While Take-Two is riding high on their announcement that a GTA 6 trailer is coming, its CEO has some…interesting ideas on how much video games could cost, part of a contingent of executives that believe games are underpriced, given their cost, length or some combination of the two.
Thank fuck for indie devs making the best games right now at an affordable price.
I have over a thousand games in my steam library and my most played is dominated by indie games.
I am curious which indie titles you would recommend.
Kingdom Come Deliverance is easily in my top 3 favourite games ever, counting as far back as home world 1 (which also ranks in those 3.) If you give KCD a go be warned though, it will relentlessly punish you for any foolishness early on. It’ll make you work for every thing, no starting out as some warrior running down mobs of bandits. But it pays out with a true RPG experience that rewards incremental skill progress.
In the last decade, apart from the witcher 3, only Indy studios have produced truly memorable experiences for me.
Disco elysium
Yea, I wouldn’t give them any money, though. The actual creators got fucked and any purchases of the game go to the people that fucked them. Great game, but I’d sail the seas for it.
What’s your genre?
First person shooters
Check out Splitgate not indie but I had a good blast with my friends
I thought Split Gate was shutting down.
Otherwise I’d agree it’s great fun.
Tower defense and strategy in general.
Mindustry
Cool, thanks. Wishlisted this.
For strategy paradox games are always fun
Do you mean Paradox Interactive? Publishers of Stellaris, Europa Universalis, etc.
Yeah
Not exactly a minor indie game by any means, but bloons td6 is the game I’ve player the most on mobile by some distance. It’s £6 with no microtransactions and a shit load of content. If you like TD games this is a home run.
If you want something competitive, Legion TD2
Looks interesting, thanks.
Try Factorio, its fantastic
Thanks! On my wishlist already.
Can you recommend any dungeon crawlers or survival games?
Neverwinter Nights has 20+ years of custom content, runs on almost anything, is still getting graphical & engine updates and has modules & persistent world servers that cover both of those genres & more.
TIL: NWN is still alive.
For the king (1&2) & Valheim
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is my all-time favorite mobile game. It’s a Rogue-like with hundreds/thousands of ways to win; but be prepared to be humbled.
See I normally like this type of game but struggle to get into this one in particular. I’m also confused about most items in it.
Literally just made it to the shop keeper after defeating the slime boss. It’s a hell of a game. Maybe one of the best.
Ape Escape is very quick to pick up and a blast to play. It’s more of the old school side scrolling style, but definitely in the survival theme.
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Hades on the Switch might be right up your alley
Some dungeon crawlers I enjoyed: Hades, Enter the Gungeon, Torchlight 1 & 2, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Legend of Grimrock, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
For a literal dungeon crawler: Demeo
I have over 1600 hours in Binding of Isaac.
You seem like the kinda fella that could appreciate Brotato too :-)
Edit: Some of these are not necessarily indies (solo or small team devs), it’s more like indie/niche games I consider good.
Non Steam (yet):
Not in any specific order, my steam library is about 80% either Indie or non-AAA.
In addition to that:
Many more of course.
It’s like people don’t know Brotato even exists!
So many Bros.
Would you say bastion is the best supergiant title pre-Hades? I’ve been eyeing both that and transistor for a while
I would. But I didn’t play a lot of their games. Bastion is kind of unique. Story is pretty linear but its structure is quite a novelty. There’s an awesome narrator that is telling the story, but he reacts to everything you do and has a snarky sense of humor. Game is well designed action RPG with a good variety of weapons and in my eyes very little replay value. Still worth the asking price though.
In addition to these games I find these games below to be an absolute hoot
Chained echoes is also a banger
CrossCode! Why is this freaking game still such an underdog?
Zero Sievert is also well worth mentioning.
Yeah, CrossCode is absolutely amazing. I didn’t hear about it until recently. I’m so glad I didn’t completely miss out on it. It’s like my number 1 favourite game now and I almost missed it.
I like to make sure I bring it up anytime people ask about good games they may not have heard of.
Literally my idea of the perfect game.
Welcome to the CC simps, because you’re certainly not the only one who does that. It’s generally a no brainer considering that they also still offer a demo to just try it out. Of course that doesn’t tell you much about the great story and characters, but I think the fluidity of the movement and combat system definitely can convince people over already.
CrossCode isn’t my type of a game but I saved Zero Sievert, looks good!
This list is utterly fantastic, but if you haven’t given Dave The Diver a chance you definitely should. It’s by far my favorite release from this year, and the devs seem to have even more content planned.
Heard about it, haven’t played it yet but I did have heard great stuff about it, it’s definitely on my future radar
I recently played Outer Wilds for the first time last week. Games like this, I always worry they’re overhyped, but it was great.
There’s a lot of good games on this list, plus ones I’ve never played before, I should probably check some of them out.
Ignore the pre-release hype (I mean hype before anyone gets to try the game, early access hype is good). If the game is hyped after people get to play it, then I find it’s safer to trust, though personal preferences can still make it miss the mark.
I’d like to add Ardor to the list. It’s a free turn based deck building game where you face off against hexagon creatures on a hexagon board. It’s pretty polished for an actual free to play game.
This sounds interesting, thank you!
Ty for the list!
Can confirm these are absolute bangers
Can confirm your confirmation, some of these are incredible experiences
I agree with you man, thanks for agreeing with me
I see an fellow barotrumua player. My favourite aspect of barotrumua is the
griefingclowning aspectThat feeling when you have played (and loved!) Like 90% of this list lmao
…do I play too many games?
…nah
Thank you very much for the recommendations!
Rock and stoneee o-T
I was going to reply, but most of the games I would recommend are already listed out.
Some gems are missing, but I’d need to be at my PC to figure out which ones.
However, I did not see Unexplored 1 mentioned by anyone off the top of my head.
A few of those games form my core of things I’ll go back to every so often, though my list isn’t all Indies. I’d probably throw CDDA, Dwarf Fortress and KSP in there too though, off the top of my head. Surprised to see foxhole in there but I suppose it’s in a relatively decent state at the moment and it’s somehow claimed 1400 hours from me on steam now.
Sea of Stars recently came out if you liked older SNES RPGs. Reminiscent of Chrono Trigger, they even snagged one of the music producers from it. Great story IMO. I got about 45 hours out of it.
Hollow Knight if you like metroidvanias. Played through it 2 or 3 times now. My son and I are excited for the sequel if it ever releases.
Tricky Towers is a family fun Tetris type multi-player game.
Blue Fire, 3D platformer/metroidvania.
Hacknet, OS UI hacking sim.
Crab Champions (early access coded by EDM producer Noisestorm), 3D bullet hell/loot&shoot where you play as you guessed it… a crab. Has an amazing soundtrack.
Darkside Detective, 2D point and click puzzle solver with a hilarious storyline.
Death’s Door, top down dungeon crawler/RPG.