Top 50 Indie Games 

Thank you so much

MVP

where is crosscode :(

Take this Reddit Award

Hotline Miami not high enough…

Absolutely. It's an experience that can only be had through the medium of video games.

Lmao

I always wanted to play it but I’m not that big on puzzle games. Should I still give it a shot?

@@rileygarcia1 the puzzles aren't what you would think as traditional puzzles like in games such as "the witness" or "baba is you", rather, they're more like logical deductions of the world and its mechanics. So you might enjoy it

I played about 30 minutes or so, I'll need to give it another go.

Outerwilds is an L "game"

@@ambersinghdreamybull less of a game. More of a piece of art. Never played anything remotely as interesting as it… Hope I will experience the same at least another time in my short life.

@@ambersinghdreamybullinteresting take. Im guessing you probably played until you realized there was no trackable quest line than gave up?

@@picklechinazzboi2991 SPOILERS, IF YOUHAVEN'T PLAYED OUTER WILDS DON'T READ. I dislike Outer Wilds. Maybe I will pick it up because I am gaslighted to like it but genuinely I just lost interest for some reason. Long (and at least for a newbie) difficult maneuvering in space, making it what feels like an hour drive back to where I was before dying or getting stuck somehow. Also often not really finding anything? I have hard time following the main story too. And I despise the planet that has those typhoons that stole my ship and threw it on top of the map making it almost impossible to get... I was stuck there 30m just trying to launch myself with the water that kept rising to get back to my ship since I refused to just suicide out of stubbornness. Also I haven't found any relatable characters so I feel like I am just looking at old fictional stuff that has little plot, since again I have only understood "this is really old and fancy alien technology before our kind". And I find the sun reset stupid. It just kills me for, idk existing? Maybe I missed something or it will give me a lightbulb moment later but now it is just an annoying mechanic. And just for reference I don't mind the game being hard, I would rate Elden ring two (maybe 3) points higher than this (5 for this and Elden 7).

@@ok-sj7bx I feel like your complaints are very minor to the point where you just got slightly annoyed before interested. It doesn’t take longer than a minute to get to any planet and with anything, flying the ship takes some time to get good at. You also have an autopilot that will do most the work for you. The game is designed in a way where you cannot be trapped for more than 20 minutes and with the planet you were at, you could of just swam to an island. Similar to Elden Ring, if something happens that you don’t like, just keep it in mind and it shouldn’t happen again in the future, or if it is more complicated than that, think of a solution! Relatable characters isn’t the point if Outer Wilds, the story is almost entirely characterless, interactions between Nomai help you care about them more as a species but it is distinctly different than a game like Undertale. If you don’t like the sun blowing up, try to stop it! For you to be interested, you need to be hooked on the mystery, where it really helps to have been following the story beats from the start. The game isn’t traditionally hard, but the puzzles are hard. It never ever holds your hand and always respects your intelligence! It doesn’t seem like you have cleared enough of the game for you to tell whether you actually like it or not, you just got ticked off by ship controls and the world’s environment which shouldn’t be the deciding factor at all! I believe you should pick it up again and take your time before you go to some of the harder/bigger planets, explore the moon, and follow one of the threads you have after exploring it! Have a nice day.

Agreed! It's nice and short too: about 2 hours from start to finish.

Just played it the other day and i liked it too. I did not except the ending, it was moving

It made me sad 😔

What do if no webcam for fear of covert government espionage operations gathering intel on my very important private matters?

Technically Minecraft was once an indie game too, but too bad we cant call it an indie game anymore

+ ULTRAKILL, Spiritfarer, Slime Rancher, Noita, The Messenger.. I guess there's too many to include :)

I loved playing dusk and I don't care if some don't call minecraft an indie game anymore to me minecraft is still a indie game and helped kick off the indie scene

Im putting my lot in as well for games that should be in the top 50 (or 100) with project wingman, project zomboid, frostpunk, payday 2, foxhole, unturned, euro truck simulator 2, American truck simulator, war of rights, holdfast nations at war, war game red dragon, squad, hearts of iron 4, goat simulator, cities skylines, this is the police, holdfast nations at war, eve online and finally foxhole

risk of rain 2 too

ty so much

Thank you so much ❤❤

No Inscryption, Rain World, Ori, The Esacapist 2, Factorio, Rim World, Sunless Sea, Jump King and The Messenger? :O

You saved my life

Legend🫡🫡🫡

I don't know why, but this masterpiece is largely unknown, even among indie fans. I just finished another playthrough, and still managed to find new things.

Its typically overlooked because its a 6/10 game.

@@ChicCanyon you clearly haven’t played it then

@chloeleferman2227 i wish i hadnt to be honest. It was cheap enough but i couldve used the 40 hours doing much better things. Driving nails under my finger tips for example.

@@ChicCanyon nobody is stopping you bud. Crosscode is awesome

Don’t starve and Terraria

True

Yeah bro, please keep making videos! The quality of your writing + analysis are as good as anything else I've seen in this space. You got this!

i hope it blows me

Want any recomendations? I have at least 100 indie games in mind

Same, I was waiting for them too.

@@geoffschnoogs6888 brave of you to publicly admit having the worst taste possible. I'm impressed.

@@ForeverMasterless hater alert

What about cuphead?

id add the case of the golden idol

Gah, that moment where you hear the heart rate monitor overlaying the music... I just lost it. Never cried to any medium like that before.

@@Sazazezer Wrecks me every time!

Idk how he ranked untitled goose game and stardew over it, cuphead was definitely snubbed

Cuphead is mid

@@CC-1993_Jet bros never played cuphead before 💀

All lists will be subjective. Cuphead is the only game I've ever refunded on steam because the gameplay is so intensely boring. Beautiful and great music, but wildly unfun to play.

@@user-cy9vd7rl4h cap

or Starbound

@@CullenRotten starbound was so dissapointing, but terraria? really?

That's a good thing. We need to stop posting the same games that basically everybody knows into each video. It ruins all the videos overall when you're looking for new games to play

That game is for children

@@saltyzu8412 no its not

Quickly scrolled through the comments and my eye caught this one. Thanks a ton, going to try it. Have you played Monster Train as well? I got it for free, had zero expectations and didn't like the art style, but ended up playing more than 100 hours

@@Gulzt I haven’t, I’ll have to check it out!

Couldn't agree more. I didn't think I would enjoy a deckbuilding game, but after seeing some other recommendations, I tried Inscryption and LOVED it. In my opinion it belongs in the top 10 of this video.

Yep absolutely based recommendation, Top 10 games in my entire lifetime for my personal list

what remains of edith finch is one of my most memorable experiences in gaming. the day i finally gave the game a chance it was raining and i was home alone. i assumed i would play it for maybe 20 minutes and realize it wasnt for me but, i was completely wrong. i didnt even realize at the time but i was locked into the story immediately. the most impressive part is how smooth and easily it hooks you in. and if im being honest, i dont even remember what part made me realize that this game was different and that i was in for a bittersweet treat.

@@k1tsunex Awesome, I think it's unfair when people label games like this a walking Sim. I like calling them first person exploratory games. It's an experience. WROEF is still one of my favorite games. Glad you had a simular experience with it.

I was addicted to They Are Billions for a long time

that literally is one of the best games to ever exist

@@december9838its a bit more mainstream than indie 😅 Dont hurt me pls

​@@TheDeafAndBlindPotatoindie means independent development, mainstream or unknown doesn't define an indie

@@LemonLovah ok

@@TheDeafAndBlindPotato it's not okay! 😭 You hear me?! 😭 You ruined it! 😭 You ruined the definition of the word "indie"! 😭 You ruined it for EVERYONE!!! 😭

Do it! It was disappointing to see so many major titles that I, and I assume many jt here, are familiar with. Was hoping to find a few hidden gems in this video but alas there were none.

undertale should be there in the top 5

Undertale is probably already so established that you forget that it's technically an indie-game haha

Or they, like me, tried their best liking the game but found it incredibly boring.

Overrated af

Well it's his opinion as he mentioned in the first sentence of the video. So he won't like what you might like

it sucks

@@glauberbispo8922 What?

I'd include Dwarf Fortress instead, then.

Oxygen not included, don't strave are also some great games you can check out

Dwarf fortress and kenshi are far better than the ovarated garbage that is rimworld

Same here. I was ready to be mad about it’s exclusion lol

Hahah same. All the way up to number 2 and I had just about concluded that it must not be in the list. And then as OP said, butterflies the moment I saw that Outer Wilds art style appear

i think he may not have played it

Not really indie

​@@d3he173it is! It won best indie games of the year in 2011... It should of been in the list for sure. Perhaps even top 10

Terraria honestly isnt worth your time. Stardew valley and Minecraft are better.

@@timebandit1266 minecraft is terrible compared to terraria lol wdym

I agree

I love Ori almost as much as Hollow Knight, perhaps it wasn't included because of Microsoft Studio's involvement?

@@primateboogaloo he did say he thought gris was better then ori, so he also could have just not included it there's alot of indie bangers that didnt make the list and well thats mainly thanks to there being so many

Steamworld franchise is extremly underrated