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Wccftech's Best Indie Games of The Decade - Independent Revolution

It is time for Wccftech to select the best indie games of the decade, far from an easy job considering how the 2010s saw independent developers rise.

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ccgr1599d ago

Lots of memorable games for sure!

IamTylerDurden11598d ago (Edited 1598d ago )

For sure, but i'm shocked to see Journey not even in the honorable mentions. Resogun and Nex Machina also deserve to be on the list. Dead Cells, Owlboy, Transistor, Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, Pyre, Axiom Verge are some other good ones that are absent. Perhaps even Soma or Helldivers?

Some of my personal favorites

Journey
Transistor
Enter the Gungeon
Nex Machina
Resogun
Galak-Z
Pyre
Salt & Sanctuary
Helldivers
Alienation
Stories
Nuclear Throne

PixelKnot1598d ago

Alienation is underrated. I actually prefer it over Resogun when it comes down to Housemarque's games. I need to play more SuperGiant games as I loved Transistor. I enjoy the level of effort they put into their artwork. It's always gorgeous.

TK-661598d ago (Edited 1598d ago )

A fair few of those arent indie. Helldivers, Journey, Resogun and Alienation have the support of a major publisher. How did you think those were indie?

LucasRuinedChildhood1598d ago

The main picks are good but the honourable mentions are a bit bland. Where the f*** is Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle, Superhot, Katana Zero, Thumper, My Friend Pedro, Hollow Knight, The Witness, Niddhogg, Night In The Woods, Journey, Towerfall, Guacamelee, Furi, Olli Olli, Ape Out, Pyre, The Stanley Parable, etc?

PixelKnot1598d ago

Ooo, Hotline Miami. That game was a blast, despite the frustration of dying over and over. I never played the sequel.

IamTylerDurden11598d ago (Edited 1598d ago )

I don't think Bastion is even the best SuperGiant game of the last decade. In my opinion Transistor was more impressive. The combat was leaps and bounds improved providing both turn based and real time options as well as a near limitless mix of combinations. The soundtrack and narration are always sublime in SuperGiant games, but i think they took it to another level in Transistor with the DS4 talking to you and with Red being a lounge singer and offering power vocal numbers. Tbh, Pyre was a fantastic game as well, but for me Transistor was something special. SuperGiant Games is a truly talented studio.

I also believe that Hellblade was a bit overrated. The visuals and art direction are stunning, but the game is very limited. Senua is deliberately slow and she controls in a very tanky and non responsive fashion. The game is extremely linear and exploration consists of searching a claustrophobic forest with many barriers for white dots that contain lore stones. The puzzles were tedious and redundant. Combat wasn't spectacular. The auto save feature caused many people to lose data because the developers included no chapter select and no manual save. If you fell into a progress impeding bug you were basically f*****.

King_Noctis1598d ago

Night In The Wood
Disco Elysium
The Touryst
Stardew Valley

These are some of my most favorite indies game this gen.

NJShadow1597d ago

Not to be rude, but this is kind of a lame list. While I agree with some, "Celeste" is in the honorable mentions, and the "Hotline Miami" series isn't even mentioned? Someone also noted that "Journey" isn't included? Uh.. those are some fairly MAJOR titles to exclude altogether.

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Why Minecraft 1.21 Would Be Perfect to Add a Powerful Crafting Recipe

The Minecraft 1.21 Tricky Trials update's combat and technical aspects make it a fitting choice to bring in one missing crafting recipe.

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20 Best Survival Games of All Time

From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.

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Vader824d ago

No 7 days to die is criminal

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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II – Check Out the Minimum PC System Requirements

Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the much awaited sequel to the award-winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, arrives on May 21st. With under three weeks left until the launch, the developers from Ninja Theory have shared the game's

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PrinceOfAnger13d ago

Waiting to see what the "Recommended" spec be like!

Skuletor13d ago

Waiting to see if "Minimum" spec targets 30fps 😂

PassNextquestion13d ago

It's my understanding that the frame rate is unlocked on the pc version

Skuletor13d ago

@PassNextquestion
I've seen Ubisoft have PC specs that have targeted 30fps before.

PassNextquestion13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Why the heck do you need Windows 11 to run the game? I remember there was a ssd feature locked to windows 11 not sure if that's still the case and if that's the reason.. direct storage I believe it is called

DivineHand12513d ago

If those are the minimum specs on PC then why can't the series x do more than 30 fps? Did they intentionally lock it to 30 fps when higher frame rates are possible?

PassNextquestion13d ago

Maybe they didn't want to compromise on the graphics

DarXyde13d ago

Very probable, but I can't really believe that when literally, the Series S ensures that they do.

I kind of think they just want to make it 30fps now to make an update later to keep people "on the hook" or give game pass subs something to look forward to with this game later on.

Personally, I think this game can push at least 45fps, but that's just my opinion. I don't really see a game this short being announced before TLOU2 launched, only to come out *now* and they haven't gotten those frames up.

RedDeadLB13d ago

Probably because they wanted better fidelity and that is probably too demanding for the XSX to push a stable 60fps on. Judging how most games are these days, the performance difference between low to high is sometimes not enough to target double the framerate. A locked, smooth 30fps i better than an unstable 60, even though it feels like picking between two turds.