KamikazePotato posted... Actually, here's how the indies shook out in the current (and probably final?) version of the X-stats:
Cuphead - 23.0540787540817
Stardew Valley - 21.96944
Shovel Knight - 21.5175
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 20.8907462632704
Ori and the Blind Forest - 20.020352
Undertale - 19.9569166308
Hollow Knight - 19.5841
Journey - 18.8310528
Celeste - 16.8005684363059
Bastion - 16.730404
Super Meat Boy - 15.8600178048
Dead Cells - 14.3764330879304
Disco Elysium - 14.3656209667021
Terraria - 14.3133560955736
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - 13.7824759206844
FTL: Faster Than Light - 13.64761944
Crypt of the Necrodancer - 13.2844982951117
Life is Strange-13.27778
Hotline Miami-12.11619741696
Subnautica - 12.04224
Baba Is You - 12.0259449565202
VVVVVV - 11.8652744448
Night in the Woods - 10.91097993216
The Stanley Parable - 10.575602214912
The Witness - 10.1098121157141
What Remains of Edith Finch - 10.01325
Slay the Spire - 9.84589905321984
The Talos Principle - 8.63396352
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.23854
INSIDE - 7.13943791233456
Couple more above Undertale than I remembered but I'd probably take it over Ori and Bloodstained regardless. Ori being so much stronger than most other indie games still confuses me.
Ori is a metroidvania. Notice how the top of the list is full of those. I think metroidvania and platformer are the best genres for an indie to have here.
Likewise, roguelikes seem like a much weaker genre, while puzzles and walk simulators are worth crap. I guess those are the major indie genres I identified.
Metroidvania seems to have become a strong genre in the site too. Between Super Metroid doing well in 2015, Samus and Alucard being very strong in 2018, and the indies now, I think the site has fallen in love with the genre.
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