Shuhei Yoshida’s favorite PlayStation indie games of 2021

Shuhei Yoshida, Head of Independent Developer Initiative at Sony Interactive Entertainment, writes: "Hey everyone, how was your 2021? For me, 2021 has given me opportunities to play more games than in previous years, as having access to PlayStation 5 has not only removed most of the wait time to get into the games I want to play, but also their loading times thanks to the console’s blazingly fast SSD.

Throughout the year, we have seen lots of amazing, charming, beautiful and totally engaging indie games on PS4, PS VR and PS5. Here are 12 of my personal favourites."

[Orchard]

Among Us is the best one on the list, probably the first indie game I've sunk this many hours into.

[Rimeskeem]

Honestly got bored of it. People just argue the whole time and often turns into screaming matches.

[Orchard]

Public games are a gamble for sure - I typically avoid them - if you find a good group of friends to play with, it's a pretty awesome game.

[ColtPSSX]

Better then hades and kena. Idk about that one

[Orchard]

I liked Hades and Kena, but Among Us is something I can keep going back to and I've put countless more hours into Among Us than either of those.

[Rainbowcookie]

It was kinda of an original idea for once...but it depends with whom you play. Swearing 13 year olds showing whats wrong with modern society just breaks the fun for me.

[Rimeskeem]

I can't wait to see what Ember Lab does next, Kena was amazing.

[Elda]

My favorites on the list are Kena which I'm now playing. F.I.S.T. was pretty good & Hades is ok.

[GamingSinceForever]

Kena got extremely difficult near the end. I had to switch to easy mode. I wish I didn’t have to but getting a repeated beatdown for hours is no longer my thing.

Very good game overall IMO.

[DOMination-]

Yoshida should get back to his job instead of writing blog posts. I know he's much-loved but in this role of being in charge of indies PlayStation have not been doing as well in this area as they did in the late PS3/early PS4 era.

[GhostofHorizon]

There are so many indie games out each week, I really don't know what you expect at this point.

Next year is already looking strong, Sifu is one of my most anticipated games next year.

[ChasterMies]

I highly doubt Shuhei Yoshida wrote this blog post. Sony has a while PR team for this.

[GhostofHorizon]

Some serious trust issues here.
They have no reason to decieve people.

Writing a blog post took couple hours at most from his work day. It went through their PR team most likely but to straight up write a fake list for literally no reason is a bit of a stretch.

[Z501]

Currently playing Ender Lilies
🔥

[Daver]

I just finished it, its good but something is missing for me, kinda like its missing his soul

[Z501]

Agreed.

[repsahj]

...I like Hades but after my first escape I stop playing it and started Kena. Kena is awesome, I didnt realize that the Master difficulty will give me much harder time than Demon's souls and Returnal. Instead of goin back on Hades again, maybe i'll will try FIST as my next game before Horizon FW.

[MetalProxy]

I’ve been liking F.I.S.T. a lot more than the new Metroid

[jznrpg]

Kena , Fist and Ender Lilies Are good and enjoyed very much . Among Us is a neat idea for 10-20 matches with my daughter and some her friends but the novelty wore off for me quickly . I still need to play Solar Ash and maybe Jett too .

[Gamer79]

A couple of interesting psvr games in there.

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

I need to play Ender Lillies.

[KingofBandits]

Kena and Hades are the top of the indie games this year for me. Its amazing what small teams can do at times