Given the big swathe of posts about bad behavior from big companies, I figure we could counterbalance that with some positivity about stuff the smaller guys made that often costs us less too.

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    9 hours ago

    I’ve not seen many RPG maker games mentioned here, so i’ll do my part. These are a lot of my favourites through the years:

    • To the moon
    • Finding paradise
    • Oneshot
    • Celeste
    • Omori
    • End roll

    There are also a lot of them that i’ve not played but i’ve watched full playtroughs of, like IB, Hello Charlotte, Lisa, … and most recently The coffin of Andy and Leyley

    One game i would also like to add is Rain World, which is a 2d survival platformer, a bit challenging, but i would argue it’s also a “metroidbrania” if you know the genre, games that have knowledge as gates rather than keys or power-ups like metroidvanias. Some notable examples are Outer wilds or Return of obra dinn, who others have already mentioned

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        4 hours ago

        Woops, i’ve left Celeste in while re-writing the list, that’s not an RPG maker game

        And i didn’t know about the sequel until now, that’s a shame

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      8 hours ago

      Finding Paradise is absolutely an amazing game. Would absolutely recommend a blind playthrough of it, or at least a no-commentary walkthrough if nothing else.