In light of Microsoft closing in on the Activision acquisition, I feel is apt to highlight some of your favorite independent studios

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        I just really wish they’d kept up their track record of always trying something new rather than falling back on the money printer that doing a sequel to Hades is sure to be. I know Hades II will be good and all, and it’ll surely have their incredible level of polish and an absolute banger of a soundtrack, but… what else might we have gotten instead, y’know?

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          I’m sure once they rake in the money for Hades 2 we will see a very interesting, innovative product from them. Seems like a smart business move

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          I feel that. I’ve loved all of their games and this is the least excited I’ve been for a new release

          Hades is maybe even my favorite in their library but the fact that I’m going to walk in knowing how to play it already is a bit of a bummer.

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    Larian is about as passionate as a team can get about the games they make, it’s hard not to love them.

    Deck 13 went from making a crappy Dark Souls rip-off to making really good games.

    Gunfire Games knocked it out of the park with Remnant and is now releasing a sequel that every preview seems to love.

    Team Cherry made Hollow Knight, probably the best indie game ever made, maybe one day they’ll bless us with Silksong.

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    Valve, by a far stretch. Also they support their games for a long time. Sadly they don’t make as much games as they could, because of the money printing machine that is Steam.

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    What exactly are we counting as independent? Like a developer whose game is published by a publisher, but they aren’t like one of the REALLY big publishers. Or is it just purely independent, self-published studios?

    Dwarf Fortress, technically speaking, the Steam version isn’t independent, but it seems ridiculous to not include them here.

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    I don’t know about truly independant, but nearly every single time I see the devolver digital publishing logo I expect the game to be good, even if it isn’t for me. They kinda just don’t miss.

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      Annapurna is the publisher of those games. Outer Wilds was developed by Mobius Digital, whereas What Remains of Edith Finch was developed by Giant Sparrow.

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    I have a soft spot for “one man kiosks” like Hempuli (Baba Is You), Lucas Pope (Papers Please, Return of the Obra Dinn), panstasz (World of Horror) and Miro Haverinen (Fear & Hunger).

    Gotta shout out Larian and The Game Kitchen as well, their work is phenomenal.

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    I nominate Zachtronics, Subset Games, and Mega Crit.

    I liked Klei when they were independent, but I won’t touch them now that they’re part of Tencent.