>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: >>584922013
You're gonna play his game next week, right?
also why are the first 20 pages of the booru literally just signalis fanart jesus
Is he /indie/?
>>586059195>I forget, do the crab pots give fishing XP?I don't know. I'm grinding my cooking.
Fuck this shit, write a proper changelog
>>586062181If your cooking is total ass you get a few levels for free by looking at the pot of solder in the foundry, but you seem to be past that point. Honestly I found that once you had an automatic water station you could make greyeb wraps with eyes and lettuce at the cooking table and those were so easy and plentiful that nothing else mattered. The special effects for some of the weirder soups are nice but not worth the hassle of carrying around containers and shit.
This thing is totally adorbs.>>586062679I just want the perk that increases health ticks. Even if I have the slow healer perk.
>>586060556Of course
>>586059334>Heat Siggy OPHell yeah
>>586063346Small tip for the laser gun, you can carry a laser-charged battery station with you. Have a second at base recharging from a beam while you're out and about, and now you can reload in the field.
>>586064113By endgame a lot of my tactics devolved into hijacking an unrelated small ship to use as a breaching charge on the ship I was trying to get into. Still a great game, I wish Tactical Breach Wizards had hit for me in the same way.
>>586064868>Small tip for the laser gun, you can carry a laser-charged battery station with you. Have a second at base recharging from a beam while you're out and about, and now you can reload in the field.Tried it at the Praetorium. I kept getting weight down all the time, so I gave up and decided to carry two blue laser pistols.
>>586059965Ackthsually the 1st page has no Signalis fanart. They also stop on page 16.Only 2 pages are literally just Signalis fanart, the rest of the 13 pages has other games mixed in.
>>586065405I kept it in my hotbar because I had the perk where those items weighed less, but I get that. I might've also had an accessory that helped with item weight by then.
>unusual facial expressions>inconsistent fashion>stilted speech>capable of hacking encrypted communication channels>vaxxedThey want me to shoot autistic people now?
Played probably stolen for 8 hours after doing 17h in the demo in september.I've come to resent gunsmithing.water merchant was tedious but it was honest work.gunsmithing you just have to accept random events. I took agoraphobic because I had no idea I'd have to supplement my smithing with my own scavenging, but this debuff kills any joy I could have. I'm stuck crafting tier 0 60 credits guns.At least interacting with the illegal side of the game is way more fun.Tomorrow it's queen domaining time.
Captain picard died bros :(
>>586074519Not only Picard. It has been a bad week.
>>586065451sex with this lanky dork
>my parents, 25 years ago
>>586077514>playing literal garbage I have to agree
Imagine trying to kiss Malady and getting your eye pocked out
https://x.com/OnirismThegame/status/2115855000945779126CHOCOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
>>586083489why are you so weird and gay
>>586084072I would risk my eye tho, don't worry
>>586084056I don't have shitter
Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.
I'm playing a non-general related game. Don't die until I play a general-related game.
>>586094421are you playing an admiral game?
>>586095176No. Cataclysm: Bright Nights with a shitload of sci fi and magic mods.
Anyone here try out Superhero Simulator? Pretty fun imo, but it is buggy
>>586094421I'm playing Cyberpunk, just because of the akimbo update
>the title "Mesmalie" is made up of the 3 witches' namesGot baited by /v/ into buying this game and it's actually pretty good. One of the better games that I've beaten this year (which is 3), gonna get the remaining game overs for the last achievement todaytoo bad there's no ending where you live a long happy life with Mesmer
>>586102339Good, good. Breeding sex with Mesmer
>>586101504No but that does make me want to boot up Champions Online for the first time in 15 years.
ah. uriel septim's dead.
>started horripilant at midnight>it's almost 6 in the morning still playing it>have work in 3 hoursFuck
[HUGE BREAKING NEWS!!!!!]Project Zomboid now officially had CLIMBABLE LADDERS
>>586110761>now>hadTime is... Convoluted.
>Onirism>get to the mansion part of the cursed forest>entire game is broken because if the ghosts can't pathfind to you the game breaks completely and you can't progress>known bug for months and hasn't been fixedYeah sorry, no. This game is actual fucking garbage.
>>586077514Rude.
>>586110761Doesn't it already have climbable ropes?Why did it have that but not ladders?
>>586085340Carol is doing tricks on it
>>586112549has*oops>>586114378YES but nowyou can climb LADDERSWe are SO close to experiencing the perfect zombie sandbox game (est: 40 more years)
>>586113031what did you expect from a game like that?
>>586114498she's literally moving left and right.you pedophiles are deranged.
Waiting for the new Culdesac game to go on sale on Rutracker.
>>586113031>checks onirism wiki>the page for that area was created in 2025Yeah you're not supposed to play it yet. It'll probably work by 2027-2028.Thanks for betatesting it tho.
/indie/ is dead. Long live /indie/!
What could it mean?
>>586133142New handholding scenes
>>586133142The long awaited sex update is imminent.
>>586136947real and true
>>586134179why did they have so many cages
GOG's giving away weird stuff you've never heard of. Again.
>>586063702Spiderfag gonna FREAK>>586149408That's nice of them. I guess.
>>586149408But i have heard of that game, ross scott said it sucks i think
>>586117618This game would be so good if it was good.
>>586153830I end up playing a lot of things where that's applicable
I finished the story campaign of Creeper World IXE. It was mid.
>>586149408Thanks for telling me. I try to check every week.
>>586172267Creeper World is nifty series.
>>586134179>>586136947>a bunch of new puzzles and an achievement Maybe next patch
>>586187806Problem is, there is a limit to how many reactors and how many of each unit the player can build in each map, unlike the mainline CW games, so it ends up playing more like a puzzle game. Energy and ore is never a issue and it was too easy. I think PF suffered from a similar design, but I remember finding the PF more epic and harder, or more of a slog.
World of horror update!? Who would have thought that the update that was teased months ago would release on halloween like most other updates!
Vegangsters might just be the most unforgiving roguelike deckbuilder I've ever played.
gonna ask this again:was going through my backlog and saw this>twwrwr - (top down tower climbing)but i can't find it literally anywhere. does anyone know what the fuck this is
>>586202091nvm i found it are you fucking kidding mehttps://emlise.itch.io/twwwrgoogle search is just awful man. can't solve a simple misspelling
>>586202424>>586202091>why doesn't google recognize my string of random letters for this game no one has ever heard of?You are so dumb, man
>>586202815>google can't find a game that has ONE letter extra as a misspelling when you add "tower climb game" even though that's explicitly in the descriptionit's on steam too by the way, faggot
>>586202424>bullet hell platformer slop
>>586196383I hate games that update for ten plus years. Just make a new game.
>hole punch cocktail demointeresting vision (beer goggles)
>>586166437Examples?
>>586223669The one that comes most recently to mind is https://store.steampowered.com/app/2405060/KIBORG/ . Slavjank roguelite brawler should be a slam dunk but the punching is dogshit in a game that's 95% punching. I also played https://store.steampowered.com/app/3040220/Captain_Blood/ earlier this year and it's truly rancid but so close to being a very fun very stupid pirate-themed God of War knockoff.
>>586200751>only 17.9% of all game owners have won a single runPretty insane.
what do you mean hardcore deletes my save file after dying? I just grazed the funny ceiling plant. fuck
>>586232589>What do you mean Hardcore does what Hardcore does in basically every gameAnon...
>>586232589>Survival mode with only one life.It's your own damn fault.
>>586232589What did you expect to happen?
>>586235649lose the current progress, not the whole save. Like in dead space
>>586232589You don't want to play hardcore in any game with wonky physics
is mayonnaise an indie game
Of all the rougelikes, in which one is your success or failure most dependent on RNG?
>>586232589
>>586240735Peglin
>>586240735How do you tell which is luck and which is a lack of mastery though?
>>586242408Mastery will tell you whether luck was a deciding factor or not. Experience and skill allow you to mitigate misfortune and discern whether an outcome was due to luck or your handling of the situation.
>>586242408By looking at a game's winstreak statistics.If top players can't play consistently, it's down to luck.
Post spooky.
>>586248050
>>586249085I wish they made more games like that one.Which reminds me I haven't finished my The Red Solstice 2 campaign.
Alright, only 2 challenges to unlock and beat, 600 coins to put in the greed machine and 700 in the donation machine and I'll finally be allowed to play the game!.. Actually I should also unlock all the characters I can and finish greedier mode with all of them just for the sake of it...I could technically go further by getting very lucky and getting access to the cathedral early and use an ankh to become ??? to unlock D6 before everything is terrible. But considering I only saw a single ankh in over 30 hours, I'm not counting on it. And I really don't want to just "throw" runs because I couldn't get access to sheol/cathedral.
>>586249085Spooked
>>586250592I respect the dedication.
>hear Synergism removed corruptions>about fucking time, they've been the worst thing in the game ever since their release>start playing again on my file which was on singularity 3>they're not gone as such, just clumsily changed into a single level that you pump>progress is a lot faster than it was though, this is okay>less than 48 hours later I'm on singularity 5 and I've already remembered why I quit in the first place: Nothing fucking changes and the dev is allergic to automating lower layers, so it's a ton of repetitive clicking in the exact same sequence over and over>endgame is STILL fucking cubes - the cope post the dev made to the Mostly Negative reception (it's fallen back to Mixed now) said he's working on nonaracts as "new" contentI've quit yet again now. It's kind of annoying that this game would have been known as the all time greats if the dev had just put an ending at the point where he ran out of ideas instead of stretching it out for years. It's everything wrong with idle games.
>>586259727>Nothing fucking changesThat's part of why I've recently fallen in love with Idle Obelisk Miner.Mobile/emulator-only, but this shit's got so many fun moving parts and is regularly getting updated.
>>586261550I got a bit into stargazing and stopped. it's just too slow. Maybe if I played on emu and could leave it open all day, but just checking it a few times a day on my phone, things just took forever.
>>586265067The "start" of Stargazing, like some other mechanics, is more of a "you aren't quite ready for this" system. Like Drone Fuel, Archaeology, and Fishing.The intended progression is to keep pushing Veins and shit for a while, buy up numerous important upgrades in Stargazing, then start actually interacting with it more.I originally unlocked Stargazing around a month ago and can now can rack up around a hundred Super Stars in an 8-hour idle.I won't say it's a well-designed system, but it works in its own way of "figure out what works."And 9 times out of 10, what works is "grind Gems, retard."But at any rate, the game got a bit of a rewards revamp and Obelisk floor clears are way more impactful now, giving you more Gems (substantially more starting at like 29) and supplemental materials (Gifts, regular/Relic chests, bonus effects). And old players can double-dip and claim all the new rewards with no penalty.I'd say give it another look-see, solely cause it is a great progress boost/progress improvement.
>>586261550>Idle Phallos MinerSeems kinda gay.
>>586269735Surprisingly, despite being the main name of the game, the obelisks are a fairly small "content gate" instead of the centerpiece.You stack damage, blow up the Obelisk in a few minutes (sometimes instantly even), unlock some rewards, sometimes a new mechanic, then get back to doing all the other shit (mainly digging up ores and things connected to it in some way).
>>586240735Unironically Enter the GungeonNot getting a good gun on the first floor is basically a death sentence
>>586271051Major skill issue. Good etg players can reach basically infinite win streaks.
>>586272571Alright, let me rephrase thatNot getting a good gun is a death sentence by fucking BOREDOM
>>586272676that's why you start hunter and get carried through the first three floors by crossbow
>>586243264That gives a little too much credit to games where minimizing the chances for variance to fuck you constitutes "skill" i.e. snowballing is inevitable so long as you don't get one-shot so just knowing which chunks of the game to avoid outright.
Need indie horror
spooks
Don't die i still have to play the Onirism Halloween update
Finished Hell is UsExtremely kino exploration and investigation, mediocre combat, cool settingWould love a sequel
>>586299859Same. I was very surprised with how much I ended up enjoying it.
>>586299859>Extremely kino exploration and investigation,Seriously?Most puzzles are solved by simply reading piece of papers 3 meters from the puzzles and using just 3 neurons to put 2 and 2 together.Also lol'd at the sequelbait, that shit ain't getting a sequel.
>>586299859You were lucky to play it after the year 1 patch, imagine that but with maybe a half-dozen enemies across the entire game.
>>586249085Why is there no filename?
>>586305075it's just you.
>>586299260I'm skillissueing on the lava part. I know there's an upgrade for the hair dryer but I can't find it. Also holy back tracking this game has.
>>586306502Dammit, 4chanX must be bugging again. So what's that game?
does anyone play Degrees if Lewdity
>>586307685Outpost Haven
>>586313261Looks fun. Is it?
Hey Anons, Queen Domain is out, and it is pretty fucking dope for a 20 buck game. Honestly kind of shocked at the amount of content, and all the levels until now seem nicely designed with a ton of secrets. Also has an insane variety of enemies and weapons for some reason, like pretty sure every single weapon has an evolution if you level it to lvl10 and they seem like genuine upgrades.
>>586319416Looks like Monomyth but meh.
>>586319416Fuck it, I was already strongly considering getting it and I'm between games right now. Let's rock.
>>586240735Risk of rain 2 comes to mind, if you arent lucky with drops, mid to end game high threat basically become impossible you just cant do enough damage before getting overwhelmed.
>>586319416>pretty fucking dope for a 20 buck gameYou mean $5 game when I'm done waiting to buy it.
>>586323357Slut.Ripe for anal.
Epic DS2 reference bro
>>586325361>DS2 invented skeletonsOkay, retard.
>>586313879It and its sequel and the spinoff are fun but only accessible on some flash sites that still host it.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/586969https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/604534https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/629531The second mainline game's expanded version briefly made it onto steam but has since been delisted and I don't know how you'd acquire it if you want, maybe there's a torrent somewhere.
>>586331946>>586331946Oh, they're flash games. Shame.
>>586332173They're still playable, very advanced as far as flash games go.
>>586332271>>586332271Yeah, but still. I wonder why the other game was delisted.>mouse keeps clicking twice when I only click onceAnnoying!
>>586332412Developer dissolved, presumably nobody with any rights to the game decided to maintain the steam page.
>>586336217Shame, that. Thanks for the links tho senpai ngl
I like this but fuck why are 90% of indie games just "slay the spire but x" or "balatro but x"Indies were good because they weren't derivative like AAA, now they all feel the same too
>>586339901It's a lot easier for your game to be visible if it has a clear mechanical identity that can piggyback off a popular trend. Unique and weird shit still gets made, finding it is just harder.
>>586339901The biggest change is that now when they put an overpriced piece of garbage that copies an already oversaturated trend, they also complain that nobody is paying 40€ for their 50 minutes getting over it rip-off.
Just found out that deadlock is a valve game. I thought it was another shitty moba shooter by gearbox or some shitty company like that.I guess Gaben's obsession over cultist simulator was a strong hint...
>>586325551shhhdo u her thatits the sound ofgetgud
Dead cells for 11€ or 22€ with all dlcs. Worth it?
>>586345790Hard to say. The most fun I had with Dead Cells was at a very particular strata of its early access and the game went in a weird direction past that point. The base movement and combat isn't terrible but it really feels like they should've made an actual metroidvania at some point between the second DLC and the most recent Castlevania, because the roguelike elements get in the way of the actual level design.
Is Wo Long any good?
Shards of Order's final boss is fucking bullshit and i'm not afraid to say it
