Steamworld Dig 2
My favorite Indie game and the first metroidvania I played. I spend hours on my Switch playing this game on handheld mode. I got everything in the game and filled up the whole map. I love the mixture of dig dug and using your drill to battle enemies. Finding the new abilities to get me through previously inaccessible areas. Leveling up was a lot of fun too, I spend hours just maxing all my stats. The graphics were amazing, still some of my favorite sprite and 2D environment background designs I seen in a game. This game is a masterpiece and I wish Image And Form would make a Steamworld Dig 3
Eastward
This one was a fun charming adventure with a surprisingly long and great story attached to it. I love all the characters. Each of the characters, enemies, environments, including the 2 characters that I control all have detailed animation. This game has some of the best Pixel Art I seen. I loved exploring every area and made sure to get everything. The game's combat is a ton of fun. The bosses were fun to figure out how to defeat them. Switching from the old man to the girl to get through areas was a great mechanic where I would just have fun getting through those areas. I especially loved all the character including the two mains. I never played any of the Earthbound games, but I'm guessing that's what this game would feel like to people who have played Earthbound. I'm eventually going to play through the DLC too. I just wish there was an actual sequel to the game.
Sea of Stars
I'm usually not a fan of Western Indie RPGs inspired by JRPGs and that's due to the fact, it's always seemed that they are looking down at JRPGs (Looking at you Woke Echoes). This game was a surprise for me. I absolutely loved it. I loved the story, character and world/lore. The gameplay was fantastic and I loved using the timed button attacks. I ended up maxing all my characters. I did everything and my favorite minigame in this game is Wheels. I wish there was more content to that minigame. I would play it for hours if I could. The music I loved, having chiptune feel to it and I was humming it to myself whenever I wasn't playing the game. The graphics are gorgeous, the sprites of your characters, enemies and environments are amazing to look at. Not to mention that the use of lighting to the environments and the characters make the game look even better. The puzzles are fun and not too difficult. I ended up doing everything even getting the True Ending and getting to the secret area in that graveyard which is located by your home base. I hope we get a sequel.
What Remains of Edith Finch
There's an interesting mystery surrounding the plot of the game. Exploring the house and finding these items that give specific memories with sometimes full gameplay segments was fun to experience. It's more of a walking simulator but one of my favorites. The music is phonemical. The graphics are fantastic and I love how finding these items that goes into a family member background ends up sometimes changing the graphical style. The story is excellent and it's a game everyone should experience
Attack of the Friday Monsters A Tokyo Tale
I was reccomanded this game by a friend and it's a digital only 3DS eshop game. It's short and fun but I loved it. It has a slice of life chill feel during the whole game. The game uses prerendered backgrounds, and they were beautiful to look at. I especially loved exploring the town and looking at the details while the Mecha and the Kaiju fights way back in the background. The gameplay is very simple, fetch quests, but I enjoyed my time with it. Wish there was a sequel.
Silence
A Point And Click Adventure game by Daedalic Entertainment. I loved the story and characters. It was fun just figuring how to get through all the environments with the puzzles. Graphically one of the best looking Point And Clicks I seen. Soundtrack was great too. I'm sad that Daedalic had to shut down due to that Gollum game. Their Point And Click Adventure games are fantastic, they should have just stuck to that genre instead of branching out
The Rest Aren't In Order
The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Even though I had my issues with this game, it was still a lot of fun. It was interesting Cosmic Horror aspect throughout it's enviroments, story and characters. Beautiful and detailed. It was fun just finding everything and gaining more and more abilities as I progressed.
Oxenfree
One of the few Walking Simulators I loved. The story, characters, dialogue are all well written. It has a spooky vibe throughout with some nice visuals and music. The Sequel was good too
Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
A fantastic Metriodvania that's made by the guy who invented the genre. Graphically, not my cup of tea, but gameplay wise it is fantastic. I got the best ending and I fully explored the whole castle. I might go back to this since I heard that the developer added lot of new content to it. I hope we get a Bloodstained Ritual of the NIght 2 announcement soon
Child of Light
This game had a magical storybook feeling during my whole playtime. The environments were gorgeous especially the main character with her flowing hair and enemies were interesting and varied. The battle system is like Grandia's battle system. I had lot of fun with the battle system. The plot was great with some interesting twists. The characters were interesting. OST was good. Hope we get a sequel
Forgotten Anne
This one was lot of fun. The game is made by a European Developer. The game has a 2D Cartoon style to it that was really beautiful to look at. It's a platformer with a great story. It had some tough platforming segments but I ended up getting through them. Overall a fun experience that I recommend due to the graphics and story
Night In The Woods
I admit to being turned off by the way it looks but I ended up loving this game. This is another walking simulator but the story and characters are so good. I had a blast just going through the whole game.
To The Moon
This one was another surprise. It hardly has no gameplay but the story and characters are what makes the game so good.
Haven't Finished But Going To Go Back To Game Eventually And Start A New File
Ori And The Blind Forest
I love this game. Graphically the enviroments, enemies, your character, effects and animations are all phenomenal. I loved the gameplay and exploring the environments and trying to get everything. Even the story is fantastic with some detailed animations and some great voice acting with a made up language. The reason why I had to stop playing is that I got stuck in a game breaking glitch where I'm stuck at one area and I can't progress the game at all. I'm eventually going to go back and start a new file and just play from the start
