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!
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Katana Zero
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Stick it to the man (Humorous platformer with a funny story/art style)
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Shakedown Hawaii (Like GTA 1/2 but your a businessman shaking people down for profit)
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Distance (Obstacle Avoidable Racing Game)
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Carrion (You play as a monster trying to escape a facility)
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The Precinct (Be a Cop)
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Chicken Invaders Ultimate
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Wreckage (Homage to Twisted Metal Series)
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Bash Moto (Upcoming Road Rash 95 like game. Can’t wait for it to release!)
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Hypersonic (Upcoming F-ZERO like game)
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Aero GPX (F-ZERO like game)
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Time Loader (3D Platformed/Puzzler with a good story)
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DemonStar - Original Missions (Remastered game of the original shareware, by the original developer)
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Sleeping Dogs (Could you consider it an indie game, I believe not but please try it out its great!)
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Phogs
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Hot Brass (Topdown SWAT game solo or with friends locally or online)
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Two games: Capsized and Cryptark
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Broforce
Edit: Added more games and fixed some typos.
Carrion is so good.
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CrossCode is one of my favourite indie games, well worth a try, long one though.
How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?
- Dyson sphere project, is a great factory game in development for ages and one of my favourites by a 5 person Chinese team.
- Rift breaker by a small Polish group is like a cross between Diablo and Tower defence factory builder lite
- Criticality, is a fun incremental game that will keep you occupied for a few days, hit neutrons to create a chain reaction, basically bubble wrap
- “Lost wiki Kozlovka”, is a very unique find the clue by reading Wikipedia articles in early 90’s internet only about 2 hours long, highly recommended.
- Take a look at the “secret of weapstone demo”, DnD in hand drawn black and white
- Alan’s automation workshop, is good before it gets too hard it you like programming challenges, try the demo first
- Silicon dreams, is like a physiological interrogation, you are trying to determine if the people are human or malfunctioning Androids, again there is a demo
- Horripilant, is an interesting auto batteler, again with demo
- Terraformental, is an incremental text adventure where you build skills to survive a time loop
- A dark forest, was entertaining, currently free demo
- Cleared hot, it’s basically desert strike helicopter gunship game
- Tower wizard, fun for a few hours
- Little rocket lab, like factorio but you take over a town and it’s cute
Kids recommend “look outside,” and “mouthwashing”, lobotomy corporation, lethal company, - The signal state, another programming type game
My youngest recommends "rainworld’ like a 2d dark souls
That’s my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux
EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
I recently released a demo for my action platformer No More Mages! Hope you enjoy if you get around to it, more being added soon.
Gonna plug Withering Rooms again! @Coelacanth@feddit.nu 's review of it initially sold me on it so I’ll just paste it here!:
I finished Withering Rooms a few days ago, having done both a full first playthrough and a quick run through NG+ to get the ending exclusive to NG+. Since then I’ve been in that odd spot where I’m kind of having trouble moving on to the next game. I just keep thinking about Withering Rooms.
This game was so amazingly good, it is seriously unbelievable it is the work of a solo dev. Especially since he also composed pretty much all the music - and the music is as phenomenal as the game. I don’t think I’ve been this impressed with a solo dev since Lucas Pope and Obra Dinn.If you vibe in any way with what you see on the Steam page, I heavily encourage you giving it a shot.
It is one of the most unique games I’ve ever played, which is funny because it simultaneously wears its inspirations on its sleeves. But the influences never end up leading to derivative end product, instead they are just the foundation for the very distinctive artistic vision of an auteur developer that is doubtlessly doing his own thing.And it’s not just about the story and world building and art direction and atmosphere, but the gameplay and build variety is also really good. All the gameplay systems are so well designed, the puzzles are intuitive and the game has so many thoughtful little touches you wouldn’t expect from the first game of a solo dev, especially on the QOL front.
The combat itself is a little clunky, but you do get used to it and there are several ways to build both melee and spellcasting, there is a ranged weapon build that leans more into consumables, you can sneak around and place traps, you can be a summoner… Probably more that I didn’t think of yet. And using all these different tools is a lot of fun.Having played this I am unbelievably excited for the sequel, which enters Early Access this year.
Demon Tides (3d platformer, Mario Odyssey crossed with LoZ Wind Waker)
Bug Fables (Paper Mario-esque RPG)
Ultrakill (boomer shooter)
Session. Skate Sim (EA Skate but without EA)
Synthetik 1 & 2 (isometric futuristic rouge like)
Vall Halla (cyberpunk bartender visual novel)
Dungeons of Hinterburg (Dungeon crawling RPG with a Persona like social system)
Cairn (mountain climbing sim with a great story)
Tactical Breach Wizards (XCOM style game with wizards and defenstration)
Noita (magic based rouge like with a lot of secrets)
Cassette Beasts (Pokemon)
Signalis (classic Resident Evil/Silent Hill style horror game)
Dredge (fishing, but Lovecraftian)
Tunic (Legend of Zelda mixed with Dark Souls)
Neon White (movement based FPS with a goal to speedrun short levels)
SUPERHOT (FPS, time moves when you move)
VOID BREAKER (rouge like FPS with insane upgrades)
Hell yes another Session player. OP if you like skate games or the Skate series at all, give this one a try. It’s like EA Skate, but even more a PITA because of how realistic it is. I say PITA but I honestly love it. There are tons of settings to tweak the entire experience however you like it, customization and a bit of a story to follow but it’s really just there to teach you how to play.
I haven’t finished Signalis or probably even got that far, but it is very cool and very creepy.
Forgot about Tactical Breach Wizards, would definitely recommend. Superhot is great, superhot in VR is amazing.
Tons. The Wild at Heart, Ballionaire, Hades, Silksong if you’re a glutton for punishment, Neon Abyss, 80 Days, Islanders, most of the Steamworld franchise.
Some of them many not be truly indie but definitely aren’t AAA. These are some of my favorites from the past year.
mouthwash
I have been really enjoying Songs of Conquest recently.
Dredge if you haven’t touched it yet … fishing but deeply unsettling in the best way. Short, cheap, stays with you.
Tunic if you want something that genuinely respects your intelligence. Feels like Zelda until it doesn’t.
And if you’re okay with losing sleep, Noita. Just go in blind.
Baldur’s gate 3.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a non-major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
Just don’t play mixtape. It’s terrible.
I just don’t understand how Expedition 33 can be considered indie. They literally have a publisher.
Most of what we’ve called indie has had publishers, which is how we’ve heard of those games in the first place.
Indie games have publishers. Just like indie bands have labels.
As much as I love Larian and BG3, you’d have to have a really narrow definition of “major” if Larian isn’t a major studio since at least DOS2.
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
Personally, I call such studios AA. They are too large to be indies, yet to small to be AAA.
Expedition 33 creators, for example, would also fall under AA, even though they’re a very young studio.
Indie, to me, would be a studio of a couple people, of a one single team. Like with the creators of Hollow Knight. So, it’s about internal structure rather than budgets or involvement of publishers.
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.
Which is?
I’m asking for 2 reasons: 1st is that I simply don’t know which one you’re talking about as I’ve seen different interpretations of that word. 2nd is that I don’t think people would be arguing as much if the definition was that clear-cut.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
I already defined it in my first post.
But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.
Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.
Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.
An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.
Here’s a couple unique ones:
Showgunners - Turn Based Strategy with some great art and setting.
Lonestar - Space based rogue like turn based with a surprisingly intricate combat system.
Project Wingman - Love letter to Ace Combat with a soundtrack that just DOES NOT miss.
Tactical Breach Wizards - XCOM with wizards. Funny as hell.
Battletech - Older title by Harebrained Schemes but still awesome. Giant stompy robots turn based. Great plot too. Actually had the original devs of Battletech on board.
+1 for TBW. It takes all the fun parts if XCOM and ramps it up to 11. The lack of rng turns it more into a puzzle game, but it will always be satisfying defenestrating fools!
Gunner Heat PC is a great tank sim
