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Obscure indie games no one talking about but that are actually good
| Pizza Tower
| The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
| I don't remember LISA having any real ad campaigns
As a sidenote, Serenity Forge is working on a definitive edition of LISA with a lot of new shit including campfire scenes with your party members. I'll wait and see but I already own the original game.
| Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor. Not sure if it had marketing, I only saw people write about it
| First Snow was a good free VN that I would have paid money for. Didn't blow my mind or anything, but I enjoyed the time.
| The hello charlotte series, the first two games are free on steam
| Milk Inside and Milk Outside
| Paradise Killer is a collectathon platformer with a detective story. it's the best take on vaporwave I've ever seen.
Monolith is a bullet hell roguelite. With the DLC it has an enormous amount of content.
| Brigador. It goes hard. Pls play it. I have almost 700 hours on it.
| Read subarashiki hibi
| I posted a lot about this game a few months ago but phoenotopia awakening is great game that barely anyone ive seen has been playing. Its basically a Zelda 2 like/metroidvania with 2d sidescrolling gameplay but takes most of it's design style from zelda which makes its puzzles and combat very unique. The music, sound design, and art of PhoA set a really strong atmosphere. Its quite hard and unintuitive for some people but getting over those hurdles is worth it.
| Fear and Hunger 1 and Fear and Hunger: Termina. It's kinda like a souls game with brutal, turn based combat and a lot of dark lore. I never heard about it until I watched a video about the game that hates you but the game is surprisingly in depth for being a short game.
| People have stopped talking about Highfleet but it still slaps
| Signs of the soujourner. Its a neat little card-vn game where you match symbols on a card with the npcs to try to get a successful dialogue exchange and maybe an item to let you keep your shop running back at home.
| >>958954 +1 to Monolith especially if you enjoy shmups/bullet hells, that game is great
Staying with the bullet hell theme I recommend Zero Ranger, an arcadey shmup with a cool transformation ability that turns your ship into an anime protagonist
| >>959224 I can vouch for zero ranger, its a really fun game with a bunch of bhuddist/hindu symbolism that keep you interested every time you replay it.
| >>b6bbe6 dude Zero Ranger is amazing. Btw its gameplay and graphics its perfect for handheld gaming, I wonder of there will be an official Switch Release (on an OLED screen that game should look insanely good).
| Play CrossCode or I will consume your kneecaps.
| Funas games mogeko Castle, grey garden and Wadanohara are all gems.
| >>959295 WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT CROSSCODE!??? GENUINELY ONE OF THE MOST TOP TIER INDIE GAMES WITH HOURS OF QUALITY CONTENT, AND NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT????
| >>959373 this is me, what I meant to say was Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children. Idk why I thought it's name was crosscode.
| TROUBLESHOOTER: ABANDONED CHILDREN IS ONE OF THE MOST TOP TIER INDIE GAMES. WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT IT>???
| BPM: Bullet Per Minute
| I see people mentioned crosscode. Good. I recommend Furi or solar ash. Both short fun. Harder ones that I like are Mistover and Othercide. Very fun if you like turn based. Just gonna recommend one more or my faves which is One step from Eden. Its all about gameplay. Fast paced. Very fast paced. Keep gaming g/u/rls.
| Madness: Project Nexus is a fast paced beat-em-up with weapon heavy combat. A bit simple in terms of design but the pace of the game hardly lets up and there's an arena mode I've spent hundreds of hours in. If you aren't sure about buying it, Newgrounds has an identically titled game in their portal with more or less the same gameplay. So you can treat that like a demo/proof of concept.
| Nauticrawl
don't use a guide
| Synergia
| 20 Minutes Till Dawn is legit just a better Vampire Survivors for me and i don't see anyone talking about it
| +Devil Daggers
and Hyper Demon...
two great small first person shooters
| Northern Journey is a true definition of a hidden gem. Despite being made by a single developer it has an impressive scale and like 50 different enemy variants.
| Boring site managed by dysfunctional pedophile
Yer not even human beings
| >>958873 >>959002 Erm sorry g/u/rls but the topic is OBSCURE indies??? Both of these are kinda a big deal acshually . . .
| Gnosia is single player amogus with waifus and no one talks about it, its so good
| Gnosia is single player amogus with waifus and no one talks about it, its so good
| >>da7b92
Falsely accusing other people of pedophilia won't makes you less miserable.
Anyways, another really good game that is indeed obscure is "Manifold Garden". A 3D puzzle game where structure are infinitely repeated.
Then I don't know if it can be classified as indie, but "Overlord, Escape From Nazarick" is a solid well crafted metroidvania none are actually talking about.
| Everyone here should check out Shadows of Doubt
| Fight Knight and Signalis.
| I don't play obscure indie games unless they are pixel mobile games in order to pass the time.
I remember finding one called Fisherman's Horizon which is great and surprisingly free but unfortunately it's exclusive to Android.
| >>960695 if you're a fan of rogue likes and dungeon crawlers than wayward souls would probably be great for you. Its pixel mobile game which is free on android and is a top down dungeon explorers with a great gameplay loop plus some great lore if thats interesting for u.
| Purrgatory, the whole experience is a trip, play it blind
| Assault Spy. It's a Japanese action game that plays like Devil May Cry, but with spies and robots!
The dev is one person but I hope they put out their next game.
| Gato Roboto, is on discount right now on Steam and Nintendo Switch, is like Stray, but instead of being on a abandoned city, you are a Cat with a Mecha suit that has to exterminate all creatures on the planet, basically Cat Samus Aran
| MicroTD
| >>958954 YES, honestly it's really sad to see PK a bit forgotten cuz with its map there's material for multiplier games shenaningans
as for the game i'd recommend , Iconoclasts and the Momodora series are my childhood favorites
| It's not too obscure on this board, but The Red Strings Club. Bartending game that will make you stop and think about some serious topics (it's cyberpunk-themed, so you know what to expect). You're on danger/u/, you're probably gonna like it.
| MICROWORKS
| >>961638
yes, Momodora is an amazingly good series!
FarSky is also good, it's a pre-Subnautica Subnautica and also abandonware.
| Another good one is Eldest Souls
| Oh I have a good one that is still being developed but I loved it!
It's called "Ruza", it's on Steam and is an... interesting mix of quirky RPG, horror game, hot wendigos, and lovely characters! 9/10 I recommend it!
| Signalis, just fucking play it
| Read raging loop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
| Ghostpia is a visual novel about a town of ghosts, everyone disappears in the morning and appears again in the night, nobody has come into that forgotten ghost (literally) town, until a new folk arrives at the train station and everything changes, the first chapter is free on Steam and the first season is already available on Nintendo Switch
| paper lily
| Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle. If you like lewd yuri harem comedy TTRPG shenanigans you'll love it.
| iji
| The House in Fata Morgana is depressing as hell but one of the best visual novels (if not the best) ever made and I highly recommend it. It got shown in a fucking Sakurai video briefly, so you know it's good.
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| Can your recommend me an indie game that had almost zero marketing but that surprised you?
Mine is Midnight Sanctuary: a visual novel with a solid and interesting story.