All in Abyss: Judge the Fake Another Japanese indie game. Texas Hold’em Poker + Kakegurui. You play as a maniac gambler in a gambling city where you challenge 5 Witches, super gamblers who rule over the city. Tons of interesting plot twist and cheating involved in this game. In a match against a Witch, the loser is executed in a Danganronpa style (unique, cartoonish and disturbing execution). There’s a CG for each execution.

Rift of the Necrodancer One of the most fun and unique Rhythm game I’ve ever played. There are many kind of different notes, symbolized by Necro Monsters. For example, a Jumping Zombie moves with left > middle > right > middle > left looping pattern, while a Knight Zombie moves 2 beats at once. There are also colored version (Red & Yellow) which indicates a note will trigger a 2nd and 3rd effect when hit, like going backwards in beat or to get hit twice-thrice. each Zombie has different pattern and timing, which makes the game inherently harder than other rhythm games. VERY recommended

Aotenjo: Infinite Hands Literally just Balatro but Mahjong. Very fun if you’re a Mahjong enjoyer like me.

Urban Myth Dissolution Center A Mystery detective game where you investigate a crime that’s related to a japanese urban myth. It’s very linear and can be a repetitive, but the ending plot twist is amazing, which saved the whole experience

I played Mirrored soul a bit ago. It's an alright game. Doesn't have much of a wow factor after the start of the game, but I had fun

Maid Cafe on Electric Street Similar feel to Akiba’s Trip. Unfortunately the characters are bland, the gameplay is extremely repetitive and the story is meh. Fun for like 2-3 hours because all the references to anime and other indie games, but after that it’s an extreme chore. Not recommended.

S4U: Citypunk 2011 and Love Punch A Chatting game where you get hired by someone with personal issues, You take over their account and chat with their relatives/friends/boss to solve their issues. You can actually FAIL at solving them with no option to turn back if you aren’t careful. Very fun. Similar vibe to Va11halla since you’re just chatting with people.

I also played a lot of Metroidvania games but this is such a mainstream genre, so you know what to expect from them. Quick reviews: >Twilight Monk: Fluid movement, but janky combat feel where you can only attack horizontally. There’s overworld with random encounters, which ruins the pacing of the game >Turbo Kid: Amazing map design and exploration, a fun game without many flaws >Gal Guardians 2: not a good metroidvania game with tons of missing QoL. But still a fun game overall due to the character design and personality, fluid movement and tons of combat option. >Noreya: The Gold Project: Fun exploration, but awful combat due to no enemy knockback so you will get hit often while you’re attacking, which is very annoying. A very short game >Anima Flux: awful. Do not touch >Morkull Ragast Rage: beyond awful Do not touch >Witchroid Vania: it LOOKS like Astlibra, but even jankier. awful. I'm currently playing BioMorph and then Lone Fungus next on Switch

at some point the underspace demo updated and i can actually run it at better than one frame a second now maybe this will free me from wanting to waste time on bad game eve online

>>1123254 I was waiting for this to come out since the October next fest. Was slightly disappointed by the demo since story battles were scripted because of the witchs cheating, leaving fights against the AI be the only poker matches you could play based on luck. I like the idea of a game having you to tackle opponents like protagonists in Kaiji, Kakegurui or Usogui would do though. I'm going to play the full game later today

>>1128135 Scripted boss fights isn' a big deal, but the game has 1 major gameplay flaw that you'd most likely notice halfway through the story, which is there's only 1 real strategy to win a match (against anyone) But overall it's still a very enjoyable game especially if you're into VN, not just poker.

>>1123254 I dropped this game during the first execution. Blatant disgusting fetish fuel. Ruined the vibes for me.

>>1123264 I just found an upcoming rhythm game that's possibly just as good as NecroDancer. actual exploration + bunch of mini games.

>>1128332 Similarly, I didn't buy it because the demo showed that inflation shit. I guess I'm getting less degenerate with time, I was having fun with my cute gambling VN before the dev decided to whip his dick out and start jacking off.

I never went very far on Darkest Dungeon, all the DLCs are on sale now, thinking of getting it and give another try.

I restarted Dustland Delivery with the fat truck and gotta say that I'm making mad cash now. I shouldn't have trusted the guides saying fast truck is best truck.

>>1123254 I've just played this one today, up to the second bossfight at least. It's pretty fun, but could be better. I would've enjoyed it more if it was a "real" game, but it's basically just an occasionally interactive vn. I laughed out loud during the first execution with that metal music though. >>1123321 I've only just started this one, seemed very good so I'll definitely continue it someday. >>1123347 This one I hated, it was way too long, way too cliche and extremely boring. Which is weird because the setting should literally be my exact taste, but I just can't get into it, regardless how beautiful the game's art is. >>1123370 I've tried this one as well but the start didn't really pull me in, so I just kind of forgot about it. Based on these I think you'd enjoy Girls Made Pudding, but I'll drop a few stuff I enjoyed as well.

>>1130385 Centum is a staggeringly good looking game, but sometimes it just doesn't make sense. Honestly it made me fucking angry because I got stuck and I dropped it.

Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog is an absolutely beautiful game trying to evoke the feelings of PC98. It's a bit shorter and simpler than I expected, but it's worth a read nonetheless.

Scarlet City of Devils is a metroidvania with big boobed demon girls. It's short, but the combat is very satisfying, I enjoyed it a lot.

Any good grindy, cozy indie games? Shit like Minecraft or farming games, but preferably with some interesting theming.

Marfusha and Snezhinka are some of my best games ever. I put nearly 20 hours in both of them, it's basically my comfort game that I can just play while chilling. Would definitely recommend.

>>1123254 Fuck the Casino Royale

Big boobed anime girls again in Code Reactors. I know the term "roguelike deckbuilder" is basically a slur, but this one is more of an action game where your spells are on cards. I enjoyed it a lot.

>>1123233 >>1130385 >I recently finished GIRLS MADE PUDDING Wait, I didn't read the OP, my bad.

>>1128345 There's a thread about the demo being up right now.https://8chan.moe/v/res/1127762.html It's really good, I like the aesthetic a lot. >>1128306 >if you're into VN Right in my alley then. I wasn't really a big fan of the writing, even the execution scene in the demo was kind of lame. I'm going to play it now

>>1130453 I missed this post somehow. I'm also a huge fan. I hope the third game will have a happy ending, the suffering was too much for my heart

>>1130592 Indeed. Also I really like the artdesign, I generally never buy artbooks but I bought them for both of these games. Also, if someone like After Burner type shmups, I would recommend Mirage Feathers. It's very fun, has insanely good music and it's cute and funny.

Why all the indie games I want end up being huge dissappointments?

>>1130651 can you stop being literally me I've also liked this game a lot

>>1130253 Dohna Dohna is better than Darkest Dungeon >>1130417 I heard many red flags about this after they/them pronouns reveal >>1130431 on my wishlist, but I have many metroidvana backlog >Biomorph (currently playing) >Lone Fungus >Somber Echoes >Venture of the Vile >>1130447 Doraemon Story of Seasons >>1130453 >>1130592 >>1130651 >>1130673 I'm interested in the aesthetic but not into the genre

>>1130671 What kind of game do you like? I play tons of games I can give rec

>>1123233 Anyone here play Shooters, Ready?

>>1131222 Reminds me of this funny japanese game I played a while ago ウーマンコミュニケーション (wo-MANKO-mmunication) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2095090/_/ you identify and shoot dirty words in normal communication with women. surprisingly good story. very meta 4th wall.

>>1131207 >What kind of game do you like? Open world survival craft slop. Also any other game in which I can grind stats. Also yes, I call them slop, because holly fuck Steam has hundreds of them but only like a dozen are worth playing.

>>1131203 >I heard many red flags about this after they/them pronouns reveal I don't know, I played it in Japanese, don't remember any character doing something like that explicitly. I think at the beginning you can decide how you want to be referred to, which is imo reasonable in the case of a faceless self-insert protagonist. But it was written by westerners so who knows.

>>1131359 oh yea that's the one genre I really hate

>loses to me like 4 times after he keeps getting into fights with people that do not want to fight and I get in to stop him from attacking random people >challenges me one last time >loses >has a meltdown and kills himself ok

>>1131203 >Dohna Dohna I will look it up. I actually never had much patience for DD for being a slog, but I played Ero Dungeons recently and it just made me wish I was playing DD instead.

>>1134196 Dohna Dohna is a slog unless you like VNs. I didn't.

>>1123440 How good is Biomorph so far?

>is Friday and I got a free day because of easters >Imma play until I drop, I thought with delight >proceed to spend all day looking what to play and shitposting on the interwebs Fuck me I guess. What have you played this day Anon? Because you play indie games right?

>>1130447 graveyard keeper? i played it for a week straight and then kind of ended up hating it

>>1130447 My Time At Sandrock is very fun, I have over 70 hours and I still haven't finished the main plot or done all achivements. Warning, there's a earlier game called My Time At Portia, that while in the same universe, it is very janky compared to Portia. Also as >>1138015 said, Graveyard Keeper is fun, but very grindy. Even more in a first playthrough in which you don't know that you have to rush X and Y to automate things and make money(I played it three times).

>>1136496 decently good. nothing offensively bad. 7/10. a lot of combat and traversal options since you can morph into many different kind of monsters and use their abilities. movement is fluid. the game is mostly linear. they give an illusion option to wander around, but all routes but 1 is always locked behind a specific traversal ability. Save/warp points are everywhere, but the maps feel really big yet not compact so you're going to walk a lot. this is very annoying since it doesn't seem like there's a super dash ability that you can spam like in Gal Guardians 2. There's also in-game Cheats to deal damage by 2x and reduce damage taken by 2x if you're a shitter. the game is too easy anyway.

This 3D platformer is an hidden gem that people ignored because the name is incredibly reddit. The movement is very fun in the way that you connect different moves, the worlds are very charming, it has a minimalist story and simple characters (I'm saying that last part in case someone is expecting the game to be full of cringe)

>>1144615 It's absolutely full of cringe though, everything is a joke or a meme/pop culture reference.

>>1144665 I guess my tolerance is higher

I played too much factorio, now nothing is fun anymore.

Finally got a true ending

FlyKnight First person dungeon crawler, can play alone or co-op. Not much content (3 zones) and dev has no plans to add anything other than NG+ and Randomizer. Fishing is included by it's very ass.

>>1123233 >Playing indieslop I shiggydiggy

what went wrong? it got like 2 threads on release day and every thread past that died super quick. none of the big indie game streamers stuck with it past 2 streams. the indie general OPs never updated its name from "monolith" and never talked about it was it a combination of being a dunkey game and being a bullet hell so it's both too heavily advertised and too hard looking to try? also as an aside, took a while for Lucid Dream to start showing up in my loop 7+ runs. cool boss. all these loop bosses are among my favs in the game even though Flauros is literally just a generic spaceship.

Where were you when the stars aligned? https://nitter.net/askiisoft/status/1910374785458098678#m

dead as fuck i wonder if it's more that people haven't found it or just the natural result of no real threat of being bumped off also playing underspace. it sure is a work in progress and the battle music in the first system fucking sucks

>>1180712 Embarrassing confession here: I didn't even finished the base game, i probably have to start over again since i forgot everything about it, will wait for the DLC now >>1181040 I went to /vg/ searching for the indie general but it wasn't there, i don't know why i didn't thought of looking for a thread here, i found it just now by chance, the pic in the OP isn't very eye catching

>>1181040 I blame not having spiderfag.

My weekend got taken over by Blood West. It's not life changing but it does what it does pretty well. Took me a while to warm up to but once I did I was hooked. Not worth it at full price but the current sale price is pretty good. I'm only 2/3 of the way through and already put like 30 hours into it. It is definitely VERY stealth focused because most enemies become so much harder to kill once they know you're there. It's ostensibly kind of a Stalker-like but it ends up reminding me more of like if Sly 2 was a first person shooter.

ITT webms of upcoming indie games

>>1189834 I like threads like this but most of the videos I have have been made for, or are from halfchan. So they lack sound and I can't be bothered to edit or re-download some of them now. Bummer. In order: >Leftovers KO >NEON Inferno >NEON inferno again >FUMES >Risimon

I look forward to this

>>1190121 Neon Inferno looks cute, but I hate the way those background bullets palette cycle. Bright multicolored flashing makes it look like active hitbox. Same with that green sparkle guns do when they charge up; it looks like muzzle flash before it even fires

This game stood out to me during one of Steam's Japan Indie/Doujinge events. The concept intrigues me. But at the same time I imagine that the game will either be really interesting or beyond irredeemable garbage. Could easily see it go either way.

>>1190740 >but I hate the way those background bullets palette cycle. Bright multicolored flashing makes it look like active hitbox Yeah, I agree. This got me confused often.

>>1180478 >>1181040 ? only /vg/ actually migrated here /a/ and /v/ are pretty slow. I think most "went back" to twitter and reddit

Nitro+'s mecha musume not!ArmoredCore ludo is releasing in less than a couple of days from now. From the demo to judge at least it has got the movement down right. Maybe it'll be a bit jank here and there but I'm excited and somewhat optimistic.

In order: >Darkwater >inKONBINI >MINDWAVE >Pelican Harbor

Has anyone played Mandragora? Gonna play that one today.

This thread really didn't need to get merged. It's probably just gonna result in it having lower activity than it would have had otherwise. >>1190912 This looks cool. Hope it's good.

ACT is getting it's NG+ update today with new enemy placements and extra moves for bosses, looking forward to jumping in when I get off work. Most of the lategame bosses were total pushovers the first go around so I hope they get a bit more interesting.

>>1181040 Underspace caused me to realize that Trainwiz is a lying hack fraud and genuinely do not recommend playing it.

>>1191193 I'm gonna play it, but way later. I'm still playing Biomorph and will play other MV games before Mandragora. I don't really like Soulslike, I especially hate Stamina and free stats distribution level up system, so I don't know if I'd like it or not.

I loved rusted moss. Made quite a few webms for half /v/ so I figured I could post them here. Imagine umihara kawase metroidvania with cool boss fights

>>1192285 2D platformer with aiming and shooting suck real bad. I hate Ghost Song, Laika and Metroid Dread too

>>1191406 >Most of the lategame bosses were total pushovers I just stopped using umami moves at all because it made the game too easy. Tried to only win by parrying. >>1189834 What game?

>>1191943 Oh and Rusty Rabbit & Sacre Bleu are just out too I hope it's as good as F.I.S.T

>have metric fuckton of new indie games from trading old bundle stuff >already had a ton of stuff I've never got around to playing before that >can't actually decide on something to play >few times I manage to decide on something find a very good reason not to anyway can't tease me with future free DLC and massive upcoming updates and still expect me to play the game or the game just doesn't grip me Anons name a game and if I have it I'll play it (if I haven't already 100%ed it).

>>1144615 I haven't touched this game after the part where you ram the taxi into a king kong parody's asshole.

The first Quester is 80% off. Is it worth the purchase? How much depth is there? I know it has a NG+ but is there any actual replay value?

>>1194681 >Anons name a game and if I have it I'll play it (if I haven't already 100%ed it). YIIK I.V

>>1188871 I bounced off this game by chapter 2, outside of the wendigo which was a cool gimmick I really felt ambivalent fighting the majority of the enemies in that chapter When did you realize who the MC's voice actor is?

Oh shit, this general does exist. I've been looking for it on /vg/

>>1179293 Kek, amazing schizo edit

>>1192582 >What game? FUWAMOCO Adventure, not to be confused with the 2D browser game with the same name. The clips I've seen of it look fun but the main characters are vtumor shit.

>>1196786 Don't have that, thank god.

>>1197062 Do you have Ginga Force?

>>1194681 Slice and Dice

>>1199037 Nope >0.99 Well then okay why not. >>1199073 Nah, really not my style on top of that.

>Wasteland Waste Disposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqqFoxXPYw >Fools, Maniacs and Liars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zBQW0WcRA0 >Exocide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUm7rh3oavg >Motorslice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VErh1BUxj3Y >Elation for the Wonder Box 6000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYo8IFRXI4 >Kraino ReAnimated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfx5pBmgT6I >Chambers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qBNwSccp0 >Wolfhound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIw7bsewjKk >Sunset Devils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmTsLDQbR6U >Greenfield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L99G_DsG2bw I really hope one of them comes out.

>>1192582 Played a couple of hours of NG+, it's pretty fun. I like the new stowaways they added so you have something to save up your crystals towards.

Bionic Bay has a lot of great level design, but the final chunk of levels feel like Celeste and aren't as good as the first half

Figured it's simpler to post a list of shit I have rather than expect anons to magically guess what I do own. If it has a red streak I've 100%ed it or close enough autistic extra NG+ difficulty cheevos piss me off

>>1203552 >has indivisible sorry for you play blasphemous

>>1128345 I liked the aesthetic and music but the rhythm game part really needed some polish

You play indie games to experience the joy of a small teams creation I play indie games to experience the life of a man who should've bred his little sister We are not the same Play nine sols btw

>>1203552 Intravenous (and its sequel) is great and it answers the timeless question "what if hotline miami has been made by an autistic gunnut gymbro?" But first, you are going to play Trepang².

>>1204817 >Very Hard is actually really easy >Extreme/Rage mode is you die if you're in an enemy's line of sight for more than half a second I hate this so much about the game. I wouldn't mind if it Extreme/Rage didn't lock cheats and combat simulator maps.

>>1204405 >but the rhythm game part really needed some polish right? something about the maps just feels off which is a shame because the dialogue in general and when you're walking around town is fantastic

>>1204771 I don't really like 2D games all that much so I expected to be underwhelmed by "2D Sekiro". Far from it, it's probably better than Sekiro to be quite honest

Every single time I get a more obscure indie metroidvania, I spend maybe two hours in it then put it down because I feel exhausted and never pick it back up again.

Just finished Crime scene cleanup and did pretty much everything other than a couple of secret and 1(uno) tape,pic-rel, and decided to go back to viscera cleanup and god i just cleaned the office and having to pickup trash individually feels horrible now, im definetly gonna miss have to look for cash,the cool secret,music without having to carry a huge boombox and not having to run around like a fuckin retard looking for a completly faded almost invisible blood stain on the ceiling that the sniffer is beeping about Also cloverpit is fun, probably gonna pirate the full game despite not really being able to get into balatro

>>1206704 I really enjoyed crime scene cleanup, but I wish it had more levels. Felt like the level from the demo, the house with the pool, was the most polished though.

>>1205982 Yeah, it's not a genre that lends itself well to many different games for me. I only want to play the very best of the best if it's a metroidvania. The 10/10s.

>>1204817 NTA. I'm way too old for that kinda game. But looks fun, 14yo me would have loved it.

Recently finished REDO! Short review. Can't really recommend it, though it should be cheap and you can finish it in 4 hours. One of the reviews said that in the beta, it was much more like a survival horror game with limited resources. Which makes sense with how the game is structured. What's left as the final product is a Metroidvania with a checkpoint system and respawning enemies. Gameplay is somewhat jank, which isn't necessarily bad. This isn't an action game, instead it wants you to pick the right tools for the right job and plan ahead. But some enemies require some tight timing for dodges, which doesn't really help with the controls. It does the feeling of being isolated and surviving on your own in a hostile environment pretty well. And there were times when I had really fun trying to get to the next checkpoint or clear an area, similar how a souls-game motivates you. Ending was entirely lackluster.

>>1206704 >>1206757 Crime scene clean up was great but besides a few levels it felt small. I probably got spoiled by viscera clean up maps and workshop. Have you tried goblin cleanup demo?

>>1208198 Goblin cleanup was pretty cool, the dev being bullied into adding goblin butlers is pretty gay though

>>1192756 5 interesting games just out on Switch pirate sites Leila seems interesting puzzle game, but the voice acting reeks... leftism? Idk it's hard to explain but it gave me the 'ick. I hope it's not as awful as Puzzle for Clef All in Abyss >>1123254 Moonless Moon, I was interested because it's from the same creator as the recent GIRLS MADE PUDDING >>1123233 but then I remember I played it a while back on PC and I remember it being a total unbearable snoozefest I'll be playing Leila, Sacre Blue, Rusty Rabbit too many games too play... not enough time... and I still haven't played Atelier Yumia and Xenoblade X too I prefer playing shorter games first, but tons of short games keep getting released so my plan to play Yumia and Xeno keeps getting delayed lol

>>1205885 I went in expecting an experience somewhere along the lines of Dust: An Elysian Tale. I didn't think it was gonna light the world on fire but I'd probably get a good enough experience for 25$ What i got instead was the best game of 2024 that still lives rent free in my head 5 months later and counting

ive been enjoying white knuckle massively even if it's just the demo there is an early access version which is about twice as long you can buy, but I'll probably just wait for full release

Out of Hands + Post Trauma, some pretty cool games released today.

>>1213138 Great game I've also been playing the demo, shit's intense as fuck you'll play for 20 minutes and it feels like playing another game for an hour. It's probably not for everyone because you have to fight the controls a little like every hardcore climbing game but if you like shit that's different you'll have fun with it

>>1213300 I hate the pipe organ area so much, it consistently makes me feel woozy which I guess is the intent.

>>1213138 Is the climbing better or worse than Peaks of Yore?

>>1217855 I've never tried peak of yore but just from looking at them it seems like that's much more of an attempt at a serious climbing simulator whereas white knuckle is arcadey with perks/randomly organized level layouts and the ability to do impossible feats of climbing agility.

>>1213138 i finished the demo before christmas but it bugged and didn't give me the achievement nor unlocked endless mode and that drained my will the play the game, probably gonna download the early access soon anyway also am i dumb or is the pipework prologue a ridicoulous difficulty spike

>>1123440 I just finished Biomorph 10 hours. finished most things, but not 100% decently fun game, traversing for the first time feels fresh since you can morph into field monster and use bunch of unique abilities for platforming. Backtracking is a huge chore since areas are big and your movement is slow. Tons of sidequests but most of them are annoying fetch quests Combat is just ok, nothing special. Story is bleh, childish and amateurish. 7/10 good game, but not great. it feels like a discount Nine Sols... I compare them purely because of the aesthetic and similar story premise. gameplay-wise, not much in common. Dunno which game I should play next. Maybe Lone Fungus.

>>1223225 You're not wrong, the pipeworks are fucked and arguably harder than the area after them. The shattered alt of the bunker is also significantly harder than the fan area but I guess that's fair if they didn't want the starting area to be too boring for people who are already good at the game.

>>1130453 >>1130592 >girl forced by dystopian military to defend a big door Remember to play Cavalry Girls! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2055050/Cavalry_Girls/ Its essentially this but with mechs. In fact, I wasn't wowed by Marfusha simply because CG is so much more (prepare the field before battle/ disassemble enemies/ craft mech parts ) And there is still constant stream of new shit added. >holy shit this post was made literally the moment this site shat itself and had to wait all those days

>>1123233 Played Promise Mascot Agency it's the first new game that I had played to completion this year. It's pretty much what I always wanted from a game that it's almost uncanny for how much it's catered to me (dark humor, yuru chara mascots, strong writing, chill exploration that encourages you to go everywhere, business management etc). Granted Yakuza 7/8 has a much better package but this fills a niche that I never thought I wanted I love my giant crying tofu creature thing like no man has ever loved a giant crying tofu creature thing before

I'll post two that don't seem to get a lot of attention. Metallic Child is a rouge-lite where you try to stop Earth from being destroyed by defeating several bosses who's cores are necessary to repair and expand the station you're on. Normal enemies and boxes also have cores you can install, some of which being virus cores that provide debuffs for a limited amount of time, but which leave you with buffs if you can tough it out. My main complaint I guess would be that it leans into a kind of Mega-Man aesthetic, but doesn't go all the way by making bosses weak to certain core abilities from other bosses you've beaten - giving you a kind of strategy to how and what order you tackle them. War of Rights is a Civil War reenactment simulator with autismal levels of detail to historical accuracy. The game isn't a typical shooter, since it attempts to craft itself heavily around group fire in line-battles. There is no soloing (unless you want to die and cost your team morale), no hit markers, and no kill counts. You group up around your nearest CO and follow orders. There are several job types and which job you pick changes the gameplay - including artillery, command, musician, and soon (they say) cavalry. One of the most important is flag bearer, since the flag acts as a mobile respawn point - but only if someone is actively carrying it. Player counts are pretty low, but it's not uncommon to join games with 175 v 175 players - allowing enough team members to split into divisions and carry out strategic maneuvers according to their commanding officer's orders. Who wins or loses is based on a morale system. Each death counts as a penalty to morale, but that moral penalty is increased if you're killed while crouching or while being out of line. Biggest drawback so far, aside from the low playercount, is that it's still in development - and one of the most neglected features is melee combat, which is a major component of the game as it really racks up the morale for your team when you rout an enemy from the field via a bayonet charge. Also, if you want to have some real fun, be a nigger and play for the Confederacy. You should play for the Confederacy anyhow even if you're not a nigger. Fuck those Yankees.

>>1239812 I miss /civ4xg/.

>>1208494 I tried Leila instead since it's a very short game (less than 2 hours) and holy shit that was awful Gameplay is basic ass puzzle for toddlers, but the shittiest thing about the game is its story. This game is basically a huge excuse for the writer to tell a story about her self-insert. **You play as a post-wall roastie reminiscing about her past... her hoe phase with anxiety, depression and all the typical hoe stuff. She grew up in a broken home where her parents always fought, her mother cheated with some random chad. Once grew up, she randomly had a one night stand with a bartender and got pregnant. She ended up married to some depressed dude (idk if the guy is the bartender or not), but the three lived together (she's still depressed). In the ending, she went outside, looked around and saw through the window that many of her neighbors also have broken home, then she met her girl friends group and had fun with them, dancing and doing stuff. End. moral of the story: she regretted her hoe phase, but that's fine since she's happy now that she's found her inner peace (not sure when but she did anyway).** I can't believe this is a Turkish game. I guess Turkish women are whores too.

>>1180478 >mfw still haven't beat hard mode

Game journalist bros, what do?

i lub indie games https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44802688/sale/TokyoGameDungeon8

>>1243387 so this is the power of japanese indie devs...

Just finished unlocking all the meta-progression in Reality Break. Not sure what I'll do next.

The Slormancer finally has a release date. >The Slormancer will leave Early Access on May 13, 2025 at around 10 AM PST.

>>1123254 Playing this game made me realize that what I want is balatro but with anime girls

>>1130592 I hope we have more Dochka.

Does anyone know how to get good at Chaos Galaxy 2? Im tired of getting my ass handed to me Did anyone played it besides me?

>>1251241 It's in my backlog, but I have so much stuff to play(and so little time).

Technically not indie but I'll post about it anyway: Playing the new Amerzone remake. Although it's made in Unity and doesn't always look great, this is a quality remake. It's almost 1:1, going so far as to still be point-and-click rather than allowing you to move freely, but it nonetheless enhances the experience by including more tactile interaction. And best of all, it expands the characters and storytelling without ruining or subverting them. You can tell that the devs cared about paying respects to Benoit Sokal, even though it was probably the publisher just wanting to profit off his name.

25 minutes late PLAYISM stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuGazlE7f4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxzuWw1NxXk has that Yoshida bastard in it

>>1251889 Just a recommendation if you ever get to it: Don't bother with Chaos Galaxy 1 Im not saying its a bad game, its just that 2 is like 1 but better, more polished and a bit faster (which really needed it)

>>1243387 So which out of these are good, I see a lot of shovelware like >>1243465 This

man, 4cucks is up, but I don't want to go back

>>1260472 same I do not miss the "buy an ad" posters whenever you tried to discuss indie games there

>>1260472 Well, "normal" threads like this one can't survive on 4chan for more than 2 hours (even after necro self-bumped) so... This thread will still be here for years since people are leaving 8chan. I'll just use this thread as my personal blogpost and mirror post to 4chan sometimes when I want to talk about indiegames.

>>1260518 and If I make an indie game thread now, it will die in 1 hour lol it's impossible to talk about non mainstream, non ciulture war video games on /v/

>>1260472 Then don't. Anyone who doesn't want to go back is more than welcome to stay and have fun. So as I'm concerned, that's the litmus test determining a quality poster.

>>1260472 >>1260492 >>1260518 Should we uh... invite people to come here? Its about the same speed than the 4chan thread but there's no urgency to bump it at 4am to not get archived But I visit the indie thread on 4chan once a month, i don't know what schizos you got there

>>1260518 we always had the /indie/ general on /vg/ up almost 24/7 for a few years now 4chan/v/ is absolute garbage, /vst/ and other side boards is where the comfy things happen

>>1260568 >>1260549 I didn't know there's indie on /vg/, maybe I'll try going there. Well, I'll just post here whenever I tried a new indie game just for archival purpose. I wish there's /gacha/ board on 4chan so half of /vg/ can be "emptied" /vmg/ isn't really the place for gacha games since most gacha these days have PC client. and wtf is the point of /vrpg/?

>>1260518 Probably more people are gonna stay here than you'd think. And I don't think 4chan is fully back up yet. I'll occasionally look back for /pw/ and /lit/ but /v/ is completely unusable. I'd rather have much less but quality posters around.

>>1260676 well I'll be here whenever I get banned (a lot) for sure I have a static IP, so I can't dodge ban. 4chan fucking globally bans you for anything.

>>1260549 I just got banned for mentioning 8chan there. Guess I will stay here for now.

>>1260472 >1 post by this ID >hasn't posted any game ITT choke on troon dick and kys subhuman kike

>>1262153 Probably heard about this place when 4chan went back up.

>>1260549 You couldn't if you wanted to they flagged 8chan as spam if you mention it and they can ban you if they feel uppity

>>1260492 To be fair, 4chin IS plagued with advertisers...

>>1262153 Not my fault my id keeps changing because I have multiple devices and use multiple networks.

>>1260472 4ching's /v/ is plagued by bots, pajeets and subhumans while moving too fast for its own good. Slower, comfier threads can last here without the cancer there so I'm good. i most go there for the smut boards or slower boards anyway

>>1238003 I've bought Cavalry Girl. And I've played it for 9h straight last evening. The narrative trame is pretty meh. The fact they have spared every expense on the translation does not help. (it's a chink publisher, so I'm not exactly surprised, though) But I do find the main gameplay loop compelling, at least. The game's balance seems to be on point too. Slowly, but surely, the difficulty does ramps up day after day. And the game does it in a way that doesn't feel retarded or boring. I can see myself doing another run or two, on a higher difficulty. (assuming I don't get handed a painful game over before that) So I assume I'd end up with 50 hours of play on record. Not too shabby for a 7USD game. They have tried to do something a bit different apparently, with a free DLC focusing on stealth. But it's not my cup of tea. It's still there and has the merit to exist, though. Don't buy it if you seeked a dating sim, or a visual novel. That part is completely undercooked. Do buy it if you like autistic optimization, and/or to take a power trip by unleashing a metric-ton of explosive on your enemy. (which are totally-not manned by humans, right?)

Done with 2 games today 1. Long Fungus A metroidvania from 2023 with a sequel coming. It's a really well-made metroidvania. The map isn't really big but it FEELS big due to the sheer amount of exploration contents (items, secret, traversal & combat upgrades, optional bosses and huge variety of platforming challenges, whether it's mandatory or optional) QoL is amazing, you can have mini-map open at full size (transparent) while traversing through the map. tons of checkpoints / save points. no money so you don't need to worry about grinding or buying items, everything is obtainable through pure exploration. If you die, you respawn at the edge of the boss room so you can refight the boss immediately. Overall, it's a good game and a great metroidvania game. 8/10 There's only 2 things that I dislike: CONTACT DAMAGE & Mario-style HP ("hearts" instead of numerical HP bar), which made the game more difficult than it should. Anyway, looking forward to Lone Fungus 2

2. Beholder: Conductor You play as a low-tier security officer in a locomotive. Your task is to check the passenger's tickets, find their wrongdoings (inappropriate behavior at train & bringing disallowed objects) and snitch them to the authority. until you get promoted to work at a higher class car and eventually get a more serious job about preventing a nuclear war by investigating and blackmailing top dogs of the military and politicians. The concept, story & ending are actually interesting, but unfortunately the game isn't really fun to play through simply because the gameplay loop is boring and repetitive 1. you talk to passenger, ask for iD 2. you wait for them to leave their room, then investigate their belongings 3. you help them get some items they need (fetch quest) 4. you snitch them by reporting their data & wrongdoings to a computer Rinse and repeat for dozens of passengers. a huge chore. Fortunately it's a short game (<6 hours) 6/10. I;m gonna try the other Beholder game But for now, I'm gonna prioritize these 3 games: >Sacre Bleu >Rusty Rabbit >Project:;COLD case.mirage (JP only)

Got Navicula Meatus today. Admittedly, I only purchased it because I like its style, but it's supposedly some sort of puzzle game in a dungeon crawler setting which sounds interesting.

>>1180478 Everyone who cared played it when it was still Monolith, second launches seldom go well. >>1271924 Looks good, how the fuck did I never hear of it with all the Steam dumpster diving I do.

>>1239812 Been looking to buy War of Rights for quite a long time, because of my autism for musket warfare. The only thing that I have a question for is - are the battles rather dynamic and covering a large area or is it just a "which side kills more people" type of game? What I mean is, are there capture points or something of the like? Is there an incentive to assault enemy positions, defend houses, etc.? Or do you just try to kill as much of the enemy as possible without that much regard for the strategic layer of the battle?

>>1272123 Yeah, there are several points of contention that you must hold king of the hill style. If you lose too many soldiers, moral will drop and spawns will come in slower, eventually leading to a rout and the other team taking the point. These points tend to be historically important locations in the real life battles, but often you'll get orders from your CO to take certain non-critical positions because they provide strategic advantages. Not trying to shill someone's YT, but there's a guy named "General Cody" who does third person fly-throughs commentating on games, and it'll give you a good feel for how the flow of combat goes. I would definitely recommend joining a regiment though. Like I said, player count is a bit low, but they have regular matches on the weekends which fill up the servers. Joining an open game works too, but it's a lot more chaotic. Fun, but not really fulfilling if you really want to get into the full spirit of the game. I'd recommend just deciding on which side you want to fight for, and then hang around in some of the open Union or Confederate drill camps doing target practice. There's usually a few recruiters doing the rounds to observe how well people are doing and send them invites.

Anyone else around knows about Geargrit? Tl;dr >Jak 2 world and traversal >DMClite combat >Goblin tits

>>1272629 Sounds really good, thank you anon! Guess I'm buying the game during the next sale. >General Cody Looks good, I'll check a few of his videos out.

>>1123321 This looks really nice.

>>1273169 >PS2 Nostalgiafaggotry is finally rising Oh fuck yes, I'd download immediately but >Demo >Planned Release Date: To be announced I'm gonna have to keep my eye on this.

>>1270981 I especially like how many builds your mechs can have (but my MC HAS to have a big gatling gun anyway) I was planning to do a rebellion story arc on second run when the game finishes updating, but the autist dev CONSTANTLY adds new shit.

>>1278441 Welp. They should put aside the main game loop for one update or two. And focus on polishing the story mode. I have reached the beach cutscenes yesterday. And I must say that those grayish sketches are very underwhelming. Considering the previous scenes were colorized, I mean. It does not feel like an artistic choice. It just looks like they ran out of money/time.

>>1272048 What the fuck is that blur

>>1278567 It's art.

>>1271984 Done with Sacre Bleu today A stage-based action platformer where you play as a Musketeer escaping a prison. You have a shockwave gun that propels you to the opposite direction that you use to move around and also break enemy's shield You have Bomb and Pistol to actually damage enemy You have sword to also damage enemy. The game is short game and also very mediocre where every platforming challenge is simplistic with little to no variation. The game is very easy as there's little to no punishment for dying. You get instantly revived at the edge of the screen with all your resources (bullets, bombs) replenished. I believe dying only affects your final score for online leaderboard. 5/10. very mediocre. only play if you're looking for a short and easy platformer game, but even then there are plenty alternatives.

>>1279408 I also tried another game today, which is Project:;COLD case.mirage; I had no idea what game that was, but I downloaded it anyway because I saw it on... Nintendo Direct, I believe? I forgot, but I really liked the aesthetic so here we go.... Very short review: It's a Japanese anime version of Cyber Manhunt with a bigger budget Long review (or first impression): You play as an amnesiac "someone", tasked to solve some detective cases where you have to find bunch of info and evidence on the internet using google, AI and hacking tools to find the truth.... It's... basically Cyber Manhunt. I don't know how else to describe it. Please play Cyber Manhunt, it's a really good game with insane twist. And there are 2 of them Anyway, the game is, quite LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE on Switch. First of all, the nature of the game (navigating your in-game PC to search for clues) means you have to move your in-game PC cursor and click a lot, which is extremely hard with joystick. the game has touch screen feature, but all the clickable stuff on the screen is too tiny and human fingers are too big for that. It's too inconvenient. Also the game lags like hell, it's too heavy for Switch and it eventually crashed after 1 hour of gameplay. I uninstalled right after that. Thank god there seems to be a Japanese-able user on csrinru who cracked the game on PC, so I can download and play the PC version instead. I'll write a real review once I've completed it. The game is in Japanese only btw (Steam is region-locked) and there's A LOT of reading with some difficult kanji and no furigana assistance and most of them are unvoiced, so I hope your Japanese is good enough. I wonder if the Japanese know that this game is basically a knock-off Cyber Manhunt, a chinese game lol The first 3 pics are Project Cold and the last 2 pics are Cyber Manhunt for comparison.

>>1279491 I just finished Project:;COLD case.mirage Playtime: 7 hours Linear progression, only 1 ending. There are sub-quests that unlock alternate outfit for the girls Great fucking game. I'll talk about everything in detail since I really like this game and has no outlet to talk about it since it's a japanese-exclusive game. >Japanese language proficiency requirement at least familiar with casual conversational japanese + joyo kanji, around 1000 or so, nothing too uncommon. most of the kanji used here are pretty mild, so I think beginner learner could use this game as a learning material. >Story premise You're an amnesiac guy, tasked by a mysterious guy from the future to find out the truth about "Arson of Shinkirou (Mirage) Cafe". Before the arson happened, 5 girls were having a meet up party and it was revealed that one of the girls was murdered. The victim was a popular Youtuber whose gimmick is punishing/exposing/canceling wrong-doers. The other 4 girls (suspects) are: a pro shogi player, a cool tomboy, a mesugaki freeter and an ex-bullied timid girl. Now you have to find the link between the murder and the arson. >Gameplay Loop Just like Cyber Manhunt, you investigate things through your desktop screen. Here are the things you can do in this game 1. Finding object of interest in crime scene photos and internet search results 2. Finding the password of the smartphone of the 5 girls (Pic No.2) and go through their photos, mails, chats, notes, calendar etc 3. "Present" objects, facts and testimonies to the 5 girls (Pic No.1 & 3), recreated through a futuristic AI technology that can replicate any human's personality and even memory. 4. When you've obtained enough evidence, you can confront the 5 girls AI to accuse them of something. They'll have a mental breakdown (Pic No.4) and you have to debate them to prove that they did the thing that you suspected. The game is divided into 4 chapters, but they are direct continuation and not stand-alone like many chapter-based detective games. >Technical issues This is very personal, but it felt weird that keyboard isn't required for this game, actually, you CAN'T use keyboard at all. The only functional button for this game is your mouse's LEFT CLICK and SCROLL WHEEL. you can't even use your right click or ESC key to go "back" or open an option menu. >Voice Acting The game is disappointingly only partially voiced. The things that were voiced: scenes with mysterious man from the future that gave us the task, .wav short audio files (evidence), the girls' generic grunt noise, and the ending scene. I know that it'd cost a lot to voice everything, but I expected the debate/confrontation sequences to be fully voiced. This game isn't truly indie and backed by Bandai Namco, they should have enough budget for that. And this franchise had history of fully voicing HOURS of contents before (see Fun Fact below), so I'm extra disappointed. >Story Writing & Payoff Without spoiling too much, I'll just say that there are multiple murders in this game and multiple girls were on it. The story developed beyond just solving the murder and the arson, but you'll go through the truth of your amnesia, the mastermind's motive and personal struggles, and your forgotten past's connection with the integral plot point that caused the Mirage Cafe incident to happen. The revelation, climax and ending were very satisfying. Totally amazing writing quality from the beginning until the very end. >Fun Fact Project Cold as franchise already existed since January 2021 as an Alternate Reality Game (ARG), an interactive form of storytelling where players solve puzzles and interact with real-world elements to progress through a story. These games often utilize websites, social media, and other media to deliver clues and unfold the narrative), which ran exclusively in Japan. (https://projectcold.fandom.com/wiki/Cases). The latest entry, Alter Carnival, featured the same 5 girls from this game as the main characters, and the games were livestreamed on youtube. TENS OF HOURS OF CONTENT. FULLY VOICED by ad-libbing seiyuu. you can watch all the games here: https://www.youtube.com/@AltarCarnival/streams very, very fun. Sumida the pink mesugaki with her cheerful and bratty personality became my favorite after having watched the livestream archive. Anyway, this game is extraordinary. 9/10 VERY recommended if you know Japanese or are learning it. I don't think there's any plan for EN translation. Switch version is laggy as hell and playing with a joystick is inconvenient, while Steam version is region locked (in 2025 sheesh), so you kinda have to pirate if you want to play it. It's shame that I can't legitimately support this amazing game. the devs deserve it. Games with similar "feel' to this: Chronos series (Tokyo Chronos, Altdeus Beyond Chronos, Dyschronia Chronos Alternate). all available in English.

I just finished Lab Rat, a Puzzle Game where you complete and objective mainly by interacting with Blocks and Lasers. There are 4 main mechanisms here: Pushing a block, Pulling a block, Hit a block with a laser and Hit yourself with a laser. The objective the puzzle is mainly “Get a Block into a certain tile, but the Block has have the same color pattern as the tile’s”. You can alter a Block’s color pattern by hitting one of its sides with a colored laser or bump it against a colored block. You can only push/pull a block’s side which has the same color as your body’s. You can change the color of your body by letting yourself get hit by a colored laser. This is actually a really fun puzzle and very well-design with escalating difficulty. It took me almost 10 hours to complete. I’m not smart, so most player would probably be able to complete it in 6-8 hours. I saw on youtube that a perfect run, no retry takes 2 hours. There are Tutorial Prologue + 5 chapters. In each chapter, there are 1-2 special side-stages where the objective is different from just getting a block into a certain tile. Some of the objectives are protecting an NPC, killing bunch of monsters with lasers and Metal Gear-esque infiltration mission. Overall, the gameplay aspect of this game is very fun and challenging. However, the puzzle gameplay is just half the fun, the other half came from the meta commentary. In this game, you’re playing as a Playtester of a mid-development game (block-pushing game that we’re playing), guided by an AI (which voice sounds like Glados) that’s testing many interesting puzzle patterns to invoke player’s (our) emotion. This AI is very funny with all the 4th wall meta commentary that she does. She’s basically the Narrator from ICEY, if you know that game. HOWEVER, this funny 4th wall comedy got ruined since Chapter 2 with the introduction of a human dev, which is a SNARKY, CHEEKY, GIRLBOSS who’s very le intelligent and logical, who CONSTANTLY interrupts the AI with a nagging tone of voice because she feels that the AI is being stupid and illogical with how it’s testing us. She’s EXTREMELY annoying and won’t let AI says things it’s about to say. This girlboss dev’s introduction ended all the 4th wall comedy with her obnoxious personality. The game is full of meta comedy in Prologue & Ch.1, then became the girlboss show in Ch.2 & 3. And then we were thrown into a various game worlds (Mario, JRPG fantasy) in Ch.4 with no commentary at all. and then Ch.5 is a serious final boss, with no comedy at all. Even thought the gameplay is great, the narrative aspect of this game is a massive disappointment. The girlboss actually made the game VERY UNFUN for 2 whole chapters since she’s THAT annoying. This could’ve been a 8/10 game. but I think I’ll give it a 6.5/10

Mini Reviews for 4 Indie Games >Helltaker A F2P puzzle game where the objective is to reach a goal within a certain number of step where there are hazards that block you or slow you down. Though the hardest thing about this game are the boss and DLC stages, since those are full of unforgiving timing and reflex based challenges. VERY frustrating. The premise is quite interesting (gathering a harem of demon girls). 6/10 . >Ninja Ming An insanely frustrating precision platformer with an increasing difficulty progression. I almost lost my mind trying to beat it. It’s a good game, but I’m just bad at it. 7/10. >Scarlet City of Devils A very short and a VERY BAD metroidvania. Awful graphics, awful combat, awful exploration, awful animation. It has some nice tiddies, but that’s it. Do not play. 2/10. 1 for each side of boobies. >Code Bunny A Megaman-like game with some Gunvolt element (lock on and blitzing to the locked targets). Decently fun and relatively easy. Gunvolt Lock on system is simply too strong and easily abused. The later stage design are kind of annoying with how often you can just fall down and die instantly. Oh, and contact damage. I hate it so much. The devs tried to have some kind of serious story, but it sucks. 6/10 I’m currently playing Rusty Rabbit, another metroidvania game. I’m having fun but goddamn it has ISSUES. Review soon, probably this weekend after I beat it. I’m over halfway done with it.

>>1328115 More Metroidvania: INAYAH - Life after Gods I downloaded it simply because it's low-sized and I'm too lazy to turn on my PC. The game only has 1 nice thing about it: fast and fluid movement. everything else is awful. You have 3 weapons (sword, gauntlet, flail), each has its own unique traversal quirks for platforming. After the 1st hour where you obtained all 3 weapons, the world opens up and they start giving you more challenging platformer where you have to switch between weapons many times even just for a section of a platformer. Not only this is really annoying because switching weapons feel clunky, this is also tedious because you'll have to go back & forth between areas, so you're gonna redo all the annoying platforming many times. Each weapon also has multiple Skill Tree, like 6 of them iirc. There's simply too much freedom with limited resources. Combat is meh. enemy rarely staggers and I don't feel anything when my attack hits except when POGO-ing. Map is atrocious. There are 2 kinds of map, a very bad rectangle-based world map with no info whatsoever and a local map that shows details about the area you're in. It's shit because you can't view details of X area map when you're currently in Y area. This game is VERY quest-based where you do chore stuff from NPCs and backtrack a lot, which made super tedious by the godawful map. Area design is really bad. The camera zooms in so much so you don't have much info about your surroundings while going through an area. The background of each area is also too "full", distracting, and made everything feels samey. it's as if you're strolling in a labyrinth. I have to constantly check the (awful) map a lot just to know where I currently am. actually one of the worst area design I've played. but the most awful stuff about INAYAH is Inayah, the protagonist herself. She's basically a sassy, quippy, girlboss who acts like a white urban basic bitch the entire game. basically the same type of bitch I ranted about here >>1328009 . The game is fully dubbed and holy shit the voice acting is BAD. The overall writing (story, NPCs, side-dialogues) REEKS californian liberal garbage.... let me check for a sec... >We are a newly founded studio of international game development veterans who have worked on titles like Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader and more. Many of our artists worked for companies like Blizzard and Disney. oh... The game seems to be 10-12 hours, but I dropped it after 4. 3/10. +1 for fluid movement. +1 cool triple weapon choices. +1 for decently fun platformer (without backtracking). but the rest of everything ruined the game.

>>1340730 ANOTHER Metroidvania I just beat today: Rusty Rabbit Story written by Gen Urobuchi + the MC is voiced by Kazuma Kiryu (Takaya Kuroda & even Yong Yea for not-so-bright dubfans) I thought this was an indie game because it felt like it, but it's actually a fully professional corporate game with around 250 names in the credits roll. It's funny that the few important positions (lead xxx) are Japanese names while the rest of the staff (the vast majority of them) are Chinese/Vietnamese names LMAO. This is basically a made-in China game with Japanese leaders/directing. 250 staff + A-list voice actors in JP & ENG, while the game is a GIGA FLOP on all platforms. Damn, that's really sad. Anyway, time for the review. >Story So... the game set in a post-climate disaster Earth where the entire planet froze up and covered in a permanent snow. The only surviving species is Rabbit who settled at a settlement built on top of machinery remnant of old civilization. well basically, underground is really warm thanks to all the active machinery, which protect the bunnies from the extreme cold. You're playing as Stamp, a veteran junk hunter, whose job is to dig underground to find treasures. But your objective in this game is to find your long missing daughter who allegedly went underground. At every check point, someone (sometimes presumed to be your daughter) left a cryptic message about her journey. Throughout the game, you'll learn the truth about your missing daughter, the state of the world, the old civilization, the church that's currently ruling over the settlement with their theism propaganda, and bunch of other interesting stuff. >Gameplay You have 4 weapons. Drill to destroy crates, Sword to cut through vines, Hammer to destroy blocks and Gun for... shooting. Meanwhile for movement, you only have grappling hook and thruster. The area design is excellent, each biotope is unique, plenty of well-placed teleport/checkpoints near points of interest in each area so you can always save and return to the settlement to upgrade and restock healing items. Seems nice, right? Well, not really. This game has plenty of cons that I will elaborate in detail below >Cons - Fall damage. Yes fall damage in a metroidvania with plenty of vertical exploration. - Lack of enemy variety. Flying bee, blob, spider and mini rhyno. That’s all. It’d be more appropriate to call them Obstacle than Enemy. As they are no threat to you and their only purpose is to inflict Status Ailment. - Status Ailment.There’s Stall (slow you down), Leakage (like poison), Impair (HALVE your damage) and Stun (can’t boost/use thruster). The thing is, almost every single one of enemy attack cause these ailment. You can take damage, get ailment, wait like 20 seconds or use item to make it disappear, get hit against, get ailment again. This is extremely annoying. Oh and there’s contact damage. This is why I call them Obstacle, not Enemy. - Aiming & Hitbox. Your main weapon is Drill as you’ll mostly drill through THOUSANDS of crates for EXP and loot and it’s also by far your highest DPS weapon. But the hitbox in this game is very precise, where you have to hit the MIDDLE part of a crate/enemy to hit it. The thing is, there are tons of situation where you have to hit something mid-air during jumping/falling and it’s extremely difficult to aim, especially since you can only attack in 4 direction, no diagonal. And you can’t change direction after you start Drilling. You have stop, face other direction and drill again. You have to experience it to fully understand just how annoying these things are. - Ability-Gated Exploration. Yes, this is a metroidvania, this is normal. However, this game took it to an extreme. Deep exploration is done by destroying obstacles using your 4 weapons, and there are upgrade tiers to each of these weapons: Grey (default), Blue, Green, Purple and Gold. You will be stuck with Grey weapon for the majority of the game, has access to Blue VERY late into the game, and Purple/Gold only if you grind at something called Random Dungeon where you go through 100(?) floors of a small randomly generated area (like Persona 3’s Tartarus). The thing is, there are plenty of these things called “Hard Obstacle” that can only be destroyed by Purple Weapon, meaning good luck grinding 100 floors for the materials to craft them. If you’re like me, you’ll be missing a lot of items locked behind these hard obstacles. I explored EVERYTHING on the map and got to around 85% of database completion without breaking through any hard obstacle, so I guess that’s tolerable? My view on Metroidvania is that you should be able to unlock and progress your exploration naturally without having to mindlessly grind for things. - Difficulty balance. Halfway through the game, you’ll have so many atk, hp and defense upgrades (from accessories and permanent stats upgrade) AND a total of 20 full healing potions at a time; that you can simply facetank any boss. I’m not sure if this is a cons, since I personally find the combat in this game pretty ass and being able to trivialize it is a blessing. Anyway, if youre looking for a challenge. this game isn’t it. These cons (except the difficulty) made the game way less enjoyable for me, sometimes very frustrating, even. 6/10. Mixed feeling. Many things are very good, but many things are also very bad. The story and its writing are VERY engaging and got my motivation up despite everything. Still, as a video game, F.I.S.T is a much better steampunk mecha bunny metroidvania. go play that instead if you haven't.

>>1348260 I want to say the top left basically does not exist outside of memes. There are literally thousands of roguelike deckbuilders yet I can think of maybe 2 Earthbound depression games.

Played a bit of Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. It's a bit underwhelming so far, especially for its price. The game looks nice, but the gameplay is just okay and the design of the world just lacks creativity. They have a bit overtuned the "metroidvania-ness," it's almost pointless to even explore because every single door will be closed and you'll get their key 5 hours later.

>>1348361 I'm waiting for Switch version since they announced it. The game looks resource heavy. do you think Switch could handle it? GRIME on Switch is unplayable with extreme lag. >>1348260 only souls-like MV and roguelike deckbuilders are actually super common.

>>1328115 >>Scarlet City of Devils Dang I knew it wasn't gonna be that great after trying the demo but I still had some hope after catching a few glimpse of cool ideas. >>1340730 >INAYAH - Life after Gods Shit, I got 100% sold on the art and fluidity alone, guess I shouldn't have Will probably still play both to completion but that sucks

>>1348748 There are so many decent metroidvania, there's no reason to play the bad ones. If you're interested in Inayah, I recommend AWAKEN - Astral Blade instead, it has similar level of movement fluidity as Inayah; which is great. I'm currently playing through it. probably gonna be done tomorrow. For Scarlet City's alternatives, aesthetic-wise (western cartoonish) there are Indivisible and Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. maybe even 9 Years of Shadow for a beautiful woman MC. Indivisible is a turn-based combat and got mixed reception,

even more interesting Japanese indie games Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade this week Nitro Express next week Homura Hime later this year

>>1348858 >Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade Looks fun, although It comes out at the worst possible time with Neo-DOOM 3 coming out tomorrow.

>>1348812 >AWAKEN - Astral Blade Done that already >9 Years of Shadow Though there is a new patch with new shit I've already 100%ed it and don't feel mike doing it again >Indivisible is a turn-based combat and got mixed reception Bounced off that >Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom >>1348858 Yeah had my eyes on those, Nitro Express I'm not sold on quite yet because 30fps and pixel game maker

>>1348863 >ZOOM 3 different target audience. these indies are competing against each other, not mainstream AAA slops.

>>1348877 I think there might be more overlap than you think considering that DOOM Eternal had some core appeal outside of the usual AAA slop.

>>1348880 DOOM is a shooter. it might overlap with boomer shooter indies like Exophobia, but not with action hack & slash roguelite slops like Yasha

>>1348744 I've never had a switch, but Mandragora feels significantly more resource heavy than GRIME and the game's size is 3x bigger. I think in terms of minimum requirements the switch theoretically should be able to handle the game, but I'd wait for a few reviews first.

>>1348748 >>Scarlet City of Devils >Dang I knew it wasn't gonna be that great It wasn't a masterpiece by any means, but personally I enjoyed the combat.

>>1273169 It has potential. I think they really nailed the speed, and I like that ninja kick move (kicking the walls to go directly upwards)

Done with AWAKEN – Astral Blade A very short Metroidvania game. less than 6 hours for True Ending, All sidequests done and 90% overall completion. The story is ass since we’re just trying to stop le evil guy from getting super ancient power. The setting & lore are weird. It doesn’t make sense that there was an ancient advanced civilization in an island thanks to alien magic, but apparently they had never interacted with the outside world at all? Also they said ancient, but it’s really just 500 years ago. The timeline is very off. The game is linear for the first 2 hours until you reach a Hub (village), and then it branched off into 3 areas that you can tackle in any order. The environment design is kinda samey since it’s mostly located in a jungle island (and caves). The exploration is very well done. There are tons of hidden walls and all of them are intuitive, shortcuts and checkpoints are well-placed, but I think the best thing about the exploration is how it’s really rewarding. The game really rewards you for exploring the map since it’s filled with many things that you can use to upgrade your stuff. There are also sidequests that you can complete as you’re doing the story without much backtracking required. There are so many things you can upgrade: active skill, passive skill, 3 weapons, Healing Potion (potency & carry amount), accessory slots (10 points per upgrade where accessories cost 20-50 points to equip). you can also buy accesories and resources from NPC merchant and give collectibles to an NPC for rewards. Traversal abilities are just the standard. You have double jump, charged farther jump, high vertical jump, wall climb and grappling hook. Nothing extraordinary. There are platforming challenges, which isn’t hard at all (except for one). And the game gives you accessibility option to skip platforming. Enemy variety is very limited and boss battles are just ok. Some bosses have really inconsistent hitboxes and you barely have any i-frame, so you can still be hit when you’re downed (possible to get stunlocked). Combat is fast-paced with your fluid movement, plenty combo variation with your 3 weapons (sword, scythe, darts) and you can FEEL it when your attack hits. There’s no contact damage which is GREAT. You can Dodge & Parrry, where both give you slow-motion effect like in modern Ys games, but parrying is really difficult so it’s much better to just dodge. For not so good players, there’s a journalist difficulty mode with an option to give you buff each time you die. I don’t know exactly how this works (like, against bosses only or not). My point is, difficulty isn’t a problem here. >Conclusion For a sub 6 hours game, this game is VERY COMPACT IN GAMING EXPERIENCE. It’s like every minute of my playthrough, I did something, I got something, I discovered something. There’s almost no downtime. And I think that’s the best part about this game, which made it really fun to play through. 7/10. A well-made game. Recommended. I'll play Frontier Hunter - Erza’s Wheel of Fortune later this weekend.

>>1352199 > and I like that ninja kick move (kicking the walls to go directly upwards) Ninja kick the ground right after a roll jump to see what the real deal is, and with some talent you can chain that to go even faster. >>1352221 >6 hrs Holy shit you speedran that thing I took more than 5x that

>>1352810 I was also surprised when I looked up my in-game-time after getting the true ending. I think the game felt long because of things I wrote in the conclusion. I didn't speedrun the game, but I started skipping enemies after I shut down 3 reactors I think since I already got all the upgrades I wanted. >I took more than 5x that That's the time I need to 100% Afterimage, my no.1 favorite metroidvania. around 35 hours or so.

>>1353043 Afterimage I dropped for now, it feels way too much like I don't know where the fuck I'm going for most of the time but I know it's a good game I just need to really crave metroidvania when I go for it.

>>1123254 >Another Japanese indie game. The art looks westoid or gooky. Somehow I can feel it at this point.

>>1353596 Because its AI generated. They say its only the backgrounds but I highly doubt it.

>>1190612 Come on get announced already now I want to buy it

>>1179293 Unironically repeats "slop" too much, otherwise the puns that don't are pretty good.

>>1190612 We're finally past 2D shit and finally into 5th gen aesthetics in the indie space, and it's glorious.

>>1356955 Right one has serious upscaled PS2 game vibes.

>>1348896 The new zoom is more temu sekiro than shooter.

>>1356955 It took way too long to move past 2D being trendy and it is still a thing despite dying down. Should've been done earlier but a lot of devs wanted to milk it. I expect there to be a lot less games hopping on that given the uptick in complexity and effort needed to make it. And it's probably going to be a temporary trend too, The only thing I personally do not want is PS1 wobbling/warping or affine texturing to come back without it being optional. I am fine with low poly and pixels since the reasoning partially is workload but the buck stops at making your game purposefully bad when other than aesthetics, nothing can be justified by that. Fuck that shit being forced.

>>1363647 >It took way too long Fuck you nigger, I'm going to enjoy it

>Spirit Mancer 2D sidescroller action deckbuilder... wow what a typical indie game! the game is actually so unfun to play through. You can build your deck at a checkpoint, but the cards are exhaustible after one use and then you have to beat up enemies and capture them to get their card that you can use... one time. There really is no point in the deckbuilding aspect. Also enemies are spongey as hell and all of them have elemental shield that can be broken if you hit it with a card with the right counter-element, which is annoying because cards disappear after 1 use. Most enemies are just standing still without even trying to attack me, so this game’s difficulty is pretty much non-existent. Also the game is meant to be played co-op, so there’s no point in continuing.

>Captain Blood I tried it out for its PS2 action hack and slash nostalgia novelty and wow I’m amazed by how this game managed to recreate all those PS2 games features... I mean jankiness. Yes they’re all present here. Long ass loading time, game crashing during loading screen, subtitle-off being the default option, mumbly american voice acting, inability to move camera, no lock-on, barely any i-frame, getting stunlocked, unfair numbres of enemies coming at once, being stage based where you can purchase upgrades/movesets with your performance points, spongey ass enemy, random QTEs that lead to instant game over if you fail at it and many more that I can’t remember right now. Tldr it’s a PS2 action game that I used to hate

>Kindaichi Mystery Series꞉ The Honjin Murders Similar to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s games, this is a video game adaptation of a real Japanese murder mystery novel with the same title. Plot from wiki: “The novel takes place in 1937 in an unspecified rural village in Okayama. The anonymous narrator reconstructs the events surrounding the legendary double murder of a married couple, based on witness statements and various documents” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honjin_Murders The game is very uniquely presented where you’re reading through testimonies of 9 different people, which are the detective (you), inspector, female victim’s uncle (your client), 5 male victim’s family members and an old maid. In each testimony, there are Blue colored words that you can click to reveal a new Testimony (Orange to reveal a new speaker and Purple for not-yet-clickable keyword). The gameplay of this game is when a new testimony is revealed, you have to identify the speaker of that testimony AND vertically arrange them in the right order, so you’d have a nice flow of testimonies for each person. It was really challenging at first since I wasn’t familiar with the characters, but it got way easier as I got to know the characters better, especially in the later half of the game where most testimonies belong to detective, inspector and the client, so it’s easy to narrow down the possible speaker for a testimony. The story is enjoyable , but it’s really annoying that I can’t change the text speed since it’s TOO SLOW. They must really want me to read the text slowly and get spooked by the little jumpscares (character/object portrait suddenly cut-in with a sharp sfx) during the eerie parts of the narration. The game has 2 endings: normal end, which is the game’s original ending and true ending, which is the novel’s real ending that you can read through after beating the game. I personally find the normal end waaaaaaaay better than the true/original ending, which is full off bullshit coincidences and red herring; also did some of the characters really dirty. In the game’s original ending, they actually removed all the red herrings and rationalized all the coincidences by integrating them into the grand narrative, which fits really well imo. I think it’s a good game, but lacking so much QoL like adjustable text speed and (de)selecting and scrolling through testimonies can be janky at times. I counted only 34 names in the credits roll where over half of them are artists/contractors, so it’s a really low budget adaptation, but still worth reading. 7/10

>>1365833 >wow I’m amazed by how this game managed to recreate all those PS2 games features... It's because it ``is`` a PS2 game. Corporate publisher bullshit stopped them from finishing it back then and it's current form is the old devs trying to do the past struggle justice after they managed to re-acquire the project.

>>1365931 damn that's why it's so bad >Actual development was outsourced to Malaysia-based General Arcade due to their experience and enthusiasm working with custom engines .[11] damn. should've stayed cancelled.

We have a 2D Sekiro now

>>1382545 Looks really fun

>>1190612 this looks amazing. i've seen the other materials for the game and everything looks so responsive. love games that have dynamic battlefields that dont center around you. also love the fact that you can see the stuff you brought on your character

>>1382768 Early Access around July this year apparently

So many interesting games are releasing >The Siege and the Sandfox (stealth metroidvania) >Last Vanguard (metroidvania) >Sea of Stars Throes of the Watchmaker (free DLC) >Pup Champs (puzzle) >Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping I'm still playing other lengthy games!!!

>>1365833 >>1365931 I watched a playthrough and looked fun. The one weak point I'd like to point out (having only watched its gameplay) is the voice acting.

I liked it. Like the first game, it could be accused of a certain lack of originality and of being short/easy, and in a few ways it feels like a repetition of the first game but it was enjoyable and there's been a noticeable step up in production quality.

>>1386069 >Duck Detective

>>1389756 The 1st game was surprisingly good It's a short, 1-case investigative game. very light hearted. fully voiced. like Sam & Max, except it's not stupidly hard with all the random stuff you need to do in random order.

>>1390059 Demos not out yet. It says June 5th on the thing.

>>1390059 fucking rougelite

>>1390059 Just from watching the trailers and gameplay footage, I can't fucking stand the music, it sounds like it's for a show aimed towards very young kids. >>1390192 So was Patapon 3. I've seen some speculate that why it was left out of the Patapon 1+2 collection.

>>1387095 The first game was decent, but considering the protagonist and the general atmosphere (not to mention the average modern adventure gamer is a woman or a cuck), I assumed the sequel would very easily dive head first into (((modern values))). If it's avoided that fate, I may give it a look.

>ctrl-f >no Aeruta Guess I'll take the opportunity to shill it then. Before I get into it, though, the game is Early Access. I'd estimate it to be about 75% done at this point (one goddess and a "final boss" left to go). Though the dev seems to make regular updates, listens to feedback, and I haven't noticed much in the way of delays, so I have a fairly high confidence it will finish development. The game itself is a sort of hybrid shop/town management with a side-scrolling action title. You play an cute fox girl looking to make her name in the Adventurer's Guild, but before she gets her license - she has to finish a noteworthy quest. This leads her to a small town where she accidentally breaks the oven of a loli-bear who's dream is to become the best (if only) baker in the world. So until the oven is fixed, you're on the hook for repairs to her shop. This involves heading off into dungeons to beat the shit out of monsters and certain environmental points in order to collect ingredients to use in breads. Once you've collected enough ingredients, it's time to open shop. Each day has certain types of bread that sell the best, but also provides bonuses for what you find in the field - so it's a decision between whether or not you'll get more ingredients, or take advantage of your ingredient inventory to make a ton of cash. Opening the shop starts a minigame. The loli-bear bakes the bread, which you have to take to the shelves for restock. as well as man the register. Customers will come in pick up what they want and take it to the register, where you play a simon-says minigame. Beating the minigame not only lets you get more sales done in a day - but increases the bonus customers are willing to pay. Also, during this - customers will leave trash on the floor which you have pick up in order to keep it clean and draw in more customers. Not to mention that, since the oven is broken, some the magic leaks out into the bread causing it to leap off the plate and you have to chase it down to collect it before restocking the shelves. Simple loop, but it can get hectic on busy days when you're trying to maximize sales. Thankfully you can occasionally recruit help from other characters you meet around town if you have a high enough friendship level with them. With the money you earn, you can invest into either fixing up the shop (and the town at large), or into character development - giving you better stats and more moves. Fixing up the town helps the bakery, as well as attracts new NPCs which can sell you badges (for combat effects) or rare ingredients - while fixing up the town makes your bakery more capable of higher end bread baking as well as attracting in more customers that have fatter wallets. Top all of that off with a cute and comfy aesthetic with a bit of humor. It's overall a pretty simple game that still needs a bit of work to pad out and polish up, but is still really enjoyable in it's incomplete state.

>>1391465 I have it on my wishlist but I don't play EA games, simply as

>>1365833 >subtitle-off being the default option Damn i haven't heard somebody get Offended(tm) at a lack of accessability since like 2015.

>The Siege and the Sandfox A unique, one of a kind Stealthvania game I’ve been waiting for this since forever since the release date just kept getting delayed, but it’s finally out. The art looks amazing Dialogues between characters are unvoiced, but your entire journey is fully narrated by a woman’s soft and heavy voice as you play through the game like in Voice of Cards, Little Misfortune and ICEY. Gameplay-wise, the narration is very informative as it informs you about when you’re about to enter/exit a stealth/safe zone where you have to stay alert or can lower your guard. I planned on continuing Erza this week, but I tried this game for no reason and got hooked. I beat the game in around 9 hours and I’m not very good at stealth (I hesitated a lot). So, not a long game. >Stealth This is a very casual stealth game. You get game over only when you got caught, not seen. You can easily run away after being detected as (most) enemy movement is restricted to a platform they’re currently on, as they (most of them) can’t chase vertically, horizontally, or even jump. If you do get caught, you’ll get sent back to the last checkpoint, and the checkpoint updates quite frequently, so no big deal. Enemy can detect you by vision or noise. You make noise by walking, running, landing and opening a door, while crouching is completely silent. There’s a visual indicator of your noise range. Your movement is more on the realistic-sluggish side, which obeys the laws of physics, like slight delay when starting a run or turning around, so not cartoonishly fluid. There’s no combat in this game and you can only stealthly knock enemy out. You can knock out regular guards, but not big guards, who often have door keys for you to steal. The stealth aspect in this game is very barebone. There are at most 3 guards on a single platform (most have 1-2), so you can easily knock them out one at a time while they’re separated, or simply run. This game is missing A LOT of stuff that are usually present in stealth games, like taking down enemy while hanging on a platform/ledge / from a hiding spot / from above as you fall, baiting enemy into moving to a certain spot by throwing objects/whistling, killing with ranged weapons, hiding a body so it doesn’t get spotted and many more. The stealth challenge in this game is mainly a matter of simple timing and platforming. Halfway into the game, I felt stealth difficulty stayed the same and the game progressively turned into a platformer over stealth. So, if you’re a hardcore stealth fan, this game’s probably going to disappoint you. >Metroidvania Traversal abilities: Wall Jump, Wall Run, Wall Climb, Rope Crawl, the spinning pole thing, Ground Slam, Lockpick and Glide (very late). There isn’t much backtracking as quests send you to new areas so you can explore new stuff naturally, and every time you have to backtrack, you’d have more convenient traversal abilities, so don’t worry about having to redo annoying stealth sections a lot. The world map is quite big, areas are well connected and unlocking shortcuts feels satisfying. There aren’t many collectibles. Just scrolls about the lore of the setting. The map function shows you the general outline of an area, but with no detail except for opened/locked doors. You can put a marker, but there’s no unique symbols to differentiate between different markers. >Minor Cons 1. Sometimes I just can’t jump high enough just by pressing the jump button, I had to try multiple time to do maximum height jump to reach the platform/wall. 2. The amount of platforming section where you have to do a long jump. It’s not hard, but if you fail and fall all the way down, more often than not, there’s no easy way to get back up, so you have to retrace your step, sometimes redo bunch of stealth sections. When I fell down, I just instantly pressed the “return to checkpoint” button. 3. Keyboard control is too left-hand heavy. You use WASD to move, E to interact, F to attack, Shift to run and Ctrl to crouch. Mouse is left unused and arrow keys are used to shift to look ahead, but you don’t really need to do this since the default camera is zoomed out enough to have plenty information on screen. >Conclusion This is a very newcomer friendly game for Metroidvania/Stealth fans who aren’t really fond of Stealth/Metroidvania in general, but want to have a taste. Unfortunately, I think it’s because the devs had to appease both audience, they can’t make either aspect too hardcore and as a result, there isn’t much depth into the Stealth/MV aspect, but it’s still a decently fun combination of the two. 7.5/10. Recommended. I hope this game is successful enough, so we get a spiritual successor. Maybe make it more challenging next time?

Quick reviews of some games I dropped this week >Virballs A stage-based 3D third-person shooter. You play as a Ball Robot fighting off Virus Robots infecting planets. iirc there are 6 planets with 6 stages each, so that's 36 stages in total. You absorb virus mobs monster and turn them into unique bullets you can use (Kirby style), navigate through the stage (basic platforming sometimes) and fight a boss. I've only completed 2nd planets before dropping it because it got repetitive and boring, but the difficulty is non-existent as virus mobs always drop tons of HP that fully heals you and a boss always spawns a lot of virus mobs for you to kill (HP++) and absorb (bullets++). I think this would be a great game for kids, but I don't think kids (or their parents) buy PC/indie games, so... this game ended up as a MEGA FLOP with only 12 reviews on Steam. sad. >Last Vanguard I really can't into a shooting-based metroidvania so I dropped after an hour LOL. Checkpoints are rare, you drop money when you die, dodge rolling doesn't have i-frame (so far). Movement feels fluid like Hollow Knight (of course) as HK is every indie dev's idol.

>>1387095 >short I started doubting this assessment and went to check some classic pnc games on howlongtobeat and most of them are listed at around 6-8 hours. The longest ones like Gabriel Knight or Broken Sword being 10. Which sounded surprising to me, I could have sworn they were like double that length but I guess they felt longer because the puzzles were harder and I spent more time being stuck. And I probably wasn't very good at these games back then. So yeah if we go by raw playtime estimation and don't account for getting stuck in moon logic the Kathy Rain games are normal length for the genre. If you're gonna play them you should turn off the notebook hint system in the options, these games don't really need it.

>Coneru: Dimension Girl Japanese indie platformer with its own twist being timeloops changing the stages/enemies every 4 stages. In the final timeloop, if you die, you lose all your coins/weapons and start from level 1 with warps available. Hated this part, but the rest of the game was pretty alright. Not good enough for me to power through the coin grind to get better weapons, get energy drinks, and head to the final boss to attempt winning. Soundtrack was good, art was great. A good amount of minor bugs. Most weapons are the exact same with one new moveset. I personally liked the blue shoe one and magic girl wand. 6/10 Anyone got any good platformers that aren't "roguelites"? Bonus points if it takes MMX elements, but any good platformer will do. I already played Gravity Circuit, Strider remake, Super Alloy Ranger, Aggelos and Monster Boy. I played a bunch of other ones but they were below average, i.e >Steel Assault >Tevi >Cathedral >30xx >Cyber Shadow >Berserk Boy >Iconoclasts and some others I can't remember.

>>1416350 How would you rate it out of five?

>>1416354 Divide by 2 so 3/5

>>1416357 Ah damn, that's kinda disappointing.

>>1416379 I'm a very, very picky person when it comes to platformers so I would at least try the demo and see what you think. Or just pirate it if you're tight on money.

>>1416350 Oh thats out? I've been following the artist for a long time now, happy to see he was able to get it to release!

great metroidvania

>>1416350 >Corneru on my wishlist, waiting to be out on a pirate site. I've played most games you listed there. Good action platformers that aren't rogue/metroidvania that I've played and rated at least 7/10: >Nuclear Blaze >Soda Crisis >Hardcore Mecha >Bzzzzt >Symphonia >MainFrames >Code Bunny (megaman-like) >Ninja Ming >Metal Unit >American Arcadia >Cogen: Sword of Rewind (megaman-like) And of course any Gunvolt game And you might like Bat Boy (I don't) since you like Berserk Boy

>>1417480 >on my wishlist, waiting to be out on a pirate site. Pirating indie games is nigger behavior.

>>1418456 Looks good but what were they thinking with that music

>>1417480 Code Bunny looks good. Didn't know MainFrames came out. Cogen is just sitting in my library, one day I'll actually play it. Thanks for the recs.

>Trials of Innocence Just finished this surprisingly great Ace Attorney clone. It took me around 25 hours to finish all 5 chapters (6 cases). Unlike Tyrion Cuthbert that innovated on AA formula with the Fantasy & Magic setting, or Murders on the Yangtze River with its 3D free roaming and out of courtroom trials; this one is more of a pure AA clone. Apparently, this is a remake of a mobile game made in 2015. >The Positives (+) + The art quality is very good with its charming character design, backgrounds, sprites and animation + Interconnected Cases. This game has a Grand Plot where ALL the cases are connected to it, not a single filler case. + The ending is conclusive with a sequel-bait post-ending scene. + Important side-characters like fellow Attorney, Detectives and Prosecutors are COMPETENT and ACT PROFESSIONAL. They always stick to finding out the truth of the cases since the beginning of the trial, unlike those assholes like Edgeworth, Mei, Godot and other assholes in AA who always insist that Defendant is guilty, even though they’re obviously not just to spite Phoenix. The Prosecutors here are seriously amazing. I love them all, especially the green haired dude. + Each case has insane, mind boggling plot twists about the revelation of criminal acts, character identity and motivation. + Most NPCs aren’t just throwaway characters. The majority of them play a role that’s relevant to the Grand Plot, whether it’s minor or major. Because of this, a lot of characters re-appear in subsequent cases; some play a major role, appear briefly, appear in a flashback or even in the post-credits sequel-bait epilogue. >The Negatives (-) - EN translation is very stiff and rough as it was originally in Chinese and translated by the writer himself (Chinese) - There are 3 language voice acting, CN, JP and EN for “Objection!” “Hold it!” stuff. However all the voice actors are Chinese and they’re VERY bad at pronouncing JP and EN words, so it’s better to stick to Chinese voice since it’s the least shit - Chinese voice acting is very amateurish and shit - Not as many exaggerated comedy like in AA (there are still some). - This is subjective, but I think Cases are a bit too overcomplicated with how they were designed that it’s hard to believe that the killer planned AND executed all of that - Another subjective point, I dislike how in some cases, we obtain the most crucial evidence through pure coincidence (us or other NPCs just randomly stumbled upon it) or killer’s negligence (randomly dropped evidence that’d implicate them) - Some of Cross-Examinations, even in earlier Chapters are really difficult with so many options to choose (pic 2). I’d still give this game a 7.5/10 despite its many flaws simply because the writing is very fun and engaging, always making me want to read more. It became one of the few games I felt bad pirating that I ended up buying it. Very recommended, especially if you’re into AA games. Now it’s a waiting game for the sequel... and Tyrion’s sequel too, hopefully soon.

>>1427520 >/v/tuber Dive into a woodchipper tranny.

>>1273169 >>1352199 Turns out the dev is a proud furry that thinks lolicons are perverts >>1435803

>>1437532 It's technically not even a lolicon game, just a game that happens to have a little girl as the protagonist, the only marginally lewd characters are all monster women with ample assets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijxzFxEmpJc Goddamn this trailer looks so good. Nice aesthetic + very creative MV abilities >dimensional slash >warp portal

>>1437532 >Turns out the dev is a proud furry that thinks lolicons are perverts.