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[โ€“] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And the devs of Helldivers II are apparently Swedish? Yesterday I suddenly found out that Dead Cells is actually French.

The European gaming industry seems, from an outsider, to be doing some good work.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear about Coffee Stain Studios (Goat Simulator, Satisfactory), Paradox Interactive (I'm not gonna name any games lol, they're literally a genre unto themselves), Iron Gate Studio (Valheim), Ghost Ship Games (Deep Rock Galactic)...

Oh and if you're into mobile games at all, maybe you've heard of Rovio (Angry Birds), Supercell (Clash games) or King (Candy Crush)

And this is all just Nordic countries. There's a lot of stuff coming out of Poland (CD Projekt Red), UK (Rockstar North), France (Ubisoft's been kinda meh the last decade+, but if you only play every 3rd or 4th iteration of Assassin's Creed, they're still kinda fun) and if you consider Iceland to be European which it is, that's where EVE Online is from!

We have a very healthy video game industry, spread across many countries, with many developers with their own unique styles. Indie, AA, AAA. It's lovely.

[โ€“] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Of course I knew about CD Projekt Red and Paradox. Somehow the titles I mentioned caught me by surprise.

About France, you could have named Arkane. They did Dishonored which was really really good.

Only Italy does not seem to have a gaming industry to speak of.

On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells (free right now in the Epic Store for Android, though it's well worth paying for)? Though I have to admit I'm kinda addicted to the open source goodness of Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Likely not made in Europe, but so good, and you can get then straight from F-Droid.

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells

Well I wouldn't know! 12 or 13 years ago when I still played mobile games, angy birds was the shit lol

[โ€“] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

All this talk about France and no mention of Sandfall. Their Clair obscur was without a doubt the best new ip this year.

Also Belgium hits hard with Larian.