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

[sirsamuel@lemmy.world]

Games: INSIDE, We Happy Few

[alecsargent@lemmy.zip]

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

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

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

[vanth@reddthat.com]

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

[professorscience@lemmy.world]

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.
:::

[rangerandthecat@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Adastra.

I'm still infatuated with that dumb wolf.

[chunes@lemmy.world]

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.

[suck_on_my_presence@lemmy.world]

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

[mofreak@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[mourningdove@lemmy.zip]

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.

[deathmetal27@lemmy.world]

Disco Elysium

[slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org]

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

[zeropointone@lemmy.world]

That scene with the dead Alice walking up to the camera really gets me every time I watch the movie. I guess because it subverts horror movie tropes. It's like an anti-jumpscare. And the photos in the end are a "good" downer.

[kandoh@reddthat.com]

Man from Earth.

Coherence.

Unpacking (game)

[archmageazor@lemmy.world]

Most indie games will end up better than pretty much every AAA title. The best games I've played in the last decade were either indie or AA.

Roboquest, Pathfinder WotR, Dyson Sphere Program, Outer Wilds, Balatro, Helldivers 2, Deep Rock Galactic, Rogue Trader, Darktide, Abiotic Factor, Rimworld, Stellaris, DV Rings of Saturn, Hardspace Shipbreaker, Voices of the Void, Expedition 33, Blue Prince, Tiny Glade, Witchfire, Instruments of Destruction, Heart of the Machine, Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon, A Webbing Journey, Planet Crafter, Kenshi, X4, Ultrakill, Schedule 1, the list goes on.

All amazing games, none of them AAA.

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

Cube > Saw. First time I watched Saw the only thing I could think of is "This is Cube with a different aesthetic and a creepy puppet."

[frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I disliked the second one specifically because they gave it a decent budget. The original is genius for how it does so much with so little.

The third is an oddball. Made-for-TV budget and quality. It's interesting for fans of the series, but nothing special.

[jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works]

So good and so strange

[kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

John Langan's "The Fisherman". Its a cosmic/folk horror novel but also a powerful meditation on loss and grief.