PlayStation Plus has played a crucial role in ensuring the popularity of some of the indie games we enjoy today. This article examines two games whose success stories are intertwined with PlayStation Plus.
“April was an indie-heavy month and it was hard to pick the best games but here we go! Hope you have fun and see something you like.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
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Eh, It would be better if we talked about specific genres instead of treating the indie market as a singular entity
Personally I'm kinda done with roguelikes and I feel that there's too many of them
I could agree with that but there's still some good ones out there. The more games the better. The way I see it not every game is tailored to me. If it was the latest summer blockbuster would've hit right with me. Seriously though. Almost every game has a fan.
I agree, I don't wish for the demise of the genre or anything. Different strokes
While I get being done with a genre, the thing about roguelikes/roguelites is the concept simply increases replayability at very little cost.
For example, take Pepper Grinder. Charming game, like 25 levels, has collectibles, etc. Once you get all the collectibles, and beat it, the only content left is beating stages faster/more proficiently. Procedurally generated games don't have that negative, as they're always somewhat different. I can do five runs of Enter the Gungeon, and have different obstacles to overcome.
When you don't have a massive budget to add a ton of content (I made a full run with collectibles video for Pepper Grinder and it was 90 minutes), it's a cost effective way to achieve that goal.
Very true about cost, roguelikes are probably also a nice way for beginner developers to learn and gain experience. I disagree with procedurally content never feeling samey tho, even the best examples of the genre ( skull, gungeon, brotato, dead cells, wizard of legend...) eventually run out of things to show and become a chore to me.
I'd rather spend 10 hours in a memorable hand crafted metroidvania than 100 in a roguelike, there's too many competent games to experience and the time investment just doesn't feel worth it for me personally
Naw. We definitely need more turn based jrpgs. Never ever to many of those. Yes I'm serious.
Not by a long shot, you still have to sift through a lot of mediocre titles, but there are plenty of gems there, and room for even more now that people are buying less AAA games.
It's kinda always been like that though. From nes to present. There's always been sifting.
“Another month has passed us by and during it, many incredible indie games released so let's celebrate the 12 best from March 2024.” - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums.
If we look at two cases and how PS Plus helped games like Rocket League and Fall Guys then yes it's safe to say indies and PS+ is a match in heaven.
That’s not necessarily always true. Sure it had success stories Rocket League and Fall Guys but there was also multiplayer indie games that failed to garner a huge audience like Drawn to Death
I would be more onboard if we were still getting 6 games per month, but with just two, i kinda want them to go for big games cause there's a lot of bad indie games these days. I love indie games, but indie scene is full of garbage now, too much to sift through to find the gems these days.
Grow Home and Xenodrifter were my favorites this gen. Or they were the only two indie titles I played on PS+ all gen and therefore cant remember any others.......
Unless the game was something to forget. If the game was a success it was because it had all the elements in the right position. Other games were horrible, even if "made famous" thanks to PS+. And so they failed.
PS+ was the Trojan Horse, sure it helped (or at least tried to help).