Show some love to some fantastic indie titles.
Several hundred hours of Oxygen not included…
What are the best indie games you've ever played?
Submitted 8 months ago by Magik11v@ani.social to games@lemmy.world
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EarMaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yamanii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fight N Rage was my favorite beat’em up before Streets of Rage 4 released, made by mexicans I think, very stylish and manga influenced, tons of juggling and branching paths.
Valdis Story was the hollow knight of it’s generation, awesome metroidvania with great bosses and combat with good combos, but it didn’t got tiresome like castlevania mirror of fate because regular enemies weren’t health sponges, bosses were where you let loose.
AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hotline Miami. Would appreciate recommendations of similiar games.
hakase@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Salt and Sanctuary and Hollow Knight
besmtt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IDK if this counts, but I loved SPACEPLAN.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Signalis just affected my fucking life it was really something else.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Me too and I didn’t even play it, just watched a few lore videos about the story and now WHAT ARE THESE TEARS DOING ON MY FACE?!?
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
Untitled Story was by the person who made Celeste. It’s old and looks like it was made in mspaint, but it was such a good metroidvania.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rain World and Space Station 13
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rodina is a very cool space game. You fly a starship - which you can completely design and walk around inside - around an open solar system. You land on planets ( seamlessly in real-time) and collect pieces of the very awesome scifi novel-like story. I believe there are now enemy alien bases you enter, but when I played the real draw was the incredible lonely atmosphere of space. It has some of the best newtonian space flight/combat I’ve played to this day, and the gun play is kind of like old school Doom. I’m sure it’s come quite far since I played years ago, but it was literally a one man project at the time.
Anyone who likes space scifi should play it. It’s incredible.
cafuneandchill@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember playing a very early version of this; at the time, it looked very cool, even if somewhat basic
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
There’s a lot I could list here, but I’ll focus on a few that I’ve played recently, that don’t seem to be getting as much mention.
Slay The Princess - A literally flawless game. I genuinely mean that. There’s not a single thing about this that I can think of to criticise. The writing is fantastic, the art is beautiful, the voice acting is note perfect and the score is gorgeous and haunting. The concept is insanely inventive, and the execution even more so. I finished my first run in about 3 hours, and then looked at what other people were saying about the game and realised that I had only just scratched the surface. As in, other reviews seemed to be describing an almost entirely different game to the one I played, because literally every choice matters.
OTXO - Roguelike Hotline Miami with bullet time and a bartender who sells bottled superpowers. There’s really not much more to say than that. The soundtrack is like a Trent Reznor fever dream, and the whole thing has the feeling of encountering Quake for the first time. Just a mad demented bloodrush of insane violence coming at you non-stop.
Vampire Survivors - It’s super cheap, it’s super chill, it seems like absolutely nothing and then oops its 3am and you’re telling yourself you can still get in one more run (no, for real, this game actually fucked with my sleep for a while).
Shadows of Doubt - OK, this one is still early access and I don’t actually recommend buying it right now, but absolutely wishlist it for the 1.0 release. It’s rough around the edges at the moment, but GOD FUCKING DAMN WHAT A GAME. The sheer audacity of the idea behind this is unbelievable; a fully procedurally generated “city” (about a 3 x 4 block grid on medium size) where every room of every building can be entered and explored, and contains a business or a resident. Every person in the city (up to around a 1000 at the largest sizes) has a complete life; a job in the city that they go to at scheduled hours, places they like to hang out, relationships, maybe a partner, fingerprints, medication for medical conditions, a blood type, a shoe size, height, weight, age… And they do crimes, which you then get to solve for money. You’re a PI, in a demented alternate history 1979 (“The Bourbon Empire never fell and now Coca Cola is the President of a retro-cyberpunk dystopia”), down on your luck and taking any job to get by. And when I say “solve crimes” I mean it. This is, IMO, the first game ever to get detective work right. There’s no Arkham “Turn on detective vision and walk around until you see all the clues” going on here. You have to actively think about the crime and how to approach it. You can canvass witnesses, dig through government databases, gather prints and match them to a murder weapon, examine the corpse and make inferences about the time of death from which you can pull security footage and look for suspicious characters. You chase down leads, some of which end up as total dead-ends. You have a god damn pin board with string on which to put all your evidence, and then cover it with sticky notes. And it’s all you doing this. The game has a tonne of helpful quality of life elements designed to make the process of gathering and assessing evidence as frictionless as possible, but you’re the brains. It’s on you to actually make the deductions and connections and puzzle out what happened. This game is a work of demented genius and I’m slightly scared of the people who made it.
GreenAlex@kbin.social 8 months ago
If I had to pick one it would be Terraria. But there are many good options.
wetnoodle@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Haven’t seen these mentioned, Citizen Sleeper and In Other Waters by Jump Over the Age are incredible games, beautiful artistically and really great world building
msgraves@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Undertale. It was the best game I’ve ever played and I can never play it again. This game lives rent free in my head, in my fanworks, in the music I listen to and make. It’s a game that combines technology and art.
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hollow Knight Hyperlight Drifter Ori series Dead Cells Banner Saga series Into the Breach Bastion Monument Valley Child of Light Gris Limbo
Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Universal Paperclip
halfway_neko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
i couldn’t put celeste down the first time i played it.
very fun game :3
i also remember a game called webbed, where you were a spider and got to do actual web physics and swinging. That was pretty cool.
nivenkos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Shadow Empire without a doubt. Practically a one-man team, and yet a better logistics and supply system than any other game out there.
Jakdracula@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Baby hands.
sag@lemm.ee 8 months ago
POST VOID and Brotato