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Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43119841

Hello, i was wondering if there are any good indie games on steam to try out. Can be free or paid, i don't mind if there's no native linux build either (i play stuff with wine/proton anyways lol) and i don't mind the genre. I've been thinking of trying something new as of recent so i thought i might ask it here.

Thanks!

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Baldur's gate 3.

And before y'all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it's not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.

Just don't play mixtape. It's terrible.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    As much as I love Larian and BG3, you'd have to have a really narrow definition of "major" if Larian isn't a major studio since at least DOS2.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they're by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Personally, I call such studios AA. They are too large to be indies, yet to small to be AAA.

    Expedition 33 creators, for example, would also fall under AA, even though they're a very young studio.

    Indie, to me, would be a studio of a couple people, of a one single team. Like with the creators of Hollow Knight. So, it's about internal structure rather than budgets or involvement of publishers.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well. Luckily there's already an established definition of the word indie.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Which is?

    I'm asking for 2 reasons: 1st is that I simply don't know which one you're talking about as I've seen different interpretations of that word. 2nd is that I don't think people would be arguing as much if the definition was that clear-cut.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    And before y'all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it's not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.

    I already defined it in my first post.

    But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.

    Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.

    Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.

    An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I just don't understand how Expedition 33 can be considered indie. They literally have a publisher.

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