What are some actually good indie Souls-likes?
What are some actually good indie Souls-likes?
Not that pile of shit. Got it free on PS+ like a decade ago and still feel ripped off.
Filtered by Kraken Cyclops
It’s a decent game. I beat the tutorial boss that your supposed to die from
Don't even remember whatever that is. The game was extremely easy, and I'm not saying that's a con or pro, just that there's no filter.
Hellpoint. It's no masterpiece, but if you like the exploration aspect of Dark Souls it's pretty much second to none. It takes place on a gigantic dark space station with monolithic architecture that got Event Horizon'd. Also successfully implemented a jump button in the genre before Elden Ring did.
Neat, I'm currently in my ninth playthrough.
does Little Witch Nobeta still count as an indie? that one was pretty good
The atmosphere in Salt was amazing, the fact you can physically traverse the island from one shore to another is great.
I would always pick Devala's Light as my creed, because the statue had boobies
A lot of the areas are really cool, like the Ziggurat and most of the endgame ones. The sense of travelling deeper or farther into exotic places was great. It's a good game.
I wish the art lived up to the premise, it's all over the place. Some of the armour sets look right out of Dragon Age 2.
blasphemous 1 + 2. don't buy the mea culpa dlc for 2 unless they stop jewing you, it's really clear that they ripped out that content just so they could have dlc. otherwise a good game. the first game is really amazing and deserves more praise. the second game is just "more of the same" with a few added bells and whistles. final boss is kinda anti-climactic because shit's easy.
If I was gonna list its flaws that wasn't one I thought of, but it has several. I'm just not gonna talk about those cause it has some really nice level design with verticality and good secrets.
There's a residential area that was so mazelike I couldn't find my way back to a specific part of it and kept running around in circles for half an hour. It's high level for six random French-Canadian dudes.
Last Hero of Nostalgaia was pretty damn solid with some genuinely great game mechanics.
Some of the humor can be hit-and-miss and there are some occasional glitches but all in all it's worth a playthrough.
Actually good ones
Grime
Hellpoint
Lies of P (kinda stretches the indie part)
Salt and Sanctuary
Surge 2
Ashen
Another Crab's Treasure
Bleak Faith Forsaken
Lords of The Fallen (newer reboot)
Alright
The Surge
The First Berserker
Blasphemous
Tails of Iron
Code Vein
Nioh
Nioh 2
Lords of the Fallen (original)
Remnant 2
Dogshit
Mortal Shell
Remnant 1
Steel Rising
Death's Gambit
More so bad I forget they exist.
khazan and niohs lower than a fucking bleak faith, ashen and lotf
Absolutely dreadful dogshit taste in games
I've been playing Grime a little. The areas feel kind of overwhelming with the number of paths and points of interest, and there's a lot of cool weapons.
I disagree with a lot of these.
Even some of the stuff you've got in Dogshit. Remnant isn't dogshit, not when you've got Grime in Actually Good and they've got the same pacing and unique item spam issues.
The other Dogshits belong there. Death's Gambit got shilled so hard here for like 4 months on release.
if you don't immediately get turned off from seeing rigged sprite animations, there is something seriously wrong with you.
same goes for people who like ender lillies and its sequel. disgusting.
Hellpoint is probably the only decent one among indies. But it's honestly not worth playing if you haven't already played every non-indie Soulslike.
half of these aren't even proper metroidvanias, lmao
Nigger brained animal needs constant flashing colors, meaningless number bloat, and detached mission systems to stay focused on his slop.
Yea turns out games focused on exploration leave a more lasting impact.
Definitely not Ashen. One of the shittiest soulslikes.
Good
Indie
Not Shantae
Pick two.
Carnal Instinct
I'll add some more.
Actually good
Tunic (Puzzle isometric game with souls like combat/exploration)
Alright
The Last Hero of Nostalgaia
Nine Sols
AI Limit
Lunacid
Dogshit
Mandragora
Ender Lillies
Vigil the longest knight
Remnant 1 was so bad I couldn't even play it for free but I still agree with the Grime complaint. However Grime is short enough of a game that it's not much of an issue imo.
Bleak Faith at the top
Yeah I'm thinking based
Yeah I might play this
Is it good?
Wasn't on release. Still a little rough around the edges but does a lotta shit well. Also MANDATORY underwater horror segment so hope that doesn't bother you.
Drop Grime in either alright or bullshit Jesus.
I probably replayed S&S a lot more often in a relatively short time span than many other souls-games, one reason surely being that it's just shorter and more arcady. But also because it's just really fun killing stuff in this game: splattering their bodies across the screen, weight of the attacks, the audial effect just never gets old.
Not even going to insult you, but gun-souls formula, with cool as fuck alien tech, and strange worlds you travel through make Remanat 1 a good game. Remnant 2 on the other hand..
What are some actually good indie Souls-likes?
Code Vein has a more fun magic system than every dark souls game, a greatsword+mage build is really fun in it and it's chuuni cringekino in aesthetics
The only one I could tolerate was The Surge 2 because it tried to actually do unique stuff with it's combat.
All the other soul-shits make me wanna puke. The genre must die already. It basically hasn't changed since 2015 but devs keep shitting out boring DS clones.
Total souls-like dev death!
what the fuck is this thread?
why is everyone talking about soulslikes?
Yeah, they're souls-like.
Witchfire
Idk why it's not mentioned often here. It's great.
Anyone got up to date cheat table or trainer for sacrifice?
Souls-likes
everyone listing metroidvanias and 2d shit
he thinks flashing colors is why people like niohs and khazan
he actually thinks dreadfully dull dogshit like Ashen has a better level design than nioh just beause it is set in a pseudo open world
Fucking grim
Salt and Sacrifice sucked so much to the point I still can't believe it
Liking Ashen and Mortal Shell
I refuse to believe these are real human beans. Must be the devs themselves.
This. Khazan is literally one of the best Soulslikes ever in terms of bossing.
Remnant 1 only has one glaring flaw for me.
You have to play on Normal (or lower) your first time through on a character because if you get that asshole dragon at the end of the city on Hard, you're in for a 30 minute slog. It's not challenging, you literally just don't have enough ammo, damage, and abilities to properly fight him.
Khazan also has several really good levels. Aesthetically they are too boring, but actual level and encounter design is solid. One of the levels is essentially the entire first world in des crammed into a single level plus a chunk of latria.
Jedi: Fallen Order = Nioh > Jedi: Survivor > Black Myth: Wukong > Steelrising = Hellpoint = The Surge 2 > Dark Souls 2 > The Surge = Grime > Mortal Shell > Salt & Sanctuary = Thymesia > Remnant: From the Ashes > Nose = Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity > Featherfall > Let it Die = Code Vein = Little Witch Nobeta > Dolmen > Lords of the Fallen
Hellpoint DLC is one of the worst Soulslike DLCs I've ever played. Even the original Lords of the Fallen DLC with the shitty maze and the awful ghost enemies was better than Fear or literal 15 minute walkbacks to a boss.
I will never play Nioh again. Diablo Loot is the worst thing to ever grace gaming and feeling like you're constantly getting trash until you reach WotN felt like garbage.
Forgot to pull DaS2 out of the list, my bad.
Another Crab's Treasure's demo was also a bunch of fun but I'm waiting until the physical for PS5 comes out before I play it properly.