cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43119841
Hello, i was wondering if there are any good indie games on steam to try out. Can be free or paid, i don’t mind if there’s no native linux build either (i play stuff with wine/proton anyways lol) and i don’t mind the genre. I’ve been thinking of trying something new as of recent so i thought i might ask it here.
Thanks!
Baldur’s gate 3.
And before y’all start downvoting an indie game has nothing to do with budget. As long as it’s not made by a major publisher it is considered indie. Just like Mixtape and Expedition 33 are both indie games right along with schedule 1 and balatro.
Just don’t play mixtape. It’s terrible.
As much as I love Larian and BG3, you’d have to have a really narrow definition of “major” if Larian isn’t a major studio since at least DOS2.
It’s never been a major studio. They make a very specific kind of game they publish themselves or through a small publisher. So they’re by definition indie. In fact many people call larian AAA indie.
Personally, I call such studios AA. They are too large to be indies, yet to small to be AAA.
Expedition 33 creators, for example, would also fall under AA, even though they’re a very young studio.
Indie, to me, would be a studio of a couple people, of a one single team. Like with the creators of Hollow Knight. So, it’s about internal structure rather than budgets or involvement of publishers.
Well. Luckily there’s already an established definition of the word indie.
Which is?
I’m asking for 2 reasons: 1st is that I simply don’t know which one you’re talking about as I’ve seen different interpretations of that word. 2nd is that I don’t think people would be arguing as much if the definition was that clear-cut.
I already defined it in my first post.
But here it is again: an indie game is any game made by a none-major publisher.
Examples of major publishers: Activision/Blizzard, Ubisoft, Sony.
Examples of non-major publishers: Larian Studios, Annapurna Interactive, Playstack.
An indie game has nothing to do with budget or how many people developed the game. It is exclusively referring to the publisher.
I just don’t understand how Expedition 33 can be considered indie. They literally have a publisher.
Indie games have publishers. Just like indie bands have labels.
Most of what we’ve called indie has had publishers, which is how we’ve heard of those games in the first place.