The first time that there are no completely based games that everyone knows, actually I only knew deaths door so this is a completely new list with so many interesting games. This alone deserves a follow and like
Thanks so much for the sub and I'm glad you enjoyed this list. Yeah my taste in games doesn't always match what a lot of people like, which mostly ends up me not liking very popular games as much as the masses. Hollow Knight would be a good example 😅
Hotline Miami - Best story Undertale - Best overall Sifu - Best Gameplay Inscryption - Most mindblowing Little Nightmares 1/2 - Best ambience That would be my list
my personnal top 11 is : 1 outer wilds 2 celeste 3 hollow knight 4 hades 5 nine sols 6 the binding of isaac 7 undertale 8 katana zero 9 the begginners guide 10 chants of senaar 11 Pizza tower
My personal list: Crosscode - awesome combat and platforming elements Hyper Light Drifter - I Freaking love the pixel art and no dialogue story Sea of Stars - I like the platforming elements and gorgeous pixel art A short hike - A short but meaningful game Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Very unique Zero Sievert - My go to game for relaxation, easy to digest Rain world - Love the atmosphere and the AI is awesome! Eastward - love the pixel art! Cocoon - mind blowing! Chained Echoes - Awesome combat and story Moonlighter - Love the pixel art and the gameplay! Bloodroots- Awesome Fast paced action and one hit kill combat system (Haven't played the popular ones yet like Hollow Knight, Hades, Dead Cells etc.)
1) Hollow Knight 2) Cuphead 3) Deep Rock Galactic 4) Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps 5) Dead Cells 6) Tunic 7) Fez 8) Ender Lilies 9) Animal Well 10) Bendy and the Ink Machine / Dark Revival 11) Celeste 12) Hyper Light Drifter 13) A Hat in Time 14) Little Nightmares (both games) 15) Cocoon
THANK you for putting truly unique titles on your list! Minishoot, Chained Echoes, and Crosscode are three games I've never heard of - which is shocking, because they look so frickin' good!
Damn dude, This is a real list. I agree strongly with almost all of these. I think I would give crystal project the best turned based category over chained echoes...but still chained echoes is a solid pick. I also think your missing monster sanctuary (best indie monster catcher rivaled maybe by cassette beasts). Other contenders I didn't see on your list (sticking to more recent games like you did) Animal Well for its joyous puzzling, and octopath 2 has to be a contender for the pixel art....Sea of stars was prettier but octopath redefined what HD2D was and brought us into a world of hd2d remakes. All in all though this list was top tier and represents why I love your channel so much. Keep it up! You should be 10x bigger.
Dude thank you so much for the kind words. That really made my day. I heard so many great things about Crystal Project and I definitely want to check it out someday. Monster Sanctuary is a great game. I love how it's a crazy mix of MV and Pokémon. Really need to finish that game soon.
Some of these would definitely be in my list too - Sea of Stars, Tunic, Islets. Hollow Knight would also have made it onto mine. Particularly pleased to see Death’s Door on your list, one of my all time favourites and you don’t see it get the recognition it deserves. Looking forward to the next release from those devs.
Eastward (loved the story and the visual style of the game), Swapper (great puzzle game with a dense atmosphere); Narita Boy (what an hommage to the 80s); Axiom and Shovel Night (great hommage to the 8bit area). Not sure if it still counts as Indie, but I really also enjoyed the Thalos Principle. It really tickled my brain solving these puzzles.
Just started replaying the Swapper the other night. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I played it last. The art direction is great and its melding of game mechanics into its overarching themes is still unique to this day.
I am really disappointed I have never seen anybody put A Hat in Time in these top 10 lists, its literally one of the best games I have ever played in my life
I love that your list is personal without the most obvious choices. And Death's Door is so underrated masterpiece. I am surprised people are not listing Darkest Dungeon in the comments. I can also recommend A short hike, Disco Elysium, Frostpunk, Gris, Subnautica, Vampire survivors, Stardew Valley. Weird list with some AA :P
Your list is quite solid and good, but I missed Outer Wilds. I have a huge fondness for this game-its soundtrack, atmosphere, design, and magnificent story. Everything in this game is so perfect and special.
I don't really do Let's Plays and I think I wouldn't enjoy them. But as soon as I play Outer Wilds I'm sure I'll share my thoughts on it on the channel. 😉
Thanks for the video and for your personal opinion! I have Moonlighter and Crosscode in my Switch library and have never touched them. Thanks to do I put them in my priority list ❤
Cross code is really amazing buuuuut, some of the puzzles get very irritating theres one in a temple in the desert that simply made me quit even loving the rest of the game, ill return to it eventually " yes the game is that fun to make me be dure ill go back to it even hating the puzzles"
Im so happy to see crosscode at the #1 spot. Its such an amazing and fun game i legit couldnt stop replaying the game over and over again just to regain that thrill of combat and exploration and puzzle solving crosscode gets you. Also the dlc adds so much more to the game it should really be a part of the game because it adds the perfect ending Definetly my favorite indie game of all time. One thing you forgot to mention is all the amazing and fun bosses and quests this game has to offer
It's always so nice to see people feeling the same love for CrossCode as I feel. It's such an incredible game and the puzzles especially are so much fun. Easily one of the best games ever made.
This is a very good list, very well thought out. One of the (many, many) failings of the video game scene is that most great indie games rarely see much publicity (outside of the regular indie news outlets, of course), so they pass by many gamers who might have loved those games. Hopefully channels like yours will help some people to discover such great games.
Thank you so much!!! This is exactly why I started this channel, giving indie games a spotlight and trying to reach as many people as I can to get them interested in indie games. 😊
This is a great list! Minishoot for sure was one of the biggest surprises for me when I played it! It is pure fun and I wish more people would play it and talk about it! Islets looks great! I have to check it out!
Great list! I need to play Crosscode. It’s in my backlog, and I don’t know why I haven’t sunk my teeth into it yet. I always hear from reliable sources that it’s one of the best.
It truly is. Just be aware that there are sections with a lot of puzzles. But if you like that then you're in for a treat because these puzzles are brilliant!
more than a half of the list is pretty niche great games overshadowed by more popular and obvious indie titles at respective genre. thanks for mentioning them and giving a chance to spotlight
Alright but this one is probably one of the best list of games recommendation because the video isn't talking about popular indie games such as that already existed like Hades, Dead Cells, Outer Wilds and more that we already knows. Most of the games are new to me and definetely will put them on my list, thank you for the great recommendation.
I disagree them being popular does not make them bad games Hades probably is the best action-Rougelike indie game ever made and putting Deaths Door there isn't doing any justice. Yes its a good game but not great and people praising the cause the games are nieche but most of them are well sold titles and the thumbnail is ''Best indie games'' not best nieche indie games.
think you're missing my point. I'm not mistaken here, I never said the games that I mentioned are bad, it's way out of my point. I commented about how well this video is to me because those games are the game that I never actually heard of from most of the majority videos there is talking about games recommendations, because every time I watch a video about it (e.g. roguelike) most of the time those games are the one who mostly appeared which is Dead Cells, Hades, Risk of Rain 2 etc. and I know those games are really great but I have I tried all of them, and that's why I'm glad to see a video that gives me new titles that are good too(I play some of the games in this recommendation and it's greatly underrated).
@@BagusIrawan6 The problem is that the title of the video is super clickbaity and cheap. Death's Door and a lot of the games here have huge flaws, and I hardly believe even the guy who made the video actually thinks these are the best roguelike games. I didn’t say you meant that; I said Hades and all those games are the best at what they do-that’s why they’re on every list. A game being popular does not invalidate a list, and trying to add niche games just to be different is like naming the top 5 rappers but avoiding popular picks just to be different-it’s pretentious.
@@GokalpCoskuntuna the title is not clickbaity and cheap at all. It's obvious that it's about my personal favorites. What else could it be about? What did you expect? A channel that repeats the same stuff everyone is talking about because everything I say is objective? That wouldn't make much sense, right? So of course a video with a title like that never claims to have a definitive opinion or something and it's obviously about personal preferences.
Thanks mate! I love CrossCode so much I even made a full essay back in November 22. Production quality isn't exactly what it is today but maybe worth a look 😉 th-cam.com/video/jrjc-lhHHok/w-d-xo.htmlsi=G8drJ87mfChHEm1o
My top 10 (no particular order) are 1. Hollow Knight 2. Celeste 3. Undertale 4. Cuphead 5. Cult of the Lamb 6. Viewfinder 7. Elden Ring 8. Dead Cells 9. Ori and the Will of the Wisps 10. Rain World Bonus 11th: Hollow Knight Silksong, unreleased :( Edit: I just realized how dumb i am for calling Elden Ring indie, keep it on the list :p
You're honestly convincing me to whip out my Switch version of CrossCode and to finally play it! Seriously amazing list bro, it's hard to keep up with all these wonderful gems!
okay bro, its as easy as doing this: 00:21 Viewfinder 01:32 Moonlighter 02:35 Death's Door 03:45 Islets 05:01 Sea Of Starts 06:21 Blasphemous 2 07:40 Lone Fungus 08:55 Minishoot' Adventures 10:14 Chained Echoes 11:34 Tunic 13:33 Crosscode I promise you that making your viewer's life easier than skipping through a 15 minute video is worth it
Dude, absolutely not! I'm really open for feedback, I really am, but I'm not a fan of this. I know how people watch videos like this and I tested how the average view duration compares and that's why I do my timestamps like this. Some folks just click the video, have a 5 second look on the chapter names and close the video. That's a really stupid way to watch videos. Some of my videso take me 8 to 16 hours to produce so I think it's perfectly fine to not reveal so much in the chapters or description.
Really fun list, and I like a lot of these games. It feels a little bit like you forgot some of the older ones like Braid, Fez, Kentucky Route Zero, Super Meat Boy, and if I were to only add one game to your list: Celeste - about as good as a platformer will get.
Na, I didn't forget these games - I just haven't played them yet. 😅 I played a bit of FEZ recently and I really enjoy it but I haven't played it long enough to put it in a list like that. I'll try to catch uo on a couple indie games though. 😎
@ you’ve got a lot of fun ahead of you! If you’re into unique stuff I’d say you can’t go wrong with Undertale. Just try to go in blind; the less you know the better.
I wasn't aware of Death's Door, and will need to check that out at some point. I have a number of other games on this list, but Sea of Stars is the only one I've played. A few indie gems that I always recommend are Gorogoa for a puzzle game, To the Moon for a more interactive story than game, and Undertale for such a creative take on RPGs. And my outside pick is Venineth which just has wonderful worlds to get lost in for a while.
Crosscode at number 1 caught me off guard. Great pick. Extremely underrated. Maybe Hyper Light Drifter could fit somewhere on this list. Hollow Knight and Fez too. One of my personal favourites is inside, which really pushes the boundaries between games and art.
Great list. My top 10 in no particular order would be: Death’s Door FTL:Faster than Light Into the Breach Balatro Nine Sols Slay the Spire Hades Cocoon Olli Olli World Dead Cells Minishoot Adventures, Tactical Breach Wizards, and UFO 50 are definitely highlights from this year as well.
@@feiitogaming 100%. I was surprised how I absolutely loved it. Especially since I’m not a huge fan of skateboarding games, including the other Olli Olli entries. World just hit the sweet spot for me.
I like the list. I'd love a disclaimer explaining why Hades or Hollow Knight didn't make it into the list, because those 2 are clearly goated. But I liked your list regardless
Your review of Nine Sols led me to this video and it's given me a lot of interesting looking games to check out! My personal favorite indies are Hyper Light Drifter, Guacamelee! and Hotline Miami.
Never heard of any of these games, is what makes this such a good list. Atm my list probably be: 1) celeste 2) hollow knight 3) cosmoteer 4) long gone days 5) nauticrawl 6) mewnbase 7) interstellaria 8) dont escape, 4 days to survive 9) mini motorways
This is such an interesting list! I haven't heard about any of these games but all of them look so appealing! But could you please write their names somewhere? That would be great!
@@literaturtee that's great. I'm always happy to introduce people to new games. The games on this list are: Viewfinder Moonlighter Death's Door Islets Sea of Stars Blasphemous 2 Lone Fungus Minishoot' Adventures Chained Echoes Tunic CrossCode
Man if you haven't played outer wilds and its dlc please go play it without spoiling it. It's my personal GOAT, and when the DLC came out I was so blown away by that second miracle I almost had a stroke. For me there's no topping Outer Wilds. I would also suggest "what remains of Edith Finch", that game is just pure gold
@@feiitogamingJudging by your based af list in this video, i think you'll love every single second of outer wilds. Just please don't look up anything online. If possible, avoid the trailer. And explore like you would a FromSoftware game, hunting for Lore. You'll be rewarded with one of the best lores and plots in gaming history
1. Undertale/deltarune - best of the best 2. Terraria - best survival/sandbox 3.Tiny rouges (still in beta) - best rogue lite 4. Ultra kill - best singleplayer fps 5. Loop Hero - best turn-based game 6. Best dungeon crawler - Barony 7. Best platformer - Celeste honourable mention: -Dead Cells -Forager -Hollow knight -Core keeper PS: I only considered games from Steam
There’s some pretty good games on this list. Only played about 10 hours of Moonlighter but it is pretty neat. Couldn’t really get into CrossCode; maybe I just need to give it another shot. Also been meaning to try Sea of Stars. For me my top 5 would be: 5. Celeste 4. Tunic 3. Enter the Gungeon 2. Hyper Light Drifter 1. Hollow Knight Easily some of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Actual masterpieces with little to no flaws. If I was making a Top 11 I’d add Shovel Knight, A Short Hike, Deaths Door, Katana Zero, Cave Story, and Animal Well.
Cool video! And in coments i found a lot of good classic indi games like HK or Isaac. My favourite RPG game is Omori, and i confused that nobody wrote about it. Favourite adventure game - Outer Wilds. It is just beautiful. And as a rougelike - Dead sells.
@@feiitogaming Hi, thank you to ask ! the games that I discovered thanks to you AND that make me want to play them, that I put in my wishlist: Death's Door, Islets, Tunic! 🙌 (and Crosscode but no French translate, so not in my priority) I have already in my wishlist Minishoot' Aventure, Chained Echoes, Viewfinder.. (yeah, lack of time with my 70 games in my wishlist lol..) And I am right now in the end of Sea Of Stars 😍 first J-RPG for me since FF7 on PS1 when I was young ^^ My number one Indie Game is Hades license 💖 and in top: Ori, Lysfanga (really unique gameplay), Dicey Dungeons, Pyrene, Brotato, Celeste, Dorfromantik, GRIS and NEVA 🙏 (and a lot of Roguelike game but Hades is in my heart for ever and I come back to it often)
HK is awesome. I heard great things about BioGun. Doesn't really look like something I like, aesthetic-wise I mean, but I know that's dumb and I should really give it a chance
@@feiitogaming totally makes sense. I am not a fan of retro looking games. Even if everybody says they are great. Everybody had their things. You can just looks at it and get an idea of you would enjoy it or not
Oh yeah Signalis. This game looks absolutely amazing but I haven't played it yet. It's def on my backlog though - just need to find the time to play it 😅
I hope I get to make time to play all of these, although I feel intimidated as hell to get into JRPGs because I think they're just too complex and time consuming to me, what I most enjoy about sea of stars is its simplicity both in combat system and in build mechanics. Any advise going into crosscode?
My advise for CrossCode is that you can play the demo first and if you decide you want to play the full game then just take it slow. CrossCode is easy to divide into several story chuncks, so to speak. It is a Long Game (40-60h) but it's easy to stop and get back to it a couple days later. Also there's a dynamic difficulty setting which can make it easier to get through the game.
Best Metroidvania: Environmental Station Alpha Best Dungeon Crawler: Legend of Grimrock Best Twin Stick: Hotline Miami Best Arcade Side-Scroller: Volgarr the Viking
@feiitogaming Be careful if you try Environmental Station Alpha. There's a mistake in the starting screen were "hard" mode is incorrectly labeled as "easy". And "normal" mode should actually be called "Are you freaking kidding me? I'm starting a new game in easy mode!".
Holy shit. Crosscode??? I backed that game on indiegogo so many years ago and played the Alpha. Ive totally forgotten about it until you mentioned it in this video. Glad to hear that the game is a success.
My list of really good indie games not in the video : - Inmost - Have a Nice Death - Journey - Midnight Fight Express - OneShot - Worldless Add your list as a reply to my comment. It Interest me. ❤
My top 11, but I have so many games to try 1* (Minecraft) 1. Hollow knight 2. Outer wilds 3. Subnautica 4. Cuphead 5. Dredge 6. The Stanley parable 7. Inside 8. Journey 9. Chants of sennaar 10. Celeste
Death s Door is one of the best games i ve ever played. Loved Chained Echoes althou it starts quite slow, dropped like 2 times before finally playing it. I liked Sea of Stars, didnt love it, but it s also very good.
I dont know if Project Moon Count as an indie Dev but both Library of Ruina and Limbus company are my favorites mainly for the story but the gameplay especialy in Ruina is top notch the base turn based combat i have ever played
@@feiitogamingI just played it earlier this year. Be sure to play the DLC after you finish the game. It's called "Echos of the Eye" and it's arguably better than the base game 😳 You're in for a treat for sure 🙌🏿
I bought a Switch recently and beat some games that I would never play in big platforms. And one of that games is a gem of metroidvanias: ANIMAL WELL. The best exploration experience in games I've ever had. 20+ hours and I still not found every secret.
Minishoot was a lot of fun. Really satisfied my recent cravings for shmups. The only problem I have with the game is that the true ending was underwhelming (No seriously why? Had I known what would happen I would have never done it) and I need a fourth difficulty option because CAVE and Touhou have made me too powerful for this game. Even the TLB was fairly easy for me even on the highest difficulty.
My personal unordered top 10 is 1: hollow knight 2: slay the spire 3: blasphemous 2 4: the binding of Isaac 5: ultrakill 6: terraria 7: nine sols 8: darkest dungeon 9: celeste 10: cuphead
Baba is You is by far the best indie puzzle game. I played both Tunic and Sea of Stars and neither of them deserve to be ranked higher than Celeste and Hollow Knight, but I appreciate that it seems like this list is attempting to include games that everyone doesn’t already know about
This list is meant to show my personal favorites, that's why some fan favorites are not here. I def think Hollow Knight and Celeste are incredible games but I didn't enjoy them as much as other people did. 🤷 Baba Is You is an absolutely phenomenal game as well. So creative and so difficult - at least for me 😅
Have you played Cuphead? It's a perfect game and does everything. But I still say Outer Wilds is better, even though it isn't perfect. The emotions and themes are crazy.
I've played Cuphead, yes. Fantastic game that was challenging but never felt unfair because I always knew why I died and that was always my own fault. Really good game design
What's your favorite indie game?
Balatro is my pick for best roguelike.
@@logixindieBalatro is brilliant. Love this game.
Crosscode. That game is like they have looked inside my brain and see what I like the most of gaming and in which proportions. Perfect experience.
Bloodless. It was a big surprise for me
Sea Of Stars
The first time that there are no completely based games that everyone knows, actually I only knew deaths door so this is a completely new list with so many interesting games. This alone deserves a follow and like
Thanks so much for the sub and I'm glad you enjoyed this list. Yeah my taste in games doesn't always match what a lot of people like, which mostly ends up me not liking very popular games as much as the masses. Hollow Knight would be a good example 😅
@feiitogaming yeah me too, thats why I loved this list so much
wow this is the only list where I actually got new games to put on my list.
That's awesome! What games are new to you?
fax. pretty much most of the games here are new to me lol
Lmao I've been seeing a couple of lists like these and most are the same 15 games over and over again
Hotline Miami - Best story
Undertale - Best overall
Sifu - Best Gameplay
Inscryption - Most mindblowing
Little Nightmares 1/2 - Best ambience
That would be my list
@@pablomoral4751 great list. Inscryption is on my list of indie games I really want to try soon.
Little nightmares ambiance is great. But does it beat subnautica?
my personnal top 11 is :
1 outer wilds
2 celeste
3 hollow knight
4 hades
5 nine sols
6 the binding of isaac
7 undertale
8 katana zero
9 the begginners guide
10 chants of senaar
11 Pizza tower
Fantastic games on your list!
Finally someone mentions outer wilds
My personal list:
Crosscode - awesome combat and platforming elements
Hyper Light Drifter - I Freaking love the pixel art and no dialogue story
Sea of Stars - I like the platforming elements and gorgeous pixel art
A short hike - A short but meaningful game
Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Very unique
Zero Sievert - My go to game for relaxation, easy to digest
Rain world - Love the atmosphere and the AI is awesome!
Eastward - love the pixel art!
Cocoon - mind blowing!
Chained Echoes - Awesome combat and story
Moonlighter - Love the pixel art and the gameplay!
Bloodroots- Awesome Fast paced action and one hit kill combat system
(Haven't played the popular ones yet like Hollow Knight, Hades, Dead Cells etc.)
Great list dude! Really want to play Eastward soon - looks awesome!
Deaths door is such a masterpiece. i love everything about it.
@@renkel8514 totally!!!
These lists always show the most popular obvious ones, yours is the only once I’ve seen with unique games. Great video
Thank you 🙏
1) Hollow Knight
2) Cuphead
3) Deep Rock Galactic
4) Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps
5) Dead Cells
6) Tunic
7) Fez
8) Ender Lilies
9) Animal Well
10) Bendy and the Ink Machine / Dark Revival
11) Celeste
12) Hyper Light Drifter
13) A Hat in Time
14) Little Nightmares (both games)
15) Cocoon
That's a great list. Especially nice to see Cocoon on there. I feel like a lot of people skipped that game but it's so fricking good.
Great list! Ori games are not indie though, they're published by Microsoft
@@gildorking4347 They are.
@@TrustedJustus they are what? Indie? Indie definition is literally a game not supported by a large publisher. Doesn't get larger than Microsoft
@@gildorking4347 You're right. Microsoft owns the Ori IP. This would make Ori a first-party character.
THANK you for putting truly unique titles on your list! Minishoot, Chained Echoes, and Crosscode are three games I've never heard of - which is shocking, because they look so frickin' good!
Thank YOU for watching. These three games are out of this world. Hope you'll enjoy them as much as I did
Damn dude, This is a real list. I agree strongly with almost all of these. I think I would give crystal project the best turned based category over chained echoes...but still chained echoes is a solid pick.
I also think your missing monster sanctuary (best indie monster catcher rivaled maybe by cassette beasts). Other contenders I didn't see on your list (sticking to more recent games like you did) Animal Well for its joyous puzzling, and octopath 2 has to be a contender for the pixel art....Sea of stars was prettier but octopath redefined what HD2D was and brought us into a world of hd2d remakes.
All in all though this list was top tier and represents why I love your channel so much. Keep it up! You should be 10x bigger.
Dude thank you so much for the kind words. That really made my day.
I heard so many great things about Crystal Project and I definitely want to check it out someday. Monster Sanctuary is a great game. I love how it's a crazy mix of MV and Pokémon. Really need to finish that game soon.
Some of these would definitely be in my list too - Sea of Stars, Tunic, Islets. Hollow Knight would also have made it onto mine. Particularly pleased to see Death’s Door on your list, one of my all time favourites and you don’t see it get the recognition it deserves. Looking forward to the next release from those devs.
Totally agree on Death's Door. Those who played love it but it deserves more attention.
Eastward (loved the story and the visual style of the game), Swapper (great puzzle game with a dense atmosphere); Narita Boy (what an hommage to the 80s); Axiom and Shovel Night (great hommage to the 8bit area). Not sure if it still counts as Indie, but I really also enjoyed the Thalos Principle. It really tickled my brain solving these puzzles.
Just started replaying the Swapper the other night. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I played it last. The art direction is great and its melding of game mechanics into its overarching themes is still unique to this day.
Oh great list of games. I really want to try Thalos Principle at some point. That game always looked interesting
Eastward is in my top 10 for sure! It was super charming and fun to play
Crosscode, tunic and deaths door are some of my favorite games of all time!
@@Xaverrrrr I see you got some good taste 🔥
Been researching and I wanna try all three of these games 🤩
Was so happy when Chained Echoes came up in your list, severely underrated!
Totally! Way more people should give this gem a go.
I am really disappointed I have never seen anybody put A Hat in Time in these top 10 lists, its literally one of the best games I have ever played in my life
Never heard of this game but I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
@feiitogaming you totally should check it out, by your list I am pretty sure you would fall in love with the game
I supported the Kickstarter campaign waaay back in the day 😅 awesome game. I agree.
I love that your list is personal without the most obvious choices. And Death's Door is so underrated masterpiece. I am surprised people are not listing Darkest Dungeon in the comments. I can also recommend A short hike, Disco Elysium, Frostpunk, Gris, Subnautica, Vampire survivors, Stardew Valley. Weird list with some AA :P
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed the list.
Your list is quite solid and good, but I missed Outer Wilds. I have a huge fondness for this game-its soundtrack, atmosphere, design, and magnificent story. Everything in this game is so perfect and special.
I will def play this soon. Heard only good things about it and I'm sure I'll love it.
@@feiitogaming It would be great if you record your "let's play" video and put it here
I don't really do Let's Plays and I think I wouldn't enjoy them. But as soon as I play Outer Wilds I'm sure I'll share my thoughts on it on the channel. 😉
That would be my "best indie game ever". Also, Void Stranger should be in the list somewhere.
Love these lists, the variety, and the shout out to indies! Look forward to trying some new stuff.
Awesome, I'm happy you like my list.
First time coming across this channel and I must say, this is one of, if not the best comprehensive gaming list I have seen.
Awww thank you so much! I'm happy you enjoyed this video.
Thanks for the video and for your personal opinion! I have Moonlighter and Crosscode in my Switch library and have never touched them. Thanks to do I put them in my priority list ❤
Awesome! I hope you'll enjoy your time with CrossCode and Moonlighter.
Cross code is really amazing buuuuut, some of the puzzles get very irritating theres one in a temple in the desert that simply made me quit even loving the rest of the game, ill return to it eventually " yes the game is that fun to make me be dure ill go back to it even hating the puzzles"
My top would be:
0 minecraft (Not an indie for me)
1 Outer wilds
2 Hollow knight
3 Kenshi
4 terraria
5 papers please
6 Tunic
7 Furi
8 Stardew valley
9 Cocoon
10 Blasphemous 2
Great list! Always happy to see some love for Tunic. 🔥
Im so happy to see crosscode at the #1 spot. Its such an amazing and fun game i legit couldnt stop replaying the game over and over again just to regain that thrill of combat and exploration and puzzle solving crosscode gets you.
Also the dlc adds so much more to the game it should really be a part of the game because it adds the perfect ending
Definetly my favorite indie game of all time.
One thing you forgot to mention is all the amazing and fun bosses and quests this game has to offer
It's always so nice to see people feeling the same love for CrossCode as I feel. It's such an incredible game and the puzzles especially are so much fun. Easily one of the best games ever made.
This is a very good list, very well thought out. One of the (many, many) failings of the video game scene is that most great indie games rarely see much publicity (outside of the regular indie news outlets, of course), so they pass by many gamers who might have loved those games. Hopefully channels like yours will help some people to discover such great games.
Thank you so much!!! This is exactly why I started this channel, giving indie games a spotlight and trying to reach as many people as I can to get them interested in indie games. 😊
This is a great list! Minishoot for sure was one of the biggest surprises for me when I played it! It is pure fun and I wish more people would play it and talk about it!
Islets looks great! I have to check it out!
@@headjump803 yeah Minishoot' Adventures is amazing and so far my favorite indie game of 2024.
Thank you so much for this list.
Now I want to play them all at once 😀
Haha that's awesome. Enjoy them! 💪
I like how original your list was!
Thank you!
I just bought Moonlighter a couple days ago because of this video and I'm enjoying the heck out of it 🤩 Thank you so much for the recommendation 🙏🏿
Wow that's awesome man! Glad my video got you interested in it and your enjoying it. 💪
I'm quite interested on moonlighter this few months, but your videos just give me the final push to purchase it after my next paycheck.
That's awesome dude. Let me know how you like it. 😊
Great list! I need to play Crosscode. It’s in my backlog, and I don’t know why I haven’t sunk my teeth into it yet. I always hear from reliable sources that it’s one of the best.
It truly is. Just be aware that there are sections with a lot of puzzles. But if you like that then you're in for a treat because these puzzles are brilliant!
What a unique list, I haven’t heard of most of these games. I am wish listing them right now.
Awesome! Which of these games are new to you?
more than a half of the list is pretty niche great games overshadowed by more popular and obvious indie titles at respective genre. thanks for mentioning them and giving a chance to spotlight
❤️🙏
I LOVE Tunic and Death's Door! I'm always happy when someone mentions either of them.
Alright but this one is probably one of the best list of games recommendation because the video isn't talking about popular indie games such as that already existed like Hades, Dead Cells, Outer Wilds and more that we already knows. Most of the games are new to me and definetely will put them on my list, thank you for the great recommendation.
I disagree them being popular does not make them bad games Hades probably is the best action-Rougelike indie game ever made and putting Deaths Door there isn't doing any justice. Yes its a good game but not great and people praising the cause the games are nieche but most of them are well sold titles and the thumbnail is ''Best indie games'' not best nieche indie games.
think you're missing my point. I'm not mistaken here, I never said the games that I mentioned are bad, it's way out of my point. I commented about how well this video is to me because those games are the game that I never actually heard of from most of the majority videos there is talking about games recommendations, because every time I watch a video about it (e.g. roguelike) most of the time those games are the one who mostly appeared which is Dead Cells, Hades, Risk of Rain 2 etc. and I know those games are really great but I have I tried all of them, and that's why I'm glad to see a video that gives me new titles that are good too(I play some of the games in this recommendation and it's greatly underrated).
@@BagusIrawan6 The problem is that the title of the video is super clickbaity and cheap. Death's Door and a lot of the games here have huge flaws, and I hardly believe even the guy who made the video actually thinks these are the best roguelike games. I didn’t say you meant that; I said Hades and all those games are the best at what they do-that’s why they’re on every list. A game being popular does not invalidate a list, and trying to add niche games just to be different is like naming the top 5 rappers but avoiding popular picks just to be different-it’s pretentious.
@@BagusIrawan6 thanks mate! Appreciate it and glad you enjoyed my video. Always nice to see that games I love are new to others
@@GokalpCoskuntuna the title is not clickbaity and cheap at all. It's obvious that it's about my personal favorites. What else could it be about? What did you expect? A channel that repeats the same stuff everyone is talking about because everything I say is objective? That wouldn't make much sense, right? So of course a video with a title like that never claims to have a definitive opinion or something and it's obviously about personal preferences.
I don't know about best indie games "of all time", definitely an overstatement, but it's still a great list, full of stuff I've never heard of before.
Thanks! Yeah it's a very personal list so it's more like "The best of all time for me" 😅
Solid list! My 2024 favorites are Minishoot and Nine Sols.
Yo Nine Sols is amazing!
FINALLY someone who appreciates Crosscode as much as I do, one of the absolute best indie games ever, for sure.
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God I love crosscode so damn much! Everything you said about it is very accurate and really hits the spot on why it's so loved by it's fans
Thanks mate! I love CrossCode so much I even made a full essay back in November 22. Production quality isn't exactly what it is today but maybe worth a look 😉
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Wow. I only knew one of these. The other 10 are now on my Steam Wishlist. Did not expect that going into a video like this.
Wow, that's cool. I'm happy I was able to introduce you to new games.
Great lists. The games I have played- wholeheartedly agree with you.
Makes me trust your opinion to try the others I haven’t played yet!
Thank you so much, it's great to hear you trust in my opinion ☺️ Hope you'll enjoy the games you try as much as I did.
My top 10 (no particular order) are
1. Hollow Knight
2. Celeste
3. Undertale
4. Cuphead
5. Cult of the Lamb
6. Viewfinder
7. Elden Ring
8. Dead Cells
9. Ori and the Will of the Wisps
10. Rain World
Bonus 11th: Hollow Knight Silksong, unreleased :(
Edit: I just realized how dumb i am for calling Elden Ring indie, keep it on the list :p
Edit: If we're going top 20, your list is basically all there
awesome list of games. I still need to get Cult of the Lamb, that game always grabbed my attention, but somehow I haven't played it yet.
Elden ring 😂
@@amolbhatia1449is that a problem? Elden ring is indie.
@@StraightCurve2 Not a problem. Just factually incorrect. Elden Ring is made by a big studio with a significant budget.
You're honestly convincing me to whip out my Switch version of CrossCode and to finally play it! Seriously amazing list bro, it's hard to keep up with all these wonderful gems!
I really hope you'll like it, otherwise I hyped it for nothing haha
These look so cool, how did I miss these
@@yvanmezencev4669 awesome! Which of these games are new to you?
Thank you for your list! I’m also curious about what you think about outer wilds.
Awesome, glad you liked it.
I haven't played Outer Wilds yet but I'm sure I'll love it.
A list with actually little known games, good job!
Thank you. I hope you'll enjoy some of these games as much as I did. What games were new to you?
NGL the little sounds for the pew pew and verum verum had me in stitches 🤣 awesome list.
Hahaha, yeah had a bit of fun with that one. Honestly though it describes it perfectly 🤣
@@feiitogaming by the sound of it 🤣🤣🤣
Also this game crosscode. I keep hearing people talk about it. I guess it's meant to be a good game 🤣
@@sixsixjd yeah, it's alright. Not as good as Star Ocean 5 though 😉
@@feiitogaming obviously! I mean how can you beat a classic game that is perfect like star ocean 5 🤣😴😴
okay bro, its as easy as doing this:
00:21 Viewfinder
01:32 Moonlighter
02:35 Death's Door
03:45 Islets
05:01 Sea Of Starts
06:21 Blasphemous 2
07:40 Lone Fungus
08:55 Minishoot' Adventures
10:14 Chained Echoes
11:34 Tunic
13:33 Crosscode
I promise you that making your viewer's life easier than skipping through a 15 minute video is worth it
Dude, absolutely not! I'm really open for feedback, I really am, but I'm not a fan of this.
I know how people watch videos like this and I tested how the average view duration compares and that's why I do my timestamps like this. Some folks just click the video, have a 5 second look on the chapter names and close the video. That's a really stupid way to watch videos.
Some of my videso take me 8 to 16 hours to produce so I think it's perfectly fine to not reveal so much in the chapters or description.
1- Outer Wilds
2- Hyper Light Drifter
3- Tunic
4- Hollow knight
5- Hades
6- Fez
7- The Witness
8- The end is nigh
9- FTL
10- The Binding of Isaac
Awesome list. I'm 100% going to play Outer Wilds asap!
Moonlighter is awesome...I really want a sequel
That would be sooo cool!
Really fun list, and I like a lot of these games. It feels a little bit like you forgot some of the older ones like Braid, Fez, Kentucky Route Zero, Super Meat Boy, and if I were to only add one game to your list: Celeste - about as good as a platformer will get.
Na, I didn't forget these games - I just haven't played them yet. 😅 I played a bit of FEZ recently and I really enjoy it but I haven't played it long enough to put it in a list like that. I'll try to catch uo on a couple indie games though. 😎
@ you’ve got a lot of fun ahead of you! If you’re into unique stuff I’d say you can’t go wrong with Undertale. Just try to go in blind; the less you know the better.
I wasn't aware of Death's Door, and will need to check that out at some point. I have a number of other games on this list, but Sea of Stars is the only one I've played. A few indie gems that I always recommend are Gorogoa for a puzzle game, To the Moon for a more interactive story than game, and Undertale for such a creative take on RPGs. And my outside pick is Venineth which just has wonderful worlds to get lost in for a while.
I hope you'll enjoy Death's Door, it's a brilliant game!
Crosscode at number 1 caught me off guard. Great pick. Extremely underrated.
Maybe Hyper Light Drifter could fit somewhere on this list. Hollow Knight and Fez too.
One of my personal favourites is inside, which really pushes the boundaries between games and art.
Agreed! CrossCode is underrated because waaaay more people should play this. It's incredible!!!
Great list. My top 10 in no particular order would be:
Death’s Door
FTL:Faster than Light
Into the Breach
Balatro
Nine Sols
Slay the Spire
Hades
Cocoon
Olli Olli World
Dead Cells
Minishoot Adventures, Tactical Breach Wizards, and UFO 50 are definitely highlights from this year as well.
Yeees, so cool to see Olli Olli World on your list. This game is soooo underrated!
@@feiitogaming 100%. I was surprised how I absolutely loved it. Especially since I’m not a huge fan of skateboarding games, including the other Olli Olli entries. World just hit the sweet spot for me.
I like the list. I'd love a disclaimer explaining why Hades or Hollow Knight didn't make it into the list, because those 2 are clearly goated. But I liked your list regardless
Thanks. I like Hollow Knight and Hades a lot but they somehow didn't stick with me as much as the other games do. But yeah they're great.
Your review of Nine Sols led me to this video and it's given me a lot of interesting looking games to check out! My personal favorite indies are Hyper Light Drifter, Guacamelee! and Hotline Miami.
Never heard of any of these games, is what makes this such a good list.
Atm my list probably be:
1) celeste
2) hollow knight
3) cosmoteer
4) long gone days
5) nauticrawl
6) mewnbase
7) interstellaria
8) dont escape, 4 days to survive
9) mini motorways
Thanks! Great list you have there 💪
This is such an interesting list! I haven't heard about any of these games but all of them look so appealing! But could you please write their names somewhere? That would be great!
@@literaturtee that's great. I'm always happy to introduce people to new games.
The games on this list are:
Viewfinder
Moonlighter
Death's Door
Islets
Sea of Stars
Blasphemous 2
Lone Fungus
Minishoot' Adventures
Chained Echoes
Tunic
CrossCode
Man if you haven't played outer wilds and its dlc please go play it without spoiling it. It's my personal GOAT, and when the DLC came out I was so blown away by that second miracle I almost had a stroke. For me there's no topping Outer Wilds.
I would also suggest "what remains of Edith Finch", that game is just pure gold
@@Kaiju-b2b I will 100% play Outer Wilds asap. Probably next year. I only heard great things about it and I am sure I'll love it.
@@feiitogamingJudging by your based af list in this video, i think you'll love every single second of outer wilds. Just please don't look up anything online. If possible, avoid the trailer. And explore like you would a FromSoftware game, hunting for Lore.
You'll be rewarded with one of the best lores and plots in gaming history
Great list dude
@@wem_iii thank you! 💪
1. Undertale/deltarune - best of the best
2. Terraria - best survival/sandbox
3.Tiny rouges (still in beta) - best rogue lite
4. Ultra kill - best singleplayer fps
5. Loop Hero - best turn-based game
6. Best dungeon crawler - Barony
7. Best platformer - Celeste
honourable mention:
-Dead Cells
-Forager
-Hollow knight
-Core keeper
PS: I only considered games from Steam
Great list dude!
Worth mentioning: Dust An elysian fairy tail, Unepic and Alwa's awakening , other titles Guacamelee 1 (haven't played others), cave story+, Labyronia RPG, Teslagrad.Shadowcrypt.Lost Ruins.
Dust is soooo underrated!!!
Crosscode has one of the most unique stories I've ever seen in a game. I love that game
Sameeee! 🔥
CrossCode seems incredibly underappreciated!
Totally!!!
There’s some pretty good games on this list. Only played about 10 hours of Moonlighter but it is pretty neat. Couldn’t really get into CrossCode; maybe I just need to give it another shot. Also been meaning to try Sea of Stars. For me my top 5 would be:
5. Celeste
4. Tunic
3. Enter the Gungeon
2. Hyper Light Drifter
1. Hollow Knight
Easily some of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Actual masterpieces with little to no flaws. If I was making a Top 11 I’d add Shovel Knight, A Short Hike, Deaths Door, Katana Zero, Cave Story, and Animal Well.
Oh fantastic list as well. Really want to try Enter the Gungeon some time.
Cool video! And in coments i found a lot of good classic indi games like HK or Isaac. My favourite RPG game is Omori, and i confused that nobody wrote about it. Favourite adventure game - Outer Wilds. It is just beautiful. And as a rougelike - Dead sells.
wow I discover some of them, thank you !
Awesome. Which of these games are new to you?
@@feiitogaming Hi, thank you to ask !
the games that I discovered thanks to you AND that make me want to play them, that I put in my wishlist: Death's Door, Islets, Tunic! 🙌 (and Crosscode but no French translate, so not in my priority)
I have already in my wishlist Minishoot' Aventure, Chained Echoes, Viewfinder.. (yeah, lack of time with my 70 games in my wishlist lol..)
And I am right now in the end of Sea Of Stars 😍 first J-RPG for me since FF7 on PS1 when I was young ^^
My number one Indie Game is Hades license 💖
and in top: Ori, Lysfanga (really unique gameplay), Dicey Dungeons, Pyrene, Brotato, Celeste, Dorfromantik, GRIS and NEVA 🙏
(and a lot of Roguelike game but Hades is in my heart for ever and I come back to it often)
#1 Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos. Technically a mod, but in reality the best RPG ever made.
Hollow knight is my favorite but on that a lot of people slept on is BioGun
HK is awesome. I heard great things about BioGun. Doesn't really look like something I like, aesthetic-wise I mean, but I know that's dumb and I should really give it a chance
@@feiitogaming totally makes sense. I am not a fan of retro looking games. Even if everybody says they are great. Everybody had their things. You can just looks at it and get an idea of you would enjoy it or not
@RelyeaGaming absolutely agree! I'm still looking forward to Silksong though 😅
So how the hell have I not seen so many of these bloody awesome looking games 🤔
That's awesome! Always happy whenever the games on my lists are new to people
"Baldo: The Guardian Owl" is hands down the greatest underrated gem out there❤
Heard very mixed things about it on release but it seems more and more people actually like this game. I should probably give this one a try soon.
@@feiitogamingharsh release some bugs and tuning ruined the experience, but today it's totally different game, I just love it
I feel like this list is missing Signalis, which was my game of the year in 2022, and one of the best horror experiences I've had.
Oh yeah Signalis. This game looks absolutely amazing but I haven't played it yet. It's def on my backlog though - just need to find the time to play it 😅
Big studios is more like money suckers ( Yes you , microsoft )
Indie games ( and friends team ) are true love by devs .
subbed cuz W taste :D
Awww, thank you so much. Really appreciate it. 🔥
I hope I get to make time to play all of these, although I feel intimidated as hell to get into JRPGs because I think they're just too complex and time consuming to me, what I most enjoy about sea of stars is its simplicity both in combat system and in build mechanics.
Any advise going into crosscode?
My advise for CrossCode is that you can play the demo first and if you decide you want to play the full game then just take it slow.
CrossCode is easy to divide into several story chuncks, so to speak. It is a Long Game (40-60h) but it's easy to stop and get back to it a couple days later.
Also there's a dynamic difficulty setting which can make it easier to get through the game.
Best Metroidvania: Environmental Station Alpha
Best Dungeon Crawler: Legend of Grimrock
Best Twin Stick: Hotline Miami
Best Arcade Side-Scroller: Volgarr the Viking
Great list. Don't know all of them so I have to check them out! Thanks for the recommendations
@feiitogaming Be careful if you try Environmental Station Alpha. There's a mistake in the starting screen were "hard" mode is incorrectly labeled as "easy". And "normal" mode should actually be called "Are you freaking kidding me? I'm starting a new game in easy mode!".
Holy shit. Crosscode??? I backed that game on indiegogo so many years ago and played the Alpha. Ive totally forgotten about it until you mentioned it in this video. Glad to hear that the game is a success.
Yeah it's absolutely insane how good this game is!
Love indie games now more then ever!
That's awesome!
Man Tunic really does have an incredible soundtrack. If you ever get a chance you have to listen to the uncut soundtrack. Tons of great songs there.
My list of really good indie games not in the video :
- Inmost
- Have a Nice Death
- Journey
- Midnight Fight Express
- OneShot
- Worldless
Add your list as a reply to my comment. It Interest me. ❤
Great list!
My top 11, but I have so many games to try
1* (Minecraft)
1. Hollow knight
2. Outer wilds
3. Subnautica
4. Cuphead
5. Dredge
6. The Stanley parable
7. Inside
8. Journey
9. Chants of sennaar
10. Celeste
Great list. I've never played Subnautica but it's on my list of games I want to play soon.
Tunic is as awesome as hard to beat. The entire game is amazing, yet it makes you want to throw the controller to the ground so many times.
Haha, I get that. Some boss fights are so tough 😅
Death s Door is one of the best games i ve ever played.
Loved Chained Echoes althou it starts quite slow, dropped like 2 times before finally playing it.
I liked Sea of Stars, didnt love it, but it s also very good.
Death's Door is really good!
I dont know if Project Moon Count as an indie Dev but both Library of Ruina and Limbus company are my favorites mainly for the story but the gameplay especialy in Ruina is top notch the base turn based combat i have ever played
Kinda disappointed thatOuter Wilds is not in there, the game is quite possibly the best indie game ever made.
@@TheStrikers63 I def want to play this soon. I only heard great things about it and I think it should be right up my alley.
@@feiitogamingI just played it earlier this year. Be sure to play the DLC after you finish the game. It's called "Echos of the Eye" and it's arguably better than the base game 😳 You're in for a treat for sure 🙌🏿
@brianwright9215 thanks I'll keep that in mind 😎
great list. only lone fungus is not on my list.
Thank you!
I agree with death's door, such an amazing and fun game. Quite a solid a list, but for puzze my pick would definitely be Cocoon.
Dude, Cocoon is amazing. One of my favorite games of 2023.
I bought a Switch recently and beat some games that I would never play in big platforms. And one of that games is a gem of metroidvanias: ANIMAL WELL.
The best exploration experience in games I've ever had.
20+ hours and I still not found every secret.
Animal Well is a great game - not really my thing, but I do agree that it's really special.
Chained echoes is made by one german guy. Technically it's a GRPG😂
Hahaha, absolutely. That means CrossCode is a GRPG as well. My favorite genre 😂
@@feiitogaming promising new genre
@@feiitogamingHoly moly shit just got real😊
Great list but I would also add hollow knight, celeste, katana zero, terraria, lies of p, sifu
Great list of games. Actually never played Katana Zero but I intend to do so in the future - it looks awesome!
Hollow for me is amazing but definetly not one of the best, various aspects of the game made me quit it for more than a year now.
Minishoot was a lot of fun. Really satisfied my recent cravings for shmups. The only problem I have with the game is that the true ending was underwhelming (No seriously why? Had I known what would happen I would have never done it) and I need a fourth difficulty option because CAVE and Touhou have made me too powerful for this game. Even the TLB was fairly easy for me even on the highest difficulty.
Drova forsaken kin blew me away this year
Looks neat!
Personal pick for best indi game ever is ULTRAKILL and even one of my favorate game in general
I haven't played that one yet but I see the name coming up a lot. I def need to check that out soon
My personal unordered top 10 is
1: hollow knight
2: slay the spire
3: blasphemous 2
4: the binding of Isaac
5: ultrakill
6: terraria
7: nine sols
8: darkest dungeon
9: celeste
10: cuphead
Animal Well, Hollow knight and terraria would be my picks
you have to test phoenotopia: Awakening just trust me you re not gonna be disapointed
Oh it's on my wishlist and I will get to it as soon as the busy release shedule calms down a bit 😅
No one who has followed this channel could have possibly predicted CrossCode making this list! 😊
Hahaha, yeah that wasn't surprising at all 😅
@@feiitogaming (Bias aside I do think it deserves a spot in this category so hey, works out!)
Bro I love crosscode I'm so happy to see it on here
@quandaledingle8887 awesome! We have something in commom here 💪
Padrino, recomiendas sea of stars como primer rpg por turnos?
Nunca han llamado mi atención pero quiero iniciarme en el género
Sea of Stars is a good pick as a first turn-based JRPG. It's really straight forward, easy to learn and with great level design.
@feiitogaming gracias, muchas gracias!! Ya soy suscriptor de tu canal, por tomarte el tiempo de responderme!!!
My best indies are Holow Knight, Dead Cells and GRIS :)
@@lagZzik fantastic games! But I haven't played Gris yet. Soon though 😉
Baba is You is by far the best indie puzzle game.
I played both Tunic and Sea of Stars and neither of them deserve to be ranked higher than Celeste and Hollow Knight, but I appreciate that it seems like this list is attempting to include games that everyone doesn’t already know about
This list is meant to show my personal favorites, that's why some fan favorites are not here. I def think Hollow Knight and Celeste are incredible games but I didn't enjoy them as much as other people did. 🤷
Baba Is You is an absolutely phenomenal game as well. So creative and so difficult - at least for me 😅
Have you played Cuphead? It's a perfect game and does everything. But I still say Outer Wilds is better, even though it isn't perfect. The emotions and themes are crazy.
I've played Cuphead, yes. Fantastic game that was challenging but never felt unfair because I always knew why I died and that was always my own fault. Really good game design