20 Amazing Single Player Games That Are NOT “AAA” Titles. Expand Your Choices.
20 Amazing Single Player Games That Are NOT “AAA” Titles. Expand Your Choices.
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VVVVVV
What a weird selection of games
How many of them are pixel art?
The Messenger and Shovel Knight are some of my favourite games ever
Not often I’ve seen people talk about the cat lady.
No love for Disco elysium?
Fear and Hunger 1&2
Paradise Killer is one of the most memorable, interesting games I’ve ever played, with a soundtrack so good I bought it on vinyl. Never thought an open world mystery game would work so well
Where is Hotline Miami?
If you want an odd choice with [fantastic music](https://youtu.be/lTNgHKUX3eM), a great mystery and fascinating world: Paradise Killer.
You nominate FTL and then skip Into The Breach? Bruh.
I can’t name a game I turned around on like The Messenger. I’m having a pretty good time doing faux Ninja Gaiden stuff, then they smooth all the levels together into a crummy Metroidvania. If they picked one of those things, it’d be amazing. I will die on this hill.
A warning: Zero Time Dilemma is the third game in the Zero Escape trilogy (after Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue’s Last Reward, which are the Nonary games right next to ZTD) and makes very little sense without the other two. It’s also…not great, due to a troubled development cycle. It is, however, fucking bonkers in the final third, in the best way, and if you like 999 and VLR then it’s worth playing to get the end of the story.
how did you miss so many great games?
Celeste
Ori
Hollow Knight
Sea of Stars
Deltarune
Slay the Spire
and more.
For those of you who say “what about X game?” They’re not “excluded” in any sense. We could be here all day if we included “all” of them. Please feel free to mention your favs.
The fact that there’s no Hotline Miami is a crime
Hades and Celeste
Binding of Isaac
Tunic should have been a major hit. That games puzzle solving hooked me like no other has since I was a kid. Absolutely amazing game.
Adding Gravity Circuit to this list
Outer Wilds is legitimately the best game I’ve ever played. By a lot.
Kindergarten 2
Deaths door is better then tunic
I only buy quad-A games and up now.
FTL: Faster Than Light and Terraria all day and every year for life.
I’d like to add Deaths Door to the mix.
Everhood is another to add to y’all’s lists of you haven’t already lol
I also recommend voidigo, a great roguelike that nobody talks about
Chicory: A colourful tale and Songbird Symphony
I’d like to add Deaths Door to the mix.
Sable is another good one
Soundtrack by the incredible Japanese Breakfast
You forgot about hotline miami
Life is strange
Spiritfarer
Which AAA gamer is least likely to try an indie game? I have to go with COD players
With FTL do yourself a favor and get the exploration mod
The Cat lady hit me like a truck when I played it, underrated gem
Damn I gotta give it to you for including HHBF
Pocket Mirror.
I’m so glad Paradise Killer is on here. I finished it over a month by taking edibles and playing it every Friday night. It’s one of the few games where I throw on the OST on a regular basis. I still would say it’s one of only a few games in the vapourwave genre.
I would put Darkest Dungeon on here too.
Spiritfarer
Played OMORI this last year. One of the best endings I’ve ever experienced in anything. The gameplay loop can be cheesed but the story and especially how it sticks the landing in the last 4-5 hours easily made that one a 4/5 for me. PLEASE more people play this one.
Rimworld and Risk of Rain 2
Cuphead. One of my fav games, animatedly e musically speaking
Cult of the Lamb definitely needs to be on here. Really excellent Rougelike that’s super addicting!
A Short Hike
FTL MENTIONED!!! FTL is such a good gameee
Some that aren’t shown, but come to mind;
Curse of the Obra Dinn
Hollow Knight
Sea of Stars
Spirit Farer