the absolute state of indie games

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  1. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    A mongus

  2. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    stop being a zoomer

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not a single one of those games is good.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        get a life

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >too lazy to even torrent
          it literally me

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Still owns a GTX760
          Mind it's in it's box in case my current dies and I need something as a video adapter till I can get another, but damn I feel called out.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wow, he's literally me!

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >you need the latest and greatest graphics cards to enjoy video games goy!
          not even gonna read the rest, have a nice day

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            who are you quoting?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          I would still be on a 760 level card if my motherboard didn't corrode and make it actually worth upgrading.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >how do you know its shit if its not even out yet? Just because it mimics an older game a worse format, less killed devs, worse compatibility, bugs, and worse gameplay doesnt mean its bad

          You should get a life by not wasting it on junk. If you do not value your time, that says everything about you.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Not a single one of those games is good.
        moron. Just out of the ones I've personally played, Pizza Tower, Orbo's Odyssey, Squirrel Stapler, Mosa Lina and World of Horror are incredibly based.
        Whatever bullshit you are going to spout as to why those don't count, you don't know shit about good vidya.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          get a life

          Shit indie games. You have almost 35+ years of kino that can be downloaded and emulated. You don't need to buy this nu-shit

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Reminder that hating modern things is not a personality and doesn't make you an interesting person.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Alright homosexual are you gonna play said games or complain they're so retro now gay

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why do underage shitstains who base their entire personality around "modern things suck" think that you can't enjoy older and modern things?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >World of Horror

          That's game was so shit I couldn't even figure out what was supposed to be fun about it.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >orbo's odyssey (15 mins long)
          >squirrel stapler (gamejam rerelease from 6 years ago)
          I like indie games but your taste is bad you should have picked cornkidz and lunacid instead

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >World of Horror
          The only thing bad about it is the gameplay, it's so fricking repetitive you will get bored in an hour or two because it just consists of
          >choose a random rumor and investigate it
          >walk around a place a few times to collect clues, while fighting random enemies or random events
          >optionally go investigate somewhere else to get a better ending
          >fight a boss
          >repeat a few times and you've won the game
          Also there's some still unfinished content or lack of mechanics the dev promised to include after the game would leave early access. Fricking poles.

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            >make a couple hours of actual gameplay
            >artificially extend it by over 5x its actual length by means of rogueslop/randomizerslop
            shittiest trend in all of vidua

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Void Stranger

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oh you tried all of them? Doubtful.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Actually they’re all good

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, you just have shit taste, as per usual.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Not a single one of those games is good.
      moron. Just out of the ones I've personally played, Pizza Tower, Orbo's Odyssey, Squirrel Stapler, Mosa Lina and World of Horror are incredibly based.
      Whatever bullshit you are going to spout as to why those don't count, you don't know shit about good vidya.

      There's some fantastic games in there but also some absolute stinkers. Odd mix for a recommended games list.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Can you not read or something.
        In what way is that a recommended list.
        It's literally the biggest part of that picture.

        INDIE GAMES OF 2023
        ENGLISH LANGUAGE / FULL RELEASES / NON-HENTAI / PC+CONSOLE

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Far more indie games than that released last year, so what is this list meant to be?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous
            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Answer the question, dickhead.
              Just as an example off the top of my head: Lethal Company isn't on the list. That's a pretty big indie game last year to not be listed, so why is this list omitting random indies and intentionally listing several really bad ones?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah yes, that glorious multiplatform release of Lethal Company.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                There's multiple games on that list that are PC only.
                PC+Console does not appear to mean "games that are available on both", instead it's a mixed list of games available on either.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah yes, that glorious multiplatform RELEASE this is the important word! You are so close! of Lethal Company.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >There's multiple games on that list that are PC only

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's Early Access you illiterate frickface.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's Early Access you illiterate frickface.

                So are you saying that every game released in 2023 is on that list? Because otherwise you're completely ignoring his point to harp on one bad example he made. It's obviously a curated list.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lunacid is exclusive to PC but is still on the list, checkmate, moron
                also somehow Squirrel Stapler is here despite being released a few years ago

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            nta but what's listed is just very particular. A game like Slay the Princess for example wouldn't be on the list because despite it being an english full release non-hentai indie game, it's only on PC and not console. yet

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              There's several PC-only games on that list already

              Ah yes, that glorious multiplatform RELEASE this is the important word! You are so close! of Lethal Company.

              Okay, fair that LC is still early access, however that doesn't explain other indie releases from last year.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >There's several PC-only games on that list already
                for example?

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                I have basically played none of these games but I googled a few and the first one I found that appears to be PC only is En Garde.

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >the first one I found that appears to be PC only is En Garde.
                I'll take your word for it. I also notice that it has Pseudoregalia and that one is definitely PC only
                I'm starting to that pic might be full of shit

            • 3 months ago
              Anonymous

              Except there actually are many indies that the list does not include, like Slay the Princess and Blasphemous 2, even though they would meet the requirements just fine. The image is simply bullcrap.

              [...]
              [...]
              these are PC only
              >your only move is hustle
              >can of wormholes
              >moons of darsalon
              >vividlope
              >rushdown revolt
              >zortch
              >magicube
              >crypt underworld
              >deadlink
              >pseudoregalia
              >paquerette down the bunburrows
              >deathbulge battle of the bands
              >dangeresque
              >touhou juuouen unfinished dream of all living ghost
              >en garde
              >orbos odyssey
              >sprawl
              >void stranger
              >wandring sword
              >touhou artificial dream in arcadia
              >moonring
              >monolith
              >cornkidz 64
              >mosa lina
              >cavern of dreams
              >lunacid
              >kannagi usagi
              >checkmate showdown
              >small saga

              and these are literally just mods:
              >dog collab (sm64 romhack)
              >swelter (half life 2 mod)
              >venturous in the footsteps of the fallen (doom 2 mod)
              >super mario and the monstrous manor (sm64 mod)
              >thief the black parade (thief the dark project mod)

              Slay the Princess is a visual novel and not a game and Blasphemous 2 is boring lol

              • 3 months ago
                Anonymous

                >those don't count because I don't like them
                and yet some garbage mods are fine, eh?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          You realize that some people who post here are ESL and do not understand context, right?

          • 3 months ago
            Anonymous

            Except there actually are many indies that the list does not include, like Slay the Princess and Blasphemous 2, even though they would meet the requirements just fine. The image is simply bullcrap.

            >There's several PC-only games on that list already
            for example?

            >the first one I found that appears to be PC only is En Garde.
            I'll take your word for it. I also notice that it has Pseudoregalia and that one is definitely PC only
            I'm starting to that pic might be full of shit

            these are PC only
            >your only move is hustle
            >can of wormholes
            >moons of darsalon
            >vividlope
            >rushdown revolt
            >zortch
            >magicube
            >crypt underworld
            >deadlink
            >pseudoregalia
            >paquerette down the bunburrows
            >deathbulge battle of the bands
            >dangeresque
            >touhou juuouen unfinished dream of all living ghost
            >en garde
            >orbos odyssey
            >sprawl
            >void stranger
            >wandring sword
            >touhou artificial dream in arcadia
            >moonring
            >monolith
            >cornkidz 64
            >mosa lina
            >cavern of dreams
            >lunacid
            >kannagi usagi
            >checkmate showdown
            >small saga

            and these are literally just mods:
            >dog collab (sm64 romhack)
            >swelter (half life 2 mod)
            >venturous in the footsteps of the fallen (doom 2 mod)
            >super mario and the monstrous manor (sm64 mod)
            >thief the black parade (thief the dark project mod)

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >only trash
      As expected from indie troonslop.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shut the frick up you dumbass. You sound like you play frickin Call of Duty and complain that video games aren't good anymore YouTube videos

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          rude

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      BLACK PARADE MENTIONED

      Play Thief FMs Now.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Trepang2
      >Sprawl
      >Talos Principle 2
      >Turbo Overkill
      I liked all of these but that list doesn't include any of the RPGs I played. Lame.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        RPG such as?

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Colony Ship is probably my favorite rpg from 2023.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Game?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Void Stranger. Don't ask how I know...

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          You cheeky little shit

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >pour your heart and soul into creating a videogame
      >it will end up forgotten in a bargain bin like this
      It's so demoralizing

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Over a million games exist, with more being created everyday. That's just the way it is.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        wait until you learn about graveyards!

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        The creative process isn't about formulating the precise thing that will be popular and have mass appeal. Or it shouldn't be, at least. Leave that to the capitalists running AAA studios. You make something for yourself. Something you want to see exist.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, some of them are not even mentioned at all, like "Robodunk"

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Almost everything that you will do in your life will exist as a grain of sand in a beach of millions of creations that were done, are being done, and will be done in the future by other creators, this doesnt apply to just videogames, anon. Just create and enjoy the fact that you did the thing that you wanted to do.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        now think about the fact most games can't even manage that!

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Indie games
      >Mario ROM hacks
      Fan games are creatively bankrupt and terrible ideas.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        rom hacks are indie and games. yes. what do you not understand? perhaps giving them a chance and finding they're high quality and very fun would change your mind. oh wait you don't play vidya you just b***h b***h b***h

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        forced cetitan

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Non-hentai
      Were there any hentai games worth a shit in 2023?
      Other than Demon Roots wich is barely a hentai game.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Were there any hentai games worth a shit in 2023?
        Take Me to the Dungeon

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Demons Roots
        >worth a shit
        The game was ass.
        Tokyo Necro and Rance 9 came out in 2023, but I haven't played them so I can't tell you whether they were any good. Pretty aye everything else was a nukige.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >no lethal company

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        >No shitty FotM game
        Good.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          >it doesn't count if it's popular
          The absolute state

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Based, too bad it will be the only game remembered from endless list of indies

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's a cool concept but a bit too early in development
        ton of potential thoughever

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Lethal Company is an awful video game and would've sold 10 copies max without streamer hype.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Game?

      Void Stranger. Don't ask how I know...

      Void Stranger is pure kino and one of the greatest games ever made. Definitely worth playing.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        I played a lot but didn't finish Lily.
        Still I feel like it will be on people's "best game you ignored" lists a few years from now.

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're only about halfway through the game, less actually I think

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >squirrel stapler
      hold on now, that came out in 2020 on the dread x collection 2. is this a new version or something?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've had my eye on el paso elsewhere for a while, is it any good?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You know what anon? I like your list.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Majority of these look genuinely awful. Really not doing the indie scene any favors.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        judge book cover

        • 3 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes. A game looking good doesn't mean anything, but if a game looks like shit, there's a 90% chance it's bad.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      oof i know the industry is in rough patch but damn

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dog collab and Monstrous Manor were incredible. It's amazing how crazy the SM64 romhacking scene is getting.

  3. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    a bunch of gays decided to trade reviews for shit like bastion way back in the day and weve been fed a diet of overhyped indieslop since frick shovel knight frick spelunky frick all of it

  4. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Vaporware
    >released over 10 yearrs ago

    huh?

  5. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >inferior and blatant copy of an other games
    >Early access scams
    >Low effort meme bait
    Why do people praise indies over triple A?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because most good indie games aren't that.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You get those same 3 qualities with AAA games as well but more expensive. By buying indie you save money.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some of them are good?

  6. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pizza Tower is one of the best 2D Platformers ever made and oozes with soul.

  7. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Where's the "mogging the Pokemon company" one?

  8. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    THEN GANDALF THE GREY AND GANDALF THE WHITE
    AND MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL'S BLACK KNIGHT
    AND BENITO MUSSOLINI, AND THE BLUE MEANIE
    AND COWBOY CURTIS, AND JAMBI THE GENIE
    ROBOCOP, THE TERMINATOR, CAPTAIN KIRK, AND DARTH VADER
    LO-PAN, SUPERMAN, EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER
    BILL S. PRESTON AND THEODORE LOGAN
    SPOCK, THE ROCK, DOC OCK, AND HULK HOGAN

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post the fixed version, not the original "omg Lowtax is so cool" abortion
      >GANDALF THE PIMP AND GANDALF THE HO
      >MATT DAMON AND THE GUYS FROM MISTER SHOW
      >AND BENITO MUSSOLINI AND HIS BIG WEENIE
      >AND TONY CURTIS IN A PINK BIKINI
      >ROBOCOP, TERMINATOR, WILLIAM SHATNER, RALPH NADER
      >LO PAN, PETER PAN, EVER MALE POWER RANGER
      >KEANU REEVES AND BILL S PRESTON
      >SPOCK, THE ROCK AND CHARLTON HESTON

  9. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Deltarune (last entry was 3 years ago and still no new chapter in sight)
    >Fotm
    >Who?
    what is the correlation here? besides them just being indies of course

  10. 3 months ago
    DoctorGreen

    >earthbound
    undertale and deltarune are closer to Megami Tensei :v

  11. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    OP's a homosexual so this is a Pizza Tower thread now
    Hopes and dreams for Noise, fellas? I really hope Doise is just a bait and switch and we get an actual Peppino boss fight

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      If Mr.Pig doesn't release noise I will personally go to his house and eat his oatmeal.

  12. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Banban won

  13. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    speaking of quirky platformers, is Arzette any good?

  14. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I only want to frick the thing on the right after I turned 25 almost 10 years ago

  15. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >i-indie games suck because... well.. well... because i'm a reddit-tier npc who only looks at the most surface level garbage

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      what game is this?

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Mad Games Tycoon 2

        Probably the best game tycoon simulator game ever made.

  16. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >quirky Wario Land inspired platformer
    I'll take twenty
    It's not like Nintendo's gonna be making them any time soon

  17. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    anon, you could have just said you like the buggy esg-filled AAAslop
    we won't judge you
    except me

  18. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >wario inspired
    >saturated
    >where there's at least 2 examples
    but anyway, how about "boomer" shooters when doom wads are still a thing?

  19. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    ¬‿¬

  20. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reject commercial indie.
    Play "true" indie made by people actually doing it for the love of the craft.








    https://files.catbox.moe/wagwcz.webm

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      that looks really good i want to throw scroll of tornadoes

  21. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
  22. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I literally hate indie game fans more than AAA consumers at this point. You people are completely insufferable.

    There are no good indie games and there never will be. It's really that simple.

  23. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have abandoned indie when I realized that it's just about wanting to be like old and classic AAA games, not about actually aiming to be a genuine art piece of their own. Undertale, deltarune, omori, pizza tower, a hat in time and so much more, all suffer from this. I know that not all indie games are like that (like lucas pope for example) but it's the exception to the rule.

  24. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Garten of Peakpeak
    >Abuses the broken system of algorithms and lets players
    >Forces itself into the spotlight with constant new releases
    >Creates empire out of awful meshes and nothing
    >Bans all brazilians from their discord

    ?si=YcOONmGObxn0vt5e

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >>Bans all brazilians from their discord
      based as frick

  25. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    ,,, AND ITS LUDO!

  26. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Earthbound is turnbased
    Undertale is realtime
    In Earthbound you control a party
    In Undertale you control a singular character
    The stats are completely different
    The character progression isn't even comparable
    Even superficially, Earthbound is a really colourful game
    Subversion or not, Undertale's visuals are primarily monochrome

    Why are they compared so hard all the time?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Undertale is realtime

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's realturn

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        is realtime
        It's a fricking shmup game with phases.

      • 3 months ago
        Anonymous

        Think fast, kid.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      the game took inspiration from earthbound and people mistakenly think that means they're comparable. it also became a bit of a fad for indie devs to sell their games on being "inspired" by earthbound so now we're here.

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      You would have been right if not for the fact that Toby is not shy at all about how much of an inspiration and elements he takes after Earthbound to make Undertale. I'ts mostly the characterization and atmosphere.

  27. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder that OP had to change Pizza Tower's line because the game released
    It was originally a meme about derivative vaporware games but now it just b***hes about indie games he doesn't like

  28. 3 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He cute

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      Is there a correlation between bronies and undertale fans?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      He also made a Pizza Tower mod called "Stuffed Crust" btw
      It's all connected

  29. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've seen a million mascot horrors and earthbound rejects but how many wario-land inspired indie games are there really?

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      exactly two, pizza tower (which did not end up very wario land-like at all) and antonblast (wario land + crash bandicoot)

  30. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    Here's a bunch of Ganker games in development, konk yourself out.

    https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-54/entries

    • 3 months ago
      Anonymous

      mite b cool

  31. 3 months ago
    Anonymous

    >same game you've seen 100000 times before
    >fan making a fun game because nintendon't
    >shit ass low effort cash grab chasing a trend

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