15 Underrated Indie Games

intro/outro game is Cyber Hook, goat mommy is Crimson Acid from Paradise Killer, discord is discord.com/invite/g8s5KGZTFq

Just wow. This rain in in which the world.. is.. is. There's so much of uhh TREMENDOUSLY challenges of the impact. With the IMPACT of the world in which this is.. this, this, I think this fundamentally says a lot about society.

People usually put down Rain World after a bit, I did too. Because it's "unfair", but it's actually an incredibly fair game. The main reason is, the world doesn't revolve around you. If an enemy is off screen, it doesn't wait for you to inevitably attack it. It searches and hunts food, that food being you. They can camp at a pipe, you can camp at one. People are used to everything being there for them or waiting for them but this game is different. It's like real life. And games are supposed to be fun, but rain world can cause despair, if given the right situation. That's why succeeding is so precious and great to do. I love Rain World, but I also hate it.

reason why rain world seems so real and portrayed brilliantly is cause the animations of every single life form is procedurally generated, meaning all the animations are made by an ai real time, reacting to the player's movement. it's a true indie masterpiece! EDIT: Procedural animation has nothing to do with AI. I stupidly mentioned the term AI without giving much thought. Sorry! A user who replied to my comment has corrected me. It's just as he/she says, procedural animation don't got AI involved. It's just animations created by following a bunch of rules (in computer terms it's called algorithms). Meaning all animations are generated by computers (instead of made by humans) when certain rules and conditions are satisfied! Really sorry for the mistake, I should've been more careful.

Pretty sure CrossCode's story made me cry at a couple points, so yeah, definitely stick with it, there's more in there than smooth gameplay and fun silly characters. It also has one of the coolest interactive action-story sequences I've ever played through in a game and it doesn't show up until about 2/3 of the way through

This is like the first "underrated Indie games" list where I actually didn't know like every game. Great video man

Yuppie Psycho is really underrated. When ManlyBadassHero played it, it instantly fell in love with the art style and story

As a complete hipster indie dweeb I can vouch for half these games and the other half I had never heard of I'm going to go play immediately. In particular Paradise Killer is such a fun ride of insanity and has a great rug pull halfway through the game. Also Crosscode felt so much like a real MMO it made me want to play an actual MMO again after finishing it, which got me into playing FFXIV for over a year.

The first time I saw rain world, it heavily reminded me of Heart And Darkness with its setting and with how small it makes you feel. But looking more into it? It grew to be so much more than that, other games just don't feel that alive and moving - the ecosystems don't feel like random bunches of enemies, they feel like living, breathing biomes with their own sets of rules and hierarchies.

CrossCode is so insanely fun and the story is great. A full playthrough trying to explore and do everything is an over 80 hour experience.

Thank you for including Rain World, it's one of the most special games I've played, I beat it 3 times already and every playthrough I played it's better than the last one. You become better passing across the vast ecosystem and the way you get to know the vast lore behind everything is engaging too.

The story and all endings of Yuppie Psycho ARE AMAZING it needs more attention and would make an AMAZING series if adapted omg the back story and how it ties together! I also love how anything u think is an ending is. Like getting to the office and just leaving 😂

bought Phoenotopia during the winter sale and safe to say it's AMAZING. adore it so much

Yeah, Crosscode is probably my favorite game of all time at this point. I sometimes feel like that game was made specifically for me. The best part of that game is that for how long it is, it just keeps getting better and better and better and BETTER until the very end of the final story DLC (which is the best part of the game BTW, the fights and the puzzles in the final dungeon are absolutely mind-blowing). It's incredible how every next zone and every next dungeon keeps surprising you with original quests and puzzles. I have no idea how they could cram so much of such perfect gameplay-related content in the game considering it's an RPG. Usually RPGs are very weak on the gameplay side, but not Crosscode. What a perfect game. As a bonus, new game plus is pretty appealing as well for a more challenging playthrough. The "Get on my level" and "No mercy" options are very nice (scales up enemy levels to yours and halves enemy cooldowns on their skills, making them essentially twice as fast). It makes the combat incredibly intense and you REALLY have to use every tool at your disposal in your circuits tree and really pay attention to the passives you get on your gear. It's almost as if the game was perfectly balanced for those settings. Did I mention the music? I'll just let these do the talking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2gTdwsky-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-35sx5kCEtI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX-Sfhbgoi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYr8sLskgfk

CrossCode has been my favorite game for years, definetly still the best game I've ever played

I tried CrossCode thanks to you’re recommendation in this video… I reached 120+ hours in the matter of 2-3 weeks, and 100 percented the story, chests, DLC…etc Now it’s one of my top favorite games of all time, and definitely the most underrated. Thank you for including it on this list and sending me in its direction. I’m not even sure why it’s so good, it just perfectly nails every part of its gameplay loop (story, exploration, combat, puzzle), and is otherwise exactly what you’d expect it to be.

I adore Paradise Killer, I wish that game would've taken off with a wider audience because I could talk about its bizarre world building forever

I absolutely adore Paradise Killer. The atmosphere, the lore, the bangers, and I found myself trying to get every collectable and find every clue in the first run. 10/10 I highly recommend

I was extremely glad that you mentioned rain world in this video, it is 100% an underappreciated gem, but it's understandable, the realistic brutality of the environment, and very little tutorial kind of locks much of the beauty of the game behind at least 20 hours of gameplay. I do believe that this is intentionally done as it makes the game that much more enjoyable once you break that threshold. Not to even mention the OST, each song perfectly encapsulates your situation in the husk of a fallen civilization taken over by wildlife. Easily one of my favorite games of all time

Oh my goodness yes to everything you said about Phoenotopia Awakening. Not many people have played it and it’s such a shame. What a wonderful, cozy game.