For every Shantae, Shovel Knight, Binding of Isaac, Pizza Tower, and Friday Night Funkin there's unfortunately a lot of dumb wannabe indie bullshit you have to dig around to get to the good stuff. So what would you say is the worst indie games you've played?

I'd go with untitled goose game. It was funny for like 5 minutes than it just became another haha quirky indie after the fact

Super Meat Boy

If you wanna find loads of bad indie games then go look at the modern mascot horror scene. Sure Hello Neighbor was pretty bad and Bendy was very meh but still better than anything that is made now starting with FNaF Security Breach.

I get why you would say fnaf SB was bad, but on the other side this game had a lot of potential with the mechanic and if you embrace all the bugs, you can enjoy it a lot too! For example, the era of astraspiff's challenge on this game was so fun, the discovery of gigaMonty,....

Enchanted Portals fuck this game if you can even call it a game

I wanna shit on Psilosybil but I've seen & played way worse so I can't say in good faith that I think it sucks ass lmfao.

I wish I could make a "Dead Horse" tag on steam and put all those ironic shitpost and streamer ragebaity games in there

Any horror game that's gimmick is bait-and-switching you by making the game seem innocent at first. Almost all of the recent games I see do this all market themselves as horror, so what's the point of the bait-n-switch? If you know what's up about the game and you are forced to sit through 3 hours of bullshit cutesy gameplay to get to the actual horror, then it's a crap game. Recently saw an advertisement for an upcoming game called "Giggleland" as well as a released game called "MiSide" that fit this build in my eyes.

That game from last year "Pseudoregalia" also didn't land with me. It has interesting movement and platforming, but it doesn't really have an interesting world, environment, or characters. Probably most of what made it successful was horny retarded people jerking off to the main character, but the game wasn't all that amazing.

I might get flack for this, but I think that "Webfishing" is also pretty over-rated. Most of the people playing it would get the same experience sitting in a chat room and playing animal crossing on their DS. Really doesn't seem to have any reason to exist as a game.

You're either the ultimate contrarian or you're dead serious.

Anyways to answer your question, I don't really have an indie game I hate. But if I were to say one I wasn't really able to get into, it'll probably be Alien Hominid Invasion. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game but if there were other indie 2d platformers I can play (which there are), I wouldn't pick that one.

i was going to say games that call themselves roguelikes despite being nothing like the game Rogue (which is the very definition of the genre), but half of them are actually pretty good and would've gotten a 5 from me if i were to ignore the tags...

so i'll go with clones of a certain great game that like to use annoying effects to pretend to be clever or keep lecturing the user for hours on end on why the player is evil instead of letting the player see the logical consequences of their actions and take the attitude of not wanting to do it next time.

Wegra is a massive hipster, but I'll admit FNF has in a way gotten old and overstayed its welcome. The game was just DDR at its core. Had it not been attached directly to newgrounds like pico, it would have been a novelty for maybe a month.

Might be worth rereading the original post, cuz op is not calling those games ass lol.

There's not really any indie games I've played that I'd say "suck ass." Regardless of quality I always tend to find myself coming out of an experience satisfied, and on the rare occasion I haven't, I can still pick apart the game and what I enjoyed and what I didn't.

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, for example, is an amazing game, no doubt about it. Problem is it left me wanting so much more out of it, not in a sense where it was because I had so much fun, but because I wasn't seeing everything the devs threw at me be used to their fullest potential. Still, the parts I enjoyed from the game were extremely fun, and I can see why the game got such wide acclaim. It's a solid experience that serves something fresh and knows what it's doing, and sometimes that's all you need.

I will say, while I never touched the game, from what I've seen from Only Up, it really just looks like it's trying to be a pale imitation of games like Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy or Jump King, with worse design. Not a game I really have any interest in engaging with.

I had never been more disappointed for when I had seen the trailer for Giggleland, genuinely believing that it was something innocent, only to reveal that it was just another horror game.

Yeah Goat Simulator was also like that. You more or less get the "joke" in the trailer and then playing the game is utter shite-arse.

However an actual indie-game I could never get into was Celeste. I couldn't get along with the mechanics at all so I never even got out of the first level. I'm sure the game is great, but the movement was just not for me at all so I'll never know.

Thats why I just said fuck it and turned on assist mode

pretty much every game made by this guy.

Anything that ends with simulator and is on the steam page with AI art. Of course there is also farming simulator and power washing sim but they have actual effort put in them not some cheaply made sim that has the quality 1 day game jam submission.

The obvious answer would be one of those dime-a-dozen mascot horror games or the AI slop that's been cropping up on Steam lately.

In terms of a more mainstream indie game, I think Celeste was genuinely one of the most generic looking, horrible indie games I've played, and it set a precedent of adding in options to just outright disable challenge while claiming it's some grand statement about accessibility. It's a game that wants to have its cake and eat it too, and for that I think it sucks.

I think there's a bit of a difference between "games that suck ass" vs "games that you personally don't like*, right?

I think Supermarket Simulator fucking sucks. This sounds like low hanging fruit as this appears rather obvious but you wouldn't believe how many hours my friends have put into it! And they paid for that shit when free "version" (copy) of the game exists as Supermarket Together which also probably sucks but at least it's free!

Anyway, as a more of a hot take, Postal 2 is indie, right? I think Postal 2 is to me what goose game was to wegra, lol. What an unfunny piece of shit.

Garten of banban maybe, or even every shovelware in existence (If they're considered indie).

Not only is Goose Game not funny but its also ugly to look at.

Asset flips.

Untitled Goose Game is a lovely thing, with some incredible technical music design. Leave old honky alone!

enchanted portals is really fascinating to me.. they rlly sat down and said "what if cuphead fucking sucked BUTT" and did that

The broad answer would be about 90% of indie games, particularly those that seem to apeing off of faddish genres or are essentially a time capsule game that will be dumped into a random Steam/Humble Bundle sale.

If I had to pick one though, I never quite understood how Stray got so popular for being a glorified walking simulator pretending to be more grandiose than it is.

Holy mother of based, I never liked Indies all that much because as you said, 90% of them always copied off what ever was trendy, the 10% is shit that got popular like Undertale, Pizza Tower ect ect, stuff that was the first of it's kind, or stuff similar to older games that have been dormant.

You have some outliers here and there where they're actually decent, but even then only a smaller portion of them actually seem unique, Anton Blast fucks, but really it just looks too similar to Pizza Tower (overly animated middle-aged man going ballistic at their job, in pixel art).

And Stray imo is just one of those: "OMGGGG IT HAS UWU ANIMALSSS!" moments where people gush over it all because it has their favorite animal or some shit, never cared for it, and it just looks like such a lame game with it's only driving force being that you play as a domestic cat, blech, give me a real game.

Undertale and Deltarune isn't up to high standards that many fans think it is. It's just a 7/10.

OMORI can have all the good storytelling, music and art but the gameplay ruins everything. It's Bendy's Chapter 3 fetch quests multiplied by 20. I give it a 6/10.

There's like four different Steamboat Willie horror games that I know of and they're all over a decade late to the "what if cute thing was scary" trend. It doesn't matter how hacky and mediocre they are, or how cynicism and irony are done to death in general, they exist to be played by equally hacky mediocre letsplayers so their mouth breather fans will buy it ironically.

doesn't make it suck ass

This thread is mostly filled with either low hanging fruit or people complaining about popular games. But you know what actually was a indie stinker? Mighty No. 9 sure was.

That’s an indie game that actually sucks ass that people were expecting not to suck any ass at all. And it feels funny to call it an indie game but if a game needed funding through a Kickstarter to be developed, that’s an indie game.