Indie game

I just picked this game up yesterday actually
any tips?
Any thing i should know?

undertale

Too many to list.

based and joyed

Don't feel obligated to do every quest
Equipment level > You actual level

don't bother 100%ing chests, theres a whole lot of useless shit in them

Vladis Story

Why didn't Crosscode sell better? UwU

get better at drawing

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Soul/soulless

Don't get autismal over losing the dungeon races.

terraria
starbound
stardew valley
subnautica
oxygen not included
prison architect

basically all of the games with most hours played on steam

Ah yes, the Cal Arts style of losing soul

>no more smug
SOILED IT

>Changed hands into paws
user!

With over six thousand reviews on steam, 95% of them positive, I don't think its hurting for sales.

I've never seen it mentioned on reddit so its shit

And some pretty much require a guide to get anyway.

there's a ton of side content, but don't let completionism ruin the game for you. feel free to move on and come back later.

Those hands just became fucking salad spoons and what you're fucking calling better is just fucking shaping everything like you've stuck your dick in a Super paper Mario cartridge.

the 2019 one is unironically worse, the only difference is they are using paint tools to draw straight/ish lines

too late

good weapons can be found in chests, only do crafting and trading for heal items (not to say they are required)

>no cuphead
>no cuphead
>no cuphead
>no cuphead
>no cuphead

I enjoyed Lobotomy Corporation.

Cuphead is the very definition of all style and no substance. It brings exactly nothing to the table gameplay wise that hasn't been done a million times already.

Cave story

I think Yea Forums is the only place with this default "indie games are bad" opinion. Indie gaming is better these days that most AAA games unless your a graphicsfag.

Am I missing something with Cave story?
Feels like any flash game I'd find on NewGrounds over a decade ago, except longer

Hollow Knight
SOMA
Inside by Playdead
Observation
Stories Untold
Katana Zero
The Outer Wilds
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Blasphemous
Deep Rock Galactic (free on Steam currently)

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>Deep Rock Galactic (free on Steam currently)

Not anymore, but it is on sale.

Furi and Hyper Light Drifter are tip-top

>Not anymore
it says its got a day and 17 hours left though

[INSERT GAME I DON'T LIKE] is the very definition of all style and no substance. It brings exactly nothing to the table gameplay wise that hasn't been done a million times already.

This but for Final Fantasy 6 and unironically

Bunny Must Die

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Apotheon

>it says its got a day and 17 hours left though
You're correct. I didn't click on the games page to see that information. My apologies.

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Shit, I haven't played this since high school.
Gotta give it another go sometime.

terraria
tangledeep
starsector
caves of qud
rabi-ribi

Somehow Yea Forums only knows indie games if it was mentioned by a lot of youtubers. Okay I'll give you a new one. Dicey quest.

anyone playing the 1.2 new game + update for crosscode? It's 40% on steam right now, pick it up if you haven't already

only indie games I've ever liked were Hotline Miami 1 and 2 and FTL. They just had a level of style, polish, and substance above most indie games.

oh yeah remember that time jacksepticeye played kero blaster
fucker

>Somehow Yea Forums only knows indie games if it was mentioned by a lot of youtubers.
Or if the dev posted progress on Yea Forums during development, at which point people will try and claim it as a "Yea Forums game" as if it was some kind of community project.

>kero blaster
That's old Yea Forums. 2014. Youtube for gaming exist back then but it's pure AAA crap and not what we have now when even the top youtubers play indie games.
If that was released now you know some fuck will play it and call it hidden gaems

I too watched all those popular Youtubers play Rabi-Ribi

It's not advertiser friendly.

CrossCode was my personal GOTY 2018

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Stardew Valley
Golf Story
BABA IS YOU

I'm playing CrossCode right now and I just beat Sapphire Ridge. It feels like it was rushed though, there was no proper dungeon here. How much more of the game is there before the final boss?

The Marathon Trilogy
Cloudbuilt
Lobotomy Corporation

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Fight n Rage, holy shit I love this game

Megabyte Punch - Smash-style movement and fighting, body/attack customisation.
Local co-op only, story focus, which is why it never got a big following.
It's made by Reptile, the guys who did Lethal League (i.e. it plays good, looks nice and has good music).

Clone Drone In The Danger Zone - Gladiators with robots, you start with just a sword and get to upgrade after you survive each round.
Damage is done exactly where each weapon hits, meaning you can remove limbs, decapitate etc.
The story is basic I guess, but is done well and has some good uses of the actual game mechanics (not going to spoil).
Hasn't finished yet, but is updating fairly frequently.

Anything by Zachtronics, at least I think they're indie. Either way, their games are all solid logic puzzlers ranging from connecting blocks together on conveyor belts to literally programming a fucking computer

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Bastion
Deadbolt (fantastic)
Dust: An Elysian Tail (but furry)
Magicka

You're pretty close to the end.

All indie games are trash.
Purge everyone in this thread aside from me.

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>Iji
>Bleed 1 and 2
>Shovel Knight
>Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls (Shovel Knight for poor people)
>Darkest Dungeon
>Cuphead
>Freedom Planet
>A Hat in Time
>Iconoclasts
>VA-11 Hall-A
>Bastion
>Recettear
Start playing, faggots.

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stardew valley.
it has its faults, but it triggers my autism.

>have a defined sense of style thats actually somewhat unique albiet unrefined
>turn it into cal art puke

every time

Hollow Knight is the better knight.

To the moon or A bird story.

Gunpoint
Monaco

Just started playing it a couple days ago. It's pretty good, but I dunno if I'll agree with you just yet.

>starbound
>good
pick one

Guacamelee 1 & 2.

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>Travis Strikes Again
>Good

>Travis Strikes Again
>Bad

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that whole sequence was amazing

Came here to post this, really fun management simulator. Especially going in blind.

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>asked about cross code when it came out
>Yea Forums said it was shit
>didn't download it

Wargroove, hollow Knight, Minecraft

FTL
Dead Cells
Deep Rock Galactic
Furi
Terraria
Tabletop Simulator
Gungeon
Spelunky
Stardew Valley
Hollow Knight
Indie games are unironically better than nearly all the garbage the AAA industry shits out.

>even the pixels became worse

It is, it just has nice art.

You say "actually" as though it's rare for indie games to be good, but I can name more good indie games from the last five years than I can name good AAA games from the last ten.

What are you looking forward to, indie bros?

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Steamworld games
Shovel knight
Hollow Knight
Celeste
FURI
GolfStory
StardewValley

Severe lack of Iconoclasts in this thread.

Everyone basically already told you. Don't feel obligated to do sidequests, in terms of stats your equipment is much more important than level, but level will let you unlock and upgrade stuff in your Circuit tree. If you feel like it, do the sidequests, if not, just advance the story. Only go back to do them if you're getting your ass kicked too quickly in the story.

Terrariariaisa

>machinarium
i used a guide

Yea Forums defaults to negativity, see River City Girls and how hard user was trying to push Twitter drama on it.
Next time, watch videos of the game and determine yourself if it's something you would be in to.

Someone post the before and after of the armored guy with the swords. I need to feel disappointed again.

it's kinda average and has too many cutscenes/dialog when the writing is awful

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Bur that's an ingame feature

wait really?
pic related is me

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>Pharaoh Rebirth
>Gigantic Army
>Shovel Knight
>Bloodstained
>Armored Hunter Gunhound EX
>Matilda Castilla
>Dreadout
>Rosenkreustilette
>Wolflame
>Zengeki Warp

Pixel Princess Blitz.

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Damn you fucking suck at this drawing thing.

why is this the only screenshot i ever see posted of this game?

just because something isn't completely original doesn't mean it lacks substance.

worse shit has been posted here and the cutscense can be skipped and the writing being bad is debatable

It's because this is the same thread every time. Same picture, same text. But it works as a "recommend indies" thread so no one really cares.

I like to sit in these threads waiting to see if my game will ever get mentioned. it never is

but anyways favorite indie games are freedom planet, hat in time, and wings of vi. Freedom Planet 2 is the next one i'm looking forward to

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is pic related your game? if not what is you game?

my gf loves stardew valley

Sonic Smackdown

Based and mechpilled, make sure to get Strania if you haven't already

pic related is freedom planet 2.

Ya but
Starbound is pretty good
Like
The devs are shit
But
Like
The game is pretty fucking good
What didint you like?

>Based and mechpilled, make sure to get Strania if you haven't already

Oh, I don't know anything about that. It's the frist I've heard. What's special about it?

It's just a really tight classic style vertical shump, main gimmick is a 3 weapon system where you pick them up for each slot then cycle between them on the fly. If you use a weapon enough it levels up giving you an end bonus once you clear the game, so the idea is to switch between weapons constantly and think about where you want to use which to max out their levels and get a good end point bonus. Amazing presentation also

Owlboy

fight me, I had more fun with it than with Celeste

>Freedom Planet 2 is the next one i'm looking forward to
I just hate these long silences.

I agree that owl boy was more enjoyable, but I don't think either are good.

Rimworld
Starsector
Starbound

Owlboy beats in aesthetic, story character and art, but it had shit piss poor quality gameplay

>people thinking the right is Cal-Arts
Are you guys blind? Looks more like an extremely anime version of clone high or a Genndy Tartakovsky cartoon.

And then they recycle it for the horseshit final boss.

>anime version
based retard

The fuck are you on about retard? Yeah, it looks like a more anime-y version of those cartoons. Don't fucking @ me.

What genre is your game?

Hypnospace Outlaw is probably the best game I've played this year. It's like a 90's GeoCities Uplink, where you play as a janny.

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They have many names

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2d platformer, but a better comparison would be guacamelee if it was more platforming focused than combat and has levels instead of metroidvania.

>left is freehand
>right is just using basic shape tools
Someone get /ic/ in here, they should see this.

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Cuphead is both style and substance. The controls, mechanics, boss design, weapon variety, sound, and art design are all top-tier.

This is the best indie game ever made

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>pic unrelated i assume?

You obviously haven't played it. It's way more refined than any of the SNES games it's 'inspired by'.

It's really not. It's mostly inspired by Alundra, and Alundra is way better. They threw in way too many shitty sidequests. Also, the busy artstyle combined with the confusing perspective of the overworld design is a visual clusterfuck.

lack of marketing
you can sell a piece of shit like overwatch or borderlands in the first week if you just hype the game up with commercials, but that shits too expensive for indie games
I only knew about cross code because of a youtuber who made a funny PSO2 video

>indie game
>it has good presentation but gets repetitive and boring

>Alundra is way better

It really is not. Alundra is much more of a slog and doesn't have anywhere near as much shit to discover.

if its iconoclasts, your game sucks

That definitely sounds like something that has a hard time getting noticed on steam, if only because there's so much coming out in the 2d platformer category. Good luck user.

WHEN THE FUCK IS FREEDOM PLANET 2
WHAT THE FUCK HAVE THEY BEEN DOING

>underrail
>age of decadence

Not sure if you even played both games because Cross Code is waaaay more of a slog with the boring sidequests that add nothing to the game. You spend half the time playing just trying to figure out the height of platforms across a giant mostly empty map just so you can jump up on them.

There's a serious lack of Katana Zero ITT

All 2d games are garbage.

ALL OF THEM.

YES INCLUDING THAT ONE YOU'RE ABOUT TO POST.
There are NO EXCEPTIONS.

who hurt you user? Why didn't they just finish the job and kill you?

You don't have to do the sidequests. I beat the game without doing most of the sidequests and it was fine, I wasn't even underleveled.

>implying side quests are mandatory
>implying shooting balls or even the shadow of your aiming particles doesn't indicate height

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IM FUCKING PISSED OFF AT TRIPLE TRIAD IN FF8 BECAUSE I WAS AT THE START OF DISC 2 AND FOUND A GUY IN A CELL TO PLAY AGAINST WHO HAD A SHITLOAD OF RARE CARDS BUT HE HAS THIS FUCKING NIGGER RETARDED PLUS/SAME RULE WHICH THE AI EXPLOITS EVERY FUCKING TIME AND I KEPT GOING BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH UNTIL ONE MISPLACED CARD FUCKUP COST 4 OF MY RARES AND IVE BEEN FIGHTINIG THIS LITTLE CANCEORUS NIGGER WITH HIS GAY FUCKING PLUS RULE EXPLOITS FOR 2 HOURS AND I RAGEQUIT THE GAME AND NOW MY LAST SAVE IS AT THE START OF DISC 2 HOURS AGO AND I DONT WANT TO FUCKING REDO ALL OF IT
GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I FUCKING HATE THE PLUS RULE
AND 2D GAMES FUCK ALL 2D GAMES. CASTLEVANIA IS TRASH, FIGHT ME.

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it's not and iconoclast does get mentioned sometimes at least

that's become painfully obvious, but it's a genre I really enjoy so I wanted to make that kind of game. At least next time might go better since I'm thinking of doing a 3d platformer. Still trying to think of something gameplay wise to make it stand out more.

Starsector

>Still trying to think of something gameplay wise to make it stand out more.
At least with 2D stuff, I feel it's not so much about reinventing the wheel but about polishing classics for the current generation. Shovel Knight, for example, is a classic capcom golden era nes platformer when it comes to gameplay, with snes graphics and modernized everything else.
But yeah, competent 3d platforming is very likely a much less crowded market. Especially since only hat in time really managed to get all round favorable feedback. There's definitely room for a small but competent game in the niche.

imagine sucking at ff8 lol

>tfw no qt 3.14 ginger french girl

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Zeroranger is the only good indie game

i've never seen a game that tries this hard to not be fun.

Freedom planet 2 FUCKING WEN

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Made for Samurai Bug cock.

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Sometimes I forget about this game and think its canceled.
Why can't they give bi-monthly updates like all the other indie devs?

Can't wait for Geneforge getting the remake treatment.

BUGGED.COM

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False.
Though Zer 0ranger is a good game, I agree.

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

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So does Celeste. I'll give the game this, it throws a lot of different challenges at you, however the basic platforming controls feel shitty. It could just be because I played with keyboard/mouse instead of a controller, but I did the same with hollow knight and they felt fine for that game.

Transistor.

I'm fearing Cris Tales might fall into this

Rain World
La-Mulana
Monolith
Environmental Station Alpha

You might not like it, but these are the greatest indie games of the eighth generation

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>Trials
>Trackmania

Published by Ubisoft

right is much better
cleaner lines and coloring
less deviantart trash tier heterochromatic eyes, etc
just better objectively

post some images niggers. cant expect me to google every one of these.

most point and click games have this

Haven't played it myself but the whole thing was one man's big passion project that took him years and on it's completion it was available for free. It's likely adds to the reason so many enjoy it.

plus they run perfect on every toaster, this is the reason I only play old and indie games

You'd probably dig No Man's Sky now that's its 'fixed'

That's Kaede Takagaki from Idolm@ster Cinderella girls, she has heterochromatic eyes in the original art but subtle like in the right drawing.

smash that uninstall and get your refund.

this comic sucks and you should feel bad for exposing people to it.

>Crypt Worlds 2
Do you really think it's coming out user? The kickstarter was almost 4 years ago. Even after the kickstarter he still went on twitter to beg for money in multiple gofundme's for him and his tranny boyfriend. They took the money and have made no games since then, and no progress has been shown of Crypt Worlds 2 in ages.

It's not coming out and what they "work" on now is completely unrelated. What ever else they show will probably never be released, let alone half finished.

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don't fucking cry
don't
fucking