Some Indie games don't hit their stride right away. Here's a look at a couple overlooked indie gems that deserve a second chance to shine
Play as Dik, a nimble acrobat exploring the depths of Hell to rescue his brother from the Devil’s hands. With no weapons to rely on, success hinges on mastery of physics-driven movement, and quick adaptation to deadly obstacles.
There's a peaceful, melancholic beauty about Miniatures. Hand drawn and featuring unique interactive mechanics, Other Tales Interactive's collection of short narrative games asks the player to look back on difficult childhood memories, each blanketed by a layer of magical thinking.
It's hard to call a game that confronts such sensitive themes "fun," necessarily. Therapeutic, trancelike – those are more fitting descriptors. Playing through each of the four vignettes feels a lot like stepping back in time, into shoes far smaller than mine, adopting a perspective on the world that paints over all its cruelties with an unbridled imagination. Miniatures is both cozy and troubling in that regard – albeit deeply cathartic.
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I doubt that even one of the 9 games was a flop for the devs.
Carrion was cool. I played it on Game Pass and I think that it’s about to come back there. Worth a check out.
Most of these were not flops 🤨
Never got around to beating it but Carrion was good. The closet thing I ever played to it was a Genesis game where you played a green blob consuming things.