Your Top 5 Indie Games of All Time

[Deleted member 56752]

Only rule is they have to be independent games. No publishers.

Mine are (top 3 are in order):
1. Guacamelee 1/2
2. Firewatch
3. Oxenfree
4. Gone Home
5. Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice.

 

[HououinKyouma]

1) Undertale
2) Hollow Knight
3) Celeste
4) Stardew Valley
5) Doki Doki Literature Club

I still need to play Cuphead and Ori. I'm sure those two would be high up, just looking at gameplay alone.

 

[Platy]

OP started it cheating by putting guacamelee 1 and 2 on the same slot ¬¬

Celeste
Hollow Knight
Enter the Gungeon
Full Metal Furies
Towerfall

 

[GMM]

No order:

Braid
Fez
Limbo
Hotline Miami
The Binding of Isaac

 

[Cess007]

- Rocket League
- Guacamelee 2
- Hollow Knight
- Fez
- What Remains of Edith Finch

Does RL count? It was an indie back when it released, no?

 

[Fat4all]

Undertale
Spelunky
Cave Story
The Witness
Papers, Please

 

[Fat4all]

Does RL count? It was an indie back when it released, no?

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id say so, same with Minecraft

 

[BadWolf]

Transistor
Transistor
Transistor
Transistor
Transistor

 

[Bitanator]

Impossible, once I have 5 listed I need to have 10, then 15.


Dwarf Fortress
Yume Nikki
Cave Story
Hollow Knight
Minecraft
Braid
Binding of Isaac

 

[Xelfs]

I really can't rank them so :
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Night in the Woods
- Celeste
- Hollow Knight
- Pyre

 

[RKasa]

1. Cave Story
2. The Beginner's Guide
3. Analogue: A Hate Story
4. Gorogoa
5. Audiosurf 2

 

[McScroggz]

1. Undertale
2. Celeste
3. Shovel Knight
4. To the Moon
5. Owlboy

Whenever I have time to play Hollow Knight fully I'm 100% sure it will go on my list.

EDIT: I forgot Transistor was indie...yeah that's in my top 5 sorry Owlboy. You were a hoot.

 

[Aaron D.]

Gone Home
Star Traders: Frontiers
RimWorld
Viscera Cleanup Detail
Factorio
Kerbal Space Program

 

[kiich]

1.Undertale
2.INSIDE
3.VA-11 Hall-A
4.Into the Breach
5.Transistor

 

[Deleted member 1074]

Hollow Knight
Undertale
Dead cells
terraria
Freedom Planet

 

[SlimeKnight]

Slay the Spire
FTL
Undertale
Celeste
Return of the Obra Dinn

Edit: Does Her Story count? If so, we'll cheat and make it six.

 

[coryschmitz]

Hollow Knight
Sworcery
Fez
The Witness
Inside

 

[janusff]

In no order

Spelunky
n++
Hollow Knight
Papers Please
The Witness

 

[lord_of_flood]

I know how I'd rank 3 of them, but I'm not totally sure about anything else. I'd put Katana Zero up here too, but it's technically published by Devolver Digital so...

1. Celeste
2. Shovel Knight
3. Dead Cells

 

[Deleted member 56752]

- Rocket League
- Guacamelee 2
- Hollow Knight
- Fez
- What Remains of Edith Finch

Does RL count? It was an indie back when it released, no?

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RL counts. I'm OP so I'm da boss. You're ok my dude lol. Also, Edith finch is one f'ed up game

 

[Deleted member 49804]

Path of Exile
Counterstrike
Tactical OPS
Minecraft
Dota
Rocket League

 

[kimbaka]

Lots of games I haven't been able to play yet but from what I have played:

Furi
Cuphead
The Witness
To the Moon
SOMA

 

[Xeteh]

Spelunky
Hollow Knight
Path of Exile
Celeste
Dota 2 (that counts, right?)

 

[Numb]

OP started it cheating by putting guacamelee 1 and 2 on the same slot ¬¬

Celeste
Hollow Knight
Enter the Gungeon
Full Metal Furies
Towerfall

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Towerfall was some serious fun early this gen when there was nothing else
If it launched with online things would have gotten out of hand with time put in

 

[Fulminator]

-Binding of Isaac
-Dead Cells
-Risk of Rain
-Hyper Light Drifter
-Hollow Knight

 

[Thera]

Only 5 is impossible to do! I only know Celeste is the first.

 

[Chopin the Third]

Of the ones I've played:

1. Journey
2. Transistor
3. Rocket League
4. Inside
5. Sound Shapes

 

[BizzyBum]

Hollow Knight
Undertale
Guacamelee 2
Shovel Knight
SteamWorld Dig 2

 

[Big G]

1. The Witness
2. Hollow Knight
3. Outer Wilds
4. What Remains of Edith Finch
5. SOMA

 

[Zukuu]

Slay the Spire is definitely up there. GOTY 2019 right there.

 

[Eggiem]

Looks like most of you hate Minecraft. xD

 

[Deleted member 7883]

No particular order

N++
Furi
Spelunky HD
Enter the Gungeon
Hotline Miami

Honorable Mention to Minecraft.

 

[Haze]

Braid
What Remains of Edith Finch
Undertale
Hyper Light Drifter
Fez

 

[TheMrPliskin]

This isn't really a set order but it would probably be some combination of:

VA-11 Hall-a
Undertale
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Cross Code
Killing Floor

 

[rsfour]

Slay the Spire
Enter the Gungeon
Path of Exile
Papers Please
Risk of Rain

 

[Mackmannen]

1. Creeper World series
2. Factorio

Celeste
Fez
Inside

 

[Captain of Outer Space]

Looks like most of you hate Minecraft. xD

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Mojang/Minecraft has been owned by Microsoft longer than it was an independent game.

 

[Cess007]

RL counts. I'm OP so I'm da boss. You're ok my dude lol. Also, Edith finch is one f'ed up game

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Good. Because, RL is one of the games I've played the most in my whole life. It deserves the top spot in my list.

Also, yeah, WRoEF is fucked up, and I loved it. I didn't expect it to like it so much.

 

[Deleted member 56752]

Spelunky
Hollow Knight
Path of Exile
Celeste
Dota 2 (that counts, right?)

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i think the original dota counts. DOTA 2 was done by valve IIRC

 

[Xeteh]

i think the original dota counts. DOTA 2 was done by valve IIRC

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Yeah and Valve is independent.

 

[pswii60]

If we're talking indies since they were called indies, then in no particular order:

Celeste
Ori and the Blind Forest (indie-ish)
The Talos Principle
Hollow Knight
FEZ
+ Axiom Verge (if Ori doesn't count)

But obviously back in the day most things were technically indie from Paradroid to Lemmings to Doom. So I'd have a hell of a job deciding on five if we included that.

 

[megalowho]

Fez
Spelunky
Undertale
The Stanley Parable
Hypnospace Outlaw

Fez at the top, the rest unranked. Tough to narrow down to 5. Can't recommend Hypnospace Outlaw enough, just a few months old but definitely belongs in the conversation.

 

[Moms_Spaghetti]

1. Celeste
2. Hollow Knight
3. Steamworld Dig 2
4. Inside
5. Hotline Miami

 

[Deleted member 56752]

Yeah and Valve is independent.

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ah. My bad. I didn't know they didn't divide up the games with specific teams of devs. It'll be weird seeing the new Campo Santo game be "Developed by Valve"

 

[Bernkastel]

1. Hollow Knight
2. The Binding of Isaac
3. The Witness
4. Shovel Knight
5. Undertale

 

[nachum00]

Hotline Miami

 

[Xeteh]

ah. My bad. I didn't know they didn't divide up the games with specific teams of devs. It'll be weird seeing the new Campo Santo game be "Developed by Valve"

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It is definitely cheating but by definition Valve is an independent game developer. I'm totally honestly putting a game I adore by an obvious independent billion dollar game developer on my list.

 

[Delroy]

Hollow Knight
Monolith
Rogue Legacy
10000000
Monument Valley

Tough to pick a top 5. Games like Agent A, Shovel Knight, Abzu, Fez, and Dead Cells are tough to leave off the list.

 

[grang]

<-------Spelunky
Rocket League
Binding of Isaac
Golf Story
Cuphead

 

[Slai-Man]

A lot of people didn't play Braid and Super Meat Boy for any reason? or everyone keep forgetting them? no third reason.

- Super Meat Boy
- Cuphead
- Dead Cells
- Braid
- Guacamelee