Thread 723825110

Are you enjoying any of these recent successful indie games?

Megabonk
Cloverpit
Ball x Pit
Escape from Duckov

>>723825110 (OP)
I haven't played any of them and won't ever play any of them. Instead I choose to seethe at the fact I'll never make a game that sells anywhere near this.

>>723825110 (OP)
no i don't like gambling

How does the duck game have like 250k people playing it with 500k sold and ball pit has 30k with 300k something seems wrong

>>723825110 (OP)
Oh yes, I'm definitely enjoying this brutal mogging.

>>723825110 (OP)
>Megabonk
It's just 3D Vampire Survivors. Got bored of it really quickly.
>CloverPit
Got bored real quickly too, feels way more RNG dependent than other games in its genre.
>Ball X Pit
It's okay, not amazing. Just okay.
>Escape From Duckov
I don't play PvP games, plus it's memeslop.

>>723825110 (OP)
Megabonk is literally only one indie game in that list.

>>723825561
fucking lol

>>723825653
Duckov is PvE, and it's not memeslop it quirky chungus, know the difference.

>>723825110 (OP)
Yeah. These Indies and most Indies remind me of the early PS1, PS2/Xbox Era where AA Games were over abundant and it was a nice mix of both good, weird and meh experiences but variety of quick fun was king.

>>723825653
duckov is a single player game

>>723825653
Wrong on all accounts, impressive

>>723825892
>These Indies and most Indies remind me of the early PS1, PS2/Xbox Era
Way to out yourself as someone who never played PS2 games.

>>723825659
Yeah for some reason people equate low budget with indie. Duckov is edited by bilibili of all things, I haven't gone there but I suppose it's getting HEAVILY shilled in their algorithm or frontpage.

>>723826090
Just checked. Still hilarious that Duckov blew the free Arc Raiders test out of the waters considering how every western eceleb is shilling it.

>>723825110 (OP)
I played a bit of Megabonk. It's fine, but lacks any meaningful progression for me. Even the metaprogression you would expect from a roguelike is very weak.

>>723825337
Gambling but the house doesn't always win, what's not to love?

>>723825659
Nononono, you can't let people know that Devolver is a public corpocuck company for like two or three years now! It's still totally indie!
>the term indie gets strained further, soon we'll be calling Nintendo indie

>>723825110 (OP)
I don't follow indieshit at all.

>>723826394
What the fuck is a Duckov. Indie games are getting gayer by the day

While I'm glad indies can succeed I don't like any of these. Maybe Ball x Pit. Megabonk was meh and cloverpit is just slots. I liked Silksong way more.

>>723827279
It's an extraction shooter, with ducks.

>>723827458
The race to the bottom is simply the natural state of any environment where anyone can create and publish a product for profit without any actual expertise. I'm not going to pretend like early indie games like 'Splosion Man or Geometry Wars were "inspired masterpieces", but I think there was more thought and creativity put into their production than
>Vampire Survivors clone #7,311
>gambling simulator disguised as a game (distinct from Vampire Survivors clones)
>roguelite deckbuilder #10,810
>we ripped off a successful game because we don't have any actual ideas #15,094
This new wave of indies just feels so fucking transparently profit-oriented and cynical that I can't bring myself to care about them at all. It's been like this for years, but it's only going to accelerate more and more with the rise of AI. Buckle up.

I don't even really consider games like these and Silksong to even be in the same category, they're just completely different entities.

>>723825110 (OP)
I don't like the genres of any of those games, so I had already put on ignore half of them.

>>723825110 (OP)
>popularized megabonk and ball x pit
how can one kiwi man be so influential

>>723825110 (OP)
I wasn't feeling megabonk until I figured out how to properly bunny hop / ski / etc. Now I wish I could do that movement tech in RoR2 and it makes me sad.

>>723829292
Don't worry Hoopoo is ruining Deadlock at the moment.

>>723825110 (OP)
Megabonk is for kids. Endless Alice is the real man's game.

>>723829059
If it'll make you feel any better, a lot of mainstream or successful indies aren't really... indie. So many of them are published by multimillion dollar companies, many of them public or owned by other larger companies, that they begin to tread into the A or AA category of games. And if given the chance, any of them will start doing the same corpo shit that AAAs are doing.
If you want actual indies, you gotta go digging for it.

>>723825110 (OP)
megabonk is the fakest shit ever this shit was made by some popular youtuber and shilled by other popular youtubers

>>723829151
megabonk was made by some guy with like a million fucking subscribers

>>723831483
or it had a popular demo the last next fest and was coasting off that?

>>723831556
A million subs on youtube means nothing, primarily because of bots.

>>723831974
he has 3.6 million and his most popular videos have 10-20million views each

>>723825110 (OP)
buy an ad

>>723825110 (OP)
>Games that are essentially mobile games
KEKAROOOOO

>>723825653
>Ball X Pit is... *shudders* o-okay-ish *coughs up blood*

Stop being so fuckin' miserable and admit a game is good. It won't kill you.

>>723825110 (OP)
>all this reheated slop
pc gaymers have no soul

>>723825924
>>723825857
damn I might actually check it now

>>723833467
>>723832443
Why did PC gaming go from RPGs, strategy games and fps to mobile tier gambleslop?

>>723832578
Literally returned it after 15 minutes. Average IQ is dropping every year and retards like you are why.

I don't buy games made by Chinese developers and Chinese publishers.

>>723833638
It's wild, we should have 10 BG3s every single year, instead people want more mobile rogue slop

I keep hearing cloverpit is mid game but i want to play another game like shotgun roulette except longer. games with an industrial feel and techno music.

I wish people actually bought good indie games.

>>723825110 (OP)
>Megabonk
garbage
>Cloverpit
garbage
>Ball x Pit
garbage
>Escape from Duckov
didn't play it.

>>723833638
because the masses are asses and low effort repetitive shit sells. Most people can't handle playing crpgs.

>>723833979
make a million subs yt channel and make videos about them

>One of the reviews for Escape from Duckov is bitching about Silksong being hard
So Duckov fucking sucks, huh

>>723833758
What, anon, are you telling me you don't like flashing lights everywhere and popus telling you "you won!"? Fucking insolent chud!

I was going to buy megabonk till i heard it cost zero to make. it should be five bucks at best.

>>723834070
No.

no they're all shallow boring games made for retards

>>723834190
Its literally just pathfinding set to a nauseum. You can watch any video and see that's literally all there is to the game.

>>723834234
them keep coping lmao

>>723833782
>play kino
>improve social credit score
sounds like a win-win situation to me

What is even the fucking appeal of extraction shooters

>>723825653
>It's just 3D Vampire Survivors.
Explains why a Jamaican Chink Jew I know is into it.

>>723834358
this looks boring as fuck

>>723834460
Looter shooter with actually important loot instead of +3% damage to undead on weekdays between 3-5pm

Is ballpit any good or just fotm?

>>723834103
You're being facetious, but /v/ unironically sucks off Risk of Rain 2 even though it's the same exact shit but somehow even worse.

>>723833979
Such as?

>>723835018
Peripeteia

>>723835079
>early access
>1600 reviews
it's doing fine

>>723825857
>it's not memeslop it quirky chungus
i love this board.

>>723835140
>EA
>indie of the year 2022
HOLY LMAOOOOO

>>723834103
got this for free. this is how long i lasted before boredom kicked in.

>>723835079
there's more than 2 buttons, which is problem for the modern audience.

>>723825110 (OP)
Arcadey minimal effort single note indie games aren't my thing. They're pretty much the single player experience of friendslop. Like they were made entirely to give content to streamers.

like megabonk / vampire survivors, finished them both

like cloverpit, but it gets shitty relatively quickly

ball x pit didn't click for me, don't like it at all

>>723833638
People always bitch about consoles holding back games, yet all the big indie successes happen to be games that run on potatos and all big budget releases get dragged for not being able to run.

>>723825502
Like 90% of Duckov's sales are in China while Ball x Pit is more spread out between regions. Also Ball x Pit is only on consoles while Duckov is PC only (and most of those people are buying it on Steam and not EGS/WeGame).

I'm playing the duckov game. I don't see the appeal.

>>723825110 (OP)
absolutely the fuck not. Holy shit why are games today SO FUCKING UNAPPEALING!?!??!!? WHY CAN'T WE JUST HAVE NORMAL FUCKING GAMES FOR ONCE?????

WHERE'S MY FIFA CLONES??? WHERE'S MY SPORTS CLONES???!?!??! MY GTA CLONES??? HONEST TO FUCK ZELDA CLONES???

WHY CAN'T WE HAVE ACTUAL FUCKING GOOD GAMES!?!??!?!

>>723825110 (OP)
Holy SHIT, look at how INDIES are DISRUPTING my video games INDUSTRY!!! Look at how they don't sell games at FULL PRICE!!!

HOO LEE FUK!!! MY DICK IS SO ERECT!!!!

>>723833638
KEK

>>723833638
All those games are still on PC retard-kun.

>>723825653
>Cloverpit feels way more RNG dependent
It's a fucking slot machine, what else did you expect?

>>723833638
Because elitist shitposted pc masterrace memes shitting on consoles until normies actually flocked onto their platform.

>>723825502
Time frame, retard