Thread 538099930

silk edition
it doesn't sing, sadly

>What the heck is this
/indie/ is the general for all indie games, such as A Hat in Time, Animal Well, Baba Is You, Balatro, Battle Brothers, Cave Story, Celeste, CrossCode, Cultist Simulator, Darkest Dungeon, Darkwood, Dead Cells, Disco Elysium, Environmental Station Alpha, FTL, Hades, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hotline Miami, LISA, Lobotomy Corp, Loop Hero, Machinarium, Monster Train, Noita, Nuclear Throne, OFF, OneShot, Rain World, Shovel Knight, Slay the Spire, Starsector, Subnautica, Sunless Skies, The Witness, Void Stranger, etc., as well as other games that just don't fit in any other general such as Atelier, Pillars of Eternity, and Valkyria Chronicles. /jrpg/ is welcome. Idle, roguelite, shmup, 4x / RTS / city-builders, and RPGMaker games are cool too.

Mobile or consoles, Flash or Unity, freeware or early access. This place is a home for the indie game community and indie and obscure games that don't have a home. So be free to talk and share all your hidden gems, forgotten games and starving devs here.

>Can I talk about games that already have a general?
We mostly discuss games that are not popular enough for their own threads, however, all indie games are allowed. So talk about them if you want, but don't overdo it since you already have other generals for that.

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>>537197516

all i need now is for The Big Catch to get a release date

I got past the fuckass forced encounter. If you've played you know. This game is about spot on CotM in terms of difficulty

>I MUST SHOW THEM MY CRT
Tranny.

>>538103737
All the media players work and it was free btw

>>538101485
thats what I'm saying
and the motivation to get all the little coin shits in the demo

Ah, Earth Dancer! Your dance has brought me joy and happiness. In gratitude, allow me to bestow upon you this recipe.

>>538105451
Yeah, that's siralim ultimate. A few people here have played it. It's extremely autistic, like the kind of autism where it's unplayable if you aren't aware of 1000 or more monster traits for your build. There's basically no story, it's just grind. The patch added stuff to the endgame and a bunch of game modes (including easy and hard mode) that require making a new save to play and added new currency to replace the current way cosmetics and rare monsters work. Personally I got stuck at realm 180 and gave up.

Silksong has already won IGN's LGBTQ+ game of the year award

bump

Keep spinning and running in circles.

>>538103230
That's a fun setup actually, nice

>>538108140
And that's a good thing
now fuck off

>>538125129
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU

I didn't expect to need another containment unit and I definitely didn't have the room for it but here we are anyway

>>538103230
>that letterboxing
>that dithering
>those missing pixels in the hud
man I really dodged one keeping myself from getting a CRT.

Sandbox games where you can recruit allies to build an army to create your own government and overthrow other governments like mount and blade? Is Kenshi similar to that?

>finish kingsvein
>as disappointed as after alvora tactics
>go back to horizon's gate to scratch that radcodex itch
>install a shit ton of content mods
God, Horizon's Gate is such a great game. And it has grown an amazing modding scene since its launch days. 70 hours in and feels like I have tons left to explore. I can hardly put it down every night before going to bed.

>>538131430
What didn't you like about Kingsvein? I 100% Alvora, get to the combat quicker than HG.

>>538133862
It's short, simplified and ugly as fuck.

>>538131040
Not really. The scale is completely different. While in warband youre supposed to throw hundreds of peasants in the meatgrinder, in kenshi you're supposed to actually gear your dudes and not let them die. Your average squad isn't going to have more than a dozen members. Without mods, it'd be pointless too since you engage most enemies 1v1. Exceptions being giant enemies and ranged combat, which also kinda breaks the game.
>create your own government
Sure, though it's pretty pointless aside from rp'ing.
>overthrow other governments
Not really. At most you can kill or capture specific NPCs which will result in a specific city being taken over by another faction.

>>538128106
This looks like those fake mobile game ad games.

if you play your needle near this door the beast will stop ramming itself and you get some text

Been playing some underrail lately. Doing a shotgun build with no stealth and 10 CON.

Gonna wait for a sale and for all you fags to beta test silksang for me.

burg

didn't think silksong would have fanservice like that

silkosng wastes so much of your time, I'm not running to the judge again
also who thought adding a sekiro-style resource only needed to replenish already limited tools was a good idea

>>538150054
I am in act 2 and all the new stuff they added are just garbage
The ammo mechanic is very, very bad. It turns difficult fights into pure tedium because every time you die you lose ammo and the game is extremely stingy with giving you ammo. You need to kill like 20 enemies WITHOUT using any ammo to get back resources for 1 full rotation and that is annoying.
The bosses are reasonable but in act 2 some gauntlets get really crazy. If the Judge is like a 7-8/10 difficulty then a gauntlet I faced is like 20/10. It keeps going and going and the basic trash mob combos create insane amount of RNG so you will get hit.
I'm probably halfway or 2/3 through act 2 but honestly Silksong has been disappointing. The main issue with the game is the economy sucks big cocks.
The cost of benches and fast travels alone is already sucking you dry. Then there are sidequests that suck your money, key items that cost crazy amount and so on.
I've been going on farming binges and it still isn't enough. The ammo part sucks big time. I run around with 1000 rosaries and a few checkpoints later I'm down to 0. And I'm constantly out of ammo because enemies drop very little amount of it while quests cost too much.
The worst bits: quest rewards give peanut. Finding a secret room with a chest gives peanut. LMAO 50 rosaries from a big chest? 1 encounter is like 40-50 and constant farming is not enough. So many exploration reward is just these chests with no reward.

>>538153387
Slow down. Concentrate on dodging the bosses for a second and look at their patterns. As for grinding, it exists but as someone who loves Dawn of Sorrow, Silksong's is more than tolerable

>>538154023
Niggas I beat all the bosses, you retarded illiterate. I wasn't complaining about them.
And I'm comparing Silksong to Hollow Knight, you know, the prequel.

>>538106590
I don't know how autistic I am. People say you definitely get your money's worth with the game and I saw they just put a big patch out (I'm assuming the one you mentioned). Waiting til they patch the Switch version, "TBD."

>>538150054
>>538153387
Did you mean "I want another flying enemy that constantly stays out of range, preferably make it deal 2 masks of damage"?

>>538145839
>two top buns

>>538150054
The first one wasted your time too. It's the quintessence of soulshit to give people stockholm syndrome from all the time wasted rewalking the same path for 10 minutes to get another try at the 1 shot boss.

I'm in the mood for it, so I think it's finally time to tackle my unfinished business.

>>538167854
Good luck.

>>538022324
>Got into a room containing nothing (yet?)
Got the wall-jump, made it into the room normally, and now suddenly that room allows access to another area. It could have been a cool sequence breaking moment but so far no attempts have been rewarded, looks like Team Cherry want to be in completer control this time. Most I've gotten is an early extra mask but going from 5 to 6 makes no difference when there are so many double damage attacks, you still die in 3 hits. And one extra silk spool which makes no difference. Every other avenue I've tried is properly locked.

>>538181738
you can get to shellwood/greymoor early if you have a key and sprint
thats the only one I know.

>>538181372
This isn't Skinwalker Hunt. Is it just another clone, or is it actually interesting?

What the fuck am I even supposed to do in the mist?

>>538182257
No clue. Didn't look past the ridiculous system requirements.

The TDS even hit Zack

>>538189014
what the fuck are you talking about?

Now that Sliksnog is out, I can switch my ritual sacrifices back to getting a Metroid Prime 4 release.

I recommended Little Missfortune to my mum and she liked it. She is now installing Disco Elysium.
What other adventure games that can run on a potato I can recommend her? She already played all Myst and The Longest Journey.

>>538193350
What was the one where you draw stuff while a dude tells you about his life? The eyewitness? The spectator? The martyr?

>>538194248
The looker?

>>538194483
I think so. Very colorful game where you draw lines on small things.

>>538192649
nta, but to be fair, that comment in the text about muh tariff and trade imbalance feel way out of place given the tone of the letter, a bit too much on the nose. Its like it was done solely to make the father seem unreasonable and add nothing of value to the letter.

>>538194248
>>538194483
>>538195002
Looks like she will like it. Thanks.

>>538193350
Off the top of my head, here are a few games id recommend thay would be safe for a normalfag as far as themes and general gameplay goes;
There is no game:wrong dimension
Stanley Parable
Spiritfarer: farewell edition
Silence
Röki
Pikuniku
Naiad
Moral Dilemma: the interview
Jusant
The Invincible
Hand of Doom
Firewatch
Caravan Sandwitch
Beholder 2

Nost of them arent exactly adventure games in the traditional sense, but id be damned if she doesnt have a good time playing most of them. Still id recommend you look them up and get your own idea of how they are, as you're the best positioned to know wether she'll like them or not.

>>538199428
With that said, id say the ones most fitting for an adventure game would be Röki and Silence, havent played either in a few years but I recall fond memories of both.

>>538199428
>Pikuniku
You also got "trobontrokon".

>>538136248
What the developer lacks in art he makes up in gameplay.
>>538193350
Recettear?

>>538128106
This looks like utter trash...
Is it Arcen? Or Soldak?

>>538199715
Is that supposed to be a pun or...? Google show nothing.

>>538202235
It's a French thing. It's a weird spin on "trop bon, trop con", which literally means "too good, too cunt (in the sense of stupid/naive)".

>>538202235
>>538199715
Wait, did you mean for it to sound like "trop bon trop con"?

>>538202351
>>538202387
Hehe, quand meme cocasse comme situation, n'est-ce-pas?

>>538202387
I assumed that literally putting the actual idiom would allow our local Holmes to figure it out by himself.
I'm glad I didn't disappoint and that my subtle clue allowed you to figure out who killed Colonelle Moutarde in the janitor closet with the yaoi paddle.

>every single Empire At War mod is 10-20GB
Jesus Christ

>>538193350
get her into VNs

>>538103230
jezzus for a second there i though it was earth worm jim. that a real pc crt?

>>538205685
>Empire At War
What a blast from the past

Third crack at Hollow Knight and all it's doing is reminding me of how much I hate this game. I've got two nail upgrades and the fragile damage charm, why are bosses still taking fucking forever to die?

I'm hyped for Onirism. I haven't play it since I'm waiting for the full release. I hope it was worth it.

>>538212945
I'm sure it will be.

Peasants.

>>538220523
Damn smug brat, needs spankings.

Void Crew kinda fun.
I could do without the poor bloke being turned into a servitor, though.

>>538220523
This game is not a lolicon game, it's not. I swear it's not. I swear it's not. It's just french.

>>538200762
There's only one dev I know that keeps forcing Diablo mechanics into other genres, and it's not Arcen.

shlickshlong
that colloseum of birds encounter is RAPING MY ASS
how many fucking waves does this shit have?
also, how do I get don quixote to get off his ass and help me kill big bird?

>Have exactly enough money to buy the map.
All is forgiven. Anyone else think the game suffers from having too much going on? I can name basically every HK npc, the world felt 'lonely' so each character stood out more. Silksong is more densely packed, there is more to see but the areas and characters are forgettable in comparison. Undeniable improvement gamekeeper wise though, the platforming and basic enemies have more variety and depth.
>>538193350
The Red Stings Club, and play it yourself too it's a quality game.

Praise me.

My controller rumble stopped working in silksong.
It works fine on hollow knight on the same computer, and it works fine on my laptop. Just doesn't work for silksong on my PC. Weird.

>>538228752
For me the wireless controller just randomly stops working, like if batteries ran out.
Never happened with HK, even with recent replay.

Hey /indie/. Finally managed to beat Cave Story on Hard Mode. It removes Missiles and all health upgrades (except for the one +5 you get from Jenka's dog near the end of the game), effectively making most of the game a no-hit run without your highest DPS weapon.

Doing this leaves me with a surreal feeling of accomplishment. Growing up I could never beat Hell and Ballos on Hard Mode in the DSi version. Recently dug up my 3DS, loaded up some custom firmware, and did a few runs of Cave Story for old times' sake. Finally I did a Hard Mode run, got filtered hard for a while by the Core since I always go for the Spur vice the Machine Gun, and after countless attempts landed that golden run where it all lined up. Hell, for the final boss I even set the 3DS version to the 4:3 aspect ratio and the DSi control scheme to pay honor to that retarded kid who could never seal the deal all those years ago.

Didn't really know who else to tell this besides you fags. Don't really know who else would appreciate and empathize with this sort of dumb shit about a 21-year-old indie platforming title. Thanks for reading my blog, and best of luck with your games.

>>538192649
It's a letter from your parents in "Kaizen: A Factory Story" which released in July, titled "Trade Imbalances". The subtext and timing is incredibly clear.

>>538229491
The one I recall from cave story is how bullshit it is to get the good ending. Oh, you didnt do that perfect pixel jump across a gap? Fuk u bad ending. I remember raging pretty hard at that jump.

>>538226640
okay nevermind lol the flea caravan just deleted big bird from the game, thanks bros.
I was kinda ambivalent on the new grubs being gypsy analogues but these guys are cool.

Is there an elevator or something I can activate to get back up to shellwood from bone bottom?

>>538229491
Omedetou!

>>538229491
CONGRATS MATE YOU MAKE ME PROUD!
YOU CARE THAT MAKES ME LOUD!
CHALLENGE MADE AND HONOR PAID!
AN /INDIE/ LAD OF THE HIGHEST GRADE!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARDCORE!

>>538229491
congrats anon, cave story is a great game

>Spectra dev is a troon
there's something truly fucked up about making immersive sims games

I just reached the max world height. What am I gonna do with over 5000 peat?

>game, old version
>300 MB

>game, new version
>3000 MB
>no new content to speak of
???

>>538251128
>sir, a second shiver has hit the peat tower

>>538251424
You know what? I'll build a second tower and burn down both of them.

>>538251128
A lot of fires.

void crew fun!

>>538256837
Jump Space (formerly known as Jump Ship) is very similar and comes out in 2ish weeks. The demo for that was a blast

>>538257987
But Void Crew has a free week end.

>anons waiting 8 years for silksong
>its shit

>>538262761
said who?

>>538265583
The bosses have 2-3 different attacks and 50 fucking hitpoints, it's not a skill-testing game but a test of the player's ability to put up with tedium.

>>538265862
Been a while since I've played, but wasn't it pretty much the same in Hollow Knight?
Which is perfectly fine to find disagreeable, but I assume people who waited for Silksong knew what they were in for.

>>538265862
>I-it's tedious!!
Just say it's too hard for you, anon, it's fine

>>538131040
>>538134430
What is Kenshi anyway? I've heard so much about this game but also fucking nothing at the same time. It's on sale right now.

>>538167854
Since the last time I played they've added a special mode where you can get a large variety of effects that are typically upside + downside, though the severity of the upside and downside tend to vary. That middle one means my guys are going to age one year every single in game day which might make play completely impossible, but I took it as I'm intensely curious how much exactly it reduces medicine tolerance by. Depending on how much by and how difficult it's going to be for me to urgently grab some life and morrow pills or something, this is either going to be insanely OP or completely unworkable.

Either way I might restart as I didn't get offered the main modifier I heard about which was the main reason I got the urge to return to the game, but for now it's good to experiment and figure out how to play again.

>>538273347
>What is Kenshi anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXo24imR_54

>>538262761
I think it's pretty good.

I like how the areas in Silksong "bleed over" into each other, like how if a different area is behind a wall, the wall texture will reflect that and as you get closer to the entrance you'll often start encountering more of the enemies native to that zone
I remember Hollow Knight had some stuff like that but I feel like it was less common

>>538273823
Man, it's embarrassing how long it's taking me to remember to do some of the most basic things imaginable, but it feels good too. I laid out the strategy for how to do this achievement years ago, now I'm trying to follow my own instructions almost blind.

Gassing the free drones is probably the most atrocious bullshit mission in this whole fucking game. I glad its over.

I did not have fun

>>538272135
>muh difficulty
just admit its boring anon, its fine

My irk that's regularly seen in many titles over the years:
Auto-saving consumption of consumables. This results in vicious loop where if you have trouble in defeating the boss, you become LESS and LESS powerful, leading to even more trouble than before. "Poor get poorer" situation.
I'll take "no auto-saving whatsoever" over "auto-saving on death".

>>538229491
Congrats anon, coming back to challenging stuff you couldn't do as a kid and beating it always gives a nice feeling of how much you've improved.

>>538281630
man, i should also try it again.
Don't think i even got the dragon to show up so i probably saw nothing yet.

>>538281630
>>538292001
It's fun, would recommend, the only reason I stopped playing originally is because I'd run out of new things to learn. This new Heavenly Chaos mode adds a lot of interesting new stuff, the modifier I'm most interested in is one that starts me off with a bunch of rare materials (special boss drops for stronger qi gathering in a cultivation room) with the tradeoff that all the sects other than the DLC sect start at -700 rep with you, so you're getting attacked fairly hard from like day three.

As it is I really need to get my shit into gear, literally my entire sect is going to be dead to old age by the end of the year if I don't pick up the pace and get my hands on life extending medicine or something. It's basically day 5 and I've not done shit hardly, oh god oh fuck.

>>538281630
that is an absolute ton of people for day 2
did you take the +5 on embark?
also that sect map, what the hell. never seen that much rock in my life

>>538295761
time to make your entire sect turtles
do people age while they're on expeditions?

>>538295761
>Invite guy with great stats from a village back to my sect
>He enters the map stuck on the other side of a mountain
>Dies of thirst before I dig through to him
What a fucking waste.

>>538301000
>that is an absolute ton of people for day 2
>did you take the +5 on embark?
+4, there's an extra immortal option that gives you up to four extra random disciples but they each have problems with them, it's still work taking them for the extra hands, and the last one I invited back to my sect as a labourer and unlike pic related they didn't get stuck behind a mountain and die.

>>538301176
>do people age while they're on expeditions?
I'm actually not completely sure any more. I know their tribulation timers stop ticking down, I don't know about age.

>>538301000
>also that sect map, what the hell. never seen that much rock in my life
Oh right, also I forgot to mention that it's a canyon map rather than a plains one. I've done plains every time and I want a change, plus part of my strategy is I'm hoping to dig up lots of caskets from the mountains and get the Heaven Stealing law early.

Okay this is a straight up shek. Like, the serial numbers aren't even filed off.

>>538305734
Managed to cobble together an array to finish off playing today, the downside to a canyon map is there's not 500 spirit trees everywhere so I've had to scrape together everything on the entire map to pay for this ghetto array. At least it's something.

>>538309290
But are they built like shek?

>>538310837
the increased aging thing doesn't also speed up trib timer, right?

>>538321860
>the increased aging thing doesn't also speed up trib timer, right?
No, it just means that by the end of the first year, my 20 year olds will be 100 years old, or more likely dead of old age around early winter if I don't hurry the fuck up and find some sort of a supply of life pills or something.

>>538323746
fucked up that it applies to outers too
i suspect you're gonna be doing a lot of recruitment
i wonder if it hits other sects too, i know there's that story npc that dies of old age

>>538324262
>fucked up that it applies to outers too
Yep, but honestly it would be absurdly broken as fuck if it didn't. Even if it doesn't reduce the resistances by that much it sounds incredible to me already, lowering them all by just about 10% per item would already make it way, way easier to start eating sun pills pre-core, you could make incredible cultivators with a tiny fraction of the effort and the only catch is that you'd have to force feed every outer you want to keep (preferably) a refined Morrow pill or something.
I also get the feeling that it will be a bigger drop than 10% per item, I'm looking forward to it.

It's not even the only modifier, one gives absolutely everyone who joins my sect +10 qi sense but everyone's pretty hungry all of the time, and the other lets me equip additional talismans with the tradeoff of not being able to manually draw them. The great painter mod might completely bypass that downside I'm not sure, and even if it doesn't I can loot T12 talismans of my choosing off of enemy cultivators or just roll the dice repeatedly for what I want and then be able to equip 4 (more?) talismans to everyone.

>i suspect you're gonna be doing a lot of recruitment
Probably. The main way to bypass the whole age problem that I can see is to keep hiring new blood until I solve the need for life pills, the only problem is that the achievement I'm going for is time gated and I only have the first three years to clear it, so I can't fuck around.

>i wonder if it hits other sects too, i know there's that story npc that dies of old age
It honestly might, I could potentially check but forgot to do so earlier.

any game akin to tboi with meta progression?

>>538193350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_gRGzwXZE

>>538273347
Meme review aside, it's one of the few true sandbox games around. There's literally no plot, main quest line or whatever. You start with a perfectly ordinary guy and do whatever you want to do. Go be a miner, a pickpocket, a trader, a murderhobo or whatever you feel like. RP to your heart's content, cause that's what the game is about.
It also has a lot of grinding. Your starting dude is weaker than starving bandits, the weakest enemy in the game.

>>538309290
>sex: Often.

so much dopamine I don't want to do anything anymore
my head hurts a little

>>538333065
Damn gay bugs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1739080/Sword_Hero/
I got recommended this game's trailer on Youtube. Seems kino despite the generic ass name.

>>538361025
>what if Fable was Oblivion
Sounds like a recipe for disappointment

>>538361902
More like
>what if Gothic 2 but good
to me

>>538362193
You just mobilized half of central europe against you

>>538242198

>>538246556
>>538289626
>>538244393
Thank you, all!

>>538235278
Yeah, that's one thing that definitely dates it. Obscure secrets with obtuse prerequisites sure aren't common any more, with everyone looking for a more organic/in-game way to hint at other paths. While it's technically possible to do that in Cave Story, it's realistically only learned on a second playthrough or some forum online.

Pic related.

It's slowly coming together

>>538366895
How do you people make these?

>>538368548
Try looking up images of architecture for reference. Also lot of chiseling.

How do i break those last 2 boxes?

>>538370810
Jump and then down+B?

>>538369143
What the fuck is chiseling?

>>538370810
cute!!!

>>538371656
Forge a chisel on an anvil. Use it with a hammer in your off hand.

>>538371575
He shoots at angles.

So I've played intravenous, it was so good that right after finishing the game, I decided to finish it 5 more times and do all the achievements.

>>538372051
Does that take like a long, long time since you have to carve them small cube by small cube?

>>538376662
You can set your brush size to medium or large cube, but generally it does take quite a bit of time.

>>538376987
...you people are insane.

>>538377369
it's the worst outcome
the game wasn't agressively bad so you can't really laugh at it and it's not a 10/10 masterpiece
it's just agressively mediocre like most things are nowadays

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/

The best puzzle game you'll play all year, from the same guy who made ElecHead. It's about an hour and change long and worth every penny.

>>538377023
I usually don't go lower than 2x2 so it's not that bad, but yes it can get tedious. These arches are the most complicated ones the rest are stuff like making each side of a wall have a different texture and those are fast. I might go back and add more details at some point, but that's a long term project.
I don't use them, but there are mods that make chiseling faster. Even save designs so you don't have to chisel 100 blocks manually.

Something odd about the passengers on this Japanese train in 1988...