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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.

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[–] [email protected] 296 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I am curious which indie titles you would recommend.

[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In addition to that:

  • Atom RPG;
  • Dead Cells;
  • Into the breach;
  • Shadowrun series;
  • This war of mine;
  • Dust - An Elysian Tail;
  • Broforce;
  • Bastion;

Many more of course.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In addition to these games I find these games below to be an absolute hoot

  • disco elysium
  • beamng drive
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Chained echoes is also a banger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like people don’t know Brotato even exists!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Heard about it, haven't played it yet but I did have heard great stuff about it, it's definitely on my future radar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm these are absolute bangers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm your confirmation, some of these are incredible experiences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you man, thanks for agreeing with me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Rock and stoneee o-T

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That feeling when you have played (and loved!) Like 90% of this list lmao

..do I play too many games?

..nah

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see an fellow barotrumua player. My favourite aspect of barotrumua is the ~~griefing~~ clowning aspect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This sounds interesting, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ty for the list!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for the recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Can you recommend any dungeon crawlers or survival games?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Some dungeon crawlers I enjoyed: Hades, Enter the Gungeon, Torchlight 1 & 2, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Legend of Grimrock, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hades on the Switch might be right up your alley

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For the king (1&2) & Valheim

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tower defense and strategy in general.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! On my wishlist already.

[–] sleisl 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cool, thanks. Wishlisted this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] snugglesthefalse 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.