Poll of the Day > what are the best indie games in your opinion?

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i havent really played very many aside from hades. looking to try something new.

Disco Elysium. Probably one of the best narrative-driven game ever made. Not for people who don't like games with a lot of speech/text.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

i havent really played very many aside from hades. looking to try something new.

I mean, Hades was pretty fucking well made. I feel impotent recommending indies after that.

It's not really an Indie, but if you haven't played SOMA, please try it. Try to focus and pretend you are really in the game. I promise you by the end after reading all the exposition and data files you'll really have enjoyed it. It's far out. I fucking loved it. Some parts of it will blow your fucking mind too. Especially underwater.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/1/3/AAfGAbAADbPd.jpg

coulda asked this anytime in the last 2 weeks... but you pick 40 minutes after the summer sale ends, eh?

I'm just teasing, but based on genre there's lots I could recommend:

La-Mulana 1 and 2
LISA
Siralim Ultimate (or 1,2,3)
Monster Sanctuary
Frozen Synapse (sorta)
Rain World
Treasure Adventure World
Geneforge series (part 1 just got a remake and it's good)
Transcendence (by Georgo Moromisato)
Everhood
House (horror game)
A Robot Named Fight
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Ittle Dew 2

Thomas Was Alone
Disco Elysium
The Talos Principle
The Witness
The Messenger
Axiom Verge
A Robot Named Fight
Creature in the Well
Braid
Pyre
Knights and Bikes
OlliOlli series

I dunno I could name more but I'm getting carried away

Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Cuphead

Bannerlord,
X4: foundations

Hades, Transistor, Stardew Valley, Disco Elysium, and Spiritfarer come to mind

those are all indie I think?

The Binding of Isaac
Hades
Risk of Rain 2
Slay the Spire

Celeste, Undertale, Hollow Knight.

Factorio

Slay the Spire
Terraria
Dyson Sphere Program
Ori and The Blind Forest
The Stanley Parable
Divinity Original Sin 2

Castle Crashers

But Hollow Knight is probably the most ambitious and fleshed-out indie game I've played

HM to Shovel Knight also

Depends on what you count as Indie and what you count as best.
Most successful goes to Minecraft. Not really much debate here.
Favorite but I wouldn't consider them Indie anymore? Probably Path of Exile.
Favorite but definitely still considered indie? Terraria.

What's an indie game?

Here's some great games from smaller (indie, maybe?) companies:

Firewatch
To the Moon
Townscaper
Turbo Dismount
Them's Fightin' Herds
Mini Motorways
Feather
Cooking Simulator
DEEEER Simulator
Goat Simulator
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Dungeons of Dredmor

Shovel Knight and its expansions are a blast with fun bosses that keep me coming back
Freedom Planet is fun for sonic fans
20XX is a mega man style rougelike

Phasmophobia, I always loved the concept of those ghost shows, even though they're fake as hell and the way they present things as being real somwhat irratates me. SO I love that there's a game based around the ghosts being real.

For 2010-2019:

My Top 20 of the Decade:

-Slay the Spire
-Into the Breach
-Hollow Knight
-Fran Bow
-Dont Starve
-Binding of Isaac Rebirth
-Dungeon Warfare 1/2
-Darkwood
-Rogue Legacy
-Crypt of the NecroDancer
-Cook, Serve, Delicious!
-Slime Rancher
-Kingdom: New Lands
-Odallus: The Dark Call
-Banished
-Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut
-Hotline Miami
-SUPERHOT
-Oxygen Not Included
-FTL: Faster Than Light

Post-decade picks:
-Hades
-Valfaris
-SYNTHETIK
-One Step From Eden

Most of the standouts I would have chosen are already listed, so I'll go with something a bit more obscure and niche.

segawa's End Roll. I liked the story a lot.
https://vgperson.com/games/endroll.htm

Exit Fate
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Shantae & The Pirate's Curse
Double Dragon Neon
Guacamelee
Record of Lodoss War - Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Sucker For Love
Purgatory 2
The Letter (visual novel)

Once it releases, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
Still only partially released, but probably Subverse

Freedom Planet

Zachtronics games
Hotline Miami 1 & especially 2
Death Road to Canada
Factorio as mentioned
Furi
KSP (was originally indie but is now owned by Take2)
Creeper World games
maybe Butterscotch Shenanigans games

making this list, I sort of don't see how these recommendations are useful. sure these are indie games, and they're good worth-playing games, but none of them have any particular feature that was asked for. whether one likes them will probably depend what actual genres you like, not the fact that they're "indie".

Stardew Valley is probably the best indie game ever imo

World of horror!!!!!

There are so many great ones listing them all would take ages.

Straughan posted...

I mean, Hades was pretty fucking well made. I feel impotent recommending indies after that.

It's not really an Indie, but if you haven't played SOMA, please try it. Try to focus and pretend you are really in the game. I promise you by the end after reading all the exposition and data files you'll really have enjoyed it. It's far out. I fucking loved it. Some parts of it will blow your fucking mind too. Especially underwater.

Nice to see some SOMA love. I'll play anything that company makes tbh. Penumbra, Amnesia, SOMA. It's like Dark Souls where the engine they have is just interesting enough to make every game worth playing whether it's ultimately good or bad. It's always an experience. While we're at it I'll just say that Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is highly underrated. It's the only game from Frictional that was developed by another company(The Chinese Room, mainly known for Dear Esther). It's more of a walking simulator than other games in the series, but that allows it to focus more on delivering the narrative.

Speaking of walking simulators, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and What Remains of Edith Finch are great indie games. Also, Gone Home.

Zachtronic games, he basically created a genre. Highly recommend.

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