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What indie games you have recently finished and why would you recommend us to play?

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Haven't played any indies recently, but I'd recommend Furi to anyone who loves action games.

Cool visual style, great and challenging gameplay with dodges and parries and of course, an amazing OST with bangers from Carpenter Brut or The Toxic Avenger, among others.

Still waiting for a sequel, will never understand why the devs moved away from it and went on to make way shittier games.
 
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V Rising - Valhiem with Vampires. Open World but also boss rush. Build a massive castle.
Lunacid - Best King's Field like game out aside from some questionable design choices. Would be a 10/10 if not for those choices.
Cultic - best boomer shooter with a dark bent, Blood inspired
Crow Country - isometric throw back resident evil in an abandoned amusement park
Deathwish Enforcers - play as a sleezey 1970s exploitation archetypes in a Sunset Riders homage
Guns of Fury - Metroidvania meets Matal Slugs
Fallen Aces - immersive sim in pulp comics style
Among Ashes - meta game within a game horror about a cursed resident evil clone game
Is this Game trying to Kill Me? - escape room with meta
Lost in Vivo - FPS survival horror
Nightmare Reaper - an amazing rogue like FPS with an addictive gameplay loop
 
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Songs of Syx-

City builder/empire builder, nation state creator, on micro and macro scale. Lowfi graphics but tons and tons of depth.
- its still in early access, v68 , but works fully, dev is highly active, here is what a working city may look like (you control a much bigger area than what is displayed here:

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Starcom - unknown space

Fun, top down Space RPG game. Combat is real time arcade combat. The rpg part is leveling up your crews abilities, which dice roles determine actions on away missions.
Yeah you scan planets, anomalies, and do away missions to said planets. The planets are a beautiful graphic of the location and a scenario you make a decision about. Also tech trees, dialog screens with choices,
You research tech to build your starship, which gets bigger, each part is put together by material you scrounge on planets or from space, derelict ships, and enemies, or trade.

Game had me hooked from day 1. If only starfield was so much fun.

If you like Star Trek pre discovery era (when it was good) , and aren't a 3d whore, you will like this game.

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Tiny Rogues:

Tons of classes, great pixel art, weapons and modifiers, plus its fast action combat. Dude puts out impressive updates every week.
Its my go to game for the steam deck. If you like twin stick action mixed with roguleliek and rpg leving and equipment, you will love this! I guarantee that. It's so much fun!


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The pc indy scene is fire. Tons and tons of Early access gems. Yet people will ignore such awesome games as they are not promoted by console makers or have wiz bang graphics.
most people on this site will only know "stuff on gamepass" half of which aren't indy or are published by ubisoft or ea.
 
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V Rising - Valhiem with Vampires. Open World but also boss rush. Build a massive castle.
Lunacid - Best King's Field like game out aside from some questionable design choices. Would be a 10/10 if not for those choices.
Cultic - best boomer shooter with a dark bent, Blood inspired
Crow Country - isometric throw back resident evil in an abandoned amusement park
Deathwish Enforcers - play as a sleezey 1970s exploitation archetypes in a Sunset Riders homage
Guns of Fury - Metroidvania meets Matal Slugs
Fallen Aces - immersive sim in pulp comics style
Among Ashes - meta game within a game horror about a cursed resident evil clone game
Is this Game trying to Kill Me? - escape room with meta
Lost in Vivo - FPS survival horror
Nightmare Reaper - an amazing rogue like FPS with an addictive gameplay loop
Thank you, as abn indie and aa game lover this is so helpful. Just picked up nightmare reaper on switch due to your post as it's on sale. Haven't played it yet but looks the part.

How is v rising? Is it very hard? Not in to a from software type experience right now although this is on my wishlist of it goes on sale. Already bought to many games this week.

How much metroidvania is in guns of fury? It looks more straight up contra like.
 

ssringo

Member
Not new, I'm just finishing out a couple ending achievements.


Basically, it's if Castlevania 2 was done well. The game isn't especially long (half a dozen hours or so) but is highly replayable with different endings based on how good/evil your decisions are (and a couple indepent ones), cheat codes that start you as different characters that have different playstyles and even supports local co-op (which you can also play by yourself by swapping between characters). Also some fun jokes and references to games that inspired it. There's also 2 difficulties depending on your skill level and you can drop the difficulty at game over if it's too much.
 
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viveks86

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Guacamelee 1 and 2
It takes two
Stealth inc
Hollow Knight
Inside
Braid
The Witness
Talos Principle 1 & 2
Cuphead
1001 spikes (if you can handle it)
Firewatch
Fez
Sifu
No Man’s sky
Journey (not indie, but a must play indie-like if you haven’t tried it)

A few that come to mind… :)
 
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poodaddy

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Well, it's not exactly recent, but Sea of Stars was fantastic. A bit too long, didn't know when to end, but definitely a damn good prequel to the Messenger. Also an incredible game, The Messenger. Pizza Tower is probably one of the best games I've played in well over a decade, and that was recent. Having a tough time remembering others, but then I don't have a ton of time to play these days. I know there's others though :/
 
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Deerock71

Member
Dave the Diver kicked ass. I'll probably play it again. Charming, loveable characters, world-class pixel art. Addictive soundtrack. Fun from beginning to end.
 

Little Mac

Member
Lately all I play, and look forward to, are indie games. Regardless, I'm about 16 hours into Hollow Knight atm. Great game.
 
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Holammer

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Replayed Souldiers to completion awhile ago, there are three classes so there's some replayability. It's an indie Metroidvania with fantastic art and music, best in the business even.
But a fair warning, it's super difficult and and drags on, even if I knew mostly what to do, it took 40h to complete the second time (I also did some achievement hunting).



Started playing this again, another Metroidvania with decent graphics and superb music With a fun storytelling format similar to Monkey Island about a Barbarian with a pet bat lost in a catacomb. It gets real hard towards the end and the dungeon layout is confusing.



Got curious and checked who did the music for the games and it's Will Savino for both of them.

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Thank you, as abn indie and aa game lover this is so helpful. Just picked up nightmare reaper on switch due to your post as it's on sale. Haven't played it yet but looks the part.

How is v rising? Is it very hard? Not in to a from software type experience right now although this is on my wishlist of it goes on sale. Already bought to many games this week.

How much metroidvania is in guns of fury? It looks more straight up contra like.

V Rising is great. It gets difficult but if you keep it to the normal setting it's manageable. It's just as much about improving your gear as much as it about skill.

Guns of Fury is an all out metroidvania where you will get new traversal methods to reach new zones, unlock new zones, across the map.
 

Zacfoldor

Member
I can never recommend Inscryption enough. If you liked the card game in Rebirth or if you liked Maniac Mansion get Inscryption.

Anybody ever try Sayonara Wild Hearts?
 
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Dr. Suchong

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Tacoma.
Really enjoyed the relaxed pace.
Was perfect to play after my cataract surgery a couple of weeks ago.
Feel good ending too.
Very short, but very sweet.
 
UFO 50 is a collection of 51 games designed to look and feel like they could've been created between 1982-1989. Despite the deliberately simple look to these games, most of these games have some sort of gameplay twist or hook like you would see in more modern titles and there's a fairly significant amount of depth. This isn't surprising because the list of developers includes the creators of other hit indie games like Downwell and Spelunky. If these had actually released on the NES or TurboGrafx, the majority would be considered classics.

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Fess

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Minishoot Adventures



Do yourself a service and watch this trailer til the end.

It’s a twin-stick shooter Zelda A Link to the Past. No joke, it’s one of the better games I’ve played recently, top 3 last year for me. Don’t miss it!
 
Minishoot Adventures



Do yourself a service and watch this trailer til the end.

It’s a twin-stick shooter Zelda A Link to the Past. No joke, it’s one of the better games I’ve played recently, top 3 last year for me. Don’t miss it!

yep, I'm playing this right now almost 12h in , I'm not even a fan of old Zelda games and I'm loving this
 
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Wildebeest

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Paradise Killer. An investigation game in the style of Suda51. Doesn't Suda51 make investigation games anyway? Anyway, that's what it is.

 
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