Tired of repetitive mainstream bullshit? Sick of people circlejerking over the same five indie games? Want to increase your knowledge and widen your perspective of the medium if you're a total dork like me? Here's the place to find and recommend games! Just list a couple games you like that aren't well-known and jot a description down as well to explain why other people should care. I'll start:
Valdis Story: Abyssal City - This is a solid ARPG/Metroidvania released by Endless Fluff Games. It's surprisingly ambitious for a game from a small indie team, with four playable characters, stats-leveling, skill trees, a magic system, decent enemy variety, and a number of bosses, all presented with a unique art style that I personally enjoyed very much. There quite a few rough edges (as is to be expected of a game in this niche), but overall, this is a very good game, and I highly recommend it.
Hypnospace Outlaw - I feel like this is more dubious than the other games on this list and may be a good bit more popular, but screw it. It definitely deserves a recommendation. This is a faux internet simulator, where you are a moderator on a Netscape inspired version of the internet, in your virtual sleep virtually, in 1999. It's really fricking brilliant and I can't emphasize enough just how well the creators of this game managed to pull that concept off, with a fair number of ridiculous yet believable webpages, a great interface, and fantastic intertwining narrative threads throughout. Great stuff.
Toree 3D/Toree 2 - These are two fun 3D platformers that should be bought as a combo package because A: They are priced the same and B: Toree 2 is essentially just an extra level pack for Toree 3D. I've got 8.7 hours between the two and can attest that they are well worth it to get.
Broken Reality - A vaporwave adventure game with solid aesthetics and fun exploration. Don't really know what else to say beyond I had a good time with it and, since you're on this site, you probably would to. It evokes the same nonsensical internet "vibe".
Eversion - Fun little 2D platformer with some unique mechanics. What's not to love?
Know By Heart - Ice Pick Lodge's woefully overlooked latest release. It's a narrative game about letting go of the past that pulls you into that narrative full force. Play this game.
Also, not obscure, but I've been playing Tunic and it's very, very good. Highly recommend that as well.
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Creeper World 3, interesting take on the tower defense genre, you use your towers to expand and take over territory until you can beat the level. 4 has been released but I don't think it's as fun as 3
Vampire Survivors Fun game that doesn't take a whole lot of focus or energy, you just have to dodge enemies while the game attacks for you and you choose upgrades
Gunpoint tactical 2d strategy game about breaking into buildings and killing people and rewiring security systems, neat mechanics and fun
Once the finished version is released, Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, you make and sell potions and gather ingredients through a few different minigames, you have to discover what each thing does and figure out the most efficient way to make potions. I played the initial release and it was fun, once the final version is out it should be pretty good.
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neurodivergenta frequent rdrama user:Baba Is You, There's some redditor circlejerking about this one but it's still a good puzzle game, you push sentence fragments around to change the ways levels work and it can get pretty difficult.
All of the Zachtronics game collection, they're all puzzle games that start relatively easy and end up very difficult. Each one has very different mechanics and keep you thinking. I think the best ones are Inifinfactory and Opus Magnum.
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I've wasted so much time playing SpaceChem. I never beat it (the guy who made it wrote an article about how only 2% of players finished the game) but I got pretty close. I put it down after spending like 3 or 4 hours on a boss battle.
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CW3 also has a ton of player made content, the levels that involve flipping emitters is really neat.
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Creeper World 4 has cool mods that turn it into a puzzle shooter.
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