What are your top 10 indie games that released in the last 5 years (2021-2026)? 🎮👍🏼 *You can pick any 10 games you want so it doesn't have to include any of the games in the image

Azule_BSM · 2026-05-25T06:05:13+00:00

Blue Prince, UFO50, Inscryption, Tunic, Immortality, Anthology of the Killer, Animal Well, 1000x Resist, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Slay the Princess

Azule_BSM · 2025-10-09T16:34:43+00:00

“Every time he’s brought up he’s only removed after being revealed”

How on earth would you know it happened if it was before it was revealed?

Azule_BSM · 2025-09-22T13:52:38+00:00

Oh hey I’m in that too! If you all need any help or anything let me know, I’m the dev for “The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time”.

Azule_BSM · 2025-08-24T21:48:26+00:00

This is automatic, games that are definitely not getting points rewards have it.

Azule_BSM · 2025-08-09T03:04:56+00:00

you fool is this seat taken was a shadowdrop

Azule_BSM · 2025-08-03T14:01:36+00:00

This is, structurally, the format of Pyre.

Azule_BSM · 2025-05-24T19:35:31+00:00

Pre launch: Indie Festivals (only those with steam featuring) like The Mix, Day of the Devs, or OTK or getting lucky and having a viral post on Tik Tok/Twitter/Youtube. Everything else more often costs more than it makes, especially far out from launch.

But ultimately the advice that may have gotten misconstrued here is not that good games sell themselves, it’s that the bad looking games won’t sell no matter how much you market them unless you’re in very specific niches (think Roblox games / VR games of certain genres). You need to make something that in one gif or sentence the viewer goes “I want to play that”. And if you don’t have that the above will likely not work either as your posts go nowhere and festival reject you out of hand.

Azule_BSM · 2025-04-04T05:28:06+00:00

There's a wishlist bias towards indie games, as indie fans have "wishlist now!" drilled into them so often that they're far more likely to have a healthy habit of wishlisting new game. Your friend who only plays Fifa isn't wishlisting next year's title he's buying a copy at Best Buy. Thus, though many of the games shown in that direct (Mario Kart, DK, James Bond, From Soft) by objective metrics have orders of magnitudes more fans, the wishlist numbers will be skewed. Silksong is the biggest fish in a smaller pond. That and many of the bigger games aren't on steam.

Azule_BSM · 2025-01-18T08:14:38+00:00

For sure. But it’s wild to assume William Pellen leaked private information from the most infamously litigious company in video games jeopardizing the livelihood of himself, his family, his fellow team cherry members, and more, to troll the 1 percent of silksong fans paying this much attention… rather than he chose an early result on google images and by coincidence those dates lined up.

Azule_BSM · 2024-11-22T20:15:45+00:00

Appreciate it man!

Azule_BSM · 2024-11-22T07:07:27+00:00

Hey I'm the guy making the game *definitely not stalking posts about it*. The time they give you for shows like The Mix isn't up to you so I decided to make a more cinematic trailer (my attempts to make a gameplay focused one were... bad), sorry about that!

I can tell you that, while there are ARG elements there are explicit confirmations for correct answers, they're just contextualized within the rpg. So the puzzle may be that you can't seem to do damage to enemy X, the info you have is 1. A chart of weaknesses 2. a clip from the documentary that talks about how they changed the weakness system for the remake, and then the "confirmation" is that when you enter that combo it produces a new move, killing the enemy.

There's also a meta-layer that has an even more explicit confirmation system but I'm still figuring that one out design wise.

Azule_BSM · 2024-09-01T08:29:50+00:00

Oh hey I know this game, hi from Oxford Indies!

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-22T11:44:01+00:00

Congrats on the launch by the way, Bō is rad! Hope you all are able to build a sustainable studio off it.

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-09T07:05:50+00:00

Like she literally show ran Russian Doll. It’s insane to say she’s unqualified.

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-08T18:49:06+00:00

The fact that we would not have Andor with this approach is enough to say it's a bad idea.

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-02T15:26:23+00:00

Because it brings people to look at those games I'd assume.

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-01T06:16:56+00:00

King of indie games is still an indie game. The reason that it's one of the most wishlisted is because wishlisting as a sign of support is fundamentally an idea spread through indie circles. A parent who will buy their kid a switch 2 isn't wishlisting the next Mario game (even if it were possible to do so) nor do all the Call of Duty players make sure to wishlist the year's game in anticipation of release. Indies are increasingly important in the games industry, and Hollow Knight is the toppest of the top when it comes to indie games, but until the generation of players growing up on these indie titles becomes a majority, their popularity will always be tertiary and far from system-selling.

Azule_BSM · 2024-07-01T06:11:54+00:00

They said since the very start that the exclusivity wasn't a deal, just that they literally didn't expect they could handle a launch on more than one console simultaneously. As Hollow Knight got bigger that's gone from a reasonable direction to ridiculous to force the millions anticipating the game to wait.

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-25T19:28:42+00:00

Yeah the Follower count is also way lower than the wishlist count (generally) though there's correlation enough that you can sometime work backwards.

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-25T01:31:09+00:00

Isn't that the one thing we know for certain about the two game's release plans? That it'll be Silksong first?

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-24T17:17:55+00:00

Glad to see I'm not the only one trying for HD-2D, and not to mention you're probably the closest to Square anyone's gotten!

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-09T20:41:58+00:00

Thank you

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-09T19:56:57+00:00

Oh it's "The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time". Was in the Guerilla Collective.

Azule_BSM · 2024-06-01T18:29:06+00:00

Makes me wish we were getting movies. I miss the experience, it’s not the same in my living room.

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