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It's a Good Time To Be an Indie Game Fan (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been true for a decade now.

[–] parpol 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was true in the 90s too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What game's that goblin from?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Peglin!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Great game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay I'm hooked. Except... Runs are way too short? I just start feeling like my build is coming together (matryorbshka relic, summoning orb, damage dealing orb) and the run just abruptly stops. Are there only the three maps? Is there no looping endless mode? I want to ride that high for a while, you know?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know right. Those are my complaints too. But I just jump back on after a while with a new run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also the pop-up description on the "multiball" mechanic is that ball level increases the number of balls but as far as I can tell, that only applies to the Matryorbshka ball, whereas all other multiballs just increase attack damage or crit damage.
That's a really minor complaint but I wonder if they rebalanced it and forgot to edit the text description.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Peglin, it's simple and fun to play

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I will personally shout out Tactical Beach Wizards. Incredible writing, charming art style, easy to learn hard to master mechanics, loads of content for the price, it really is a gem of a game. All my homies hate Steve Clark!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

you call it sheer amount of quality titles
i call it over-saturation with a dash of time contraints

[+] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say this is mostly due to budget constraints. Voice acting, music scores, high fidelity art, models, animations etc cost a ton of money. Making random generated boards / levels / dungeons with simple art and scalable gameplay is simply just more feasible.

Another aspect is the popularity of the game. We've seen a lot of saturation in genres over the years. A the peak of PUBG and Fortnite popularity, there were so many battle royale games coming out. Then we got extraction shooters, and so on.

Personally, I love roguelikes and how we got to the point of mixing it with other genres (Balatro, Dungeon Clawler), but I can see your point. I feel the same about 2D (pixel art) platformers: I feel like I've seen it all already and nothing can excite me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've been pretty vocal about my annoyance with the roguelike genre. I even have the tag blocked on Steam so they're never recommended to me - my hope is that Steam shares metrics on tag-blocking statistics.

But, I would guess there are enough fans of them to keep being made.