What are some hidden gem indie games Yea Forums?
What are some hidden gem indie games Yea Forums?
Ethan Lee
Jace Cooper
Skyrim Special Edition
Landon Ross
Unfortunately the devs went bankrupt.
Luke Williams
onirism
James Smith
Dustforce, the best "precision platformer" in my opinion.
Robert King
I'll post two or three favorites and then a list of a few more.
>Aztez
Imagine a 2D action game with all the combo freedom of DMC with all the enemy aggression and feeling of being outnumbered of Ninja Gaiden. Now give it a historically-accurate Aztec flavor and a Sin City/Madworld "monochrome except for blood" aesthetic. Now imagine the campaign was a 4X strategy game where you have to unique 15th Century Mexico to fight off the impending Spanish invasion by having your legendary warriors calm rebellions, quash plagues, and compete in festivals. That's Aztez. It's the best 2D action game ever made and just a great game in general. You can use the Fist weapon to bob and weave through conquistador gunfire, teleport behind them with a magic dagger, launch them with a spear, switch between them and a sword during your air combo, sacrifice each one's blood to the Rain God, and then steal their guns as a weapon type.
Nathan Martin
Nex Machina: Arguably the most well made twin-stick arcade game ever made. Made to move fast and designed so that perfect runs on each stage can build into each other encouraging perfect runthroughs for max score. Also fun fact, it was partially designed by Eugene Jarvis of Smash TV and Robotron fame
Frozen Synapse 2: Very technically complex turn-based game about ordering soldiers on a 2D plane to plan out their moves beforehand and then letting turns play out in 5 second intervals. Unfortunately the devs dropped the ball at launch with crashing issues and the game never really recovered. Would highly suggest getting it if it ever ends up in a Humble Bundle as a multiplayer community could come back then
Also suggesting this. I wouldn't have called it a 'hidden gem' back in the mid 2010's, but I feel like most people have forgotten about it and people new on the PC scene will not have played it
Joshua Murphy
Vagante. Really fun, somewhat like Spelunky, but as an RPG with classes, online coop up to 4 players, different classes with different skills you can level up.
It's a roguelite, but a good one at that. There's more focus on thinking things through than on quick reactions.
Jeremiah Cooper
Lucas James
the end is nigh. literally a better super meat boy that didn't get half the attention it deserved.
Connor Gomez
Pyre is underrated because the modern gamer has the attention span of a goldfish
Leo Carter
the best indie game this gen was Kingdom Come Deliverance
Xavier Murphy
>Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
Another 2D Action hybrid game, this time with Match 3 & Cooking games. You go out into one of four biomes, kill monsters and harvest plants for ingredients, run back to the kitchen and start making dishes that fit both judge's tastes and the chairman's theme ingredient (Iron Chef style). It all flows really well and gives you that feeling of having to juggle multiple dishes with different recipes while making sure you can consistently find and kill some of the tougher enemies with great ingredients, especially when you get into how you can have different combat equipment, extra ingredients in your pantry, and special cookware with different matching rules. Super charming story too, and a good number of extra content for after you beat it as well, including a daily challenge.
Anthony Robinson
Honestly, I think Pyre might be the best of Supergiant's offerings.
That said, it's definitely not for everyone. Anyone who's not keen on 'books-as-games' type stuff is really gonna bounce off it.
Sebastian Murphy
Tinertia. Rocket jump twin stick platformer. Insane skill ceiling.
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Carson Anderson
Published by Deep Silver. Hell, Vávra outright said in the Kickstarter that it was entirely to show that there was interest in the title to publishers
Dominic Harris
they should've made the normal mode a little harder. i didn't start to have any "oh shit" moments until a certain character with little hope showed up.
Cameron Fisher
Obra Dinn is my favorite game in the last 5 years
Brayden Diaz
Dustforce is the height of difficult platformers, and it's a damn shame that Super Meat Boy is what will be remembered by most.
SMB is a good game in its own right, but Dustforce beats it in difficulty (at the end), presentation and music without a doubt.
Luke Gomez
Synthetik, best isometric shooter roguelite out there.
Gungeonfags and Thronebutts don't know what they're missing out on.
Asher Barnes
>Ultra Fight Da! Kyanta 2
This game is a clusterfuck in the absolute best way. It's a fighting game that I can only really describe as CvS2 on crack. You pick KOF-style teams of simplistic but distinct characters that each have a choice of two supers and you choose a "groove" equivalent for each individually. There's no motions so it's all reactions, neutral, and execution. It's also 100% free on Steam with more content on the way since it's technically Early Access but it has so much there already.
Leo Thomas
Life Goes On: Done to Death. Solve puzzles by killing yourself. Equally goofy and morbid.
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Brody Evans
Ghost of a Tale is very good
Hunter Gonzalez
Dustforce is fantastic, but I think N++ is the superior platformer overall.
John Wright
The Messenger and Axiom Verge.
Ayden Thomas
that's like saying Hotline Miami isn't indie because Devolver Digital published it
an independent studio is still independent even if it has a publisher
Joshua Sanders
How is it bros?
Zachary Moore
These are definitely going on the wishlist
Jackson Rivera
This isn't a 'they helped with distribution' publisher deal. They outright got money for development from Deep Silver, stating that the Kickstarter was literally to help them get that
Juan Allen
Asher Perez
i got it when it was free. it's got nice art but everything else is meh. i wouldn't recommend it. go watch a playthrough on youtube if you like the art style.
Asher Garcia
Also forgot to mention that Kyanta is developed by one Japanese dude and it shows in the how everything is MSPaint drawings and the sound/music is all over the place in a good way. It's a really charming game. Anyway:
>Spark The Electric Jester
This is my favorite Sonic game. It has that sense of momentum, sprawling level design with verticality, and bursts of very high speed that 2D Sonic at its best does, while also having fun and fluid combat mechanics that use a set of Kirby-style abilities, two of which you can have at a time. This makes enemies and bosses a lot more interesting to encounter. The music is also fucking STELLAR. There's a sequel that is in 3D and goes for something similar with Adventure-era Sonic games, but I haven't played it.
Elijah Long
N++ both has better mechanics and is much more difficult.
Nolan Phillips
The King's Bird is a really nice platformer, beautiful visuals to boot
Austin Evans
>much more difficult.
bait, see
Blake Nguyen
N++ is the hardest platformer in existence and takes about 1000 hours to 100%
Anthony Rodriguez
you're equating time spent beating levels to difficulty. see the problem? dustforce has very, very deep mechanics beyond what they teach you in game.
Jose Gutierrez
I bet I can do it in half a day
Mason Diaz
>that thumbnail
Sebastian Thompson
Age of Decadence
Knytt Underground
UnReal World
Brigador
Hammerfight
Absolute Drift
Xavier Cooper
Rainworld. Underrated sleeper hit that was too hard for journalists to even cover.
Leo Sullivan
N++ has the most in-depth physics system of any platformer out there by a mile. It is not just the amount of content (you can speedrun the game in a few hours), it is just brutally difficult and requires extensive knowledge of game mechancis and physics, mechanical skill, and knowledge of how to approach levels and how AI systems work.
Joshua Peterson
N++'s secret challenges are absolute bullshit. It's one thing to get all gold, but another thing entirely to avoid certain objects and hit weird out of the way switches that are placed in the most devious way possible. 100% takes 1000+ hours for a reason.
I am convinced the game was designed by masochists for masochists.
Aiden Cruz
Luis Bailey
Here's a list of some other indies I've liked a lot lately:
>Aces Wild
This is just behind Aztez in terms of being one of the best 2D action games of all time. It's completely unique in its approach to combat; it's a weird mix of Otogi, Bangai-O, and Arcana Heart with a bit of God Hand's adaptive difficulty.
>One Finger Death Punch
This is basically the game you wanted out of all those stickman fight flashes you watched a decade ago like Xiao Xiao. It's stickmen martial artists getting slaughtered by one exceptionally skilled stickman in wave after wave, level after level, map after map, and yet it only uses two buttons (by default left/right click). Has a sequel too.
>My Friend Pedro
Came out this Summer without a ton of fanfare here on Yea Forums (likely due to "quirky" humor, which in all fairness is pretty poor) but it's a really great 2D run & gun platformer with some really strong level design and great controls (including letting you twirl in midair while firing and aim dual-wielded guns in separate directions). Great music too.
>Way of the Passive Fist
A subversion of the beat-em-up genre (and not in a pretentious way). You cannot attack until you fill a meter via parrying enemy attacks first, and each enemy has a certain pattern you need to learn. If parries are your shit and you like learning the rhythm to pull them off against certain enemies, this is a whole game of that.
>KO Mech
A cute, if janky, little Bangai-O clone made by some guy on Yea Forums. He gave out like 50 keys in a thread one day but I didn't get one so I got it for 99 cents in the last Steam sale. When it's that price again I think it's worth a shot if that sounds good to you.
Andrew Ortiz
>KO Mech
Added to wishlist
Jacob Turner
valdis story
within a deep forest
relic hunters zero
westerado double barreled
crimsonland
darwinia
heat signature
ronin
Henry Brown
I beat Rogue Legacy. I loved it. I desperately want more.
Josiah Morgan
i should get back to that game. haven't touched it in years.
Brody Peterson
One of my most favorite games
Joshua Young
Why do these threads only have western indie games and other threads only have eastern indie? Do people not like both?
David Gray
Because the thread consists of people just shilling their garbage games
Kevin Hughes
can't think of any recent eastern indies off the top of my head that i played
Jayden Davis
>hidden gem
>posts super popular games
Ryder Gray
What threads have eastern indies? Doujin devs dont care about bringing their games to the west much and they obviously dont interact with western communities much either so only some groups like shmup fans seek out doujins actively while no one else knows about them.
Luke Wood
user I'm pretty sure the point of OP's pic was just to establish to people browsing the catalog casually that the thread is about indie games
Grayson Adams
Fuck off retard weeb and stay in your jizzbrain containment threads
Daniel Walker
I love Dungeon of the Endless.
Scratches my itch for a good tower defense game and dungeon crawler.