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realraginghydra
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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-24 11:26:02

At 1/22/25 10:09 PM, TheJayJay wrote:
At 1/21/25 08:57 PM, Wegra wrote: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

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.


I completely agree with the goat simulator one, I used to watch videos about it when I was a younger and then I got to play the game and it was pretty ass tbh

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-24 17:55:59 (edited 2025-01-24 17:56:54)

At 1/22/25 10:14 AM, Machosquatch wrote: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.


i hate this genre because its the only thing people do now

"Look oversaturated ps1 game!!! But actually it's a horror game!!!!!!!!!" WAOS WHO COULD HAVE THOUGHT!!!!!!!! I FUCKING HATE WHOEVER STARTED THIS TREND CUZ WE KNOW NOW!!!! AND BTW, TAPE PLAYERS DID NOT HAVE PLAY SIGNS IN THE CORNER BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING INVENTED


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EdChar
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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-24 20:40:31 (edited 2025-01-24 21:07:59)

At 1/22/25 11:03 AM, BoiledMilkz wrote:You're either the ultimate contrarian or you're dead serious.
At 1/21/25 08:57 PM, Wegra wrote:Shantae, Shovel Knight, Binding of Isaac, Pizza Tower, and Friday Night Funkin

Nah, I think he meant these games are great, but of course there are more shitty indie titles than the good ones


(Honestly I'm surprised Wegra did not talk shit about them, I feel these games are already rather popular)

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Caniac77
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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-24 23:54:52

I mean

alot of these game try smth new, that’s what indie is about, trying smth that differentiates from the norm and having creative freedom.

I can’t name a lot of indie games I would say are bad because alot of them aren’t.

it really comes to how you feel about the mechanics and story with these games

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-25 05:59:59

Undertale.

Check out the Flash RPG I made in 2024. It takes about 25 minutes to complete.

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-01-31 23:58:36

At 1/21/25 08:57 PM, Wegra wrote: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


Road 96 feels bloated to me. I can appreciate the hitchhiking/road trip aesthetic that it's going for.-very Jack Kerouac. But it tries way too hard to get us to like Zoe. Every chapter with her she fucks us over in some way and she cheats at connect four. And for the life of me, I don't buy the whole "Procedurally Generated: no one's story is the same as another". Well, by this they mix up the chapters into different iterations each time and your choices hardly have any weight to them. If I die talking to Jarrod I'm just gonna possess another teen anyway.


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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-02-04 10:18:08

Mighty Number 9


Bounty Battle

Don't give two sh*ts about what other people think of you. If you have a high opinion of yourself that's all that matters.

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-02-06 02:05:34

At 1/22/25 01:58 AM, aapiarts wrote: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.


Adding onto this with my own example; Choo-Choo Charles is unironically one of the worst games I've ever played. Gameplay loop entirely composed of either being too underpowered to protect yourself, or being entirely defenseless. Tries to make it more interesting with stealth segments, but those are immediately worsened by the fact that you are in linear mineshafts and hallways for the "stealth" and you can't crouch or create diversions.

Dev also promised to make dlc, additional story, and bug fixes, but abandoned it after adding a more difficult version of the game, which was over a year ago.

$20 well wasted imo

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-02-06 02:06:56

At 2/6/25 02:05 AM, VelvetHearted wrote:
At 1/22/25 01:58 AM, aapiarts wrote: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.

Adding onto this with my own example; Choo-Choo Charles is unironically one of the worst games I've ever played. Gameplay loop entirely composed of either being too underpowered to protect yourself, or being entirely defenseless. Tries to make it more interesting with stealth segments, but those are immediately worsened by the fact that you are in linear mineshafts and hallways for the "stealth" and you can't crouch or create diversions.
Dev also promised to make dlc, additional story, and bug fixes, but abandoned it after adding a more difficult version of the game, which was over a year ago.
$20 well wasted imo


Hey at least it got a cross over with Garten Of Banban

Visit aapiarts.neocities.org today by clicking her butt!

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-02-06 02:12:58

At 2/6/25 02:06 AM, aapiarts wrote:
At 2/6/25 02:05 AM, VelvetHearted wrote:
At 1/22/25 01:58 AM, aapiarts wrote: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.

Adding onto this with my own example; Choo-Choo Charles is unironically one of the worst games I've ever played. Gameplay loop entirely composed of either being too underpowered to protect yourself, or being entirely defenseless. Tries to make it more interesting with stealth segments, but those are immediately worsened by the fact that you are in linear mineshafts and hallways for the "stealth" and you can't crouch or create diversions.
Dev also promised to make dlc, additional story, and bug fixes, but abandoned it after adding a more difficult version of the game, which was over a year ago.
$20 well wasted imo

Hey at least it got a cross over with Garten Of Banban


Hot take: That short little cameo/crossover in Banban was unironically more enjoyable than Choo Choo Charles' actual entire game.

That was at least a blip of humour in a game that stopped taking itself seriously, and Banban only got sillier after that. Charles expects you to fully take it seriously with all its asset flipping, unmoving faces during dialogue, and insanely boring gameplay.

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-02-10 14:52:17

At 1/21/25 08:57 PM, Wegra wrote: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

every indie game

a videog-

ohhh what's this?

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-03-03 21:16:14

There aren't any indie games I've played that I would call bad, well, at least ones that have fully released. There's one indie "game" that I genuinely think is one of the worst video games ever made, that being Yandere Simulator. I'm surprised nobody in this thread mentioned it because I honestly can't think of a single redeemable aspect about this game. Everything about it screams lazy, which makes sense considering how there hasn't been a single major update in nearly a decade. Performance? Garbage. Art style? Generic as hell. Gameplay? Literally broken. It's a shame because the game had potential, but the execution was so poor that I don't have any hope for it.

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-03-05 07:43:44

Goat Simulator 3. I know it has been self-aware since the first one, but back then, it was funny because of how unpolished it felt and its lack of missions, giving you 100% freedom to cause chaos and explore. This one is just to much in your face and too good looking. Or it's just the fact there was no reason to make a new one.

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-03-05 09:40:03

While I do like the game, I'd say Webfishing lost its glory. Got stale and repetitive pretty fast and there's lots of security issues that have yet to be fixed

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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-03-05 17:48:01 (edited 2025-03-05 17:51:38)

Mouthwashing


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Response to Indie Games that suck ass 2025-03-05 21:14:02

At 1/21/25 08:57 PM, Wegra wrote: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


Sadly I’m gonna have to go with Darwake. I liked the art style and thought it would be cool like Little Nightmares. Now imagine Little Nightmares but if the puzzles were painfully easy and you had a lot less movement options. That would be Darwake.


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