Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.
Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I’ve never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.
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
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.
God damn it. And thank you!
Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German
- Blasphemous 1 and 2
- STALKER
- Disco Elysium (awesome game, but the studio got into shady stuff and the game creators were booted. Just pirate it).
- Commandos
- Tzar
- Imperivm
- Tropico 3
- Noita
- Satisfactory
- My summer car/my winter car (I personally have not played them but they have good reviews)
Not very indie:
- Europa Universalis
- Crusader Kings
- Hearts of Iron
- the Witcher 1, 2, 3 (the 3rd one is the best)
- Cyberpunk 2077
Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.
Yup, just pirate it at this point. I’ll update that in the list.
mind adding My Summer Car/My Winter Car to the list for visibility?
Yeah, no prob
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
CrossCode (Germany), charming 2D Action RPG where you play a virtual MMO.
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.
My current favorite game (Valheim) is Swedish, I believe.
Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won’t even host on Steam
No mention of Dead Cells? Play Dead Cells.
Great game but Motion Twin are dicks.
I haven’t heard, what did they do?
Long story short, Motion Twin gave the game to Evil Empire around 2019 (iirc) to handle its development, so they are the ones who made every update and expansion from the first dlc onwards.
After like 5 years of DC being developed by EE they released the “the end is near” update, but said that it was not the last update and that they were working on more stuff, including wrapping up the story.
Then Motion Twin announced a new game, and shortly after they cancelled any work in DC. The goodbye posts included some shutouts to the new game, so the cancellation of DC was seen as trying to kill any competition to their new game. One ex-dev said that MT were being a bunch of dicks to EE and claimed that the cancellation was indeed to give more attention to the new game.
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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?
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.
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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.
The seeds are being planted.
Then do another thread?
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Why not?
To let everyone know how pricipaled they are. Gotta come in here to shit on America to get your badge!
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The studio developing Ori and the Blind Forest is Austrian if I remember correctly.
You can always play your AAA games if you pirate them
Make sure to buy on GoG of possible.
Fights in tight spaces
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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.
