Every “Bad Gaming Year” Is A Great Year For Indie Games

I don't know if you noticed, but all the games I mentioned above were major releases. This is what it normally takes to make a year in gaming rise to the level of GOAT consideration: a lot of big, expensive games from large studios that are well-received by critics and audiences. 2017, the last year that generated this kind of talk, similarly had Breath of the Wild, NieR: Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Prey, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, Resident Evil 7, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Splatoon 2, Injustice 2, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Destiny 2, and Fortnite.

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2024 Has Been A Weaker Year For Triple-A Games

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But Indie Games Stepped Up

It was a killer year because it didn't rely entirely on the heavy hitters. If, say, you weren't a fan of Horizon Zero Dawn's approachable RPG design, Torment: Tides of Numenera offered hardcore role-playing crunchiness on the very same day. A truly great gaming year delivers those ki🥂nds of choices, something that will wow casual players and something that will keepౠ the genre obsessives busy for months.

2024 isn't looking like a great triple-A year. But, it has already been a great year for indies. My favorite games, like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Anger Foot and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crow Country, have all been from small developers, and each is either doing something new and fresh or iterating on something old in an interesting way. I still need to put more time into Indika and Nobody Wants To Die, but those games have impressed me in their first halves. Balatro is killer. People swear by 1000X Resist. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes seems cool. I still want to try Dungeons of Hinterberg and Flock and Still Wakes the Deep and Phantom Fury and a bunch of other cool games from small teams. 2024 has a deep bench and, as long as devs keep making indies, it's hard to imagine a year where that isn't the case.