Re: Recommended Indie Games
Previously mentioned SOMA is at a new highest discount on Steam -80%/$5.99
What Remain of Edith Finch -35%/$12.99
Hollow Knight -34%/$9.89
Previously mentioned SOMA is at a new highest discount on Steam -80%/$5.99
- Again play with the new safe mode for friendlier monsters. Playing hide-and-seek and avoiding monsters gets in the way of what makes SOMA so great. Explore, soak up the atmosphere, and enjoy arguably the best Sci-fi story in gaming.
What Remain of Edith Finch -35%/$12.99
- In my top 10 this year. Only 3 hours, but it had me thoroughly entranced from start to finish. An adventure of family despair. The way this inventively uses gameplay to connect you to a character and story would only be possible in this medium.
Hollow Knight -34%/$9.89
- Another in my top 10. There's a lot of "Metroidvania" games, but this one is definitely in the class with the very best. I feel most of these games stumble a bit on either combat or exploration, but Hollow Knight does both well. The latter it does better than any other one that I've played because of the way the map system works. It doesn't auto-fill, and you have to find a Cartographer and rest at a bench before it does. This could seem like an annoyance, but it works here and adds to the sense of exploration. The lack of immediate information is helped by guidance through landmarks, sign-posting, and NPCs.
Story and lore is done in a very Souls-like way, and done so in the best possible way outside of those games themselves. It's a beautiful, dark, charming world with bugs and insects.
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