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Given the big swathe of posts about bad behavior from big companies, I figure we could counterbalance that with some positivity about stuff the smaller guys made that often costs us less too.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

I've not seen many RPG maker games mentioned here, so i'll do my part. These are a lot of my favourites through the years:

  • To the moon
  • Finding paradise
  • Oneshot
  • Celeste
  • Omori
  • End roll

There are also a lot of them that i've not played but i've watched full playtroughs of, like IB, Hello Charlotte, Lisa, ... and most recently The coffin of Andy and Leyley

One game i would also like to add is Rain World, which is a 2d survival platformer, a bit challenging, but i would argue it's also a "metroidbrania" if you know the genre, games that have knowledge as gates rather than keys or power-ups like metroidvanias. Some notable examples are Outer wilds or Return of obra dinn, who others have already mentioned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

Celeste is really good. So sad that the "Sequel Game" from the Devs got chanceled.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthblade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Finding Paradise is absolutely an amazing game. Would absolutely recommend a blind playthrough of it, or at least a no-commentary walkthrough if nothing else.