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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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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I am curious which indie titles you would recommend.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 199 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 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
[–] blackwateropeth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Chained echoes is also a banger

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] mangosloth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you say bastion is the best supergiant title pre-Hades? I've been eyeing both that and transistor for a while

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 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.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CrossCode! Why is this freaking game still such an underdog?
Zero Sievert is also well worth mentioning.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 3 points 1 year ago

CrossCode isn't my type of a game but I saved Zero Sievert, looks good!

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] dong@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 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

[–] Adori@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm these are absolute bangers

[–] Alivrah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can confirm your confirmation, some of these are incredible experiences

[–] Adori@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you man, thanks for agreeing with me

[–] CuriousGeorge@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Rock and stoneee o-T

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

..do I play too many games?

..nah

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 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

[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ty for the list!

[–] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for the recommendations!

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 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.

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[–] jomoo99@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] solivine@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can you recommend any dungeon crawlers or survival games?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 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

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hades on the Switch might be right up your alley

[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

For the king (1&2) & Valheim

[–] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 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.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] solivine@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

TIL: NWN is still alive.

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Tower defense and strategy in general.

[–] OmenAtom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] sleisl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Cool, thanks. Wishlisted this.

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 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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[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 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@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months 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.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] caseofthematts@lemmy.world 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.

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