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best indie game all time
| I like Undertale. It's pretty chill, and has some cool characters and stuff, and really good music and I really like the art style.
I like Shove Knight, because it's an amazing platformer, that takes some of the best things from different platformers and makes a new platformer with it. Also has amazing music.
Binding of Isaac has a really cool art style, really good music, and really fun and addictive gameplay, and some pretty dark and serious themes.
| Celeste is good, because it's just and amazing precision platformer, with a lot of charm, beautiful art, and awesome music.
Nykra is not out yet, but I've played the demo, and know a lot of the themes it's dealing with, the story and world and stuff, and all of that plus the art and music is simply put, just incredible.
Super Meat Bot is a really good, super precise, tight as fuck platformer that's just really well made.
| Va-11 Hall-a because of how it builds its world, like Alice Rabbit, or how you see many characters in the bar
| Celeste.
| Pathologic
| Or touhou if its an indie game
| Lisa
| Minecraft pocket edition.
| Like it or not, any game by Edmund, creator of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, thanks to his games more indies came around and more people started to believe indies can be good
Remember The Binding of Isaac started as a web flash game, so that means something
Also I can say any Team17 game, they do games like if they were AAA games, Worms are over perfection, and I know a lot of people who tought Team17 weren't indie developers they have been around since the 90's
| Sorry, the correct answer is Recettear.
| >>255133
Edmund is fucking awesome. His games are fucking incredible, and he seems like an awesome guy.
| 2hu,also known as rage simulador.
| Hyper light drifter
| Rogue Legacy
| How has no one mentioned Cave Story yet? That was the first huge indie game I can remember and still one of the very best
| For me I'd probs say LISA. Mainly because of how the game involves you, the player in story. Every action you decide to make in the game is deep enough to make you think of the consequences, so it felt like I was part of the story even though they make no reference to the player. Combat is nice and the soundtrack is amazing.
| Anyone who says Undertale or Celeste.. Or really any Indie game released in the last few years have probably only played those. There are countless Indie games far better. Dwarf Fortress, Cave Story, Zero Escape trilogy, Braid, and many more.
| Oneshot
| I'd say check out this new indie jrpg called Jimmy and The Pulsating Mass. It's the most mother/earthbound ass game I've seen and it has the same weird feeling and charm as the mother series.
| Castle Crashers
| Cave Story is the most memorable account of an indie game to me and I don't think there's a game that could replace that.
As far as newer ones go, Terraria / Starbound have equally large timesinks and content, Stardew Valley has a massive following off the roots of Harvest Moon, and as for competitive games, nothing beats Lethal League or Towerfall Ascension with the friends.
| >>256201
Starbound could never stop feeling like Terraria lite for me. Just never lived up to its potential
| >>256204
That's a fair opinion to hold. Personally, I think it fits the niche of bouncing between planets and ship housing well enough to distinguish itself from Terraria. I do think it's core loop is significantly weaker than Terraria, but also benefits many times over from mods like FU which solves the game's largest problem of making different planets unique and worth exploring.
Terraria is amazing, but also ends in a contest to see how much can happen on one world.
| >>256172
> Zero Escape trilogy
I get that the lines between indies/non-indies are blurring these days, but, what??
| I'm still holding on that Aquaria. Probably not the best, but it's the best for me.
| >>94253d
Yeah, I wouldn't really call Spike Chunsoft indie, too...
Also, props for picking Aquaria! Love that game, even though I still can't manage to beat it, even after all these years.
| >>256216
I loved aquaria. I played through all of it one night while stuck in the airport. My favorite indie metroidvania
| How the fuck are you all forgetting about Sonic Mania?
| >>256465
It's... Not quite indie. I know the history behind its development, but it IS still SEGA.
| Ok lets begin:
Transistor
Bastion
Shovel knight
Binding of Isaac
Ori and the blind forest
OneShot
Hollow knight
LISA
Kings Arthurs gold
Rogue legacy
Crypt of the necrodancer
Dont starve
Endless legend
And many more.
| >>256482
Then A Way Out and Fe are not indies because the publisher is EA? Don't mistake publisher with developer
| >>256482 >>256570
Yeah. That's like saying that all the indie games published by Devolver Digital aren't indies. That would mean that Downwell, Enter the Gungeon, Broforce, Hotline Miami etc, aren't indie games.
| Absolute Drift is an absolute gem (get it?). The creator did a great job in making such a beautiful game. Super Hot is also a solid indie game
| >>256822
So Indie is strictly how much bankroll the developers have and not the size of the team? News to me.
| >>256854
Depends where they get that bankroll too. If you're being funded by a large publisher you're not indie, you're just a regular dev studio working on contact.
| >>256979
There's no such thing as a "regular dev studio" in the gaming world today. You are either Triple A or Indie.
| >>257183
Bayo and Nier were never AAA, they both had relative small budgets, but bigger than indie games. They are AA games
| >>257218
It's already been stated budget had nothing to do with being Indie or not, but now it has everything to do with being AAA?
If a studio/dev team can afford mass-marketing for a video game, it is AAA.
| Hyper Light Drifter is the best I've played
| >>257232
This doesn't sound right. Under this logic Nihon Falcom is AAA, and there's no way that the Vita port that is Ys VIII is meant to go toe-to-toe with God of War.
| >>257335
Ys VIII was not mass-marketed. The key word here is "mass". NieR: Automata was without a doubt AAA because they advertised it all over YT/Twitch/Kotaku/etc.
| No man's sky is triple a
| Ib.
| All three Supergiant titles
| Triple A games are games that needs to sell because they were expensive to be developed (because more than 100 normally work in these games and their salaries must be high if you want them to be working)
It doesn't have anything to do with marketing to be a Triple A game, but it definetly need to be mass sold to be worth.
So it's shown again that Indie and AA+ are limited by how many people work in the game and not how much it sold or it was adversited (that's after production)
| Ah yes about time this thread devolved into what is indie-what is AAA arguments.
Aside from budget/team numbers as per >>257598, I'd also add that indie (or indie-flavored) games have a specific idea they follow through, unfetteted by "the executives", and it's possible because of their small teams.
And it's absolutely possible for a game to be neither indie and AAA. Platinum, Double Fine, Larian, Harebrained, Rayark, etc I think straddle the (nebulous) boundary.
| Minceraft
| >>257616
Even on a small team of developers the members of it can be a little bit demanding, that's kind of why Notch left Mojang.
As soon as there are two persons the project won't be as the first wanted idea, of course this doesn't mean it's bad, but there is a different between 1 developer and 2+ developers, or how you are going to consider the ideas of the others if you are going to.
| Is this /new/?
| It's Undertale.
| Transistor
Hotline Miami
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| Mainlining is pretty fun
| I personally love Bastion and the other games from that studio, they are a ton of fun with some pretty snazzy soundtracks
| >>a8c7ff Supergiant games, right? i love the pkot to transistor but pyre is a overall winner for me. Oralech, Sir Gilligan, and Fae ftw
| >>254994 Someone in other countries (I'm from Russia and game from there) is playing Pathologic? That's incredible. I thought that Pathologic is not popular in other countries and people don't know it. But if you from post-soviet countries it explains all. :)
| >>256172 Oh, mate, that's a STUFF!!! You got a good feeling of good things(sorry for my Dumblish, not native).
| I'm really in love with Space Rangers 1st and 2nd. This game awokes loveable feelings of hope that people my country is not stupid(in majority, of course). You should really try it out and enjoy!
| TAGAP 2
| I'll shill Zer Ranger here, very quick. Thank you.
| @994b2c that's exactly right, Supergiant games is so damn good at wat they do
| Its pretty old and Im not sure if its indie directly but
>clocktower the first fear
the original version.
apart from that, i would go along with things already mentioned
| Hyper light drifter is pretty good great graphics and doesn't hold your hand. Has a nice dark souls feel to it.
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| >>255133
Cave Story kicked off the indie trend though. Meat boy might have remained a flash game on newgrounds forever if it wasn't for pixel.
| >>261281 by that logic 2hu kicked it off and pixel wouldn't have been around if Zun hadn't showed the world it could be done.
Coming first =/= starting anything
I say Castle Crashers was the big one that got the ball rolling on indie in full swing
| Cave Story did boost the popularity of indies immensely though. Later games like meat boy and minecraft and such built upon it but anyone who was there at the time will tell you Cave Story kicked off the trend. Touhou was really niche and still kind of is.
| Indie game jam has been around for a couple years before cave story popped up tho
Obviously ikachan was the true indie game
| World of Goo on the Wii was my first indie, but what really sold me on Indies was vvvvvv. Fantastic game; I replay it every couple years and still get a kick out of it.
| Recently played Iconoclasts and enjoyed it a whole lot.
| Terraria is one of my favourite games, but it takes a lot of effort to get into it and it's much, MUCH better to play multiplayer. Also, Stardew Valley isn't flawless, but I've poured so many hours into it because I loved Harvest Moon as a lil kid.
| Ib and Pocket Mirror
Ib because I... Just think it's one of the best and the music is damn great mate (yeah don't really got anything to say ://)
And Pocket Mirror because it's beautiful, the music is also great in that game and, saying the story is great too would kinda weird since I don't really know what it is
Basically, you are some girl who's forgot her name and you tryna remember and to do so you through beautiful places and characters
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