Indie Game Culture

Indie games are a relatively recent phenomenon in the broader gaming landscape. In the past, before the rise of digital gaming, smaller studios struggled to find a platform to showcase their creations. Without the funding to rival major corporations, many innovative ideas remained unrealized. However, with the emergence of platforms like Steam, especially its Greenlight program, Itch.io, and other digital venues, indie games have flourished. Today, when executed well, indie games have the potential to rival AAA titles and, at times, even outshine them.

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Penny’s Big Breakaway Review - A Swing and a Miss

Feb 27, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Penny's Big Breakaway is an incredible revolution in indie platforming, delivering a free-flowing and fun movement system, charming visuals, and a fantastic soundtrack that keeps you coming back. Unfortunately, a mountain of small flaws holds it back, but it could have been a perfect game with a bit more time. PROS Incredibly fun, fast, and fluid gameplay that controls immaculately.
Ultros Review - Psychedelics with Substance

Feb 17, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Ultros is an incredible Metroidvania that any fan of the genre owes themselves to try. It has a gorgeous art style and beautiful soundtrack and refuses to compromise the gameplay for the sake of being prettier. It’s an amazing cross-section of Castlevania games and Action games that I cannot get enough of. PROS Incredibly vivid and psychedelic art style that never gets in the way of the gameplay.
Amazing Indie Games With Huge Campaigns

Jan 30, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Indie games are (somewhat unfairly) known for being short experiences with as much content as is necessary and not much more, but there are plenty of games out there with hours upon hours of content that would take you several days and a ton of time to finish. These games aren’t super prevalent, but there’s plenty out there, and some are great.
Best Indie Games for Sonic Fans

Jan 20, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most inconsistent, wildly variable series ever, yet it’s managed to grab so many people who connect with the idea of a blue little rodent running fast. Though the series itself doesn’t consistently deliver, fangames and spiritual successors sprout from it to give us a ton of really cool, speedy games.
Biggest Indie Crowdfunding Letdowns

Jan 6, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Across the indie game field, nothing has managed to be quite as prominent a concept as the crowdfunding process, which usually only goes on when a small team has a great idea that they want you to pay for. This works out often, with games like Shovel Knight, Hat in Time, Hollow Knight, and Undertale coming from Kickstarter campaigns.
Why AAA Games Suck At Representing the LGBTQ+ Community

Jan 6, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Big corporations focus on many things with their games. One of the biggest pushes recently is making characters represent minorities, which sounds good in concept but can often be executed poorly. Triple-A games have constantly made the worst LGBTQ+ characters, with indie games trouncing them in every single way, and I’m tired of pretending that I care when Sony says they’re representing me.
Lethal Company Monsters Guide

Jan 3, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

In Lethal Company, you’ll dive into moons that house some pretty terrifying monsters that’ll probably catch you off guard and kill you the first time you encounter them. Each of these monsters has some counter-strategy, though, which can be challenging to learn if all you’re doing is running inside, picking up a metal sheet, and dying.
Best Lethal Company Mods Worth Trying

Jan 3, 2024 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

While scrounging up scrap in Lethal Company, you may have gotten through quite a lot of the game’s content and felt it was a bit monotonous after a while, wanting your experience to get varied past the random layouts and weather conditions. If that’s you, then you should probably know that there’s an absolute ton of mods for the game, changing up just about every aspect it contains.
Why Steam Will Always Be The Home of Indies

Dec 21, 2023 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Steam is one of the biggest gaming platforms, accruing well over 60 million people actively using it daily and 120 million users monthly. It’s gotten to the point of almost being a monopoly on PC gaming, but it’s not one, as there’s competition out there. However, no one seems to like the alternatives, not even the developers of these games.
The Completionist Gets Removed from Sea of Stars Following Charity Controversy

Dec 19, 2023 | indiegameculture.com | Monica Phillips

Sea of Stars, a game that came out earlier this year, had a pretty funny cameo with a YouTuber, Jirard Khalil (The Completionist), where they changed his name to Jirard the Constructionist. This cameo was just meant as a tribute to Jirard since, according to him, he was close to the developers as well as one of the Kickstarter backers.