Sektori is a dual-stick shooter (similar to Geometry Wars) made by two Finns.
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Owlcat Games - they made two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, some of my favorite CRPGs in recent memory. Their latest, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, is supposed to be great as well, but I haven't had the time to do more than check out the character creation so far.
You can always play your AAA games if you pirate them
- Blasphemous 1 and 2
- STALKER
- Disco Elysium (awesome game, but the studio got into shady stuff and the game creators were booted. Just pirate it).
- Commandos
- Tzar
- Imperivm
- Tropico 3
- Noita
- Satisfactory
- My summer car/my winter car (I personally have not played them but they have good reviews)
Not very indie:
- Europa Universalis
- Crusader Kings
- Hearts of Iron
- the Witcher 1, 2, 3 (the 3rd one is the best)
- Cyberpunk 2077
Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.
Yup, just pirate it at this point. I'll update that in the list.
mind adding My Summer Car/My Winter Car to the list for visibility?
Yeah, no prob
The studio developing Ori and the Blind Forest is Austrian if I remember correctly.
Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.
Make sure to buy on GoG of possible.
Interesting question, here are some EU-made indie games I've enjoyed, in no particular order. I had to look all of these up, I didn't play them because they were European or anything.
- Baba Is You (Finland) [e: forgot]
- Chants of Senaar (France)
- Dead Cells (France)
- Disco Elysium (Estonia)
- Drova (Germany)
- Monster Train (Netherlands)
- Roadwarden (Poland)
Oh! A friend of mine (that I haven't seen for quite a while) is a Drova dev! Never expected to see it listed here. I'm super happy
I'm playing it right now on the Steamdeck, it's a lot of fun! 20 hours in but it still feels like there's a lot to explore (skill issue maybe).
Just dropping that, while disco elysium is a top 10 favourite game for me, corporate suits stole the IP and none of the money goes to the creator
Pirate that shit boy
Just played through Crisol.
Gorgeous game. Gothic Spanish style.
$17 on steam right now.
Play it in native Spanish. The English dub is terrible.
Mix between silent hill. Resident evil village.
Mostly puzzles and traversing areas. Light combat action.
Has a really unique combat mechanic. Your amo is made from your blood.
Also it's Eldritch horror. That caught me by surprise and was unexpected based on the trailers I saw.
Took me like 13 hrs to play.
Not a perfect game but def worth $17.
Story could have been developed more but no apparent plot holes.
Probably budget was a limiting factor there. https://youtu.be/5ZjZTQ5-xpM
Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won't even host on Steam
Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I've never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.
I think more people need to be aware that the Factorio director is a piece of shit.
I highly recommend Satisfactory instead, which is by a small(-ish) Swedish dev team. (It also has much chiller vibes than Factorio, which I think more people will appreciate.)
edit: to those downvoting, please feel free to reply and explain, since I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you disagree with.
God damn it. And thank you!
My current favorite game (Valheim) is Swedish, I believe.
Don't tell anyone I said this, but the the Swedes to be making some pretty awesome indie games.
Noita and Baba Is You are both brilliant games from a few Finnish people. Baba Is You is a puzzlegame involving rearranging the rules of the puzzle you are in. It will make your brain hurt in the good way. Noita is a roguelike in which you are a witch and you build wands with the spells you find along the way. You can make ludicrously powerful wands with some creativity, and the game is ruthless enough that it basically demands you do so.
I've already mentioned Heaven's Vault elsewhere here, so I'll plug A Highland Song from the same British indie team too. It's an exploration / climbing game with some simple and really cathartic rhythm sections. The visuals and music are gorgeous
CrossCode (Germany), charming 2D Action RPG where you play a virtual MMO.