The 10 Strangest Indie Games You Need to Play!
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- Dive into the weird and wonderful world of indie games with this countdown of the most bizarre and unique titles we've encountered.
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Kiddo
2:13 - INDIKA
3:27 - Who's Lila?
4:24 - Donut County
5:19 - The Procession to Calvary
6:27 - Wunderdoktor
7:05 - The Eternal Cylinder
7:53 - SuperEpic: The Entertainment War
8:44 - MYTH: Steam Edition
9:27 - DIVINATION
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I really like Hypnospace Outlaw. It is like a 90's internet simulator with a story where you are an admin for sites.
Killer 7 probably doesn't count as indie, but that's definitely the strangest game I've played.
Yooo, the Eternal Cylinder is on here! From ACE Team who also made Rock of Ages and Zeno Clash + Clash: Artifacts of Chaos (Zeno Clash prequel from 2023).
Sadly Clash: AoC didn't sell quite as well, so i try to spread word on them alongside other games where i can. They've got awesomely strange imagination full of fun creatures.
Oh yeah, the Zeno Clash (sort of) trilogy, those are good picks for weirdness!
Folks have already mentioned the Milk Bag games, but adding another vote for those. Also echoing the love for ACE Team stuff. One of the strangest games I've played was a short and free one on Steam called _How Fish is Made_ . It'll take you maybe 20 minutes at most to beat, but it's trippy as hell and very, very memorable
World of Horror for sure
I would say Basilisk 2000 which is a PS1 style RPG but the game was never finished or released so you explore around the game engine to discover what the game is about as well as why it was never released. Also "How Fish is Made" where you play as an out of water fish flopping around and having philosophical discussions with other out of water fish.
Thanks for sharing this!!
Fun fact: the pictures in the thumbnail are (slightly edited) portraits from the collection The Family of Sigismund I of Poland or Portrait Miniatures of the Jagiellon Family by Lucas Cranach the Younger.
When I saw the thumbnail I though "Oh, someone made a quirky game about the Jagiellonians?" Alas, it looks like the portraits were just used in The Procession to Calvary. 😅
That's some cool knowledge thanks!!
Awesome video! Donut County is a great game, highly recommended. 👌🏻 I think the strangest or most obscure game I've played, hmm, I would have to say, Killer Frequency. You play as a radio dj, with all the shenanigans going on (no spoilers lol) it sounded very interesting. Another strange game that I've played is The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo (only played the demo, but it's out there, in a good way). 🤙🏻
Most games on this list are weirder, but I've personally played Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers. It's a tale of two brothers fighting over the inheritance of their grandpa's dirty underwear, which provides magical powers when it's weared over the head, since it's linked to an ancient cult slash apocalyptic prophecy featuring some species of mole or badger. The soundtrack is wild.
The gameplay consists of platforming challenges. While the character you play as doesn't have much more mobility than an average person, you're equipped with a mining laser, a grapple hook, and propeller rockets, used to create your own path in the level, as 98% of the environment is destructable. So when a level asks you to scale a mountain, you carve it with the laser and throw its pieces away with rockets. I highly recommend it!
I remember Jacksepticeye playing that years ago.
I've played a lot of strange indies over the years (Iketsuki, The Line, Long Live the Axe, OFF, the Off-Peak games, Onde, the Rusty Lake games, and Spoolside spring pretty immediately to mind), but oddly enough, I think I might go with Glowfish. When you first start playing, it's got that kind of casual Mobile energy to it, but it's almost like the strangest parts of Ecco: Tides of Time all thrown into a blender and given a neon, somehow-even-more-alien-looking aesthetic, and even the gameplay is a little strange. What makes this more bizarre than some of the others is just how earnest it all is; the Off-Peak games, for example, are really strange, but it really feels like being strange is their goal, and you know what you're signing up for, but I don't get that impression with Glowfish. On the other side of things, games the likes of OFF are strange and abstract (it's the only game I can think of where the difficulty curve refers not to the gameplay, but to understanding the plot), but feel like they're doing it to be artistic; Glowfish just... is.
Apparently from the studio behind the Eternal Cylinder! /edit
There's a pretty strange game I once played called the Deadly Tower of Monsters. Otherwise it's a fairly standard action-adventure where you fight baddies and obtain upgrades that let you access further areas, but the entire time you're climbing a tower in a top-down view so you can always see earlier levels below you as you go.
However, the thing that makes the game strange, unique and memorable to me almost ten years later, is the setting. You're in a cheesy 50s sci-fi adventure movie, playing as the main characters while all the enemies are other actors in monster costumes. You're also listening to the director's audio commentary reel over the footage, all related to what's happening in the scene, in other words what you're doing in the game.
You're fighting a boss while he's saying "that's Barry, he's acting convincingly menacing here because he had to wear the gorilla suit all day while our hero was beating him up." If you die he might have a comment on why the part wasn't edited out. I also vaguely remember a side quest where you had to find some hidden enemies and kill them, and the director eventually revealed that they had to fire these extras for wearing their wrist watches while shooting the scenes which is why the heroes took on a mission to hunt them down and remove them from the movie.
I understand if the idea of a chatty narrator that you can't do anything about turns you off, since that was a common complaint in reviews at the time, yet I was personally so amused and entertained by his addition that I don't think I ever found him to be annoying or problematically distracting, during the entire 10 or 15 hours of playing time. It also helped that the actual gameplay was pretty good too, genuinely fun and satisfying to beat including full completion.
That Donut game I’m gonna check out.
surprised the milk inside a bag of milk duology did not appear here, feel like both are quite well known surreal games. though i guess this is a good thing as more obscure stuff is recommended
There's two of those? I only played the first one...what's the second one called?
@@graphitenovel5123 the first one is milk INSIDE a bag of milk, the sequel is called milk OUTSIDE a bag of milk.
@@yonghong4832 thank you! 😊
The Longing, one of my favorites, it is really, really slow.
Great list! Everhood is also a bit strange
Probably the weirdest game I've played that would count as indie would have to be Pony Island, from Daniel Mullins Games. That is some WEIRD stuff!
Honorable mention (because I haven't played a lot of them) to anything by Rail Slave Games.
Also, does Doki Doki Literature Club count? I wouldn't call it weird in general, but it DOES take a turn...
I have the physical versions of most of these.. I wonder what t says about me. May I add Nefasto's Misadventure? Published as physical by Pix'n love
Boo! Greedy Kid.
A game where you play as a kid who wants soda, so he scares old people who drop money to buy soda. And you can have the kid scare them with your own voice using a mic.