Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
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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.
- Baba Is You (Finland) [e: forgot]
- Chants of Senaar (France)
- Dead Cells (France)
- Disco Elysium (Estonia)
- Drova (Germany)
- Monster Train (Netherlands)
- Roadwarden (Poland)
Just dropping that, while disco elysium is a top 10 favourite game for me, corporate suits stole the IP and none of the money goes to the creator
Pirate that shit boy
I really enjoyed Chants of Sennaar. Heaven's Vault is also worth checking out for those that liked it; it's by an independent British team, the language puzzles are similar but (in my opinion) a bit more involved, and there's more narrative & character stuff going on. It is not as smooth a gameplay experience as Chants, but it's manageable to get cool puzzles
Thanks for the recommendation, it's even on GOG! Saved to my wishlist.
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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
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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.
I think more people need to be aware that the Factorio director is a piece of shit.
I highly recommend Satisfactory instead, which is by a small(-ish) Swedish dev team. (It also has much chiller vibes than Factorio, which I think more people will appreciate.)
edit: to those downvoting, please feel free to reply and explain, since I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you disagree with.
God damn it. And thank you!
Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German
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
I spent 2-3 hours on Noita, but it never clicked for me, sadly. Loved Baba, added it to my post as well.
Same for me. Or well... I got like 300 hours but I am still a noob. Been watching others play it for probably over 2000h. Game is pretty deep.
I recommend watching a stream or YouTube video from FuryForged or DunkOrSlam. Game is wild once you get the hang of it.
That's fair, I can definitely see why it would be an acquired taste
- Blasphemous 1 and 2
- STALKER
- Disco Elysium (awesome game, but the studio got into shady stuff and the game creators were booted. Just pirate it).
- Commandos
- Tzar
- Imperivm
- Tropico 3
- Noita
- Satisfactory
- My summer car/my winter car (I personally have not played them but they have good reviews)
Not very indie:
- Europa Universalis
- Crusader Kings
- Hearts of Iron
- the Witcher 1, 2, 3 (the 3rd one is the best)
- Cyberpunk 2077
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.
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CrossCode (Germany), charming 2D Action RPG where you play a virtual MMO.
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Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won't even host on Steam
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The studio developing Ori and the Blind Forest is Austrian if I remember correctly.
You can always play your AAA games if you pirate them
daedalic Made some nice point and click games, loved deponia. they are German but now belong to French NACON.
Why yes, buying indie games from non-US studios are a fantastic way to support alternative modes of production.
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There's world outside of US and Europe. Why is there any need to post this here?
You're doing the same thing current US administration is doing. Global cooperation is the way to go.
Agreed. I hate how European communities (here on lemmy) ignore the rest of the world when boycotting the US. We could be uniting against it but I guess people prefer bolstering nationalism and domestic trade?
Because the problem is that EU is dependent on the US. Switching to be dependent on another state is not the goal. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not the solution.
It's not nationalistic for states to rely on internal products. And BTW, Europe is trying to go opensource. I'd rather have opensource than foreign closed source, regardless of whether it's Pakistan, Australia, or Nigeria. And other states should also be going opensource, not just European ones.
Everyone should be dumping closed source - especially US closed source, surveillance-ware.
Don't be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.
Anyway, it's not like Europe is going to make their own chips. They're still reliant on Taiwan and China for something fundamental to current day.
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Vintage Stories has its own launcher and also native Linux build. Its a more slow progress and survival focused voxel game and I find it immensely satisfying playing with friends. Many tool crafting mechanics are very similar to real life, also food making has debth, there's crop rotation and just so many little things. It was founded by the Austrians and the company sits in Latvia. It has a very international dev pool also with many from the US but I feel like that shouldn't be an excluding factor. Way better than buying some game from Steam from an American AAA Studio
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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
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.
I'm currently playing Death Howl by The Outer Zone (Denmark). It's an indie turn-based game with interesting deck building mechanics, I highly recommend it.
Fights in tight spaces
But enough about your kinks.
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