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Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.
Yup, just pirate it at this point. I'll update that in the list.
mind adding My Summer Car/My Winter Car to the list for visibility?
Yeah, no prob
No mention of Dead Cells? Play Dead Cells.
Great game but Motion Twin are dicks.
I haven't heard, what did they do?
Long story short, Motion Twin gave the game to Evil Empire around 2019 (iirc) to handle its development, so they are the ones who made every update and expansion from the first dlc onwards.
After like 5 years of DC being developed by EE they released the "the end is near" update, but said that it was not the last update and that they were working on more stuff, including wrapping up the story.
Then Motion Twin announced a new game, and shortly after they cancelled any work in DC. The goodbye posts included some shutouts to the new game, so the cancellation of DC was seen as trying to kill any competition to their new game. One ex-dev said that MT were being a bunch of dicks to EE and claimed that the cancellation was indeed to give more attention to the new game.
You can always play your AAA games if you pirate them
Owlcat Games - they made two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, some of my favorite CRPGs in recent memory. Their latest, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, is supposed to be great as well, but I haven't had the time to do more than check out the character creation so far.
The studio developing Ori and the Blind Forest is Austrian if I remember correctly.
Make sure to buy on GoG of possible.
Just played through Crisol.
Gorgeous game. Gothic Spanish style.
$17 on steam right now.
Play it in native Spanish. The English dub is terrible.
Mix between silent hill. Resident evil village.
Mostly puzzles and traversing areas. Light combat action.
Has a really unique combat mechanic. Your amo is made from your blood.
Also it's Eldritch horror. That caught me by surprise and was unexpected based on the trailers I saw.
Took me like 13 hrs to play.
Not a perfect game but def worth $17.
Story could have been developed more but no apparent plot holes.
Probably budget was a limiting factor there. https://youtu.be/5ZjZTQ5-xpM
Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
Interesting question, here are some EU-made indie games I've enjoyed, in no particular order. I had to look all of these up, I didn't play them because they were European or anything.
Oh! A friend of mine (that I haven't seen for quite a while) is a Drova dev! Never expected to see it listed here. I'm super happy
I'm playing it right now on the Steamdeck, it's a lot of fun! 20 hours in but it still feels like there's a lot to explore (skill issue maybe).
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.
Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I've never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.
Noita and Baba Is You are both brilliant games from a few Finnish people. Baba Is You is a puzzlegame involving rearranging the rules of the puzzle you are in. It will make your brain hurt in the good way. Noita is a roguelike in which you are a witch and you build wands with the spells you find along the way. You can make ludicrously powerful wands with some creativity, and the game is ruthless enough that it basically demands you do so.
I've already mentioned Heaven's Vault elsewhere here, so I'll plug A Highland Song from the same British indie team too. It's an exploration / climbing game with some simple and really cathartic rhythm sections. The visuals and music are gorgeous
