Top 10 BEST Indie Game Hidden Gems - May 2024

[@ChicoAzevedo]

i am a new developer and i hope someday be featured in one of your videos. Love your channel. Indie for life!

[@commentarytalk1446]

Path of Acra - traditional roguelike, may look not just old-skool but one-foot-in-the-grave-old to many but roguelike genre when done well can be incredibly depth of decision-making gameplay each turn and this one has a really solid presentation using almost bitmap looking graphics (!) as opposed to ascii which might remind older viewers of the falling snow effect of old television sets when untuned or a seagull sitting on the ariel above! Anyway this looks like an absolute gem in the genre and as said full of deep replayable mastery for any adventurers brave enough to suffer gradual skill improvement after every death along the way. Seablip - Looks like a mash-up of terraria with FTL-for-Age-of-Sail-Ships which looks very chilled and interactive. Isles of Sea & Sky - Looks like an engrossing puzzler - there's something very gratifying pushing around those 2d blocks around a screen to solve the problem and open up new paths. Looks like a rewarding brain scratcher! Skald: Against The Black Priory - Saw the dev mention this is made to appear to be just as we remember these games to be ie all the glossy good bits of those old games and forget all the clunky stuff but really it's heavily modernized! And it looks pulled off with serious aplomb! Probably in my top best indie games of 2024. Just looks incredible with deep story and paths and so on.

[@noo4783]

Hello Indie Game Fans

[@Wimpiethe3]

That's a good one, he should really start using the line!

[@AMPER_51]

Hello

[@ericblood7215]

Halo

[@snakku7775]

Hello

[@ulfsire1845]

thank you so much for featuring path of achra. HUGE honor

[@ClemmyGames]

🫡 Keep making cool stuff

[@andymcclurg9916]

I love the play on words- tamago meaning 'egg' in Japanese and also sounding like 'time ago'

[@StewNWT]

island of sea and sky looks super intriguing

[@onizate]

Yes, Skald! It is so good! Finished it before the first patch was released! Next up I am going to try to solo it :)

[@dalienmarrero8992]

i love monthly hidden gems videos.

[@hashslingingslasher3083]

Want Seablip on switch

[@cplgn]

I'm playing Tunic now, what're your thoughts on it Clement?

[@BrightFamousBannersglare]

I see that the Plushie From The Sky keeps on turning. If I get this game, I wonder where I'd be tomorrow. But seriously, I think it looks fascinating even though I'm not a fan of Souls games.

[@TheJum]

Have you thought about covering the banning of the publisher BD Games from Steam? Their games all got delisted as well, including some games you’ve covered like Artifact Seeker, so it’s relevant.

[@DiegoAlmeida-j1x]

Why did they got banned?

[@XionSteel]

@@DiegoAlmeida-j1x Did a quick look up, bans aren't are never really clear since platforms tries to keep things vague so that their rules cant be circumvented, but people are assuming its due to review manipulation that one of their makers in that publisher group was doing and sadly, if one maker gets tagged by a tos ban then everyone under that publisher also gets removed. I'd say a lot of them will eventually come back under another publisher since not everyone was at fault.

[@TheJum]

@@XionSteel supposedly someone, presumably from the publisher, was giving out free keys in exchange for positive reviews And it’s honestly a shame because I actually quite liked Artifact Seeker at least, and I’m sure some of their other games were also good. Hopefully they can get everything sorted out

[@XionSteel]

Isle of sea and sky is pretty good yeah, just a nice game to get lost in as you collect things. The only complaint i have seen people have is that it wasn't really clear on how some puzzles should be tackled, or if you needed a specific item to need to come back later, the big one (which the maker fixed by placing blocks to stop people from trying part of some puzzles until later) was the crystal puzzles since you need to find a certain amount to unlock the spirits of that island and which ones you can go for wasn't really that clear until the update. A lot of the end game puzzles (that you honestly don't even need to do if all you wanted to do is beat it) are fking brutal and can take up to an hour or 2 to figure out the solution through trial and error. in the end i stopped at 103/109 stars. 😔

[@chrisburgos8672]

Cluckmech feels like that post apocalyptic shooter with the fish guy

[@SDt729]

Love ur channel ❤

[@ClemmyGames]

thank you!

[@Nope-ity-nope-nope]

Outstanding!

[@canaldequalquercoisa7012]

It's been 84 years since best indie game has posted a video 😢...

[@ClemmyGames]

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[@canaldequalquercoisa7012]

@@ClemmyGames My guy, 1 day without your videos seems like 84 years

[@ClemmyGames]

@@canaldequalquercoisa7012 Appreciate it

[@codered_dev2]

How do devs get their games on the channel tho?

[@ClemmyGames]

if the game's good

[@Fachewachewa]

May was huge for puzzles but I ended up being really disappointed by Lorelei and Isles of Sea & Sky 😔

[@ClemmyGames]

how so?

[@Fachewachewa]

@@ClemmyGames Lorelei felt a little too simple, like a Layton games with more vibes and narrative, which is fine, but was ruined for me by the overall terrible UI (no back button while having lots of menus). Sea & Sky had a really good first island (which I think was in multiple demos) but lost steam over time, and ended up feeling pretty uninspired. Like you said with Bunburrows and Void Strangers, "meta" puzzles are really cool, and while Sea & Sky is open world, there's just not much meta puzzling there, it's more about arbitrary gating than unlocking more possibilities for puzzles :(

[@AaronBowley]

lol i have all these games except 1

[@qingxian3870]

i need indie game pass for save my wallet

[@xvvvvvvvv]

seablip is fun but need more new update

[@el-_-grando-_-_-scabandri]

to be a luffy ... i mean hum hum ... a fully "one" huge "piece" of a game.

[@dino56ac49]

I don’t know if I understand how you rank the games. You always seem to favor nostalgia than good game design. In the end is your ranking so don’t mind me. I appreciate all your content and keep discovering games every time. I just don’t agree with the order

[@misterm9854]

Ayyooo it made it to the thumbnail , lets goooo seablip !!!!!（〜^∇^)〜 (ノ^o^)ノ

[@scottbaylo]

I always ask people to try and explain these automatic (idler?) games, and I’ve either forgotten them all, or the boiling rage at the thought of such nonsense existing drowned out their words… so I give up! And I don’t even really wanna know, because there’s no good reason for having a game play itself, the only worse thing in gaming are these job simulators. When the Simpsons made the joke decades ago, it was so far away from reality, that nobody would’ve believed you if you said… “I bet people would pay to play a “game” where you do work, like a mechanic, or a manager of a race car driver” You people who play these are really sick, and I hope that you can heal in time, but in all honesty, I’ve got enough of an empty void that I could fit all of your voids in it! So unfortunately, I can’t really do much for you… unless you wanna throw pies at me, I think I might be able to do that without fockin up too much.

[@ClemmyGames]

numbers go up I saw a tweet the other day regarding simulator games. Essentially the person was wondering whether the game developers who make simulation games have actually worked a job as a cashier, janitor and so on, and if so, they would have realized that it's not as "cozy" as they make it out to be.

[@scottbaylo]

I’ve actually purposely stayed away from looking at, or reading about them, so I wasn’t even aware that these developers were going that route - that adds a whole new level of rage that I didn’t even know existed (and it was already boiling when I first laid eyes on it!). I’ve been hearing “cozy this” and “cozy that” for only a short time, but when I try to think of a cozy game… it’d be something more like “Cattails wildwood story” (but really anything with cats being cute is a win) or a game where it either rains or snows a lot… but the only part about being a cashier that MIGHT sit on the outer border of a neighboring country, in terms of “coziness”, is if-or-when you crawl inside the cash register, and die! The rest of it is soul-sucking, thankless, low-paying work, where you’re forever surrounded by energy vampires who think they own you because they’re spending a whopping $10! Yeah, thanks-but-no-thanks, I’d much rather play russian roulette (the real thing, not the video game version)

[@scottbaylo]

@@ClemmyGames Hey Clemmy, I forgot to tell you about this one - “Zodiac Revenger” It’s only a demo, but it’s so good! I’ll put it this way, I never got into the mega man games, and this is basically a mega man clone… I don’t know what he did (I’m not even sure if he veered too much from the mega man formula) But I’m in love with everything about this game, it really feels like a long lost NES game!!!

[@ClemmyGames]

@@scottbaylo Have you tried buckshot roulette? Joke aside, yeah I suppose it's like powerwash simulator (or going even further back, Viscera cleanup Detail), of the mindless of the cleaning task (without physical labour) that is different as compared to the adrenaline filled action tha tmost other games give you, so it allows players to get into an almost trance like meditative state, which clears the mind, hence the appeal? Not sure how taht translates into service job based simulators though

[@CellPix]

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