Board 8 > Johnbobb ranks every indie game he's ever played

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I tried Dear Esther but it didn't grab me, and within 15 minutes I was terribly lost and there was no more narration happening so I just dropped it. Gone Home it ain't.

187. The Swapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hnhkrlqu0

This was apparently a great game? I vaguely remember it had some sort of mechanic where you make clones of yourself and then switch places with them to solve puzzles. I apparently played this game of both PC and PS4 and still don't remember anything beyond vague details.

186. The Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8hOGbdoJdw

Kinda like The Swapper. Seems neat, cool mechanics, and I absolutely love MC Escher so I'm actually a little disappointed I don't remember playing this more than just the fact that I know I did, at some point, play it. I swear my thoughts on these games will probably get more interesting once I start remembering the games.

185. Escape Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfHRJOL77_o

But not yet! I actually remember my hype for this game more than I remember the game itself. I thought it looked so funny with it's goofy characters and simply-yet-intriguing premise of just escaping as two dummies who are extremely prone to dying. There's a moment in the original trailer where one of them trips over a brick and dies, just to drive in the point. But I didn't have a Vita, so I couldn't play, but eventually it was ported to PS3. And... I played it. It wasn't as funny or interesting as I expected it to be, and by then I had basically lost the hype for it. Again, I'm not sure if I finished it or not.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Still crazy that they went straight from Joe Danger 2 to No Mans Sky

nobody ever accused Hello Games from being unambitious!

in fact I think they've been accused of the exact opposite many times

The Swapper is so damn good

184. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_g8ifM7F4

This is published by SEGA but I've never in my life heard it called a SEGA game. In fact, I don't think I've heard this game mentioned since it came out. If I wasn't able to find concrete proof this game existed I'd think it was all a fever dream. Maybe that's how people will feel about Pizza Tower in a decade, because that's the closest thing I can think of to compare this too. Only a little less Wario and a little more edgy.

183. Quantum Conundrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pG0eeeuYdU

This is the first (not last) of the

"We have Portal at home
Portal at home:

games. Seriously, there's a LOT of them, and what I've played probably only scratches the surface. Sci-fi puzzles rooms in a first-person 3D test-chambery environment juxtaposed with silly wit. Like Portal, it has clever puzzles dealing with reality-bending sci-fi properties. Unlike Portal, the 3D platforming wasn't very good and the humor wasn't that good either.

Johnbobb posted...

184. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

wow, what an incredibly unappealing trailer. no wonder i've never heard of this.

Johnbobb posted...

This is the first (not last) of the

"We have Portal at home
Portal at home:

games. Seriously, there's a LOT of them, and what I've played probably only scratches the surface. Sci-fi puzzles rooms in a first-person 3D test-chambery environment juxtaposed with silly wit.

I wonder if Entropy Centre will be on this list

190. Joe Danger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wCFEj6slg

Joe Danger was fun, I think. There are a lot of these mobile sidescrolling short-level platformer type games, and this is one of them. It's Trials Evolution with more personality and worse mechanics.

Joe Danger was definitely okayish. I actually thought it had less personality than Trials Evolution because it was a net negative for me. I liked the gameplay overall but it could also be a bit clunky and glitchy. I'd at least put it ahead of some of the other clunkers here though.

185. Escape Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfHRJOL77_o

But not yet! I actually remember my hype for this game more than I remember the game itself. I thought it looked so funny with it's goofy characters and simply-yet-intriguing premise of just escaping as two dummies who are extremely prone to dying. There's a moment in the original trailer where one of them trips over a brick and dies, just to drive in the point. But I didn't have a Vita, so I couldn't play, but eventually it was ported to PS3. And... I played it. It wasn't as funny or interesting as I expected it to be, and by then I had basically lost the hype for it. Again, I'm not sure if I finished it or not.

I played this on the Vita and I actually think that might be the worse experience based on what you said. It was one of those "everything is touch screen!" games but the game frequently gets confused as to what you're doing. And both characters move at a speed so slow you want to strangle them. I straight up hated this game (and I was excited for it at Vita launch, too!).

184. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br_g8ifM7F4

This is published by SEGA but I've never in my life heard it called a SEGA game. In fact, I don't think I've heard this game mentioned since it came out. If I wasn't able to find concrete proof this game existed I'd think it was all a fever dream. Maybe that's how people will feel about Pizza Tower in a decade, because that's the closest thing I can think of to compare this too. Only a little less Wario and a little more edgy.

This is also way too high imo. It thinks it is way funnier than it is and the gameplay was super boring.

Fun list so far!

Johnbobb posted...

This is published by SEGA but I've never in my life heard it called a SEGA game. In fact, I don't think I've heard this game mentioned since it came out. If I wasn't able to find concrete proof this game existed I'd think it was all a fever dream.

This was the first game that I remember literally appearing in my Steam library unannounced. I certainly never bought it (or even heard of it) and I never (knowingly) clicked on any sort of thing to add it to my library for free. I was still pretty new to Steam at the time so when I saw it appearing on some page in the vicinity of my games I figured that it was being pushed as a recent promotion or something. Only later did I realize that this "list" that I was seeing was my actual games library and I actually owned the game permanently.

Tag

182. Tales from Space: About a Blob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEFRd3-gWQ

Katamari but 2D and not as good

181. KickBeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SHA6RDSsk

The concept here is pretty simple, just a basic rhythm game where you're doing punches and kicks in four directions as enemies approach. I'll always get some enjoyment out of action games doing things along to the beat of music, and that was enough to keep this entertaining for a bit, even if it got old after a while. I was also pretty into Celldweller at the time I think and I Can't Wait on the soundtrack was cool.

180. Stephens Sausage Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNqYLGwqxU

Most of the games in this tier I only vaguely remember.

But I remember Stephen's Sausage Roll. Fuck you, Stephen's Sausage Roll.

179. Toribash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFNqkXn0oQ

Toribash is a game that completely removed itself from my mind, only to show back in again like a decade later with me desperately trying to recall what the game was. I actually downloaded it again pretty recently, before playing it for like an hour and then dropping it again. Extremely cool concept. It's a stop motion fighting game where in between each frame, you have to manually arrange every body part. Very cool when done well, very funny when done bad, but usually just results in two generic mannequins collapsing.

178. Sunset
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965e4x4bKq4

I played this after it was nominated for Games for Change at the 2015 Game Awards. It's about repeatedly doing household tasks in a house while a war is happening in the background. That's about all I can tell you about it. Interesting story/concept, extremely mundane to play.

I don't know most any of these games

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I don't know most any of these games

I think I actually learned about Stephen's Sausage Roll because of B8 years back

It is among the most stupidly hard puzzle games I've played

I'm surprised someone else played KickBeat

Sausage Roll is the ultimate

Like I mentioned before, Monster's Expedition is a way more accessible (but still totally genius) sausage-like

Arti posted...

I'm surprised someone else played KickBeat

Me too!

so this one might be a little controversial but

177. Deltarune Chapter 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4aVnNoWY0

So, MASSIVE LIST SPOILERS: Undertale is a pretty good game. I played Deltarune and certain segments of the internet lost their minds for it. I thought it was... alright? I enjoyed it, for what it was, but it ultimately felt like a demo rather than a game of it's own. Sure, I get that that's implied by the "Chapter 1", but I think the drawn out release schedule really hurt the game for me. By the time Chapter 2 came out, I just wasn't really interested? I'm not even sure if there's a plan to finish the game or not, but I'm also not sure how much I care at this point.

176. Party Crashers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1zSVB0WxYM

This game isn't so unlike Racing Bros. It's a silly, multiplayer racing game that doesn't control super well and isn't super fleshed out. The way this game handles camera angles is bizarre and doesn't make much sense, so when playing you fully have to expect to fly off the sides of the map. But it's bright, colorful, fast-paced and fun when you don't have anything else to play.

175. World of Goo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lWyntVB4to

You know, this is one of the earliest indie games I can remember playing that I actively thought of as an "indie game." It was one of my first Wii games, and was a fun time. It feels a little simple compared to the indie games we have now, but I still remember it kind of being "the big thing" for a time. It's hard to say how such a game would've competed against the indie options we have available now though.

174. Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUwusiP3_3A

One day I went to buy this game, but instead of "buy" it just said "download." Then I saw I had trophies for the game. And suddenly bits and pieces of the game came back, only slightly, like flashbacks. I know I liked this game. I liked it a good bit. But I also don't think I've played another game that I remember so little about. Ranking this whole tier is mostly just vibes given many I haven't played in a long time, and everything about Virginia seems like my type of game. I just wish I could remember any of what happened.

173. Burly Men At Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePflQHLCQCc

One of many games I never would have discovered if not for Playstation Plus, but I'm definitely glad I did. Extremely silly, very charming, and while the gameplay itself is very simple (it's like a point and click adventure but with less in the way of puzzles to solve or real interaction) it makes up for it with a plot that unfolds kind of like a choose your own adventure story. My main regret is that I didn't put more time into it to go see all the different endings you can uncover.

And that will conclude this tier, tomorrow I'll move on to the "These Games Were Enjoyable But I Never Bothered to Finish Them" Tier

Deltarune was fun, but it did not have the impact of Undertale. Being a fun remix though is still pretty good.

I prefer Deltarune chapter 2 to Undertale

Deltarune chapter 1 is solid, chapter 2 is amazing. Not as significant or memorable as Undertale, obviously, but if the finished game is up to the standards of the second chapter it's one to be incredibly excited for. Plus, the combat is actually cool, unlike Undertale where I found it so dull I quit the game for months when I felt forced to actively engage with it. And I was trying to do a pacifist run. I think it's the first game where I've ever quit on the final boss.

Undertale is my favorite game and I can safely say that its various non-boss fights are interesting once, maybe twice. I think all the bosses kick ass.

I have faith in Deltarune.

Deltarune, for me, is a game where my interest was dead on arrival due to two things in particular: its rabid fanbase, and my distaste for an unfinished work with an eternal cliffhanger. Same thing happened with the Game of Thrones book series (went "meh" after book 2) and Harry Potter way back before Half-Blood Prince released and we all learned J.K. Rowling was a shit.

Like yes, the humor is still there, but I'm likely to be in my 50s or 60s when it's finally done. Can't get invested in much but the music.

As for the others- World of Goo is a game I still hear pretty frequently (it's one of the only non-shitty games being played in the children's department at work.) Children who play it just never have the attention span to get to the spooky part of the game, I noticed.

Isquen posted...

but I'm likely to be in my 50s or 60s when its finally done

This is my hangup too

"These Games Were Enjoyable But I Never Bothered to Finish Them" Tier

172. This Is The Only Level & Achievment Unlocked
https://youtube.com/watch?v=n19DU8_Y1MM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8oA8tmwZk

Another entry into the small handful of Newgrounds I can remember and name. This game has a few sequels and I feel like I've played all of them to some extent (for ranking purposes, I'm just counting them all here, because damned if I know which is which but I don't think I ever finished one. It's a fun concept, playing the same level over and over with the "rules" of the game changing every time, the puzzle being to figure out the new mechanics you need to know and then managing to finish each level. I'm also including Achievement Unlocked, a game made by the same people starring the same tiny elephant that, until I looked this up, I thought was the same game. In that one, you're also navigating a small level, but with a massive list of achievements to unlock, the way to "win" being unlocking all of the achievements. That one I know I didn't finish because who has that much time?

171. Foul Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFEv6Vf6sfM

I don't know why I never finished this one. I love the concept, a beat-em-up game where the whole thing is put on like a stage show, with the audience reacting to things happening, enemies showing up as if they're cast or props, and so on. The art style is alright (the prop effects are better than the character designs imo) and it's really a great idea, but something about beat-em-ups in general doesn't always grab me. There are some exceptions of course, I enjoyed the original Simpsons game and Scott Pilgrim and one or two we'll see on this list. I think generally the gameplay of them can get pretty repetitive and often isn't super-rewarding, which may have been why I eventually dropped this.

170. Human Fall Flat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Edk59BqSEU

I did like this game quite a bit, from what I played of it. Human Fall Flat suffers less from its own merits and more from how overpopulated this type of wonky physics game was in the mid 2010s. The fact that there are still quite a few left on this list should prove that. I also played back when this game was only single-player, and for a game that is so driven by the comedy of its mechanics, I feel like it would've been a lot more fun with others. It also doesn't help it's case that the backgrounds and environments feel largely bland and lifeless.

Johnbobb posted...

180. Stephens Sausage Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNqYLGwqxU

Most of the games in this tier I only vaguely remember.

But I remember Stephen's Sausage Roll. Fuck you, Stephen's Sausage Roll.

Valid write-up. The game was cool until that meat tower-puzzle being an immediate escalation of puzzle difficulty.

Johnbobb posted...

172. This Is The Only Level & Achievment Unlocked

I completely forgot these existed! I recall really liking both, I enjoyed anything with that silly elephant back then.

180. Stephens Sausage Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNqYLGwqxU

Most of the games in this tier I only vaguely remember.

But I remember Stephen's Sausage Roll. Fuck you, Stephen's Sausage Roll.

Aw boo. I loved how brutally hard this one was. Up there with Baba Is You for weird puzzle games for me.

174. Virginia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUwusiP3_3A

One day I went to buy this game, but instead of "buy" it just said "download." Then I saw I had trophies for the game. And suddenly bits and pieces of the game came back, only slightly, like flashbacks. I know I liked this game. I liked it a good bit. But I also don't think I've played another game that I remember so little about. Ranking this whole tier is mostly just vibes given many I haven't played in a long time, and everything about Virginia seems like my type of game. I just wish I could remember any of what happened.

Those were essentially my feelings exactly. I was really excited for this one and played it and immediately forgot everything about it. It was shockingly dull for what the set up was.

Johnbobb posted...

for ranking purposes, I'm just counting them all here, because damned if I know which is which

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/The_Elephant_Collection/

th3l3fty posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/The_Elephant_Collection/

Oh my god

th3l3fty posted...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/The_Elephant_Collection/

!!! That music takes me back. GotY

169. Friday the 13th: The Game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do3GPzDR6d8

I said, for the most part, I wasn't going to include licensed games. A big reason for this is that when licensed games are made by independent studios, it's because the IP owner is looking to cash-in without having to pay a AAA studio to make it happen. This often results in cut corners and games that feel more like brand projects than indie projects. Friday the 13th is the exception to that, and while this is Friday the 13th-branded, it's a competitive indie slasher game first made by a small team trying to create a genuinely unique experience. And while I don't love the game (the gameplay never quite meshed with me, plus I'm not a big competitive online player to begin with) I was genuinely impressed by the effort that was put into to making it what it is.

168. Happy Wheels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9cGMLXP-eA

Remember that time that Tobuscus got called out for drug abuse and sexual assault and manipulation and then started going off about cancel culture and then started going down a right-wing rabbit hole? Anyway, Happy Wheels was kinda fun.

167. TowerFall Ascension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG_vhHWwFSk

TowerFall Ascension suffered for me due to me not having friends that were very into it. The actual gameplay loop is fun and pretty addictive, but matches tended to go by very quick and at times it began to feel repetitive. When playing multiplayer games, for a while I would boot up Towerfall, but it rarely lasted very long as the people I played with got bored of it before long. Love the spritework here though.

166. Naughty Bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVMVncndNGE

Naughty Bear came out when I was 16 and was an exact fit for the sense of humor of an edgy teen. Funny enough, this game is very similar to the Friday the 13th game in terms of gameplay, with the main goal being not-Jason going around and stealthily killing the not-teenagers in a variety of violent ways. The gameplay wasn't great and the comedy is something that appealed to me more as a teenager than it probably would now. Really, just play Hitman.

The Friday the 13th game suffered the weirdest possible death: there was an unrelated legal dispute between the writer and owner of the first movie that made it impossible to continue work on the game, so they had to shut down in the middle of half-completed DLC they were working on.

Johnbobb posted...

169. Friday the 13th: The Game

*Chadface*

It was a love letter to the films, even with the very occasional glitch in the code, and they got dumped on for it :( Big sad. Kinda sucked to play in random lobbies though, you NEEDED a full stack.

165. I Am Bread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDhUt5ewKk

This is another one from Bossa Studios, mostly known for Surgeon Simulator. It's the same kind of thing, designed with wonky controls where the main challenge is the basic navigation of movement and the goal is just to get toasted. But I think the humor works a little more for me here, and there's a little more creativity in play. Like most levels after the first you aren't actually trying to get into a toaster, but trying to figure out what other ways to make it happen. Like in the living room level, there's a radiator there as the obvious goal, but alternatively if you manage to knock a bowling ball onto the tv and catch it on fire, you can get toasted that way. This all culminates in blowing up a gas station to get toasted in the last level (which I'm just now remembering I did actually beat, huh).

164. Hue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP7mp5Y5EHI

What was the first game to do this whole "change the colors of the background to make things of that color vanish" thing? I swear I've seen it in a handful of different games. 3 (I think?) more are going to appear on this list alone. Hue is the one I remember the least, which is funny because it's the one that utilizes the mechanic the most. As a puzzle platformer though, it was alright.

163. Kentucky Route Zero (Chapters 1 & 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8f7zWwRjo

Remember what I said about Deltarune? No game has suffered for me for its release schedule more than Kentucky Route Zero, and it's not close. I bought chapters 1 & 2 in 2013. The game was finished in 2020. I like Chapters 1 & 2 a lot, but I cannot maintain hype for the next part of an indie game, or most games for the matter, for over seven years. I like the first two chapters a lot, but I can't remember them much more than vibes at this point. Maybe at some point I'll go back and play the whole thing start to finish, but I've never been good at getting myself to restart a game from scratch like that.

162. Rubber Bandits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXJWVj66QBk

I recently bought this one for fairly cheap when looking for new local multiplayer indie games, and I'm glad I did. It's very goofy fun in the way of Gang Beasts and Fall Guys and Party Animals but with a lot more weapons and a primary goal of stealing money (for the most part anyway; different modes have different goals). It's fast-paced and fun, and might end up ranking a little higher once I actually have the chance to play it more.

161. House Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fid59bMxPI

I used to watch a lot of Game Grumps, and this is the first and only game to make this list that isn't a game I've actually played. Normally I wouldn't count watching a let's play as playing the game, but in this instance I'm going to because I've seen the majority of what the game had to offer, and it's not a game particularly heavy on gameplay. Although, there's likely a LOT more content now than what there was before, because for what is basically a porn game, they just kept pumping more and more into it (hehe). It's legitimately hilarious at times, the hoops it makes you jump through to actually get to the sex parts are ridiculously long-winded and complicated and Frank's "howsitgoindude" may never leave my memory.

Amy is best girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47utqrKqjA

Pretty confident of a certain game in the top 10.

INCEPTlON posted...

Pretty confident of a certain game in the top 10.

I'm sure people who know my tastes in games can guess a few of them! But I'd be startled if someone could get all 10

160. Sky: Children of the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DNTfhUy0k

I don't know how this went so wrong. Minor list spoilers: Children of the Light is basically Journey but with everything that made Journey as good as it was taken out. It's still pretty, sure, but the controls are worse. The levels are bigger but don't feel more dynamic, so you end up with big lengths of space that are cluttered with insignificant collectibles or just empty space. The simplistic social dynamic, one of the best aspects of Journey, was replaced by a generic MMO-lite setup where other players feel insignificant to the experience. And fucking microtransactions? I really tried to get into this, because I still like the elements of Journey that are there, but man this fell flat otherwise and I couldn't make myself finish it.

159. Disc Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkfZGBm2d50

What the game lacks in modes it makes up for in being Windjammers.

158. Abobos Big Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6atT6G8Gng

This could only really be a Newgrounds game because it they ever tried to do anything else with it, it would be a copyright lawyer's nightmare. Abobo's Big Adventure is packed full of nostalgia. To be fair though, it's nostalgia for games that I didn't really grow up on (for the most part). That being said, I'd love to play it on a console, because I don't really feel like playing it in an internet browser really does the concept justice. I never played the whole way through, but part of me still wants to do so, maybe more now than I did a decade ago.

157. Florence
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9USvEqlIZk0

I'm cheating with this ranking. I did finish Florence. But it's also too small and simple to really place above this, but also cute enough that I didn't want to write it off as one I'd forgotten (because frankly, there's not that much to forget. It's just extremely cute, being more of an art piece in the way KIDS and We Become What we Behold were, only significantly better.

165. I Am Bread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwDhUt5ewKk

This is another one from Bossa Studios, mostly known for Surgeon Simulator. It's the same kind of thing, designed with wonky controls where the main challenge is the basic navigation of movement and the goal is just to get toasted. But I think the humor works a little more for me here, and there's a little more creativity in play. Like most levels after the first you aren't actually trying to get into a toaster, but trying to figure out what other ways to make it happen. Like in the living room level, there's a radiator there as the obvious goal, but alternatively if you manage to knock a bowling ball onto the tv and catch it on fire, you can get toasted that way. This all culminates in blowing up a gas station to get toasted in the last level (which I'm just now remembering I did actually beat, huh).

Ah, one of the many awful meme games Youtubers got popular by yelling at it. This one wasn't as bad as some of the others imo.

164. Hue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP7mp5Y5EHI

What was the first game to do this whole "change the colors of the background to make things of that color vanish" thing? I swear I've seen it in a handful of different games. 3 (I think?) more are going to appear on this list alone. Hue is the one I remember the least, which is funny because it's the one that utilizes the mechanic the most. As a puzzle platformer though, it was alright.

Yeah, this seems about right for Hue. I got this through Limited Run Games for the Vita, and it is one of the most forgettable puzzle platformers I've played. They never really figured out how to make good puzzles with the mechanics and they just kept adding colors which didn't really add any new gameplay mechanics after the third one.

I have not heard the name Naughty Bear in a very long time.

Johnbobb posted...

I'm sure people who know my tastes in games can guess a few of them! But I'd be startled if someone could get all 10

Spooky Eartbound style game whose name I forget

ScareChan posted...

Spooky Eartbound style game whose name I forget

LISA?

Hue was definitely one of the first with the color gimmick. I first saw it in like 2013, but indie games take a long time to come out so prob lots of similar games came out in the meantime.

Isquen posted...

LISA?

no

I think I know what Scare is referring to

Yes it's on the list, no I won't tell you if it's top 10

156. Tokyo Jungle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zasefwWK5fA

I got really hooked on this one for a little bit. I love the concept of an abandoned Tokyo where humanity is gone and the animals have taken over. You start with I think like a rabbit and a Pomeranian and slowly work your way up the food chain, typically needing to defeat the next animal up as a carnivore or survive to a certain place as an herbivore (if I remember right). It was fun for a while, but unfortunately in trying to include so many animals, it got pretty repetitive after a while. As it turns out, the different types of dogs don't play all that different, but you still need to get through each one to get to the next animal, so I only got about halfway before getting bored.

155. BattleBlock Theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv1ZoHt6poI

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154. We Happy Few
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp0M5Y6JMbQ

What a fucking disaster. We Happy Few was my most anticipated game leading up to its release. I cannot explain how hyped I was for it. Bioshock is arguably my favorite game of all time, and this looked to be inspired by it across the board, but with a more 60s Clockwork Orange vibe. And there's so much here I still love. The story is interesting, the characters are interesting, the worldbuilding is excellent. The problem here is that the game itself is dogshit. It's a stealth survival game where the stealth and survival aspects are so broken as to be borderline unplayable at times. There are almost no games where I would say watching the game on Youtube is better than playing it. In fact, We Happy Few may honestly be the only one. I would legitimately recommend watching a collection of the cutscenes, because it's worth it. I mean it beat over 50 other games despite being easily bottom 10 in terms of playability just because the story is that good. Seriously, break it up into like hour-long sections and watch it as a miniseries. I know there's like no chance of it but I can only hope it some day gets a live action adaptation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeG5_k1tYA

153. Skullgirls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxLZEdDfR_g

I know there will be some pretty heavy disagreement with this one. Skullgirls never quite clicked with me. I love fighting games in general, but I'm pretty bad at them, so I need something to keep me drawn in beyond just the basic fighting. I love a good fighting game story mode. Unfortunately, I played Skullgirls before it got waves and waves of added content, and as much as I loved the art style and character designs, there wasn't much to hold me too it past that. It was fun for a bit and then I moved, and didn't get drawn in enough to go back later.

152. Mark of the Ninja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI_r-g4VnsY

Kinda surprised Mark of the Ninja doesn't get talked about much anymore. Is it because it's basically just Assasin's Creed Chronicles without the brand name? It's a legitimately solid stealth game with sleek visuals and violent assassinations that I can't really remember why I dropped. Might've just been the timing? This came out in, what, 2012? I was in college 11 years ago, yeesh. When did I get so old?

Johnbobb posted...

What a fucking disaster.

And yet it's higher than Battleblock??

Also Mark of the Ninja influenced practically every single indie game, every non-indie stealth, and a bunch of mobile games too. It was so influential it made itself seem run of the mill. They kinda did the same thing with Don't Starve.

i know most of these so far, but I feel like youre going to get into a bunch of stuff I dont know if you somehow have 150 games above Battleblock and Tokyo Jungle

or maybe Im just underestimating how many really good indie games there are now, because time has lost meaning and my memory doesnt function so good anymore

foolm0r0n posted...

And yet it's higher than Battleblock??

Also Mark of the Ninja influenced practically every single indie game, every non-indie stealth, and a bunch of mobile games too. It was so influential it made itself seem run of the mill. They kinda did the same thing with Don't Starve.

A lot of the games in this range are suffering from me not playing them much or finishing them due to life situations or even just the way I was playing them. Some guys I mightve been playing on a crappy laptop in college instead of on a console how I mightve preferred. Most of these games aren't bad, they're just ones that I only got a partial experience of (though the fact that I never felt overly compelled to finish them doest help their case)

MoogleKupo141 posted...

i know most of these so far, but I feel like youre going to get into a bunch of stuff I dont know if you somehow have 150 games above Battleblock and Tokyo Jungle

or maybe Im just underestimating how many really good indie games there are now, because time has lost meaning and my memory doesnt function so good anymore

There are so many excellent indie games, probably hundreds that didn't make this list

A lot of these games are ones I forgot I had played until I looked at a list of games per year and thought "Oh yeeeeeeah I DID play that". I imagine the situation will be similar for others

I have about 35% of trophies for Virginia BTW, really weird how memory works