursed Castilia EX
Oniken
Blazing Chrome
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
bane of my fucking existence.
Touhou Mother
Gingiva
Middens
Lisa The Painful
Guacamelee
>muh sadness
I got tricked, this game is awful
worst controls possible for a metroidvania
my game, when it's finished
A Hat in Time
Pathologic
Undertale
The Binding of Isaac (Original, not rebirth)
Knytt Stories
Within a Deep Forest
Hotline Miami
Yume Nikki
Minecraft
Factorio
Darkest Dungeon
Baba is You
FTL
Cuphead
Enter the Gungeon
Subnautica
Unironically Undertale
This
>tfw three aussies shitposting in a basement somewhere blow the fuck out of AAA developers everywhere
Fuck it, I'm reinstalling. I'll actually beat it this time around, Yea Forums.
Would've been better if there was just straight up no goddamn dialogue or characters, their arcs are so mismanaged and the payoff is such a slap in the face.
theyre making another game its called fae tactics
highly replayable indies that aren't roguelites?
It's a AA game but I think it mostly fits this thread. It's certainly not a big name by any means.
It's like if minecraft had 10x shittier graphics but 1000x more realized potential.
To be fair everyone knows Hollow Knight is great already. I like that people are mentioning other games. Never heard of Darkwood before today and it's already being downloaded.
Watch Sseths video on it.
Basically if DnD was a fortress/town manager except obscenely more autistic down to the fact each of your 100+ population has their own anatomy down to various organs and even fingers and nails and interact in a procedural world with an entire fleshed out, rich, and meaningful history to it.
>Iji
Good shit.
Honestly I'd say it's borderline an immersive sim.
what a whiny little bitch
imagine not playing fun games cause you're too busy crying about companies
He said don't buy, not don't play.
Seperating art and artist here.
Fez
Muse Dash
Creeper World series
Slay the Spire
Deep Rock Galactic
Frostpunk
Princess Remedy
Hyper Light Drifter
House of the Dying Sun
If you're a real hard sci-fi RTS autist, Children of a Dead Earth is nice.
Lost in Vivo, pretty spooky controls are ok.
Duskers
Anyone played My Friend Pedro? How is it? I'm getting Hotline Miami vibes from it. And is the music good?
The music is fucking amazing.
Haven't played the game though. Looks unfunny.
Crosscode sucked
t. someone too shit to finish it
git gud
Is there any good indie mon games? The last really good mon game I enjoyed was Touhou Puppet Dance Performance, I liked it.
>indie of the year
>only indie game nominated for GOTY
>Yea Forums hates it
lel
I agree.
What said
I pirated Stardew and Wargroove and enjoyed the fuck out of them, but wouldn't give Chucklefuck another dime unless I was forced
I'm pretty sure Lea is into Emile, so she doesn't suck anything, she licks.
>Hyper Light Dogshit
>Limbo
>Good
lmao k
Pretty fun, it's only about 4 hours long and the final area has a bit too much platforming for my taste but otherwise it's great and has a lot of really good segments where the gameplay changes. Most of the replay value is going to come from replaying levels to get better times so if you're into that I'd recommend it.
>being such a brainlet you think *any* game is hard to pirate
???
Only list in this thread that isn't horrible taste
>knowing what it is
go back
lmao the kind of retards who would bitch about not having a female in subnautica could probably just be told "you're female now" with no differences and still think the dev is ~based~
Dusk
Hollow Knight
Celeste
Dead Cells
Nuclear Throne
Enter the Gungeon
Bastion
oh that is good to hear.
Iconoclasts was better.
Feels weird being the only person on earth that loved sundered.
I got annoyed with wave after wave of enemy charging at me whenever I went to explore anywhere. Does that ever get less annoying?
Have you played Magi Nation? It's extremely soulful.
I found the story really compelling, and Turing is great.
My favorite recent point and click is Thimbleweed Park which I should have listed as well. Mostly for the puzzle quality.
I wish I could play Iji again with my memories of it erased. Something about that game makes you feel like you should only play it once if you get the pacifist ending the first time.
At least its videogame related.
As someone who came from Harvest moon and got into Stardew valley, let me give you a heads up
Stardew valley is a poor excuse at a farming game stole most of it's ideas from HM and failed at implementing most in an enjoyable manner.
Seriously, the only reason Stardew valley succeeded was because it appeared for pc at the right time. Otherwise no one would have gave a shit.
Is this porn?
It's cute
>5
Its a crappy rune factory beat for beat. But still an enjoyable game.
this
The harvest moon franchise is quite dead though
maybe the natsume "harvest moon" games, but story of seasons and story of seasons: trio of towns were both pretty good.
>nuclear throne
>unworthy
>return of the obra dinn
>touhou luna nights
>Machinarium
>dead cells
>citizens of earth
>Journey
>DUSK
You aren't alone user. I'm just scared to recommend it because it gets shit on but I think it's pretty __fun___.
Gives a better Metroid feeling than Dead Cells for me.
I wish there was more porn of it
There is a story. It's just told in a very subtle but beautiful way. I know that that's not for everyone.
Only real complain I have is sometimes the artwork is a bit out of place with the overall tone, but the music design is top notch so it never fully takes you out of things.
>ori
>subtle
ESA is subtle. Ori's story threw subtle out the fucking window with the obnoxious companion character.
FUCK AQUIFERS FUCKING FUCK AQUIFERS UP THEIR INFINITE FLOODING TILE ASSES
TOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAADYYYYYY
Baba Is You
kind of goes without saying. Only downside really is the music being kind of boring/generic.
She's the original and Lea is based completely off of her and definitely not flat lmao
Also
>angry sex
>not good
Now that I checked the composers comments it seems he made the track in like 2 days and was under pressure. Making a proper 20 min track would have probably delayed the game too much
>what is convenience
The only brainlet is you, retard.
you're a brand-loyal faggot and wrong
>thinking any game is inconvenient to pirate
???
Minarai Mahou Tsukai Fuwaru no Bouken
Fantasy Explorer Nitroid
Lethal Crisis
Proto Sphere
Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
Rosenkreuzstilette
Freudenstachel
Megamari
Asakura! P
Fortune Summoners
Touhou Soujinengi
Lethal Application
Suguri
Sora
Kamui
RefleX
Alltynex 2nd
HellSinker
CCWI
Diadra Empty
Celeste
I love Rimworld
Fucking loved this game.
I was high on NEP the whole play through, did a bump every couple hours
Blssed Creations was kino
This. Fucking amazing game. It's pretty rare to find a horror game that can actually scare me anymore
Same, bud
>Furi
My nigga
It was garbage
loved it, too bad it released the same week as Celeste and just didn't get any attention.
I think I played more indies than AAA games
overrated garbage. It's only got visuals going for it
nigger I pirate games I already own because I cant be bothered to get up and physically insert them into the consoles
Farm Simulator
Royal went out like a bitch because he took a hit from the mental trauma beam after he blew the worm's eye out. Mina doesn't get a happy ending , she's still a lesbian in a society that condemns it. Elro was a pussy for pushing radical paradigm shift (developing the counteragent formula) and being totally ready to start a bloodbath then pulling a 180 as soon as the stakes were raised.
Everybody was massively flawed and only survived by dumb luck and Robin's perseverance.
Robin is cute!
...
Whoever made this image: You got me. Saving.
Stardew Valley, Terraria, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Cave Story and Rivals of Aether come to mind.
why is this kot so aesthetic?
Had more fun with the first game but you've got good taste, user.
hyperlight drifter?
FTL
celeste
shovel knight
stardew
rocket league
chiv
heroes of hammerwatch
binding of isaac
factorio
slay the spire
orcs must die 1/2
dungeons of dredmor
terraria
rimworld
cave story
bastion
obra dinn
20xx
atom zombie smasher
antichamber
momodora RUtM
spacechem
Undertale
Rock of Ages
Dead Cells
FEZ
VVVVVV
risk of rain
Lone Survivor
Bleed 2
Papers Please
Kero Blaster
Hollow Knight
If you haven't played some or any of these....what the fugg do you even play?
>Iji
I remember in my first playthrough I saved her brother by complete accident. It made killing Asha so much more satisfying on an otherwise pacifist playthrough.
I loved the earlier harvest moon's, but stardew does it better. That's not even factoring in the fact that HM is a shell of its former self. The only people who dislike stardew over HM or RF are those who only play the game for waifus.
the creator probably would've done porn of these characters to pay bills had this game done worse. shame on you for promoting it.
cave story
touhou
terraria
risk of rain 1/2
cant think of any other good indie games
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord.
Hand of Fate 2 is pretty good. TOo easy though. Cryptark was solid too. Rainworld was my favorite game this year, but I don't know if it counts as indie considering Adult Swim published.
Factorio
Soon
You mean like the vending machine that's in the game?
>The wedding party
journey is owned by sony
Hollow Knight
Shovel Knight
FTL
Darkest Dungeon
They Are Billions is a great RTS
The fucking wedding party scared the absolute shit out of me
...
Oh no, you said lmao k, now suddenly I don't like those games anymore!
Well, let's name a few
>Exanima
>RUINER
>Regions of Ruin
>Barotrauma
>Overgrowth
>Rimworld
>Kenshi
>Mordhau
>S-Slime rancher
>Sheltered looks interesting and it's highly reviewd
>Pavlov VR if you want VR
>House Flipper, pretty chill
>Super Hot
KCD, the best one.
The meme that "indie = shit" needs to die
Most AAA games these days are utter shit and independent studios are the last bastion of games made with genuine creative desire rather than lust for mass market appeal
98% of everything is shit
rainworld is great
They're shit at making games but they're okay at publishing them. Most of the games they published aren't my cup of tea but Eastward is looking pretty alright.
lmao is this the last of us in pixel form?
Not really indie they had a huge budget.
That and it was pretty shit desu.
This game still has a huge bug where if you pick up the map for area 3 and then pick up the map for area 2, your map for area 3 permanently disappears (and it's a bitch to navigate without the map since all the rooms look the same). Really sours the experience.
Travis Strikes Back
Aces Wild
Assault Spy
Riff Racer
Speed Brawl is alright from what little I played
Shiness
The Vagrant
Visage
Road Redemption
Paint The Town Red
Dakest Dungeon
Long Dark
Lobotomy Corporation seems good.
Deeprock seems good, but I'm not sure how great it is solo.
Gunpoint, of course.
>no Slay the spire or FTL
please apply yourself
AM2R
fuck nintendo
I've played tons of amazing indie games. Cave Story, Hotline Miami, Hollow Knight, Papers Please, FTL: Faster Than Light, The Curious Expedition... I'm sure there's even more
>subtle but beautiful way
the game is fine but save this for your english class, the story isn't subtle
Kingdom come deliverance
Road redemption
>not an indie game
>but it's good
This is actually rarer
>ctrl+f Thumper
>1 result
cringe thread! also;
>Rain World
>Inside
>Return of the Obra Dinn
>SOMA
>Hotline Miami
>Minecraft
>Infinifactory (I'm too brainlet for the other Zach games)
if we're exclusively talking about western games, there are more good indie games than good non-indie games in the past 5 years
ironically, these threads manage to be some of the best threads on this shithole
just shows how far we've fallen
steamworld dig 2 was surprisingly fun
what indie games will run on my potato pc
2d pixel games can be decieving, e.g. i doubt i can run Crosscode.
got quite boring 2 hours in
post speccy or hwinfo or just list your most relevant specs
610M, i2 2350M
baba is you
hotline miami
i have no mouth and I must scream I'm not sure this is technically an indie game or not
LISA
undertale
VA-11 HALL-A
downwell
what OS are you using and have you debloated and optimized n shit? I would do that on any PC but it's especially beneficial to low end PCs
Back to Nature was always my favorite farming game. Stardew Valley felt pretty weak compared to it, but maybe those are just nostalgia goggles.
I feel like Stardew Valley made snowballing your bank too easy. Half of the fun with Harvest Moon was that you never really had enough time or cash to do everything you wanted, so you had to prioritize.
With Stardew Valley I was done after the first year, the only thing I could have done was to just plant more and more fields with sprinklers.
Monolith: After The End
You are my niggas, Terraria is easily the best bang for your buck indie game, it's unreal how much I personally got out of this little gem. It's easily one of the best games period.
Genius of Sappheiros
>dying to hydra
user pls
Thanks, bro
Remembering the Blackwell series has me wanting to get back into Point and Click games
give me some rogue likes/lites
Post game is gonna come out after the New Game+ and the ports
>"""indie""" game
>run and shoot
Give me some gameplay innovation for a change
Anyone played Dragon Fantasy? I got a copy and haven't booted it up yet.
try devil daggers
undertale is great if you ignore the fanbase and most of the writing
>Watch Sseths video on it.
Fuck off, Sseth, your videos are unfunny.
Patrician as fuck
My nigga. Such an underrated little masterpiece.
Likely (You) farming or a shilling autist. Better than it could be but that's not saying much.
Play Rune Factory 4
Enter the gungeon
HK is pretty overrated honestly and it's posted here all the time. It's babby's first indie.
Not indie, but great game nontheless
Based as fuck.
Underrail is unironicaly one of the most underaprecuated CRPGs of this fucking generation and the fact people here dont know about that utter gem of a game just makes me sad. Its legitimately one of the best and most fun rpgs that actually make you feel both vulnerable and strong as fuck at the same time.
No, THIS is one of the most underaprecuated CRPGs of this fucking generation.
store.steampowered.com
Yeah don't care. They release good games and I'll buy them. Don't care what they do on twitter.
The series hasn't aged well and the recent ones are popular more for the series nostalgia than for their actual quality, but the early/middle 2hu games were legitimately some of the best danmaku on the market at the time of their release. Scarlet Devil and Cherry Blossom changed lives.
Cringe.
Environment Station Alpha
no, it’s slav magic
youtu.be
>it's been almost a decade
How can Underail be an RPG if you are foced to fight shit? just joking, I love this shit, expancion soon.
DANCE WITH ME
Dex, Satellite Reign, Rabi-Ribi, Recettear (Chantelise was also alright), Distance, Super House of Dead Ninjas, N++, Terraria, Momodora...
Hell, there's a lot, even just counting the few I actually played.
Back to trannyera with you
EXPANSION SOON
6 DAYS JACK
Owlboy
I'd say secrets of grindea but that shit has been in early access hell for FUCKING YEARS
Reading this thread has really revealed to me how few people here have played Rain World, or have heard of it.
>you rarely, if ever, get to hear The Coast's theme because you're usually hearing this instead
youtu.be
Now that we've got all the trash out of the way, what are the actually good indie games?
I-Fluid.
You can't pay for it anymore.
Such a fucking disappointment.
Wish those sprites would go with a good game.
Boring-ass game. All the pretty assets in the world can't disguise dogshit pacing, one-way dungeons and a game that ultimately borderline plays itself.
Owlboy is a cautionary tale for the ambitious.
Speaking of disappointmets, fuck, was Below a letdown.
time to prove you aren't a scrub
I can believe it.
Pic related, they really need someone to slap the hipster doofus out of the talent going on there so they can finally live up to their potential.
paid reviews or pandering to tranny devs or something. game is incredibly generic. could see it being a free flash game 10+ years ago.
>ctrl+f Towerclimb
>0 results
Please stop sleeping on one of the best roguelites ever made.
>ctrl-f Cloudbuilt
>no results
It still hurts. And I don't think it will ever stop.
>achievements are still broken and won't be fixed ever
FUCK Nicalis. Worse than niggers.
wasn't this game published by Microsoft?
I really tried to like it, but the game punishes you for trying to do anything but autistic speedrunning.
>hey, let's make great movement mechanic, good controls, and fuckhuge levels to enjoy this movement freedom
>but also let's make sure there's nothing in the game but "run from A to B in shortest and most linear way possible"
Rain World might be the best game I've ever played.
>roguelite
no
>indie game
>it' s actually RPG maker cumshit
What' s OP' s faggot name, Yea Forums?
But what does RPG maker have to do with OP?
Finally, at least somebody here plays obscure things.
>friends
>Yurifag claims they are totes in love with each other
Nah. Fuckoff
This is not just good, it's one of the best games I've ever played.
A Hat in Time
fpbp
God I need it. The scissoring, that is.
Don't forget the devs are perhaps the greatest game devs ever.
Super active, super communicative, and they update the game within HOURS if they ever accidentally introduce game-breaking or crashing bugs.
>eastward
>characters facing west
but singleplayer which loses a lot of the realized potential, but still gives it crazy amounts
Imagine being so retarded you use outdated NESW instead of based SWNE compass.
Is this actually a thing
Similar asset style but its built in Impact HTML5 engine. Run stupid smooth and they have a browser based demo even
Zenonia shouldn't have been as good as it was
the lack of slay the spire in this thread is disturbing
I know nothing about Factorio. Sell it to me
>Iconoclasts
Yikes, the game is trash and the dev should've worked on a sequel to Noitu Love 2.
Underrail, it's the sequel to fallout that Bethesda and Oblivion could not deliver. Min maxing and autistically dying to each encounter is my jam.
Why do those indie devs keep recycling the 90s low-res sprite in this day and age?
katana zero
pirated the game to test if it runs decently on my toaster and ended up finishing the whole game. will definitely buy once it goes on sale
>I have no mouth but I must scream
the graphics are a huge turn of to me couldn't I just read the book?
Y'all my niggas in this thread.
But you forgot Aquaria AKA Super Wetroid.
The short story is arguably superior, though it will likely leave you wanting more, so you'll probably play it anyways.
Here, have a radio adaption:
youtube.com
you're a humanoid life form that crash landed into this planet with classic beast aliens with hives and all, you start with pratically nothing, so first you get some iron, copper and stone, build a furnace, smelt the metals, and craft a drill and some automated claw things that can insert and take out materials from drills and furnaces and chests and conveyor belts
at first it's a struggle to get any sort of automation going, and that fucking feel when you first automate a drill to take out some iron from the ground, it shits the iron into the belt, the belt takes it to the furnace, a claw inserts the iron into the furnace, then when it's smelted, another claw takes it out of the furnace and into a chest, and after you're back from some exploring and gathering, you find the chest with multiple pieces of iron ready for you to craft into new tech, or maybe expand the iron production, then hours later you're controlling this huge factory you made, which you know inside out, it's fantastic
and the ambience and visuals are top notch, too, listen to a couple minutes of this:
youtu.be
(link with time)
imo play a randomly generated run blindly, it's really fun to figure how stuff works by yourself (though maybe look into a guide on how to start electricity the first time you're playing, that can be a bit annoying), and remember to turn off aliens expanding, or maybe just set them to passive altogether (but then they're irrelevant, so I don't recommend that)
also, on the map press TAB to toggle the polution markers (red transparent squares where the polution is reaching)
pirate it or buy it and refund if you don't like it after ~30 minutes, I pirated it, and deleted it in about 15 minutes and purchased the game on Steam
>It's literally free (You)s.
For what fucking purpose?
I know the thread is practically over but here's shit that I enjoyed immensely over the last couple months: Pathologic 2 (masterpiece, unironically - and of course nobody is playing it because people have shit taste on average), La Mulana 2, Muse Dash, Ion Maiden, DUSK, Into the Breach.
Shit movie.
Good game.
It looks harder than it actually is.
>Because they're hacks.
According to most people, a lot of devs making great games are hacks.
What's the game in your pic? Image search turns up nothing.
That but a shop helper so I'm not selling at barebones prices or missing out on that sweet xp
...Pathologic 2
I want to try this on my 3ds, but none of my usual sources have a rom
Any idea where to look?
>What's her name, Yea Forums?
>good indie
Guacamelee.
Into the Breach
Youre still shilling crosscode? It's turd
>the ending
>spend years on a solo passion project
>When you finally release it just happens to be right next to Celeste, the end all be all indie darling of that year
Iconoclast was fucking robbed. Sure Celecte is plenty good but its a damn shame things worked out like they did
I enjoyed the game but I think its story, world and lore in general are either badly executed or lack a lot of development despite the amazing base. It's like the author created an immense world and lore yet only showed 20% of it in the game.
The blue goo, the two motherships, ivory, the artificial and mechanical nature of the "planet", Father and the old buried city...
And Royal's demise is fucking inexcusable.
>start off as a little pussy who cannot even leave the room at night and shits itself when something knocks on the door
>halfway through the game: "Oh good it's only a villager/dog, not any of the other fucking shits, better get my molotov out"
>turn into Ash from Evil Dead/Guts by the end
love a game that gives you a good sense of progression
>Rain W
this. based and slugpilled
Is that the one that's a spiritual successor to flashback?
This thread lacks Spelunky. Also try Unexplored, you faggots, it is like proper roguelike, but in real-time and not on grid. No more bumping into enemies - you fence them to death.
fpbp
>DROD
My nigga.
Anyone who likes puzzle games (actual puzzles requiring logical though) should check out DROD.
Their other game Jotun was pretty good, but it could have been just a boss rush game since everything between the bosses is kinda bland and easy. When you actually get in those fights though its fantastic.
based Spelunker.
I love a few equally:
Terraria
Stardew Valley
Risk of Rain 1 and 2
Hotline Miami
FTL
I'm looking into Factorio because it looks like something that will join this list.
I still go back to cloudbuilt when I get that itch to just go fast. I fucking suck at it but when you hit your stride that game is damn fucking good
Factorio is toptier
really? lemme see.
holy fucking shit, that was that one anime that I used to watch on saturday mornings that I forgot the name of
Been playing loads of Northgard recently. It hits a real nice balence of running a thriving economy like in stronghold crusaders with enough RTS micromanaging to allow you to play more agressivly if you know what your doing. Campaign is decent and does a good enough job of introducing all the clans and game mechanics though its a bit short.
It's unironically easier to pirate than to buy a game.
I liked it
Streets of rogue is the deus ex sequel we've been waiting for since the first game
Add in literally every Zachtronics game
Help me Yea Forums
I want to play an indie game where everything starts funny, almost whimsical but, by the end I'll be saying "what in the name of ever loving fuck is going on" to the point where I'll be kinda spooked out