Submitted 8 months ago by Magik11v@ani.social to games@lemmy.world
Show some love to some fantastic indie titles.
Since I don’t see anyone mentions it.
Tunic. The shortcuts are so cleverly hidden that allows you to easily break the sequence in your next playthrough. The manual translation felt just like back when I tried to understand japanese game manuals that come with game boy cartridges.
I was kinda frustrated by Tunic. Not gonna lie. It’s clearly a masterpiece but you have to play old school and write every single little thing down. Go back and forth for days.
Chains of Echoes is tied with Chrono Trigger for best JRPG of all time and my mind won’t be changed. Now if only anything else could soothe that itch. I love that you absolutely never 'Just click Attack’s over and over to save MaNa.
Tied with Chrono Trigger? That’s some insanely high praise. Why do you say that, exactly? I’ve never played Chained Echoes, so just curious.
Inside, Subnautica
I’m replaying subnautica after a few years since my first playthrough. I thought that it was more of a one-time experience than a replayable game but enough time has passed that my memory is more of a general feeling than remembering specifically where everything is, so it’s been surprisingly engaging. Without even trying, I’m pretty sure the way I’m going through everything is different from my last playthrough, too.
Just finished my first permadeath vegan play through (never caught a single fish, though I admit I ran over a few hundred).
i finished the game without hatching eggs so that’s something I’d do on my next play, i also missed the large strider crab creatures on my first play. going into the second game, I’m taking advantage of all the new tech before progressing the story because i managed to get halfway through the first one without crafting a proper base
oooh, yes!! i forgot Inside. i loved that game.
juicy atmosphere and environmental storytelling, my favourite >:)
Spiritfarer. Probably one of the most touching games I’ve ever played. What Remains of Edith Finch. Stardew Valley. Firewatch.
Return of the Obra Dinn. City Game Studio. Until the Last Plane and Full Metal Sergeant (by the same dev).
The “To the moon” games. They are heavly Story based but they are also one of the few games where I cried like a toodler.
I only played the first one, and it just dodn’t have as much of an impact on me as I was hoping for. OMORI on the other hand…
Stardew Valley by a wide margin, probably dumped close to 1000 hours into it overall
Looking forward to the patch on Tuesday?
Kinda but I also have to be careful because how addicted I get to it, also in the middle Rebirth
Factorio, Don’t Starve Together
Off the top of my head:
Cave story the og … man what a game
To the Moon - gonna have my partner play it here soon so they can cry from it too
Citizen Sleeper, one the the best games, not just indie.
Played this on Gamepass. It had a wonderful story, and getting each unique ending was so satisfying <3.
Spelunky. My Vita was basically a Spelunky machine.
Disco Elysium. Best writing and storytelling I’ve ever played.
Agreed 1000%. That game is phenomenal. It has made me laugh so hard I ended up crying, well and sometimes I was just crying. An emotional roller coaster, superb writing.
My husband was playing it and I thought the game looked terrible, but he kept saying I should try it and I can’t put into words how fucking happy I am that I chose to try it. Can’t believe I almost missed out on it. Truly a masterpiece.
Visuals are great too. A blending of a noir movie, a psychedelic trip and an abstrac painting. A rare beast.
The Oregon Trail, Pong, Myst, Doom, Worms, Transport Tycoon, Tetris…
Bug Fables It’s a really well done RPG in the spirit of the original Paper Mario games. Charming and fun to play. Got some depth to the build choices using a similar badge system as Paper Mario or even Hollow Knight.
I don’t know why Nintendo won’t just give us a proper Paper Mario again. What is their problem? It’s so annoying. Bug Fables was fantastic though definitely hard agree.
Shattered pixel dungeon Many hours put into this game
Valheim is one of the best, especially with frends
Shame the updates come at such a glacial pace though…
It is a small indie team, that doesn’t want to crunch their devs. I can live with that.
Binding of Isaac. When it finally came out on the switch, I played it more than Breath of the Wild.
I played it to completion. Then Rebirth came out and I played it to completion (barring The Lost, because come on). I only recently picked up Repentance and I’m already another 200 hours in.
❤️, or perhaps I should say ❤️🤍🤍💙💙🖤💔
The Lost at least gets significantly easier once you unlock the holy mantle for him. The Tainted Lost though…
Incryption
You are in a weird cabin in the middle of the woods playing a card game with your fate on the line. Some of your cards are talking to you and comment on how you play.
Then things get weird.
For those that like Inscryption, honorable mention for Hand of Fate 1 & 2
I’m not any good at deck building games, but my girlfriend is pretty close to platinuming it on PS4 and I have to say, that game just gets weirder and weirder.
Daniel Mullins will be recognized as a true artist in the coming generations.
Literally never have I seen such detailed, years pre-planned and perfectly delivered mind fuckery.
Across ALL of his games.
He’s insane in the best way.
Are Journey and Outer Wilds considered indie games?
Outer Wilds certainly was. It was started as a college project and the devs stayed together to finish it after they graduated.
Journey I’m not so sure. I don’t think it’s indie? If it is indie, then I’d put The Pathless up for consideration. That game finished what Journey and Abzu started, and it has some of the best feeling overworld movement of any open world exploration game I’ve ever played. Flawless.
Oh good shout, I remember being intrigued by The Pathless when it came out but never got around to trying it!
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (ASCII mode) and Neofeud hold a special place in my heart
Does STALKER count? I love the atmosphere of the games.
If not I've sunk a lot of time in Mini Metro
I played A Short Hike recently, and I was transported. It’s a painterly little adventure in which you walk and glide your way through an archipelago, meeting people and solving small puzzles, mostly around platforming. It’s amazingly soothing. First game my wife actually enjoys too, and she’s not into games at all.
Not technically in their bedrooms but made by students - Narbacular Drop. It was the game that spawned Portal. It’s not a great game, per se, but I’ll never forget the paradigm-shifting moment I had when I realized what was happening.
Valve ended up hiring the entire team to work on Portal.
Orwell, the first one
Fall Guys, back before the vaulting fiasco
Dishonored, when it first came out.
I’m not sure Arkane and Bathesda could be considered as indie devs at the time of release. Bathesda had released Skyrim the year before.
That’s true, I was just talking about Arkane.
Undertale.
+1 for Insurgency. It’s more “mid shelf” than “indie”, but either way it’s an absolutely superb military shooter, and one that actually does a really good job of avoiding the usual MURICA bullshit that is so endemic to the genre. Combat is portrayed as genuinely scary. The voice actors all do an amazing job of displaying fear and panic in their line reads. Even the Russian voice is very obviously masking his fear behind a veneer of machismo, which is a refreshering change from the usual image of the macho badass soldier that these games present.
I also really appreciate that female characters are present, but only on the security forces, because the insurgents are clearly intended to be ISIL, and they’re not gonna whitewash how shitty those guys are to women. OTOH, the insurgents are still portrayed as (shitty) human beings who look out for each other, and react in very genuine ways to the scary situation they’re in. No one ever yells “Allah akbar” or whatever.
Battle Brothers: Battle Brothers is a turn based tactical RPG which has you leading a mercenary company in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go, whom to hire or to fight, what contracts to take and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign. The Godfather of Squad-Management-Games!
Songs of Conquest: If you like Turn-Based-Strategy and know HoMM3, you will love this game! Songs of Conquest is a turn-based strategy game inspired by 90s classics. Lead powerful magicians called Wielders and venture to lands unknown. Wage battle against armies that dare oppose you and hunt for powerful artifacts.
OMORI is incredible. The gameplay is okay (typical JRPG stuff), the music is okay (I’ve heard better in other games), but the storytelling is some of the best in all of video games, up there with Silent Hill 2 and 3.
The Binding of Isaac is an incredibly addicting game. It’s basically rougelike 2D Zelda dungeons, and upgrades stack on top of each other. It’s the game that I have the most hours in on Steam (specifically the much better-programmed remake, Rebirth). The DLC is great as well, adding a ton of content.
SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FTL, Rimworld.
I have about 5000 hours just on these two
kinther@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FTL sucked me in for a few years. I still have yet to get the crystal cruiser