Formative Childhood Moment edition>What the heck is this/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as Age of Decadence, A Hat in Time, Axiom Verge, Baba Is You, Battle Brothers, Battlerite, Card City Nights 2, Cave Story, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkwood, DashBored, Dead Cells, The Desolate Hope, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Guacamelee!, Hollow Knight, Knytt, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Machinarium, Middens, Monolith, Monster Train, Noita, OFF, OneShot, Rimworld, Rain World, Slap City, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, Tooth and Tail, Underrail, VA-11 HALL-A, Yume Nikki, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, Rayman, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle games are cool too.Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here.>Can I talk about games that already have a general?We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that.>Recommendationshttps://pastebin.com/ZbG0JPSn>Booruhttps://indiegame.booru.org/>Steam Grouphttps://steamcommunity.com/groups/indiegamesgeneral>OP's pastebin:https://pastebin.com/JqqcnEHCPrevious Thread: >>564970617
>Decklite RogueBuilder
>>565945759Crosscode (The devs' next game Alabaster Dawn comes out in two days)
Hope Espiocracy doesn't move their release window if you can even call it that again.It's one of those cases where so much time passes between finding a game and it coming out, that I worry that by the time it's playable I'll move on to other interests and not care anymore
>>565936107I fucking love older games that felt absolutely zero need to hold back or self censor their shit.
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>>565949059Now that is a lot of Diamonds.Ain't no way I'm sharing this with the bitch who just hired a merc to try and off me.
>>565948843>>565949059Having characters speak and act in a way appropriate to the setting is a lost art in vidya.
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
>>565948843>I fucking love older women that felt absolutely zero need to hold back or self censor their shit.Me too.
>>565948843This was probably written by a Russian.
>>565948067https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AztllyndWCc
A mediocre game is a game not worth your money.A bad game is a game not worth your time.
>>565950645Er actually I'm a Water Dancer.
motorslice came out todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IpIugFjXa0looks pretty fun, i've been keeping tabs on it for a little bit. i'll get to it when i finish up with a couple other games
Indie persona clone? 50/50 mix between social life simulator and another genre? Writing this made me realize rune factory is a persona clone...
>>565962250Anon, by your logic Persona is an Harvest Moon clone.
>>565962590No but rune factory is a harvest moon clone.
>>565945759If you're looking for a Soulslike experience, Lies of P is great. Code Vein's combat felt floaty and the level design wasn't very good. I'd honestly recommend Wuchang and Lords of the Fallen over it and both of those games are mediocre.>>565962250Demonschool is unashamedly Persona-inspired. Prodigal is a Link's Awakening-like with a sizable focus on interacting with the local townsfolk.>50/50 mix between social life simulator and another genre?Really depends on how involved you want the social aspects to be. Arguably Shadowrun Dragonfall and Hong Kong (you can run around town and talk to everyone between missions). Does camping out with your party in a WRPG count as social life sim?
>deckbuilder sale on steamwhat should I consoom bros?
>>565966608don't
This stupid fucking fighht can still tongue my god damn anus. Can you actually just be good game designers and let your players idk play the game? Nah. It's fun. It's creative. Let's play sonic where you can't run. Let's play mario where you can't jump. I had a fucking setup that should have objectively worked too. >monster lowers stats when it enemy gets debuffed>enemy gets debuffed when its stats get lowered>another monster inflicts a debuff at the start of game>...>combo doesn't start because.... because it just doesn't!1>It has to be after the start of the game because I coded it that way! Of course you're supposed to know that! Whoever greenlight this fight needs to just give up on the Siralim franchise and go work on gacha slop for third world coomers.
>>565967731>tongue my god damn anusGIWTWM
>>565967731>enemies cannot cast spellsI bought Ultimate and haven't even started it yet, but this sounds extremely crippling.
>>565967731how brainlet friendly is this game?
>>565974053Playing on low difficulty + no realm distortion can make it brainlet friendly. Or you can be lame and look up broken team builds.
pog
Dear diary. Today there was a big ass fucking spider at my window. I've made enough progress to careful get up and close the window but I am still stuck in my hypervigilante state of mind. I even jumped off my bed when my hair touched my neck while writing this entry. Can you believe it? Ah if only you could speak and suggest to me a game to calm me down while I wait for my beta blockers to start working. Hint hint...More seriously. Can you guys suggest me a cozy game to play for the next 10 or so hours while I'm at low tension? Here are recent games I've liked.>SOS FOMT>Paper mario ttyd (remake)>Balatro>Baba is you>Fields of mistria>Monster hunter rise
>>565985729Darkwood
>>565985729Long: SpiritfarerShort: Islanders
>>565985729If you like Rise you should play Iceborne.
>>565985729Spiders are good to have around. They eat the annoying bugs. They won't bother you if you don't bother them. What kind of spider? Post a picture.
>>565983025Man I remember buying that for my 360 from a $5 bargain bin in some local nerd store way back when.
Need an immersive simulator
Are there any good sandbox building games similar to Rimworld and Prison Architect? I don't like factory/production line games
>>565988346https://steamdb.info/charts/?tagid=220585
>>565988346what kind of building do you mean?
>>565987660I've completed iceborne. Big and small crowns included.>>565987260Gonna check islanders. Thanks.>>565987893It's a completely irrational fear. Pure physical response.
>>565988902none of those games are remotely like either Rimworld or Prison Architect which is why I came to ask humans instead of searching by tags>>565989270top down, 2D, simple but clear graphics, complete freedom rather than putting down prefab buildings
>>565988346Rimworld has always more or less been dwarf fortress fortress for babies, you could try that.
>>565988346>>565993634Song of Syx is another baby Dwarf Fortress, and I'd just recommend Elin for its freeform settlement building. It isn't core to the game but it can be a satisfying sandbox if it's up your alley.
>>565988346Elona to some extent but it's more on the "schizo tries to make minecraft from memory" side of the scale.
Why aren't you playing Dead as Disco?
>>566000498Looks like shit. Sounds stupid. I don't care. I don't have money. Name's filtering me.
>>566000498Sounds gay.
>>566000498Sounds fun.
>>565948067This reminds me of Artix games, like Dragon Fable, Adventure Quests, Worlds, others.
>love Xenopurge>Xenopurge gets an update:)
I'm on the verge of diving head first into flightsim autism. Someone hold me back, my wallet can't handle this at the moment
Can't believe I ran out of healing items and died to knocking on a gate too hard.Sometimes I'm almost tempted to play this game on permadeath with how it barely has any game overs, but the one that do exist feel very final
>>565983025Now if this isn't a blast from the pastToo bad I suck at strategy games
Anyone plays Scriptorium? How can I add boobs, I tried to put a smile on a shirt and it kinda works, but only kinda.
>>566012668H O N K
>>566013272Honestly I always wondered how it sounds if you fart into a vuvuzela.
>>566000498I'm too burnt out on early access right now to start another one>>566011097I got two game-overs in my first hour playing DE. First I put no points into Physique and died crashing into Lena. Then I put no points into Psyche, talked to the bookseller's daughter about romance novels, remembered my wife and had a mental breakdown.Then I started a third time with 1/5/5/1 and never lost again.
>>566000498>looks shit>Early Access>already discountLMAO
>>566015739don't a lot of games have a release discount?
>>566016009Yes, he's just terminally retarded
>>566016009>>566017046>falling for the release date discount tricklmaoing
>>566015147Yeah, this as well as my very first playthrough have been 1 Physique runs and it did give me a game over or two when I was low on health item. I actually also crashed into Lena this time around, but already had a healing item from somewhere in the Whirling.What's extra funny is that you can soft-lock yourself in the harbor, by jumping over the wall with no way to get back unless you sit on the chair, which can kill you. I think the harbor does open up at midnight, but if you're unlucky, you won't find enough dialogue to skip that much time.
Anybody try the new HOMM on the Steam Deck?
>>566000498because it's unfinished as fuck with missing effects and sounds ruining the moment, like there's no punch to anything
There's no building like overbuilding.
>>566026524Side note: I'm broke.
>>566026673Opulence beget sacrifices
bumpu
chrono ark aany good bros?
>>566000498busy with the rest of my backlog. rhythm beat em up does sound neat though.
>>566034517people say its good but i didnt get hooked onto it, but also i havent played much so idk. as far as sts-likes go i prefer Lost Branch of Legend, but only because it fills the MTG shaped hole in my gaming desires
Thanks to the anon who recommended Northern Journey. This game is fucking weird.
>>566026673Are you the guy who is playing alone?Because if so gratz, you managed to build more shit than me and my 2 pals did for the entire goddamned game wow
>>566041627Good luck, the shield bearers filtered me.
>"Slay the Spire 2 is great, it proves that gamers just want fun games and not woke slop!">Grifters find out Anita Sarkeesian was a consultant on it>"The game is trash, i'm glad i didn't buy it"I'm tired of the culture war, /indie/
>>566043670Why are you importing /v/ cancer here where no one has brought it up?
>>566043670ignore idiots who cant separate art and artist. especially when the artist is just a "consultant", like what the fuck did she consult them on, Silent's feet?
My pet committed sudoku while I was away.>>566043039>Are you the guy who is playing alone?Yes. I think I'm the only fag one who has been posting ABF in the last year.
>>566044140You are wrong.
>>566044275Wrong and without a pet.Back to the Reactor Sector with me.
>>566044392I posted about AF a fair bit, but I ended up ragequitting when I accidentally dismantled my weapons instead of repairing them.
Done with Mayor May KnottIt's fine, a comfy life-sim/puzzle game, similar to 24 Killers. I do think 25 euros for it is a steep price.
The new stealth watch looks to be very useful.>>566044476I have dismantled like 4 weapons and 3 full sets of armour by mistake so far. I just grind it back up.
>>566044762I can't do it: I already play extremely slowly.Also do you still get attacked if you settle in a pocket dimension? I'm tempted to move form the cafeteria to Japan, but I worry about moving all my stuff and getting bullied during defense events.
Any good multiplayer indies you guys wanna play? Could get some games going.
No more using a complicated system of several personal teleporters to move from base to whatever sector I'm looting. Now I can just deploy a battery and portal pad.Although I'm still going to use a personal teleporter for quickly going back to base and to GTFO.>>566045684>Also do you still get attacked if you settle in a pocket dimension?Only from Order and Gatekeepers. These last ones are a royal pita when the dude throws magic fire around.
They are retarded.
>>566047384Take a shower, ugly.
This is a really strange request, but are there any /indies/ that feature cool skulls? Whether you play as a skull or throw a skull or befriend a skull or trade skulls as currency, I don't care.
>kiss_the_cook.jpg
>have a lot of AAA games on my backlog>keep jumping from rogue to roguebros... what is wrong with me?
>>566057971Idk if you are the same, but I am just tired from adult life and I have so little time now.I sometimes jump on long games and just start to feel burned out at some point, and fomo for other things I wish I could be playing instead. Feels like such a commitment to play a "real" game with clear start and finish now. Anything that promises to be immersive or an epic rpg quest just puts me off.Playing something cozy and low commitment, like holocure and balatro, some city builder, its so much more attractive for me nowadays. I have the same issue with movies.
Arise now, ye tarnished
I don't want to say it but I think Chinese people sort of ruin gaming. The attacks on the Slay the Spire devs by the Chinamen are insane. They removed some easy infinites and the Chinese flipped out. I think the Chinese gaming culture actually is a cancer to the games industry. Its so bad that Path of Exile had to give them their own server build that includes weird gacha shit and pay to win aspects because its so expected in Chinese gaming culture. Why is that? Am I wrong? Is Chinese gaming culture actually not cancer?
You know a game is good when the first advice you find about it is "Play it on emulator and set the speed to 150%".
>>566068784China and Korea, both are some of the absolute worst offenders when it comes to literal cheating and P2W as it has been hard wired into the culture somehow when it comes to competitive shit, I don't know why.
>>566069316I once read that in China and possibly Korea that their work / life balance is so fucked. SO if you wanted to actually be good at a game or farm up something etc, you basically have no time to do that. So the next best thing is just paying to get said items. I would say it sort of checks out because I hear very very negative things about Chinese and Korean work life balance. Weird shit like the expectation that you go out with co workers to bars AFTER work. So you work your 12+ hour day and then go to a bar for 1-2 more hours or some shit. Sounds fucking hellish.
>>566068784>check STS2>FUG HUGE negative review bombingWhat the royal fuck am I reading.Why are all the chinks assmad about it?And what do I read about Anita?The fuck is going on.
>>566070462Chinese love abusing game mechanics to top leaderboardsMegacrit nerfed some infinite decks stratsChina is mad>And what do I read about Anita?People realized 2 months after launch that she is listed as a consultant in the credits and retroactively hate the game
Speaking of STS2, do you think i can still save my friend? He's playing this fucking game 8 hours a day
I love Reaper. I love it's big, meaty hits. I love it's range. I love it's down attack. I love it's little minigame with the silk orbs. I hate Reaper. I hate that it's big, meaty hits don't actually do any more damage than anything else, they're just slower, because fuck you. I hate that it's range just goes away when you attack upwards and it becomes stupidly narrow for no reason. I hate that it's down attack is so good partially because every other down attack is some diagonal dive that never, ever starts feeling good. I hate that it's little minigame pales in comparison to the the special effects of every other crest, and isn't even the best silk generator despite being the only thing it does. I love Silksong. I hate Silksong.
Homosexuality aside, I fucking adored Bastard Bonds. The custom player character, ability to recruit literally anything, and have my own base (even if base building was basically nonexistent) was ecstasy. I long for either a sequel or a game like it.
>>566071606I prefer witch.
>>566071952I like Witch's moveset, but the heal is rough. Cool, but rough. This game is hard enough without needing to heal in enemies faces to get health.
>>566034517For some reason I had more fun with the gacha knockoff, Chaos Zero Nightmare. The "exploration" part was way too slow.
>>566072421Combine it with the injector band and claw mirrors. It is still inherently more risky though yes.
>>566068784>>566070462Chinese Steam users aren't allowed to use the forums or social media, so the reviews are their only medium of communicating with the devs.
>>566034517It's fucking great.
>>566072749I'll try that. Maybe things will click better on a second playthrough.
>>566072656You know you can run and teleport right?
>>566074912I think both of those are new since I last played. Still not as convenient as a STS-style map.
>>566075247It's not STS. You can return to the store whenever you want and roll events and chose when to avail of their effects.
Still praying for a Duskers 2.
I'm gonna get Skull Horde.
What is it with Chinese modders and making some of the most wackass mods ever? Stellaris, Rimworld, Starsector, even fucking Barotrauma. If there's a chinese subcommunity, chances are they're making the most egregiously busted bullshit that utilizes 3 entirely new mechanics that could revolutionize the modding scene if anyone could read the code.But it only works if they're a minority of the community, cause chinese-majority games like Amazing Cultivation Simulator or Duckov ain't got dick.
>>566068784What does anyone care? Nobody who isn't a chink will change their mind based on an obvious review bomb covered in angry scribles or MTL rant with their trademark the-developers-should-eat-my-shit style of outrage. Nobody who is into STS to begin with will care because they don't have to interact with chinks and if they liked 1 they know 2 will be good for them too.Literally just ignore them. What are they gonna do? Cross the great firewall and do anything? Not fucking likely, otherwise they'd overthrow their overlords first.
>>566082871>buying games without a discountnani
>>566068784all games should add an option if the game detects any asian language locale being used on your computer to offer you game breaking cheats for 5 dollars per run.
Backup boons are a mistake.
>>566093426Damn, even Frieza himself is struggling in this economy.
>>566095519That's an hefty debt, too.
>>566093426Ah yes, my realistic game set in new york city in the 70s with my neighbors "xXx_N1bb@K1ll@_xXx", "Jewffrey Einstein", "Furlover #FreePalestine" and "Elven lord Edhelharn of Eriador".Backer names are always stupid. Even when they make sense in the "lore", the lore would be better off without them.
>>566075623That sounds completely different from when I played it. Maybe I'll check it out again.
Just defeated the boss at the end of Trollhole. That area was really claustrophobic, a change of pace from the open areas I've seen thus far, and it really played upon my fear of and fascination with sea monsters where you only see their tentacles. Just did an extremely perilous platforming section for a key item. Only played about three hours so far but I am loving the atmosphere, very unique game.
>>566068784Chinese are subhuman, yes.Beyond that, do me a favor and go in front of a mirror, say "I care about the Chinese reception of a deckbuilder indie game to enough degree that it bothers me" and if that doesn't sound like an obscenely retarded thing, honest to god consider therapy because holy fucking shit my dude.The Anita thing is ultimately unimportant too, but it at least shows them as dumb.Doorfucker is still a dogshit design though
>>566106679speedrunner slop disgusts me
>>566107798that's not speedrunning, that's just using some really funny upgrades the game can give you
Apparently the rat game is finally supposed to release in a couple of weeks.You guys think it will actually come out this time?
>>566108243>the rat gameI have absolutely no idea what you're referring to
>>566108175>not speedrunninghe says, playing at parkour in a fishbowl
>>566108335Mina the Hollower. The game announced by the Shovel Knight guys like five years ago.This is the second time they have given it a solid release date.
>>566108623my time was three times longer than an actually decent speedrun
>>566108793Are are players of the genre as dense as you? I think so.
>>566108895I'm going to infer what that poorly worded post was trying to say and just state speedrunning and playing a game casually are different things
Indie!
>>566108243i was looking forward to it but played the demo when it came out and basically all my interest evaporated instantly
played the library organization game, good fun if you have the tismI started by stuffing every single whiteish book I could find into a row of shelves and picking out matching books to go put where they belong
>>566109751It was kind of mediocre. Shovel Knight took a couple of levels to really wow me though so I am still interested in seeing how the full release pans out.My main issue is that the platforming doesn't pair well with the overhead POV.
Wow the Chinese are complaining about Anita Sarkeesian now? Damn communists ruin everything.
>>566117004Communists are notoriously hostile towards other communists.
>>566104040>>566041627Ok, ok, I'm trying this shit after I sleep.
Little over halfway to Keeler, watching for derelicts along the way. Most interesting thing this dive is two bodies floating around with no ship to be found. That and some rando "I smell piracy" fella.
>>566126167I have stumbled upon some stray drones. I thought it was going to be bodies again. I saw them accelerate and was already hitting a 180 to torch the mines I thought they were.
>>566127570Made the gap. I'll clear it and if I don't find a ship I'll have a bit to eat and head back to Enceladus.
>>566126167>>566127570>>566129134I have no idea what I'm looking at and I'm scared.
>>566129134Middle of the damn Keeler gap and I see a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide contact incoming. Beautiful moonlet.
>>566129390I'm low enough on propellent that I'm gonna munch this little one then continue on. The astrogator can track it for about 86 days, so I've got a checkpoint if I want to spend some dosh going straight there.>>566129225ΔV: Rings of Saturn. It attempts to be hard science simulation for the physics of things. It's got a demo that's just the full fuckin' game because the dev is pretty cool about it. Quick and dirty is you're a captain of a mining ship on Enceladus Prime. You do dives into the rings to bring ore and other interesting things back to the station. There's a lot of things to discover out on the rings. Like that moonlet I cruised by. I'm currently using the starter ship, kitted out for salvage and bounty hunting. I'm running an actuator arm for grabbin' things (like salvagable ships), a point defense microwave generator to disable the computers of pirates' ships, and a railgun to (hopefully) blow a hole in their fuel tanks. I'm not huge into battle, but it's few and far enough between fights that overall the experience is REALLY zen if it's your cup of tea.
>>566130078I forgot I need to gently expel the bodies from my cargo hold in order to eat again. I remembered only after eating the first chunk of ore. Time to see how the gravity of the moonlet affects them I guess.
>>566130365Was wrangling some rocks and have found that no, the processor does not need to be clear of a fuckin' body to do it's job. Splendid. Perhaps it's just lifepods jamming the thing that I've experienced.
>>566129390Nice moonlet
>>566130078>I've got a checkpoint if I want to spend some dosh going straight there.You can just do a transfer to the edge of the rings, and then navigate to the waypoint for free. No reason to pay for the xaser burn.
>>566130673Shit's mooooovin' fast inward out of nowhere. Evasive maneuvers and hold on to your asses. Notice that bit of red around the edges of the screen? Random happenings come in two flavors. Red and blue.>>566130680Thanks ringa.>>566130873Absolutely right. I'm a cheap ass so I don't do such things very often. I'm not usually in a hurry. This dive started at the edge about 4 hours ago. Are you a xenon transfer chad as well?
>>566131092Thanks to that scare I'm down to less propellent than when I started munching. I'll just fuck off to the other side of the gap.
>>566131693...that is until a tastier meal shows up out of nowhere. "Flank them!" comes over the comms local channel. Here goes nothing.
>>566093426What game is this?
>>566131914Got paid for the fucker, but didn't get the ship. Not a super dive, but was pretty relaxing.
>>566132773Wizordrum.People in Grimbrook dug too deeply and too greedily, and opened a gate to hell, which manifested as "chaos" possessing all manners of ill-behaving goblins and undeads.Plays like a Hexen-like, except you can't jump and can't even fall off, the game is strictly 2D. Which makes it extremely easy to make maps for, I assume.
God bless whoever blogposts while I'm sleeping and wageslaving.
>play sts>elite that hard counters your deck>diabolically bad first turn draw>diabolically bad second turn draw>game overWow, that was fun.
>>566134023Not the guy you responded to but looks cool.
Anyone played Dice Gambit? P fun ge so far. Nice art style
need games to piratepreferably short things I can play through in one sitting and be done with them
>>566138136Your dick.
>>566138556I already played with that one
>>566138136MAHOUTEQ except buy it because it's $2
I fucking hate the term "boomer shooter." What are some of the best retro shooters?
>>566138910Wizordrum, Amid Evil, DUSK... Cultic!!
>>566138136Have any preference when it come to genre? You could always pirate Teardown, its basically a puzzle game where you have to figure out how to complete objectives within a destructible map, ie gotta steal a safe from an office 2nd floor? Make a hole in the wall and push the safe unto a boxtruck juryrigged into a flatbed, its fun to figure out an optimal route as certain missions are actually complex and need clever placement, especially at the start of campaign when you dont have a lot of tools at your disposal.No shame in telling peoples to pirate it as the original dev sold the rights to some investment firm, the Embracer Group, which turned out how youd expect and is a can of worm I dont want to get into right now.
>>566138910HROT and Citadel are goated
>>566140647guro fetishist detected
CrossCode 2 is now available in EA
>>566138136Life With A Slave -Teaching Feeling
>>566137957I played the demo but it was too RNG-heavy for me, you can fight a boss forever because "OOPS all Move/Defend dice" turn after turn after turn
>>566138910Seconding Cultic and Citadel. There are a lot of great retraux doomlikes but not enough good quakelikes (thought Dusk and HROT were rubbish, don't see the appeal).
why was hotline miami's sountrack so fucking gooddoes any indie come even close?
>>566147109Furi.
Tried out handmancers for a bit. Got a good defensive/attrition deck going, then the final boss has a kill in 5 turns or lose gimmick. Thanks game.
>>566138910Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony is pretty fucking good and free. Remind me of the old call of duty and medal of honor games, and the level design is 10/10 imo.
>>566137957The art style is really the only thing going for it, the gameplay gets old pretty quick
>>566138910>>566150098Forgot to add, there is the Timesplitter series which is a treasure trove, albeit it probably dont count as a true retro game. Deus Ex is also pretty good albeit janky, also stay the fuck away from the remaster and just get the original with a fan patch for the same thing at a fraction of the price. Of most recent release, there is Hands of Necromancy 1 & 2, Hedon Bloodrite and Coven that comes to mind as genuinely fun.
