Indie Discussion/Recommendations

Zero-Cool

I recently picked up American Fugitive on PS4 on sale for 8 euro, absolutely loving it. Made me think of how many other Indie gems that are out there hiding the pile of shyte. Being on PS4, I have the advantage of a lot of these already being out on PC and might get some feedback on here.

Anyone recommend the below, have your own gems to add or ones to avoid?

Currently interested in these:

Beat Cop - What a great trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BVPLjx-7Q4

Stranded Deep - This looks right up my street but a comment i saw online was that it's very boring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_iyrd8EsA

Subnautica - I hear so many good things about this but I'm not sure if diving in the ocean would get boring?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz2SNm8VguE

A Night in the Woods - I hear it has a great story and I love a great story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8109dIuc-bo

Darkwood - Looks like a great little Indie horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU-mR3LY-OI

Retr0gamer

Can only comment on subnautica but can confirm it's an absolute gem. Definitely pick it up. Thought I'd hate it as I don't like survival crafting games but this one has enough structure and story to differentiate itself and survival elements aren't intrusive

petejmk

Thanks for the American Fugitive recommendation. Looks great.

Zero-Cool

petejmk wrote: »

Thanks for the American Fugitive recommendation. Looks great.

It's 8 euro on PSN at the moment, great price for it.

TheRepentent

Guacamelee 2..great mexican wrestler based platformer..justa 5er on steam at the moment. The first one was excellent too. recommend both

Zero-Cool

I absolutely love both Guacamelee's, can't recommend them enough.

Grumpypants

I played stranded deep way back in pc early access and it was early but enjoyable.

You crash land on a desert island and have to gather resources to try and escape. There is no zombies or other players ruining it.

I got to the point where I built a little house and had a raft to go from island to island. Looking at the trailer it looks like it has come on a good bit.

Zero-Cool

I forgot about this thread, currently playing Road 96 which is incredible. Finished Hollow Knight last week, wow I can't believe I missed out on that for so long. Currently waiting on Punch Club 2 to release. Lake is out tomorrow as part of PS Plus Extra. Will be getting Dredge in the next couple of weeks (need to finish a couple of other games first). Also ordered Surviving the Aftermath from Amazon. It dropped in price to a fiver for a couple of days but I had to wait over a month for the stock, arriving in the next 2 weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1xnA8mA2yI&t=1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Gg1SaSVN8

https://youtu.be/ZNUfdZyzB3Q

Zero-Cool

Punch Club 2 Demo now on Steam for anyone interested.

https://twitter.com/LazyBearGames/status/1658140394956234755?t=k7QfcKJudFE0Z3kWYCvWjA&s=19

pixelburp

I'd been following the dev of this (one of those one-man jobs), and while in Early Access seems to be getting a bit of enthusiasm and buzz. An immersive sim gone overboard: it generates a random city each playthrough filled with murders and crimes you, a gumshoe, must solve. It emphasises a lot of manual detecting; reading phonebooks, putting together the evidence yourself, all that kind of thing. Buggy as hell but has a lot of potential.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/986130/Shadows_of_Doubt/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeB4veq5IRI

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120609881#Comment_120609881

It's an intriguing idea for sure, and always happy to see immersive sim ideas expanded.

Proc-gen mystery-solving does give me pause, though. As a lot of the best 'detective' games recently - Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, Golden Idol etc... - have proven the importance of a properly authored story with twists, revelations and interconnectedness is central to the genre. Hell, a century or so of detective pulp fiction has also shown that! Not sure at all that that's something that could ever come close to being replicated with any consistency in a game where the jigsaw is randomised.