Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.
Interesting question, here are some EU-made indie games I’ve enjoyed, in no particular order. I had to look all of these up, I didn’t play them because they were European or anything.
I really enjoyed Chants of Sennaar. Heaven’s Vault is also worth checking out for those that liked it; it’s by an independent British team, the language puzzles are similar but (in my opinion) a bit more involved, and there’s more narrative & character stuff going on. It is not as smooth a gameplay experience as Chants, but it’s manageable to get cool puzzles
I tried multiple times to get into heaven’s vault, last time with a mod to speed up gameplay (speeding up game time, faster cutscenes, skipping ship navigation), but it still feels so painfully slow, and the thing that killed the last of the fun for me was when I realized the game occasionally making you “review” translations is basically forcing you to lock in the correct solution by eliminating any wrong ones you got.
Like dammit, is it supposed to be an on-rails walking simulator, or an open-ended puzzle game? Because it feels like it’s trying to be both, and failing on both counts.
That’s fair, it is slow and often clunky. I am personally totally fine with the pace of it, but I get why it wouldn’t be for everyone.
To me, the ship navigation stuff was there to make the setting feel bigger and lend weight to the plot rather than the puzzles. I personally enjoyed stopping off at unexpected things I found along the way, or figuring out how to get to some of the less-accessible worlds (the marketplace at the very top left of the map stands out to me here). I’m okay with it not being a tightly-focussed puzzles-only sort of thing
Edit: possibly relevant, apparently the game had some pretty bad bugs with the navigations on launch. I played it after those got patched, so my experience may have been different to yours
Edit: possibly relevant, apparently the game had some pretty bad bugs with the navigations on launch. I played it after those got patched, so my experience may have been different to yours
Unfortunately not the issue, I didn’t play it early after release, and tried playing multiple times over the years. The ship navigation alone isn’t too bad, but it can absolutely get tedious, and I feel like the game acknowledges it by giving you the option to skip it after some time… But you’re not in control of when that option to skip appears, and when the game dripfeeds you dialogue instead.
It mostly feels like good ideas that just don’t work well together for me, or are ruined by a few decisions that I find annoying, like slow animations everywhere.
Vintage Stories has its own launcher and also native Linux build. Its a more slow progress and survival focused voxel game and I find it immensely satisfying playing with friends. Many tool crafting mechanics are very similar to real life, also food making has debth, there’s crop rotation and just so many little things. It was founded by the Austrians and the company sits in Latvia. It has a very international dev pool also with many from the US but I feel like that shouldn’t be an excluding factor. Way better than buying some game from Steam from an American AAA Studio
I think more people need to be aware that the Factorio director is a piece of shit.
I highly recommend Satisfactory instead, which is by a small(-ish) Swedish dev team. (It also has much chiller vibes than Factorio, which I think more people will appreciate.)
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Not very indie:
mind adding My Summer Car/My Winter Car to the list for visibility?
Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.
The studio developing Ori and the Blind Forest is Austrian if I remember correctly.
No mention of Dead Cells? Play Dead Cells.
Great game but Motion Twin are dicks.
I haven’t heard, what did they do?
Make sure to buy on GoG of possible.
Just played through Crisol.
Gorgeous game. Gothic Spanish style. $17 on steam right now.
Play it in native Spanish. The English dub is terrible.
Mix between silent hill. Resident evil village.
Mostly puzzles and traversing areas. Light combat action.
Has a really unique combat mechanic. Your amo is made from your blood.
Also it’s Eldritch horror. That caught me by surprise and was unexpected based on the trailers I saw.
Took me like 13 hrs to play.
Not a perfect game but def worth $17.
Story could have been developed more but no apparent plot holes.
Probably budget was a limiting factor there. https://youtu.be/5ZjZTQ5-xpM
Chernobylite is really good.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.
My current favorite game (Valheim) is Swedish, I believe.
Don’t tell anyone I said this, but the the Swedes to be making some pretty awesome indie games.
Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won’t even host on Steam
Yess I love VS
The upcoming update is gonna make about 1/3 - 1/2 of my mods redundant
Interesting question, here are some EU-made indie games I’ve enjoyed, in no particular order. I had to look all of these up, I didn’t play them because they were European or anything.
Just dropping that, while disco elysium is a top 10 favourite game for me, corporate suits stole the IP and none of the money goes to the creator
Pirate that shit boy
I really enjoyed Chants of Sennaar. Heaven’s Vault is also worth checking out for those that liked it; it’s by an independent British team, the language puzzles are similar but (in my opinion) a bit more involved, and there’s more narrative & character stuff going on. It is not as smooth a gameplay experience as Chants, but it’s manageable to get cool puzzles
I tried multiple times to get into heaven’s vault, last time with a mod to speed up gameplay (speeding up game time, faster cutscenes, skipping ship navigation), but it still feels so painfully slow, and the thing that killed the last of the fun for me was when I realized the game occasionally making you “review” translations is basically forcing you to lock in the correct solution by eliminating any wrong ones you got.
Like dammit, is it supposed to be an on-rails walking simulator, or an open-ended puzzle game? Because it feels like it’s trying to be both, and failing on both counts.
That’s fair, it is slow and often clunky. I am personally totally fine with the pace of it, but I get why it wouldn’t be for everyone.
To me, the ship navigation stuff was there to make the setting feel bigger and lend weight to the plot rather than the puzzles. I personally enjoyed stopping off at unexpected things I found along the way, or figuring out how to get to some of the less-accessible worlds (the marketplace at the very top left of the map stands out to me here). I’m okay with it not being a tightly-focussed puzzles-only sort of thing
Edit: possibly relevant, apparently the game had some pretty bad bugs with the navigations on launch. I played it after those got patched, so my experience may have been different to yours
Unfortunately not the issue, I didn’t play it early after release, and tried playing multiple times over the years. The ship navigation alone isn’t too bad, but it can absolutely get tedious, and I feel like the game acknowledges it by giving you the option to skip it after some time… But you’re not in control of when that option to skip appears, and when the game dripfeeds you dialogue instead.
It mostly feels like good ideas that just don’t work well together for me, or are ruined by a few decisions that I find annoying, like slow animations everywhere.
Thanks for the recommendation, it’s even on GOG! Saved to my wishlist.
Vintage Stories has its own launcher and also native Linux build. Its a more slow progress and survival focused voxel game and I find it immensely satisfying playing with friends. Many tool crafting mechanics are very similar to real life, also food making has debth, there’s crop rotation and just so many little things. It was founded by the Austrians and the company sits in Latvia. It has a very international dev pool also with many from the US but I feel like that shouldn’t be an excluding factor. Way better than buying some game from Steam from an American AAA Studio
Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I’ve never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.
I think more people need to be aware that the Factorio director is a piece of shit.
I highly recommend Satisfactory instead, which is by a small(-ish) Swedish dev team. (It also has much chiller vibes than Factorio, which I think more people will appreciate.)
God damn it. And thank you!
I dunno last I played factorio my base was destroyed by bugs
If you don’t like the biters you can adjust their difficulty in the game setup settings or turn them off
Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German