Small/Indie Game General Discussion

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A lot of times I buy or play new indie games that I want to discuss, but they’re not really worth making a thread about on their own due to a probable lack of interest. This thread is for those games. Obviously you can discuss games you buy here too, this is just meant to be a mini-discussion thread for games you don’t think will get much discussion in their own thread. If a game seems to end up having a ton of interest, we can spin it off into a general discussion thread.

  1. Don’t Starve

I really want to like this game, I was looking for a survivalist game (one not called Minecraft at least). I played it a bit, but I didn’t like it much. It’s randomly generated, brutally difficult, obtuse, and has no real goal. It’s not a bad game, just not my type. I don’t mind difficult, but I’d really prefer a game that has a difficulty curve, rather than this game which is more of a difficulty wall. Something that it really easy to survive 10-20 days and build up, and then it adds more stuff to deal with.

Don’t Starve kind of does that, but it goes from “extreme” to “holy shit, really?” rather than from “easy” to “extreme”. It’s one of those games where you die a lot until you figure out the mechanics.

  1. The Cave

I really liked this game. It’s an adventure/platformer game of sorts. It’s short, and lacks replayability (aside from the few replays you do to see the stories), but it was really fun and charming. I’d recommend it to adventure game fans.

Its main problem is probably the inventory shit, though. You can only carry one item at a time per character and it can take a while to traverse some areas. There’s one are where you need to transport dynamite, and even if you do it optimally, it’s a bit tedious to get all the dynamite where it needs to be along with the other items you need.

I’m sure there are more I’m forgetting, but that’s all I have for now.

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I’ve really enjoyed Resonance, an old-school style adventure game from Wadjet games, who also make the excellent Blackwell games. Gemini Rue was good as well.

Resonance is, I think, $10 on GOG and it is without any copy protection.

Resonance allows you to control 4 characters, kind of like Maniac Mansion, and like that game, each character has unique skills and a unique inventory. I haven’t finished it, but it’s worth it if you like the genre.

Edit: Oh, it’s released by Wadjet, but was made by another group. It is extremely similar to Wadget’s game, though.

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A few of us grabbed Monaco: What’s yours is mine, which is a weird little top down coop heist game where you’re trying to rob places with up to 4 people who can use different characters with different special abilities (the lookout can see guards through walls, the mole can dig holes in walls, the locksmith is much faster at opening locks, the fister can take care of the ladies, etc).

We’ve only had a chance to play it one night and it’s been mostly chaos, but it seems like it’d be interesting as you devise plans and practice to do high scoring runs after you’re familiar with it.

I recorded a video of one of our first runs which probably does not do a terribly good job of introducing the game, but I think it’s kind of funny.