cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43119841
Hello, i was wondering if there are any good indie games on steam to try out. Can be free or paid, i don’t mind if there’s no native linux build either (i play stuff with wine/proton anyways lol) and i don’t mind the genre. I’ve been thinking of trying something new as of recent so i thought i might ask it here.
Thanks!
My favorites are:
Outer Wilds, Silksong (& HK), Hades 1 & 2, Nine Sols, Blue Prince, Subnautica, Dave the Diver, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Inscryption, Baba is You and Factorio.
Some of these are not recent though.
Outer Wilds is an absolute masterpiece, easily in my top 10 (perhaps even top 5) games of all time. The DLC is amazing too. The rest of the games you mentioned are also good.
A bunch i really liked were:
- Hades (and Hades 2) (action roguelike)
- Dead Cells (side scroller roguelike)
- Celeste (Precision Platformer)
- HexCells (puzzle game)
- Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun (Stealth Strategy, the other games by the same dev are great too)
- Prey (well, maybe its not an indie, but its great)
- Vampire Survivors (Bullet Heaven, great to zone out too, lots of things to collect)
- BugSnax (Not sure if Indie, but a lot more fun than it looks)
- Cave Story (Side Scroller)
- Creeper World 4 (Strategy game, I think 4 is the most recent. No need to play older ones unless you want more of the same)
- Earth Defence force 6 (janky, but fun multiplayer with friends)
- Heros Hour (strategy)
- Oxygen Not Included (colony builder)
- Rim World (colony builder)
- Satisfactory (Automation game)
- Pit People (strategy game)
- Supraland (puzzle game, sequel is fun too)
- The Talos Principle (Puzzle game, I think its indie?)
- Undertale (RPG, its fantastic)
- You must build a boat (Match 3)
What I’ve played and can 100% vouch for:
- Another Crab’s Treasure
- Celeste
- Fly Knight
- Katana Zero
- Noita
- Terraria
- The Messenger
- Ultrakill
- ZeroRanger
What I haven’t played but looks good:
Sadly not, all of the 10,000 games per year released are by triple A
Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers
Clearly they were asking for recommendations, so not really a stupid question. I thought your comment was funny until the end, where now it just comes off as incorrectly pedantic.
A diverse selection of my indie favourites:
Celeste, Citizen Sleeper, Outer Wilds, Tunic, Stray Gods, A Short Hike, Disco Elysium
I really enjoyed I was a Teenage Exocolonist, its a narrative game where you grow up in a colony being established on a distant planet. It has skill training mechanics where you can develop skills to pass skill checks and has card based gameplay for determining the outcome of some events.
Ena: Dream BBQ is another game I really enjoyed it has a really unique art style and has some great humour. It’s definitely really fun to go in to this one blind
I really recommend Slay The Spire 1 & 2, fantastic game!
A few games I really enjoyed Planet of Lana which just had a new instalment, Tunic, Selaco, Arco, Spritfall, Bionic Ban, Prodeus, Neva, Children of the Sun, and Children of Morta.
I don’t game as much as I used to, but I have a list (in no particular order).
- Project Zomboid
- Planet of Lana (1/2)
- The Drifter
- Replaced
- No, I’m not a Human
- The Long Dark
- Nine Sols
- Stray
- Firewatch
- Disco Elysium
- Spiritfarer
- Sea Of Stars
There’s more, but these are off the top of my head.
Check out Skyrim! /jk
Exanima is fun and frustrating. Screenshots don’t really tell the story about its gameplay, check out a video or go in blind lol
Timberborn recently hit 1.0, it’s good.
Abiotic Factor is pretty amazing. I’ll play with ya.
The downfall of any good indie game is that it’s a target for acquisition. Anything we love can be turned against us. ROCKET LEAGUE.
Balatro
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