Why do most gamers simply REFUSE to play indie games?

Why do most gamers simply REFUSE to play indie games?

Many many many many times, so many gamers whine and complain about "WAAAAH MODERN GAMES ARE BAD, GAMING IS DEAD!!!" and then after I asked them "What kind of game do you like?" and got the answer, I recommend them some indie games that'd suit their taste than more often than not, they just INSTANTLY DISMISS the recommendation because the games are "indie trash with few people playing it"

Like, bruh...
What's wrong with you modern gamers? you claim to love video games but REFUSE to play, let alone seek out video games to play.
Gaming is more alive than ever if only you try to look beyond AAA corposlop.

Link 3 indie games I should play right now that aren't 2D tranny platformers.

Because indie means cheap, low quality, not worth money

tranny platformers

What drives someone to be so obsessed they associate trannies with a completely unrelated concept?

when i had a shit PC i would consume exclusively indieslop, and 90% of the time they were the most low effort overrated piece of shit you've ever seen

Who are these "gamers", because I certainly don't recognize them as anything other than posers.

I don't like liberals and I don't like supporting liberals

95% of Anon Babble

Let's be real the vast VAST majority of the indie market is total unadulterated slop.

How would you know? you've never even looked at them

What game genre currently compromises the majority of your steam library, or accounts for the majority of your playtime?

Cause most "gamers" here are little more that social media fiends like the zoomers they like to make fun of. Looking into games that aren't talked about that one likes takes effort and this board doesn't want to put effort into it.

It's easier for them just shitpost on popular thing that is shilled here from somewhere else

Indies mostly suck ass

Why do most gamers simply REFUSE to play indie games?

Every year we get a new indie game that blows up and becomes at least a minor internet cultural phenomenon, if not bigger. Stardew Valley, Undertale, Vampire Survivors, Balatro, Five Nights at Freddies, Lethal Company, even fucking Among Us. Minecraft was an indie game before Microsoft bought Mojang. Silksong would never have become a meme if Hollow Knight hadn't been popular. The only people refusing to play indie games are the CoD/Madden dudebros and a random handful of jaded basement trolls.

average indie shit

10h of gameplay max

zoomies, streamers and troons are the target audience

le quirky and sad story about how the dev got raped by 7 horses

2D platformers or gay 3D low poly

meme references!

so...

dwarf fortress
rimworld
risk of rain 2

forgot to mention how they always add their shitty fetish into the game

risk of rain 2

bru

refuse

most gamers don't even know indie games exist

most "gamers" own one random console and they play maybe 5-10 games per year. they pick up whatever milquetoast normalfag game is popular on social media, play through half of it, and feel like they're part of a community. why would they play a game that doesn't look as good as Spiderman 2 and doesn't have a bunch of people giving them good feelings for playing it?

If a man cannot even name what sort of games he likes, how can he expect someone else to?

in other mediums, indie media seeks to disconnect itself from the shackles of lame industry trends and tropes

meanwhile, indie games just unendingly mimick tired tropes from Earthbound clones to "roguelikes" to 8-bit "nostalgia revivals"

Video games are the only medium where indie is just as bad as mainstream.

I love fapping to Samus blacked porn.

Sounds like you're talking to zoomers, idk why you'd waste your time.

/thread

Project Wingman
store.steampowered.com/app/895870/Project_Wingman/
Art of Rally
store.steampowered.com/app/550320/art_of_rally/
Sifu
store.steampowered.com/app/2138710/Sifu/

I quit Shantae over this.

then you shouldn't play any video games

Gamers don't refuse it, it's actually the turbo casuals and normalfags that play nothing but AAA slop

Earthbound clones

Those aren't really a thing anymore. Also, why is it the only one not in quotes? I think roguelikes suck dick too but they are a genre.

gay

Find an indie game

Become autistically attached to it like I'm a kid again

It's too niche to actually discuss anywhere

And you're some chad with a monstergirl fetish, right?

I actually play a ton of indie erotic games.

name?

La Mulana
La Mulana 2
Cave Story
Wonder Wickets
Hedon
KO Mech

I went through that at least 4 times.

you're completely wrong about earthbound clones not existing.

store.steampowered.com/app/3722750/Pluralys_demo/

If you like Metroid, you might also like..

Axiom Verge

a basic search of steam shows you to be wrong and stupid. again. Doesn't it get tiring?

You suck @ everything you do.

You suck deez nuts

Testicles aren't ever spherical.

Normies don't play shit, losing them will only be a blessing for the game industry.

To be fair, that trend is basically over, so they don't get any shilling. Also, that search is missing one. This and that backrooms one were the only two recent Mother clones I knew of.

People like you being out of gaming will be a benefit.

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Most consumers simply aren't discerning.

for me, it's Spongebob x 2B

Because people do not want to go out of their ways to find an interesting game, so they only play stuff that has budget for advertising or that got picked up by their favorite streamers.

Indie games always reek of

this is what I dreamed about in 3rd grade and I never bothered to refine the idea at all

Name three good recent indie hack n slash games.

Acts of Blood Demo

Survivalist Invisible Strain

Void War

Right now

store.steampowered.com/app/2445690/Lost_Castle_2/
store.steampowered.com/app/1169040/Necesse/
store.steampowered.com/app/265990/Rogues_Tale/
I'd have better recs like Nine Sols, but that one you shouldn't play RIGHT NOW because it's 30 bucks and not on sale, and you should never pay more than 20 dollars for a videogame, even if it is as fantastically made as 9S.

Because indie means cheap, low quality, not worth money

Yeah and AAA means twice that plus tip. The absolute state.

It's just like [gamename] but with female protagonist (bonus point if PoC or lesbian)

Derelict dystopian cyberpunk inspired by Tokyo life in the 90s

Synthwave/vaporwave with bright neon "bisexual lightning"

"Tumblr Anime"-style

Pixel / fake PSX graphics

Pseudo-catholicism

Schizocore psychological horror 2deepforu

Furfaggotry

Inspired by [super popular series in the 90s]

No thanks.

Name four good indie third person shooters.
Please note that any mention of El Paso Elsewhere will immediately make your post invalid because it's a dogshit game made by some pretentious up his own ass coon who probably hasn't even played Max Payne if that's his homage to it.

I LOVE indie games.

I personally enjoy games with voice acting much MUCH more. Indie games are notorious for skipping that due to budget reasons

Please be nice...

>It's just like [gamename] but with female protagonist (bonus point if PoC or lesbian)

COUGHArzetteCOUGH (Yes I know Wand of Gamelon exists but Zelda isn't a lesbo there, is she?)

If you play as many Metroidvanias and roguelikes as I have you end up playing a ton of indie games and a lot of them are good so personally I've never encountered that stigma

akkshually it's not roguelike

erm Metroidvania isn't a genre

I don't care

OP, you are dealing with goyim cattle. They're not gamers in the real sense. They're trend followers and only like what is currently popular. Since I know you're a good sport who appreciates good games, I'll recommend my favorite indie here store.steampowered.com/app/1082970/Archaelund/
Archaelund's in my opinion the best RPG you can find in 2025 literally. I've tried recommending it to people who played Morrowind, Baldur's Gate 3, WoW, and Fire Emblem.

Even the best indie games I've played were just "sort of fun for a while", but not really "good" by any measure

this

STFU

Why should I WANT to play indie games? Most of them are just trying really hard to be other games I played when I was 11. If I want to play Chrono Trigger I'll just go and play Chrono Trigger.

He's always going on and on about how AAA games just aren't as good as they used to be

I know a dude like that and then he turns around and boots up Fallout 3 and Assassin's Creed.

Ignoring things because they're main stream is just as vacuous and cattle minded as ONLY playing mainstream games. You're still a pud who can't think for himself only you added a pretentious stuck up your ass.

indie games are not exiting enough
For as much flaws as AAA have, many of them do the whole
"Im playing something GRAND" thing way better
I dont get that from a 2D pixel art rogelike or something.

exciting

ZeroRanger
Astebreed
Drainus
There's three, fag. inb4 you move the goalpost and say "NO SHMUPS, TRANNY TRANNY TRANNY"

i hate when i find a fun rougelike platformer with cool robots and the devs stop updates

fear of the hot water ghost

project werewulf

Anon, porn is the only good thing that shantae has, what a shitty franchise.

updates the game so you can swap out her man hips for an hour glass figure with a fatter bunda and thicker thighs

people who actually play games don't get any attention

Why do you care? There's a gigantic subset of subhumans that refuse to pollute the discussion of [your favorite indie game] with their presence and you are complaining.
If you genuinely believe this is something bad that has to be changed, I urge you to kill yourself as soon as possible.

try indie game

always meme garbage or 2D games that doesn't beat the classics

I actually agree. Normies only play what marketing departments tell them to play. Losing them would also take a LOT of the money out of the industry, but at least people left would be gamers who play more than whatever has the biggest marketing budget.

i don't know how anyone can claim there aren't good indie games out there

I almost play exclusively indies nowadays because a ton of AAA shit makes me sign up for some bullshit account system to even play. I just don't got the patience for that shit anymore. I like when I can start the game and it just plays.

Indies ARE DOGSHIT. Support Japanese games like Trails and rune factory. Or doujin shmups like Crimson clover. Thats where the talent is not transjeetnder discord depression allegory slop emotional platformers

vietnam war is EXTREME kino
i also enjoy new star gp and space engineers
those indie enough?

Japanese games like Trails and rune factory ARE DOGSHIT

game requires a 3rd party account to access

no way to bypass it with mods or hacks

Instant drop