I really dislike the idea of indies and AA games being inherently lesser than big budget games. A game's value does not stem from how many people worked on it but how it made you feel.
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Nowadays, some of my all time fave games are indie game Lower budget sure but bigger heart hands down
aug 31, 2025, 1:29 am • 13 1 • view
Couldn't have said it better.
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 am • 2 0 • view
Think some of the best and most creative games have come out the indie space.
aug 31, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
Agree 100%. You have my sword, my bow, and MY AXE!
sep 1, 2025, 10:48 am • 0 0 • view
Very true, glad there are streamers who can really showcase a variety of games so that good games get their chance to shine.
aug 31, 2025, 9:16 am • 1 0 • view
Games like OMORI and Undertale have had a much more profound impact on me than most other games I've played recently
aug 31, 2025, 1:44 am • 2 0 • view
I mean the most important video games ever made small teams some less than 20 people
aug 31, 2025, 1:19 am • 1 0 • view
I consider them generally superior because love and care goes into them in a way that simply isn't possible with AAA games
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 1 • view
Gatekeeping is gatekeeping is gatekeeping.
aug 31, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
There is NO WAY this game is lesser than many AAA games, I will not STAND for the slander
aug 31, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
I've personally found more value (don't necessarily like thinking about it like that) from indies and AA because of the passion put into them. While more and more (not all) AAA games are starting to feel corporate and soulless.
aug 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 2 0 • view
Some of the best games in most genres are indie games. Hell, UTDR and Disco Elysium are indies and take a look at those games. Obviously bigger budgets can help, but plenty games can and have made up the difference in money and team size with enough dedication and skill
aug 31, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
I've had more indie and AA games make me cry and want to replay them more than AAA games. Budget doesn't always mean substance.
aug 31, 2025, 1:33 am • 7 1 • view
aug 31, 2025, 8:49 am • 1 0 • view
100% Agreed! I love Good AAA Stuff like Black Myth Wukong, Spider-Man 2 & Donkey Kong Bananza, but there's Plenty of Indie, AA & even Licensed Games worth trying like Pizza Tower, Dodgeball Academia, Frogun, Spark 3, Tinykin, Penny's Big Breakaway, The Plucky Squire, etc. bsky.app/profile/lond...
aug 31, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
In my experience as an indie dev, a lot of people who claim to hold that opinion actually just want to pay unsustainably low amounts for indies while simultaneously expecting higher and higher production values from us. "Hey, you better have VA but also cost under $20."
aug 31, 2025, 5:05 am • 1 0 • view
I judge them on different scales nowadays mostly because indie games are just better
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 am • 0 0 • view
Who says that? Everyone has been publicly hating "triple a" and extolling indie games for a decade now.
aug 31, 2025, 3:17 am • 1 0 • view
"Everyone"? You'll need to be more specific as the top played games are still all AAA. My post was in response to folks criticizing Lost Soul Aside for being AA. www.circana.com/post/top-10-...
aug 31, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
What? You’ve been on the same internet, you’ve seen the countless articles, videos and threads all saying muh evil triple A. Don’t be intentionally dense. Obviously highest raw numbers will be Fortnite and cowwadoody but you know that’s not what I was talking about.
aug 31, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I doubt that's the case nowadays, cause AAA has gotten so messy. Meanwhile indie and AA has been very passionate and unique.
aug 31, 2025, 2:10 am • 1 0 • view
Agreed tho some people's mindset is still like that
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
Most of us cheered when Expedition 33 was so good because those developers left the bloated monolith of a company and followed their dreams .. and made a game that excelled!
aug 31, 2025, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah it was great to see a group of relatively younger developers succeed like they did
aug 31, 2025, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
I feel the opposite is also true. Like I've seen people say they enjoy a Sony/Nintendo/Xbox game and get called capitalist slop eaters or told to play a real game like whatever indie is relevant. Games can be great or garbage no matter the budget/scope/scale/publisher/etc
aug 31, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
It's all about the final feeling: does it feel cool and why? That's a hard question but for me the only value you see at launch.
aug 31, 2025, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah not easy to answer but ultimately what we should look for
aug 31, 2025, 3:09 am • 0 0 • view