Tiny Glade
Hidden Folks
Falconeer
Bulwark
Thronefall
Kingdom: New Lands
Nuclear Throne
Vampire Survivor
Monument Valley
Dome Keeper
Dungeon Clawler
Buckshot Roulette
CloverPit
Slots & Daggers
Townscaper
Bad NorthCasette Beasts, a Creature collecting (pokemon like) game, is by a UK studio, and Yooka Replaylee which is also British only released last year and I still think it’s the most slept-on game of 2025!
Gotta plug the games my IRL friends have made, all Swedish:
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
Wriks: nothing completely made by him on steam, but he’s done work for several games and other stuff, most of it is on the website.
this thread is about to make my bank account cry 😭
Satisfactory is excellent. Like 3D Factorio.
I’ve been playing a lot of The Last Caretaker too. It’s early access but there’s already 20hrs+ of good content. Seriously relaxing game too.
No one mentioning Kenshi in this thread should be considered a crime against humanity.
I’m playing Haiku the Robot right now and loving it. It was developed in Estonia.
I’ve been saying this for over a decade now, but, fucking Starbound. It’s so good. Play Starbound. Play it now.
Factorio is nice
Understatement of the decade
i can stop anytime i want! …i just don’t want to stop…
there’s a reason the community calls it cracktorio, lol
Lead dev of Ultrakill is Finnish and he said it’s okay to pirate the game if you can’t afford it
Soundtrack has some amazing tracks, too. Shame I get motion sickness from (fast) FPS.
I can second the soundtrack, which by the way you can get on Bandcamp.
I think this game has now an accessibility setting to slow it down? I’ll have to verify it later
Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 and 2 by Warhorse Studios - Czech
No Man’s Sky by Hello Games - UK
Planet Coaster 1 and 2 and Planet Zoo by Frontier Development - UK
I wouldn’t call any of those indie.
None of them are AAA, so what would you call them?
AA?
There are so many! What kind of games do you like? For example Spilled! Was made by a Dutch solo dev while living on her houseboat.
Wow new life goal
Valheim, with couple of friends it is one of the best games in decade. Done by swedish team iron gate and published by coffee stain which is also swedish.
And I think they’re about to hit 1.0 with the Deep North update. Will be great to get back in then with my friends.
Not indie but still good:
- Remedy - Control, Alan Wake.
- Embark - Finals, Ark Raiders.
- Flying Wild hog - Trek to Yomi
I would also add HellDivers 2 , by Arrowhead Game Studios, although the Publisher is a Japanese corporation (Sony Interactive Entertainment) and it is not an indie game at all.
Remedy is a Finnish studio, but the Publisher for Alan Wake is Epic Games, one of the least consumer-friendly companies in the Industry.
No one has mentioned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. yet?
Add Metro series to it. THQ, afaik, doesn’t own rights to it anymore. Austrian publisher has rights now.
I was just about to say, how is it that I had to scroll this fucking far down to find S.T.A.L.K.E.R.?
