What are the best Independent Studios in your opinion

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• WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Supergiant

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  • secondaccountlemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    just hit after hit with them.

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• Renacles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Larian is about as passionate as a team can get about the games they make, it’s hard not to love them.

  Deck 13 went from making a crappy Dark Souls rip-off to making really good games.

  Gunfire Games knocked it out of the park with Remnant and is now releasing a sequel that every preview seems to love.

  Team Cherry made Hollow Knight, probably the best indie game ever made, maybe one day they’ll bless us with Silksong.

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• julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Valve, by a far stretch. Also they support their games for a long time. Sadly they don’t make as much games as they could, because of the money printing machine that is Steam.

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  New Blood Interactive. Published games like ULTRAKILL, Dusk (made by same guy as Iron Lung), and Amid Evil.

  Additionally, these aren’t studios, but my favorite games lately have been The Long Drive, Voices of the Void, and Cruelty Squad.

  Cruelty Squad is a stellar immersive sim that’s also about as visually offensive as you can get, which only makes it better. The premise is that you’re a hitman in a gig economy that exists in a world overrun by wall street investors and cryptobros. Death isn’t permanent, morality doesn’t exist, and everyone is evil. Cruelty Squad is fucking art.

  Voices of the Void is a game where you play as a astronomer at an isolated radio observatory, looking for messages from the sky. It’s good. It’s fun. It’s spooky. It’s silly. There’s a ton of secrets and places to explore. It’s also free. You have no excuse, check it out.

  The Long Drive is “streamer-bait” which also happens to be the best driving game I’ve ever played. No, it’s not the best racing game, nor the best car game, but it is the best driving game. No, seriously, it really is. It’s a survival game where you get a letter from you mother asking you to come to her house. There’s only one problem. She’s 5000km away and you have a shitty, beat up car that can barely hit 60km/h. Oh, and the world ended in 1979. So it’s you, your car and 5000km of road with the occasional pit stop for supplies and better parts. My favorite thing is that any car/bike can fit any engine or wheels. You can absolutely pull a diesel out of bus and put it on a moped.

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  • Laffytaffer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cruelty Squad is such a bizarre beast. It’s an ugly, unpleasant, and overstimulating game that feels hostile to somebody trying to play it. And despite that, it lives in the back of my head as one of the most unique gaming experiences I’ve had in ages. The game fucking rules. 10/10 I am a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters

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• Olap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Team17

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• Malachiasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Annapurna Interactive (outer wilds, what remains of Edith Finch).

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  • hakei@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Annapurna is the publisher of those games. Outer Wilds was developed by Mobius Digital, whereas What Remains of Edith Finch was developed by Giant Sparrow.

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    • Malachiasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are correct. I guess Annapurna can be considered a “publisher with good taste”.

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• KarhennettuTurtana@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a soft spot for “one man kiosks” like Hempuli (Baba Is You), Lucas Pope (Papers Please, Return of the Obra Dinn), panstasz (World of Horror) and Miro Haverinen (Fear & Hunger).

  Gotta shout out Larian and The Game Kitchen as well, their work is phenomenal.

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• Silviecat44@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Klei, subset, ghost ship, team cherry, hello games,

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• palindrome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does Remedy Studios count? I’m not sure if they have a parent company

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  • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looks like they are a publicly traded company, not owned by a larger studio

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• Selgauth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  boneSAW games

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