I always come to your channel for indie/pixel recommendations and this does not disappoint. I have a few of the games here but I'm installing and bookmarking ones I didn't know about. Awesome list!
I feel like there is no sense with doing tier list and putting everything on B-S tier. it's like rating movies only on a scale from 8 to 10, the scale is from 1 to 10 for a reason. The list should also be a reference point, if we have 20 games in the S, A or B tier, let's just divide each of these tiers for 2 different ones, because at this point this film is not a tier list but a long recommendation list that cannot be trusted because everything is "very very extraordinary"
See I disagree completely . This is not an objective tier list nor does it make any attempts to be. It's a tierlist based on personal enjoyment, there's no reason to look so far into it. Besides, Clemmy said it himself at the start of the vid. He's a pixel games enthusiast. There's nothing wrong with him finding something that he likes even just a little bit about every game out of 100 (which isn't even a comprehensive list of all pixel art titles so it makes your point even more moot).
@@zaknafein254 what's the point of creating a tier list where everything is great? As I compared, it's the same as being a review company that rates everything only on a scale of 8 to 10. What's the point of creating a masterpiece if you can create an average, unremarkable product that will still be perceived positively just for its existence? The film is not called "Best pixel art games" but "pixel art game tier list", so this video should be considered as such. I also like this channel very much, but when I like something, I am even more demanding about it. And I encourage everyone to be self-aware as consumers, I really don't understand defending this toxic phenomenon in the industry from a viewer's perspective. I can't imagine how a tier list of X games would help anyone choose the best game for that person if the reviewer calls them all "very very extraordinary"
I think I could probably enjoy playing ALL of these without exception? Amazing list. My favourites are: 1. Towerfall 2. FTL / Enter The Breach 3. Fae Tactics 4. Enter The Gungeon
Celeste pixel artist has a new company and Outersloth is funding them..Pedro's company is called ColdBlood Inc. . guaranteed to have banger pixel art when we see whatever they are making am sure of this. Earthblade is going to be amazing. They have extra devs working on it now to make it even better.
Lots of good ones in this list. I think we need a part 2 that includes SKALD, Dark Deity, Arc Seed, Erra: Exordium, Lost Ruins, Monster Crown, Brutal Orchestra, and Abathor.
Astral Ascent was done dirty , that game is masterful , some of the best boss designs , clean and varied combat , beautiful stage art & setting. Your bias towards minimalism & slow paced gameplay shows a lot.
I was confused about that, too. He originally said he was rating by gameplay and pixel. Some games that were lacking in the gameplay department made it to a s tier list, and I left looking like 🫠🙃. Suprised Astral didn't make it to at least A tier.
The sexy sounds in 'Electronic Super Joy' can be toggled off in the options menu. Also, the creatively named sequel 'Electronic Super Joy 2' was released for free.
I do love how nothing drops below a B since how a game looks and feels in terms of pixel art is definitely a matter of taste. I myself like the more intricate pixel art games that fall into rpg and tactics like sea of stars and chained echos, but also games that are more minimalist like Dream tactics and any rad codex game (Voidspire, Alvora, Horizon Gate, Azalea, Kingsvein). I also do like the cute pixel look into more metroidvanias so Rabi Ribi and by extension Tavi from the same dev. There is just so much for anyone.
I legitimately think Into the Breach revived and galvanised the "grid tactics that has you plan around the enemie's next predicted turn" to such an extent it basically created another school of derived design. From Fights in tight spaces onwards, to the indie live expo a few months afo with like six asian titles on the style.
I think you were a little harsh on astral ascent while some of the characters animations are blurry it does have some of the most stunning and beautiful background and stages of any video game I played also dead cells should be S maybe it's not true pixel graphics but I think it's way better than games with generic pixel graphics like sea of stars a lot of indie games now go for pixel art but even if it was gorgeous like in sea of stars it won't stand out for a lot of people if weren't unique or a bit odd like dead cells And of course Balatro is S+ simple but masterfully executed
Great work ! Keep in mind that the stats of an 1 hour video will not be as fast as a 10 min. Also, Shovel Knight 2 ! Thx for the update, I wasnt aware !
I absolutely LOVE this video! While I don't agree with all ranks (Broforce is a work of art, come on! :)), I love the fact that you quickly went over a ton of awesome games, many of which I didn't know/remember (and I do try to follow your channel!). So several games bought. while several others were added to my Steam wishlist. I hope this video becomes popular enough for you to consider making other tier lists (rouge likes, card battlers, turn based indie games, etc.).
What a great video! Just bought 4 new games off the back of watching this (and quite a few of them were on sale on Switch, bonus). Best Indie Games is easily my most favourite gaming channel on YT now. I would personally add in Signalis and Norco, they're not top tier necessarily but worth a look I reckon
long time ago there was a game named crimsonland. they created a genre which is so popular in this days. it was not vampire survivors or other game created that genre. they just jumped on :D
I think I own half the games on the list and almost all the rest I've already wishlisted. But, I did find one game I'd never heard of somehow, everhood. Now that one's on the list as well!
Wow.... these are really like for the most part the best 100 indie games on steam. Great for anyone who wants to know what games to buy during sales (a lot of them are dirt cheap during sales) There were a few misses for me like Timespinner, but I own a vast majority of these. Sadly, there are quiet a few I own but have barely played.
I'm kinda sad you didn't mention SANABI, if you haven't I'd absolutely suggest you give it a try at some point! It's a hidden gem that deserves A LOT more attention that it recieves!
hey man! amazing video as always. anyways can I get some help finding a game? i think it was a platform where you as a blob of some kind. you can rotate the platform and there are all the various bullet the you can find. you can also slow time while jumping (I think). it is a pixel art type game.
Ok, I need some help. I think it was one of your videos. I'm trying to find a game, which is 2d pixel, NES like, takes place in a dungeon, is a platormer, 3 playable characters, where the mage/sorcerer is yellow who sold their souls to the devil in order to re do the dungeon, and his friends, which are red (maybe archer) and blue (maybe knight).
Iconoclasts was the game that brought me into Metroidvania (by far my favorite genre by now) and it has the best pixel graphics of all games I ever played, in my opinion. It also sits on place 2 of my best graphics overall ranking directly behind Hollow Knight.
Great list, thumbs up for another compilation well done. I just gotta say, though: you are waaaay too kind to these games. The ranking tiers go all the way till C and D, but none were placed there. So all the games are good, eh? Hahah, you could have been a bit more critical in my opinion. :)
1. List by Art Only 2. List Pixel Art Games by Art + Gameplay Does mean a more useful list using 2 imho if you are picking up your wallet to buy the game?
Not much point using a scale from S to D if it really ends at B. I ended up just jumping through to see what you would consider below a B level after the 1/4 mark and didn’t really watch the rest.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course but I think it was criminal to put Terraria in S and Owlboy in B... Regardless, it was interesting seeing your insights. Good vid!
Aaaaa! No "Noitu Love 2: Devolution" and no "Noitu Love" (which is also a free game). I think something else is missing. "VVVVVV", "Pony Island", "McPixel" series are classics. "Mercenary Kings" maybe though gameplay is meh despite the fact that Paul Robertson did the visual. "Scott Pilgrim versus the world" maybe (but probably no). "Gunvolt", "Dave the Diver", "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" are a good contenders.
Don't agree with some of the tiers but that is to be expected. I have to say that the video was way too long for me: I watched it over a number of days. Maybe divide it by genre next time? Just a thought, video was nice overall :)
By the video title i thought the games would be ranked by overall quality, not by pixel art quality. Got quite sad seeing AWESOME true S tier games diminished by the pixel art quality
he seems to be flip-flopping between gameplay and pixel art quality as priority. Balatro for instance he says art is nothing special but goes to S tier because of gameplay and then other games are downgraded because of same reason.
@@obi1t yep, i think it can be because he didn't play many of those so his analysis oscilled between his experience with the game and the visual looks critica
@@illusion5739 That would be totally fine. But the case is that for some games he judges by gameplay and some JUST for the pixel art quality. See the issue?
Yeah it's a pretty dumb take to not have it S considering how much support it's gotten to have developed and gotten as much content as it has over many years. Reviewers should rank games based on how well they're designed, not if they personally happen to like them because that's pretty much pointless to bring up unless you're a celebrity where some people even care about what toilet paper they like wipe their ass with. Stardew Valley is boring to me but I'd be an idiot not to call it S tier with the insane success and praise across all media about it. Dead Cells absolutely belongs in the same category as Stardew and Terraria. If anything Skul is overrated here both in reception and success.
Now that I've found time to leaf through it, I appreciate the video, but I feel like this is just a "top 100 list in no particular order." With 100 entries spanning 3 tiers, the tiers don't really say much and some of the placements felt pretty arbitrary, with your criteria for where they go sliding all over. Does gameplay matter? Just the quality of the pixel art? Seems to depend on your mood. And the video falls into a very unhappy medium between having lots of content and not really covering most of them in any degree of depth. Yet, for being so surface level, it's over an hour long, which makes it daunting to approach. So I applaud the idea, but the execution of the concept (not the video, just the concept) felt off.
im sorry but the funniest thing is about this list is that coromon is not S tier . did everything the pokemon games should of and had some of the best pixel art for a mon capture game just made me laugh like wut
"while this game looks nice, I'm going to put it in B tier".... And nothing more was said... I totally appreciate this is just your opinion but that wasn't even an opinion... It's like you forgot to put a reason why in there.
I always come to your channel for indie/pixel recommendations and this does not disappoint. I have a few of the games here but I'm installing and bookmarking ones I didn't know about. Awesome list!
Could you tell what you got there. I'm looking from those games
I feel like there is no sense with doing tier list and putting everything on B-S tier. it's like rating movies only on a scale from 8 to 10, the scale is from 1 to 10 for a reason. The list should also be a reference point, if we have 20 games in the S, A or B tier, let's just divide each of these tiers for 2 different ones, because at this point this film is not a tier list but a long recommendation list that cannot be trusted because everything is "very very extraordinary"
Well said!
Clem loves all the pixel art, and I love listening to Clem wax about pixel art.
See I disagree completely . This is not an objective tier list nor does it make any attempts to be. It's a tierlist based on personal enjoyment, there's no reason to look so far into it.
Besides, Clemmy said it himself at the start of the vid. He's a pixel games enthusiast. There's nothing wrong with him finding something that he likes even just a little bit about every game out of 100 (which isn't even a comprehensive list of all pixel art titles so it makes your point even more moot).
I guess B is the "qualified to be rated" equivalent.
@@zaknafein254
what's the point of creating a tier list where everything is great? As I compared, it's the same as being a review company that rates everything only on a scale of 8 to 10. What's the point of creating a masterpiece if you can create an average, unremarkable product that will still be perceived positively just for its existence? The film is not called "Best pixel art games" but "pixel art game tier list", so this video should be considered as such. I also like this channel very much, but when I like something, I am even more demanding about it. And I encourage everyone to be self-aware as consumers, I really don't understand defending this toxic phenomenon in the industry from a viewer's perspective.
I can't imagine how a tier list of X games would help anyone choose the best game for that person if the reviewer calls them all "very very extraordinary"
Cross code is S tier thank god ! A man of taste !
One of thee best games in the past 20 years.
@@mcnalga It's the best of all time, Crosscode is a unique game that will never be repeated, for me it's a gift from heaven
@@lluckyllboyl41 I mean… they are making a new game that looks like Cross Code +
I was absolutely shattered when I finished crosscode, I wish I could wipe my memory so I can experience it for the first time once again
Kinda surprised Core Keeper, Dandara and MO: Astray weren't included. All great games.
I think I could probably enjoy playing ALL of these without exception? Amazing list.
My favourites are:
1. Towerfall
2. FTL / Enter The Breach
3. Fae Tactics
4. Enter The Gungeon
Celeste pixel artist has a new company and Outersloth is funding them..Pedro's company is called ColdBlood Inc. . guaranteed to have banger pixel art when we see whatever they are making am sure of this. Earthblade is going to be amazing. They have extra devs working on it now to make it even better.
Lots of good ones in this list. I think we need a part 2 that includes SKALD, Dark Deity, Arc Seed, Erra: Exordium, Lost Ruins, Monster Crown, Brutal Orchestra, and Abathor.
Astral Ascent was done dirty , that game is masterful , some of the best boss designs , clean and varied combat , beautiful stage art & setting. Your bias towards minimalism & slow paced gameplay shows a lot.
Very true
Also dead cells not being S is probably criminal while not pure pixel art I would argue it looks better than most of those games
I was confused about that, too. He originally said he was rating by gameplay and pixel. Some games that were lacking in the gameplay department made it to a s tier list, and I left looking like 🫠🙃. Suprised Astral didn't make it to at least A tier.
Astral Ascent has a horrible interface and readability for item stats is a turnoff. I couldn't deal with it.
I certainly enjoy all of your videos.
Thank you for sharing!
The sexy sounds in 'Electronic Super Joy' can be toggled off in the options menu. Also, the creatively named sequel 'Electronic Super Joy 2' was released for free.
You boosted celeste to S because of gameplay but not dead cells.. putting it in A broke my heart.. this game is just pure dopamine
19 seconds is CRAZY! Nice video man!!
early!
I do love how nothing drops below a B since how a game looks and feels in terms of pixel art is definitely a matter of taste.
I myself like the more intricate pixel art games that fall into rpg and tactics like sea of stars and chained echos, but also games that are more minimalist like Dream tactics and any rad codex game (Voidspire, Alvora, Horizon Gate, Azalea, Kingsvein). I also do like the cute pixel look into more metroidvanias so Rabi Ribi and by extension Tavi from the same dev.
There is just so much for anyone.
I legitimately think Into the Breach revived and galvanised the "grid tactics that has you plan around the enemie's next predicted turn" to such an extent it basically created another school of derived design. From Fights in tight spaces onwards, to the indie live expo a few months afo with like six asian titles on the style.
I like the games on this list but as a concept I think you have to rate the games on either game play or graphics, not both as it gets too conflated
Gentlemen we got ourselves a banger here
Great, love that you are trying out new types of videos!
I think you were a little harsh on astral ascent while some of the characters animations are blurry it does have some of the most stunning and beautiful background and stages of any video game I played also dead cells should be S maybe it's not true pixel graphics but I think it's way better than games with generic pixel graphics like sea of stars a lot of indie games now go for pixel art but even if it was gorgeous like in sea of stars it won't stand out for a lot of people if weren't unique or a bit odd like dead cells
And of course
Balatro is S+ simple but masterfully executed
Great work !
Keep in mind that the stats of an 1 hour video will not be as fast as a 10 min.
Also, Shovel Knight 2 ! Thx for the update, I wasnt aware !
I absolutely LOVE this video! While I don't agree with all ranks (Broforce is a work of art, come on! :)), I love the fact that you quickly went over a ton of awesome games, many of which I didn't know/remember (and I do try to follow your channel!). So several games bought. while several others were added to my Steam wishlist.
I hope this video becomes popular enough for you to consider making other tier lists (rouge likes, card battlers, turn based indie games, etc.).
THANK YOU MAN i love PIXEL ART GAMES ,like you ,its soo cool
What a great video! Just bought 4 new games off the back of watching this (and quite a few of them were on sale on Switch, bonus). Best Indie Games is easily my most favourite gaming channel on YT now. I would personally add in Signalis and Norco, they're not top tier necessarily but worth a look I reckon
Oh also Lamentum as well
No Baba is You and Void Stranger! 0/10
Just kidding. This is a good list to find some good game that I missed
long time ago there was a game named crimsonland. they created a genre which is so popular in this days. it was not vampire survivors or other game created that genre. they just jumped on :D
Great list.
Know all the titles, played most of them, but still got something to play.
I m playing anno mutationem , and i m looooooving it!!!!! This game is amazing, and the combat is fantastic.
Broforce is S tier for me ngl, played coop with 1 keyboard- one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had
I think I own half the games on the list and almost all the rest I've already wishlisted. But, I did find one game I'd never heard of somehow, everhood. Now that one's on the list as well!
Ooh the hardcore list comes out Clemmy!
Pixel games my favorite, i love this video i liked and subbed, more of these please!
Wow.... these are really like for the most part the best 100 indie games on steam. Great for anyone who wants to know what games to buy during sales (a lot of them are dirt cheap during sales) There were a few misses for me like Timespinner, but I own a vast majority of these. Sadly, there are quiet a few I own but have barely played.
Thanks from Brazil for this list!
I'm kinda sad you didn't mention SANABI, if you haven't I'd absolutely suggest you give it a try at some point! It's a hidden gem that deserves A LOT more attention that it recieves!
WHERE WAS MINIT???
I agree with most of these...so I trust all your recommendations.
hey man! amazing video as always. anyways can I get some help finding a game?
i think it was a platform where you as a blob of some kind. you can rotate the platform and there are all the various bullet the you can find. you can also slow time while jumping (I think). it is a pixel art type game.
MO: Astray?
@@ClemmyGames nope. I've been searching for days and I can't find it I can't find any game like it so it's really hard to search for
carrion?
or maybe worms?
Ok, I need some help. I think it was one of your videos. I'm trying to find a game, which is 2d pixel, NES like, takes place in a dungeon, is a platormer, 3 playable characters, where the mage/sorcerer is yellow who sold their souls to the devil in order to re do the dungeon, and his friends, which are red (maybe archer) and blue (maybe knight).
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
@@ClemmyGames Sorry for the spam, and thank you so much. I can go to sleep in peace.
Iconoclasts honestly deserved S tier.
Iconoclasts was the game that brought me into Metroidvania (by far my favorite genre by now) and it has the best pixel graphics of all games I ever played, in my opinion. It also sits on place 2 of my best graphics overall ranking directly behind Hollow Knight.
Amazing video, so many great games !
rogue legacy part of the video deserves a flashing lights warning...
Celeste’s pixel art is severely underrated. Esp the tasteful use of colour
I bought Valfaris and back from hell for the gameplay, pixel art and music in equal measures lol
Great list, thumbs up for another compilation well done.
I just gotta say, though: you are waaaay too kind to these games. The ranking tiers go all the way till C and D, but none were placed there. So all the games are good, eh? Hahah, you could have been a bit more critical in my opinion. :)
thank you for this amazing list
This was a confusing list. I would have assumed pixel art means you'd focus on the 'art' and not the play.
Fair enough, I prefer how he chose to rank them though
1. List by Art Only
2. List Pixel Art Games by Art + Gameplay
Does mean a more useful list using 2 imho if you are picking up your wallet to buy the game?
Not much point using a scale from S to D if it really ends at B. I ended up just jumping through to see what you would consider below a B level after the 1/4 mark and didn’t really watch the rest.
very cool idea for a video Clemmy ♥💪
Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course but I think it was criminal to put Terraria in S and Owlboy in B... Regardless, it was interesting seeing your insights. Good vid!
I'm not sure if you've done a tier list like this before but I am curious about your rankings
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Sorry the video is not doing well but amazing work!!
Another game that isn't on the list and i raccomend is huntdown. From the visual to the ost everything amazing
Children of Morta is def a A ranking
I thought you had good taste until you put Owlboy in B?! At least CrossCode is in S...
Your forgot Primordia. How could you ...
I thought you'd have more minimalistic but fun games like Minnit in there.
That's a video I need!!!😊👍🏻
what is the game referenced at 35min as a meme ? i saw it once
Stranger of Paradise
Blasphemous 2? Maybe 1 of the best pixel arts
Same rank as Blasphemous 1
Aaaaa! No "Noitu Love 2: Devolution" and no "Noitu Love" (which is also a free game).
I think something else is missing. "VVVVVV", "Pony Island", "McPixel" series are classics.
"Mercenary Kings" maybe though gameplay is meh despite the fact that Paul Robertson did the visual. "Scott Pilgrim versus the world" maybe (but probably no).
"Gunvolt", "Dave the Diver", "Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk" are a good contenders.
Dave the diver one of my favorite❤
Dead Cells at A? :O i'm shocked man lol
Love the video tho
Don't agree with some of the tiers but that is to be expected.
I have to say that the video was way too long for me: I watched it over a number of days. Maybe divide it by genre next time? Just a thought, video was nice overall :)
Try MegaSphere ,one of the greatest pixelart !
All my favorite game is Tier S. Now i will find some new game too
deadcell in A??????
is SS men
Mi pobre pc buscando razones para creeer en si misma
Surprised you have Hero's Hour so high. The game has never made it past Very Positive on Steam and it's currently only at Mostly. It's at best A tier.
Carrion is absolutely amazing
dead cells on A tier? Bruh💀
You really like anime girls XD
A man of culture as well
in general i think the list is great i mostly agree but putting astral ascent, one step from Eden and star renegade not in A tier is criminal
Absolute Cinema✋🗿🤚
I was able to live with some of these, but Pizza Tower in A tier should be illegal.
Putting everhood in a tier is criminal, s tier easily
Where's Stoneshard?
By the video title i thought the games would be ranked by overall quality, not by pixel art quality. Got quite sad seeing AWESOME true S tier games diminished by the pixel art quality
he seems to be flip-flopping between gameplay and pixel art quality as priority. Balatro for instance he says art is nothing special but goes to S tier because of gameplay and then other games are downgraded because of same reason.
@@obi1t yep, i think it can be because he didn't play many of those so his analysis oscilled between his experience with the game and the visual looks critica
@@Mkdj21 He is biased towards his personal preference and interest obviously.
@@illusion5739 That would be totally fine. But the case is that for some games he judges by gameplay and some JUST for the pixel art quality. See the issue?
Axiom verge is an easy S tier my man
Deadcells is S tier
Yeah it's a pretty dumb take to not have it S considering how much support it's gotten to have developed and gotten as much content as it has over many years. Reviewers should rank games based on how well they're designed, not if they personally happen to like them because that's pretty much pointless to bring up unless you're a celebrity where some people even care about what toilet paper they like wipe their ass with. Stardew Valley is boring to me but I'd be an idiot not to call it S tier with the insane success and praise across all media about it. Dead Cells absolutely belongs in the same category as Stardew and Terraria. If anything Skul is overrated here both in reception and success.
wrong
more like "top 100 pixel art indie games in the S-B range" 😂
s-b? :3 what is that
@@caesarlight1 it's: "why even have C and D tiers, if you're not going to put any games in them"
@@eviljesus84 oh I get it ty
They're all so playable though! Something about pixel art games being simple but fun?!
@@commentarytalk1446 yeah I know, but is not the point what we're talking about
Where is hero adventure??
Steel assault is so underrated
YESSSSS THANK GOD CROSS CODE IS IN S TIER
Now that I've found time to leaf through it, I appreciate the video, but I feel like this is just a "top 100 list in no particular order." With 100 entries spanning 3 tiers, the tiers don't really say much and some of the placements felt pretty arbitrary, with your criteria for where they go sliding all over. Does gameplay matter? Just the quality of the pixel art? Seems to depend on your mood.
And the video falls into a very unhappy medium between having lots of content and not really covering most of them in any degree of depth. Yet, for being so surface level, it's over an hour long, which makes it daunting to approach. So I applaud the idea, but the execution of the concept (not the video, just the concept) felt off.
Oof. Thanks for the honest feedback. Maybe I should have focused on one or the other. Will keep that in mind for the next one!
Where's Intravenous?
bro forget the survivalist game
im sorry but the funniest thing is about this list is that coromon is not S tier . did everything the pokemon games should of and had some of the best pixel art for a mon capture game just made me laugh like wut
Maybe you should rank only s and a tier i dont have 1 hour
Huntdown ?!?!?!?!
"while this game looks nice, I'm going to put it in B tier".... And nothing more was said...
I totally appreciate this is just your opinion but that wasn't even an opinion... It's like you forgot to put a reason why in there.
YOU FORGOT RAINWORLD
Rain World is definitely included in the video.
Really... Children of Morta is B-Tier...!? Especially in comparison to other A or even S-Tier games on this list? Respectfully disagreed.
Damn, no StoneShard ? Sad
Huntdown is A or S
stardew -= SS tier
owlboy a b-tier & fez and iconoclast only an a-tier but such an ugly game like hotline miami is s? really?
Metal Slug?
My god where is OMORI!!!!
No time to watch right now, but want to help your views after working so hard on this vid ^^
Thank you! Appreciate it
Based
Souldiers B? 😂