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.
What’s your genre?
Can you recommend any dungeon crawlers or survival games?
Some dungeon crawlers I enjoyed: Hades, Enter the Gungeon, Torchlight 1 & 2, Crypt of the Necrodancer, Legend of Grimrock, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth
Hades on the Switch might be right up your alley
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.
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.
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.
For a literal dungeon crawler: Demeo
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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.
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.
Tower defense and strategy in general.
Try Factorio, its fantastic
Thanks! On my wishlist already.
Mindustry
Cool, thanks. Wishlisted this.
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.
For strategy paradox games are always fun
Do you mean Paradox Interactive? Publishers of Stellaris, Europa Universalis, etc.
Yeah
First person shooters
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You seem like the kinda fella that could appreciate Brotato too :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.