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Sayonara Wild Hearts is a magical experience that can't be described honestly. On difficult stages, it engages all your senses and you're just 100% inside, enthralled by the visuals, music and rhythm. This is probably the most focused and most precise game ever, everything it has, works. It's not just my favorite indie game, it's one of my favorite games ever.
Also, Night in the Woods and Keep Driving. Both resonated with me emotionally in a lot of ways, touching the things I care about. Keep Driving also has a really fun gameplay loop and an incredible music selection (which works as a boost for that emotional factor).
Honorable mentions: What Remains of Edith Finch (it made me uncomfortable and scared at some moments) and Firewatch (nice way to tell a story, and the characters feel real).
Sayonara Wild Hearts is such a good weekend game. Really cheap, really short, really good and with a soundtrack that you're going to listen to long after finishing the game.
Highly recommend!
Fun fact: I discovered the soundtrack first, listened to it, checked out the game on YouTube and decided it's not worth it. Only after something like two years of listening to the soundtrack did I get the game.