Best indie game ever?

I'm bored so why not? Pick your favourite indie game ever.

By the why, what "kingcomrade" means?

EDIT: Added more options, reconsider your votes.

 

kingcomrade

 

Shit, forgot Darkest Dungeon.

 

invisible inc or mark of the ninja

 

FTL is still the best, its pick up and play quality is hard to beat. Great replay value.

Stardew Valley is nice and all but eventually turns into a boring grind, like most HM games. Cave Story is good for one or two playthroughs. No idea about the others.

 

It's a crime that you'd put Hotline Miami 2 alongside its predecessor.

 

It's Hotline Miami for me.

And I prefer ITB over FTL.

Come on, it's a great game even with the gameplay problems (aka offscreen shooters). I still play both them occasionally.

 

Voted for FTL because it does many things right. It's not too easy but still easy enough to get into and have fun as a new player. It's graphics are pretty and functional at the same time. The base game has enough content to be fun on it's own but mods also exist. Replayability is infinite and the game is structured in a way that still retains the feeling of progression. You just can't go wrong with this game, even if you don't love roguelikes.

 

Other: Path of Exile

 

other:

small indie - ADOM
big indie - everything "Piranha Bytes" does

 

ELEX

 

Knights of the Chalice

 

I mean, I know it's in General Gaming, but you'd have thought a 'best ever' question on RPG Codex might have an actual RPG in the options.

No Underrail? No Grimoire? Not even Realms of Arkania HD, (in before ERYFKRAD )

Personally going by my played hours it's Underrail, but then again Mount and Blade became something much bigger thanks to the mods.

 

Tough choice. I want to pick several choices there, but each for different reasons.

I also want to come up with my own suggestions, and again each for different reasons.

But since There Can Be Only One, I thought it would be best to pick a game that actually has a Highlander in it:

 

Obviously oblivion.

 

When did Steam go from "we have a massive collection of quality new and old games" to "pay us 90$ and we'll add your garbage to the pile"?

 

A little after they started Steam Greenlight. Although they accepted shovelware before, they at least accepted published shovelware.

 

I like all the games listed, but my favorites are still vanilla Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy

 

Not sure if i played more M&B, terraria or minecraft.

 

Does indie even mean anything anymore? Games twenty years ago were made by a similar number of people with less connections, arguably less money and similarly or smaller sized teams. Are they indies? If you surround yourself with industry people and make a game without a major backer is it still indie just because you did it from your house?
Anywho I voted No Man's Sky because fuck the police. Comin' straight from the underrail. Sean Murray's got it bad cos he's fail.

 

No indie game is ever good, there is always something off about any indie game. The only good games are those done with a real team which are physically together and which have an actual budget and publisher.

 

As far as I'm concerned indie devs are anyone who self-finance regardless of size. Garage dev is the meme used to refer to small teams who may or may not be indie.

 

The opposite is true these days in my opinion. Triple A games with huge dev teams and publishers make games that seem a little off to me, whether it's because they are too cinematic or because they are too bland and shallow or because they are too limited in content because how are we going to sell some DLC down the road otherwise? Big, established companies reuse old ideas and assets instead of creating new things because it's guaranteed sales. Just look at Ubisoft with Assassin's creed and how much they have stretched that story over the course of time.

Indie games have more original ideas because they aren't forced by the marketing department to create something more streamlined. Almost all indie games actually have a considerable amount of content from day 1, DLC or not. And while the indie category has more garbage in it, most of these games actually feel like games and not watered-down products.