What is your favorite indie game?
What is your favorite indie game?
Given the big swathe of posts about bad behavior from big companies, I figure we could counterbalance that with some positivity about stuff the smaller guys made that often costs us less too.
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Cave Story, the original 2004 version.
I played it a long time ago and I still think about that game from time to time.
The OG. The fact it was all done by a single dude blows my mind. People often praise Toby Fox for the same reason, and he definitely deserves it, but he wasn't good at programming. Pixel was good at everything: programming, music, writing, and art.
Cave Story is undoubtedly the greatest Metroidvania made to date of which I know.
Cave Story really isn't a metroidvania. The path splits at points, but there's very little choice where to explore. It's just a platformer action shooter.
My favorite metroidvania has to be Aquaria. Vibes of the game are on point. The story is great for a game in that genre, and the traversal and combat are unique and tons of fun. Soundtrack is phenomenal.
Check out Gato Roboto if you want a metroidvania similar to Cave Story!
I tried a bit of Aquaria but couldn't get into it... Thanks for the Gato recommendation. I didn't know it was CS-like.