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Which “small” indie game/film/book hit you harder than most blockbusters?

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    Cube.

    https://youtu.be/shcK9b-TQIo

    Made for $365,000 Canadian.

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      Game no one's mentioned yet: Look Outside

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        Cube.

        https://youtu.be/shcK9b-TQIo

        Made for $365,000 Canadian.

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        Love the Cube series, knew it was low budget, but not ‘that’ low!

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          Love the Cube series, knew it was low budget, but not ‘that’ low!

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          I'm sure the others had a bigger budget, but yeah, the first one was hardly anything.

          Of course they only needed to build one room, part of another, and then just change the lighting over and over.

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            Honestly, all of them.

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              Primer. Like $12k budget, mostly cost of film.

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                Chappie might be borderline, but it goes so hard emotionally for a movie that basically had no critical reception.

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                I couldn't get past the crappy acting. It was like watching high schoolers try to make Tarantino dialogue work

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                  Games: INSIDE, We Happy Few

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                    Cuno hurt your feelings too, huh? I had to find health and recover after I spoke to him.

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                    That fucking little rat, played this game so long ago but still remember his voice.

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                      Games:

                      • To the Moon
                      • Gris
                      • Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
                      • This War of Mine
                      • Inked: A Tale of Love
                      • Papers, Please

                      Movies (this list I had to think about for a while...):

                      • 50/50 (2011)
                      • Amour (2012)
                      • The Station Agent (2003)
                      • Columbus (2017)
                      • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

                      Books:

                      • The Bookshop
                      • The Lives of Others

                      Edit: spelling

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                      gris froze for me at the bird fight, uninstalled because the game was unplayable

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                        Game: Who's Lila?

                        Film: Lake Mungo

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                        Beat me to it. First thing to mind was Lake Mungo.

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                          TUNIC
                          It's a good game in general, but
                          ::: spoiler spoiler
                          If you, as a kid, had to decipher an older sibling's notes in game manual, it hits that nostalgia right on the nose. And then turns it on its head.
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                            Primer. Like $12k budget, mostly cost of film.

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                            Think it’s time for a rewatch thanks for the reminder

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                              Adastra.

                              I'm still infatuated with that dumb wolf. 😩

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                                A game released in 2008 called Iji. At first glance, it seems like a simple platformer, but think again. It's an amazing blend of platforming and RPG mechanics. The game reacts to the decisions you make resulting in multiple endings.

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                                  I just played about an hour and it's so beautiful!

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                                    DELTARUNE.
                                    toby's been changing my brain chemistry for 10+ years now

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                                      I remember feeling the feels when I first saw Garden State. I don’t know what it is about that film, but this quote:

                                      Andrew: “You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.

                                      Sam: “I still feel at home in my house.”

                                      Andrew: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.”

                                      This hits hard.

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                                        Disco Elysium

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                                          Blood machines. It's only a half hour cgi movie. But it hits super hard for me.

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