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This is the best "This Kind Of Thing" there has ever been. If you like this kind of thing you will like this game.

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Best game I've played in ages. Funny and charming with a self aware over the top parody of hyper-America a la starship troopers. Good shooting, good gameplay, and a responsive dev team running a live war that keeps the game interesting. And they bullied Sony into submission!

The best deck builder I've ever played so far. Combines game concepts from slay the spire, monster train, FTL, hades, and many more... While also offering a very reasonable challenge level. It's a deck builder that wants you to win, as long as you think about your choices. Plus it tells a surprisingly emotional and affecting story as you play your runs and learn about the characters, with a story told diegetically through mechanics a la undertale or night in the woods.

It's also got an adorable furry aesthetic and wonderful sense of humor. This is a top tier buy.

Great music too!

Very good. Don't read a single thing about it. Just play. You'll thank yourself later. It's only a few hours of your time and every second worth it.

dwarfs mining in space is fun. horde-like game, shooty.

So I always prefer 2d/metroidvania platforming to 3d stuff: I find it just easier to process mentally and more satisfying/fun to work through. So, with that in mind:

I used to call Salt & Sanctuary "the best dark souls", and honestly considered it better, and better world-built, than the actual dark souls games. As wonderful as they are, S&S had em beat.

It's #2 now. Bug Souls, here, takes the #1 slot by a mile. It's just Good.

The start is a bit of a slow burn, but give it some time, and it really grows in you...

Did you grow up in the midwest? Maybe some town you loved but the world didn't?

Play this game.

This is the best game of the year. It made me cry. Buy it.

I just finished watching it, although steam doesn't seem to properly show view time. A decent documentary. I found it extremely enjoyable to watch. If you want something to watch to learn "how" to do indie, this isn't what you're looking for; if you want something enjoyable to watch for an hour and a half, that is about the indie culture in games, and what games can mean, then this very well might be for you. It's well assembled technically and covers many things in and about games, from its content to its culture. It's also got some really spectacular pithy one-liners that I'll have to remember, like Don Daglow on interfaces.

It covers a broad spectrum of contemporary indies, while also drawing in the "big game development" experience of major figures like Don Daglow, or to have John Romero and Tom Hall relate how their development experience for eternal classics like DOOM was so very similar to the modern Indie experience. It also draws up the history of the industry, from the 70s to now; That history lesson is important, and all too often people forget about where we came from as a gaming community.

It covers the spectrum from the most hippie games imaginable like Soundself to bloody precision shooter indies like Nuclear Throne; this is a film that seeks to give a broad view about what indie is, what games are, and what they can mean. How they can be purely mechanical, technical experiences of challenge and mechanics-driven fun, or deeply impactful and human emotional experiences like That Dragon, Cancer, or Cart Life. It also touches on education, and organizations that are trying to teach children about code and creation and what the future generation can be like.

You'll see the words and thoughts of big names and small, and the diversity of opinion within games; overall, you'll see something that is ultimately very hopeful about what games can be.

Try not to be dissuaded by the salty baby tears of the gators swarming this space with negative reviews and insulting tags without actually watching the movie. This is something very much worth considering.