Oh those guys? Yeah those are just the dozens of professional voice actors we could afford to hire with our tiny baby game studio budget! And those guys? Yeah that’s just our 7-person “engineering” team. What do you mean your entire studio is 4 people?
suck off me
(for the record I’m not dunking on Hades or Hades 2 as a game this is just something that pisses me (and I assume only me) off)
The real indies are mods and other user-created content like custom maps and probably have always been.
The original Dota on WC3 is an indie game.
Project Diablo 2 is an indie game.
Fallout 1.5: Resurrection which chronologically takes place between Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 is an indie game.
A Pokemon romhack where you can catch every single Pokemon up til a given generation in a single game is an indie game.
Some random Doom WAD or custom SC2 map or Minecraft mod are all indie games.
Everything else is just marketing.