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daedalic Made some nice point and click games, loved deponia. they are German but now belong to French NACON.
Just played through Crisol.
Gorgeous game. Gothic Spanish style. $17 on steam right now.Play it in native Spanish. The English dub is terrible.
Mix between silent hill. Resident evil village.
Mostly puzzles and traversing areas. Light combat action.
Has a really unique combat mechanic. Your amo is made from your blood.
Also it’s Eldritch horror. That caught me by surprise and was unexpected based on the trailers I saw.
Took me like 13 hrs to play.
Not a perfect game but def worth $17.
Story could have been developed more but no apparent plot holes.
Probably budget was a limiting factor there. https://youtu.be/5ZjZTQ5-xpM
Why yes, buying indie games from non-US studios are a fantastic way to support alternative modes of production.
Are those non-US studios going to release the assets and source code⸮
If that’s your prerogative, you should stick to open source games rather than indie studios.
Wait, how do you think we “liberate” games otherwise?
“liberate” can be done from many things… for example in this case fascist country
We are in a gaming community, talking about access to games. The only way to actually liberate games is to publish sources liberally. This includes enforcing hard copyleft licensing.
The only way to actually liberate games is to publish sources liberally. This includes enforcing hard copyleft licensing.
that’s a herculean task. devs and artists already suffer from low wages and overwork. And making games is quite labour intensive.
you can publish sources and potentially struggle to make enough money. interesting games are dime a dozen, even rarer in indie scenes that also make it open source.
solve this and we can agree it’s the ONLY way. Until then you gotta pay for binaries.
Noita and Baba Is You are both brilliant games from a few Finnish people. Baba Is You is a puzzlegame involving rearranging the rules of the puzzle you are in. It will make your brain hurt in the good way. Noita is a roguelike in which you are a witch and you build wands with the spells you find along the way. You can make ludicrously powerful wands with some creativity, and the game is ruthless enough that it basically demands you do so.
I’ve already mentioned Heaven’s Vault elsewhere here, so I’ll plug A Highland Song from the same British indie team too. It’s an exploration / climbing game with some simple and really cathartic rhythm sections. The visuals and music are gorgeous
I spent 2-3 hours on Noita, but it never clicked for me, sadly. Loved Baba, added it to my post as well.
That’s fair, I can definitely see why it would be an acquired taste
Same for me. Or well… I got like 300 hours but I am still a noob. Been watching others play it for probably over 2000h. Game is pretty deep.
I recommend watching a stream or YouTube video from FuryForged or DunkOrSlam. Game is wild once you get the hang of it.
Fights in tight spaces
But enough about your kinks.
There’s world outside of US and Europe. Why is there any need to post this here?
You’re doing the same thing current US administration is doing. Global cooperation is the way to go.
To let everyone know how pricipaled they are. Gotta come in here to shit on America to get your badge!
Idgaf about Americans. They deserve to get shit on and then some.
I just don’t want to see states severing ties from each other.
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Agreed. I hate how European communities (here on lemmy) ignore the rest of the world when boycotting the US. We could be uniting against it but I guess people prefer bolstering nationalism and domestic trade?
Because the problem is that EU is dependent on the US. Switching to be dependent on another state is not the goal. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not the solution.
It’s not nationalistic for states to rely on internal products. And BTW, Europe is trying to go opensource. I’d rather have opensource than foreign closed source, regardless of whether it’s Pakistan, Australia, or Nigeria. And other states should also be going opensource, not just European ones.
Everyone should be dumping closed source - especially US closed source, surveillance-ware.
Don’t be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.
Anyway, it’s not like Europe is going to make their own chips. They’re still reliant on Taiwan and China for something fundamental to current day.
Don’t be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.
That’s just dependency dressed up.
Anyway, it’s not like Europe is going to make their own chips.
The seeds are being planted.
Then do another thread?
Why? OP is the one cross posting from BuyEuropean community to PCgaming.
Why not?
I’m currently playing Death Howl by The Outer Zone (Denmark). It’s an indie turn-based game with interesting deck building mechanics, I highly recommend it.
Factorio is made by a small Czech studio and I’ve never seen a game more polished and bug free in my life.
I dunno last I played factorio my base was destroyed by bugs
Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German
I think more people need to be aware that the Factorio director is a piece of shit.
I highly recommend Satisfactory instead, which is by a small(-ish) Swedish dev team.
God damn it. And thank you!
Why is the (average) European indie dev in the meme template about European indie devs?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - Game of the Year, a good chunk of the staff has never worked on a game before, solidly French.
CrossCode (Germany), charming 2D Action RPG where you play a virtual MMO.
CrossCode is awesome. Remember picking it up from one of the itch.io bundles a while back and put 30+ hours into it. Never finished the game but it was well worth it.
Have you heard of Polish indie studiolette CD Projekt and their hidden gem The WItcher 3?
You realize not everyone in the US supports the bullshit taking place, right?
Buycott is not about individuals in the US. Its about keeping money in our own economy and reducing economy in the US to make it clear to the people and the government that this behavior makes US products less attractive and hurts people. This is not about any individual voter although if I could only support the part of the economy not aligned with MAGA in the US I would. Problem is, the employees and companies spend it mostly in their own economy. Canada or Denmark have shown pretty successfully how buycott can work.
Why is that important?
As someone who has lived in the US for several years (and who still talks to close friends from there), I think it is reasonable to make an assumption that in the next ~20-30 years there won’t any change with respect to support for (and dominance of) crime, corruption, authoritarianism and demagoguery in the US.
Yhe US centre right party leadership is too corrupt, but also have no experience (or even theoretical interest) with anti-corruption/crime reforms. The party base is too well off (by relative global standards) to ever risk rocking the boat and getting serious about crime, not to mention a non-minuscule percentage of the US centre right voting base (similar to a large proportion of the far right), look up to criminals and oppose improvements to governance.
In that context, it is reasonable to drop US purchases whenever possible.
Why is that important?
Why wouldn’t that be important? You’re punishing people who have absolutely nothing to do with, and actively oppose, the things you’re talking about, while the people responsible are completely unaffected.
I wish them luck (I genuinely do), but the existence of such people doesn’t change that the US will almost certainly remain commited to crime, corruption, chauvinism and demagoguery in the coming decades.
From my experience this is not purely a US far right issue. As I mentioned in my reply, much of the centre right might oppose the current administration, but they are still opposed to anti-crime reform (if not supporting crime out-right).
I wish them luck
It sounds like you genuinely wish them the opposite, since you’re encouraging others to boycott their businesses for the crime of existing in America.
That’s a mischaracterization. Trust me, it brings me no joy to see the US become a chauvinist, criminal oligarch regime. It’s a disaster to be honest.
That being said, you do not want to send money to a regime that wishes you harm and is composed of criminals. Nor is it unreasonable to make an assumption that the dominance of criminal elements is permanent and American civil service will get permanently debased and hollowed out.
Mind you, this sort of outcome is not surprising and a foreigner living in the US could notice the foundations of such an outcome a decade before Trump.
That’s a mischaracterization.
Then correct me. Because you’re speaking out both sides of your mouth.
It is a mischaracterization! What have I said that makes it seems to you that I support the US oligarchic regime and wish the worst to those Americans that oppose it?
That’s simply not true!
We don’t care. The machine is broken.
What does that even mean?
Supporting any company in the US continues to support their billionaires and continues to drive US intiated problems like MAGA into our countries via their money.
Owlcat Games - they made two Pathfinder games, Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, some of my favorite CRPGs in recent memory. Their latest, Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, is supposed to be great as well, but I haven’t had the time to do more than check out the character creation so far.
Vintage Story is being developed in Europe. They won’t even host on Steam
Yess I love VS
The upcoming update is gonna make about 1/3 - 1/2 of my mods redundant
