cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59158373

Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?

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.

• Baba Is You (Finland) [e: forgot]
• Chants of Senaar (France)
• Dead Cells (France)
• Disco Elysium (Estonia)
• Drova (Germany)
• Monster Train (Netherlands)
• Roadwarden (Poland)

Noita and Baba Is You are both brilliant games from a few Finnish people. Baba Is You is a puzzlegame involving rearranging the rules of the puzzle you are in. It will make your brain hurt in the good way. Noita is a roguelike in which you are a witch and you build wands with the spells you find along the way. You can make ludicrously powerful wands with some creativity, and the game is ruthless enough that it basically demands you do so.

I've already mentioned Heaven's Vault elsewhere here, so I'll plug A Highland Song from the same British indie team too. It's an exploration / climbing game with some simple and really cathartic rhythm sections. The visuals and music are gorgeous

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

Thanks for the recommendation, it's even on GOG! Saved to my wishlist.

Why yes, buying indie games from non-US studios are a fantastic way to support alternative modes of production.

I spent 2-3 hours on Noita, but it never clicked for me, sadly. Loved Baba, added it to my post as well.

Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I've never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.

That's fair, I can definitely see why it would be an acquired taste

Fights in tight spaces

daedalic Made some nice point and click games, loved deponia. they are German but now belong to French NACON.

I'm currently playing Death Howl by The Outer Zone (Denmark). It's an indie turn-based game with interesting deck building mechanics, I highly recommend it.

To let everyone know how pricipaled they are. Gotta come in here to shit on America to get your badge!

CrossCode (Germany), charming 2D Action RPG where you play a virtual MMO.

Are those non-US studios going to release the assets and source code⸮

Agreed. I hate how European communities (here on lemmy) ignore the rest of the world when boycotting the US. We could be uniting against it but I guess people prefer bolstering nationalism and domestic trade?

Why is the (average) European indie dev in the meme template about European indie devs?

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Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German

Same for me. Or well... I got like 300 hours but I am still a noob. Been watching others play it for probably over 2000h. Game is pretty deep.

Because the problem is that EU is dependent on the US. Switching to be dependent on another state is not the goal. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not the solution.

It's not nationalistic for states to rely on internal products. And BTW, Europe is trying to go opensource. I'd rather have opensource than foreign closed source, regardless of whether it's Pakistan, Australia, or Nigeria. And other states should also be going opensource, not just European ones.

Everyone should be dumping closed source - especially US closed source, surveillance-ware.

Then do another thread?

Why not?

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.

Don’t be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.

That's just dependency dressed up.

Anyway, it’s not like Europe is going to make their own chips.

European Chips Act

The seeds are being planted.

You realize not everyone in the US supports the bullshit taking place, right?

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

CrossCode is awesome. Remember picking it up from one of the itch.io bundles a while back and put 30+ hours into it. Never finished the game but it was well worth it.

We don't care. The machine is broken.

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.

My current favorite game (Valheim) is Swedish, I believe.

Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won't even host on Steam

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

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

Yess I love VS

Buycott is not about individuals in the US. Its about keeping money in our own economy and reducing economy in the US to make it clear to the people and the government that this behavior makes US products less attractive and hurts people. This is not about any individual voter although if I could only support the part of the economy not aligned with MAGA in the US I would. Problem is, the employees and companies spend it mostly in their own economy. Canada or Denmark have shown pretty successfully how buycott can work.

The upcoming update is gonna make about 1/3 - 1/2 of my mods redundant

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.)

edit: to those downvoting, please feel free to reply and explain, since I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you disagree with.

What does that even mean?

I recommend watching a stream or YouTube video from FuryForged or DunkOrSlam. Game is wild once you get the hang of it.

Chernobylite is really good.

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

Supporting any company in the US continues to support their billionaires and continues to drive US intiated problems like MAGA into our countries via their money.

God damn it. And thank you!