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[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If there's any time playing only indie games is viable it's now. We've had high quality indie releases outpacing how fast you can play them for a few years now.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Especially on PC. Also, people forget that Indie doesn't necessarily mean "made by a small team/low budget". It just means it was produced by a studio that isn't at the behest of some massive corperation/faceless number crunching shareholders. CD Projekt Red is an independant studio, as is Valve.

Also, some games are developed independently by small studios, but then marketed and published by a larger company. Devolver is an example of a publishing house with an excellent track record of just letting the indie dev teams they work with do whatever they want.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

CD Projekt is publicly traded.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Yup. I tend to like Annapurna published games.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Steam Deck and other Linux handhelds make it super easy to play indies.