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Topic	Johnbobb ranks every indie game he's ever played
Johnbobb 12/01/23 12:12:23 AM #270:	The "Legitimate Game of the Year Contenders IMO" Tier 42. The Unfinished Swan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFfteZaAXq4 I feel like this one was actually benefited somewhat by when it came out. Now I feel like the first-person surreal/scifi-gimmick puzzle-based exploration genre of indie game is a little oversaturated given how many have come out in the last decade, but when The Unfinished Swan arrived, it was still fairly new. Unfinished Swan's gimmick might be fairly simple but it's immediately striking; you start in a blank, white environment and have to discover it by throwing paint at things until you can slowly uncover where you're going and what you're doing. As the game goes on, the environment changes and becomes more visible, but always makes that great use of negative space. Sometimes you're throwing paint, sometimes water, all while slowly unraveling the tragic story of the King and his kingdom. 41. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINFL5YrXMA Man I am a sucker for a murder mystery, especially a murder mystery with supernatural aspects, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter delivers that in waves. You make your way through a tiny town looking for a lost child, Ethan Carter. Everyone is dead or missing, and like several of the games covered previously, you have to find out why. But instead of "they all mysteriously disappeared," you soon discover that basically everoyne here was killed by someone else, and you have to slowly piece together why through supernatural communication with the spirits of the dead and Batman-like visual recreation of the events, occasionally interspersed with surreal, mysterious segments revealing bits of Ethan's mind. Piecing together the story is kind of wild as it turns out ~~everyone was being killed because Ethan released an evil spirit into the town that made everyone kill each other one by one, infectious horror movie style.~~ And THEN it reveals you are a figment of Ethan's imagination allowing Ethan to live out violent supernatural fantasies, most significantly the deaths of his abusive family, in his last moments of life as he's trapped in a burning building with no way out. I've seen mixed reactions to the twists, but it still sticks in my end as one of the most shocking game endings. 40. Undertale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hojv0m3TqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqIJRbmaW4 --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:977498712] in Johnbobb r... [t:80599506]...</cite> <quote>The "Legitimate Game of the Year Contenders IMO" Tier42. The Unfinished Swanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFfteZaAXq4I feel like this one was actually benefited somewhat by when it came out. Now I feel like the first-person surreal/scifi-gimmick puzzle-based exploration genre of indie game is a little oversaturated given how many have come out in the last decade, but when The Unfinished Swan arrived, it was still fairly new. Unfinished Swan's gimmick might be fairly simple but it's immediately striking; you start in a blank, white environment and have to discover it by throwing paint at things until you can slowly uncover where you're going and what you're doing. As the game goes on, the environment changes and becomes more visible, but always makes that great use of negative space. Sometimes you're throwing paint, sometimes water, all while slowly unraveling the tragic story of the King and his kingdom.41. The Vanishing of Ethan Carterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINFL5YrXMAMan I am a sucker for a murder mystery, especially a murder mystery with supernatural aspects, and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter delivers that in waves. You make your way through a tiny town looking for a lost child, Ethan Carter. Everyone is dead or missing, and like several of the games covered previously, you have to find out why. But instead of "they all mysteriously disappeared," you soon discover that basically everoyne here was killed by someone else, and you have to slowly piece together why through supernatural communication with the spirits of the dead and Batman-like visual recreation of the events, occasionally interspersed with surreal, mysterious segments revealing bits of Ethan's mind. Piecing together the story is kind of wild as it turns out everyone was being killed because Ethan released an evil spirit into the town that made everyone kill each other one by one, infectious horror movie style. And THEN it reveals you are a figment of Ethan's imagination allowing Ethan to live out violent supernatural fantasies, most significantly the deaths of his abusive family, in his last moments of life as he's trapped in a burning building with no way out. I've seen mixed reactions to the twists, but it still sticks in my end as one of the most shocking game endings. 40. Undertalehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hojv0m3TqAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqIJRbmaW4 --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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