Oxygen not included Project Zomboid

I’ve been playing Songs of Syx again. I think it is just one guy making it. Colony/City building management game with some politics and combat. The demo let’s you play an earlier version of the full game.

How small indie do you mean, like one person teams or teams of 5 ok?

• Dyson sphere project, is a great factory game in development for ages and one of my favourites by a 5 person Chinese team.
• Rift breaker by a small Polish group is like a cross between Diablo and Tower defence factory builder lite
• Criticality, is a fun incremental game that will keep you occupied for a few days, hit neutrons to create a chain reaction, basically bubble wrap
• “Lost wiki Kozlovka”, is a very unique find the clue by reading Wikipedia articles in early 90’s internet only about 2 hours long, highly recommended.
• Take a look at the “secret of weapstone demo”, DnD in hand drawn black and white
• Alan’s automation workshop, is good before it gets too hard it you like programming challenges, try the demo first
• Silicon dreams, is like a physiological interrogation, you are trying to determine if the people are human or malfunctioning Androids, again there is a demo
• Horripilant, is an interesting auto batteler, again with demo
• Terraformental, is an incremental text adventure where you build skills to survive a time loop
• A dark forest, was entertaining, currently free demo
• Cleared hot, it’s basically desert strike helicopter gunship game
• Tower wizard, fun for a few hours
• Little rocket lab, like factorio but you take over a town and it’s cute
  Kids recommend “look outside,” and “mouthwashing”, lobotomy corporation, lethal company,
• The signal state, another programming type game
  My youngest recommends "rainworld’ like a 2d dark souls
  That’s my list from the last couple of months. I tend to search demos by genre and wish list things that get my attention. No idea how any of them works under Linux

EDIT: had to fix up the formatting on mobile.
Edit 2: went through my review and added:

• “Town to city” like cities skyline but fun and cute
• IXION, nice little confined space city building game
• The crust, heaps of potential but waiting for them to finish it
• Shapez and Shapez 2, fun little puzzle factory games.
• Sandustry is more fun than it has any reason to e
• cataclismo
• space rock breaker, a cross between pachinco and asteroids

older games,

• TIS-100, like assembler but more limited
• papers please, love this one, love the aesthetic. If you don’t want to play it watch the live action video homage ~10 minutes

I’ve ignored VR games, let me know if you want those too.

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Demon Tides (3d platformer, Mario Odyssey crossed with LoZ Wind Waker)

Bug Fables (Paper Mario-esque RPG)

Ultrakill (boomer shooter)

Session. Skate Sim (EA Skate but without EA)

Synthetik 1 & 2 (isometric futuristic rouge like)

Vall Halla (cyberpunk bartender visual novel)

Dungeons of Hinterburg (Dungeon crawling RPG with a Persona like social system)

Cairn (mountain climbing sim with a great story)

Tactical Breach Wizards (XCOM style game with wizards and defenstration)

Noita (magic based rouge like with a lot of secrets)

Cassette Beasts (Pokemon)

Signalis (classic Resident Evil/Silent Hill style horror game)

Dredge (fishing, but Lovecraftian)

Tunic (Legend of Zelda mixed with Dark Souls)

Neon White (movement based FPS with a goal to speedrun short levels)

SUPERHOT (FPS, time moves when you move)

VOID BREAKER (rouge like FPS with insane upgrades)

Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon is like Skyrim but with better combat and dar King Arthur themed.

Potion Craft is a game where you run an alchemist shop, entirely stylized to look like medieval paintings.

Buddy Simulator 1984 is a game about a digital companion that likes you too much.

I could give more, but I never see anyone recommend those, and you have a lot of recommendations in this thread already.

ive sunk almost 100 hours into Inscryption (deck building roguelike)

Balatro

CrossCode is one of my favourite indie games, well worth a try, long one though.

• Katana Zero

• Stick it to the man (Humorous platformer with a funny story/art style)

• Shakedown Hawaii (Like GTA 1/2 but your a businessman shaking people down for profit)

• Distance (Obstacle Avoidable Racing Game)

• Carrion (You play as a monster trying to escape a facility)

• The Precinct (Be a Cop)

• Chicken Invaders Ultimate

• Wreckage (Homage to Twisted Metal Series)

• Bash Moto (Upcoming Road Rash 95 like game. Can’t wait for it to release!)

• Hypersonic (Upcoming F-ZERO like game)

• Aero GPX (F-ZERO like game)

• Time Loader (3D Platformed/Puzzler with a good story)

• DemonStar - Original Missions (Remastered game of the original shareware, by the original developer)

• Sleeping Dogs (Could you consider it an indie game, I believe not but please try it out its great!)

• Phogs

• Hot Brass (Topdown SWAT game solo or with friends locally or online)

• Two games: Capsized and Cryptark

• Broforce

Edit: Added more games and fixed some typos.

Here’s a couple unique ones:

Showgunners - Turn Based Strategy with some great art and setting.

Lonestar - Space based rogue like turn based with a surprisingly intricate combat system.

Project Wingman - Love letter to Ace Combat with a soundtrack that just DOES NOT miss.

Tactical Breach Wizards - XCOM with wizards. Funny as hell.

Battletech - Older title by Harebrained Schemes but still awesome. Giant stompy robots turn based. Great plot too. Actually had the original devs of Battletech on board.

Some of my favourites I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Dungeons of Dredmor
• Orcs Must Die 2
• Serious Sam: Classics Revolution
• Lunistice

Its rather vague but if you are interested in colony management style games then try Flotsam. Picked it up on sale for cheap a few days ago and got hooked on it. It is a bit buggy on Steam deck but nothing major or game breaking, just a bit annoying ui bugs.

For a few years now, Phasmophobia has been a game my friend and I like to play for a few hours each weekend. But they recently came out with a disappointing and terrible update, and its pushed us to try out some Phasmo “clones”.

The Other Side is the one we’ve had the most fun playing over the past few weeks.