2015 best indie games simulator#

I spent almost 20 minutes trying to land a triple flip because a line of text in the game told me I’d see another line of text if I pulled it off.

I think a lot of Goat Simulator’s beauty lies in how incomplete it is, but the goals took me on a tour of its ridiculous nooks and crannies that I might have been too impatient or uncreative enough to properly explore otherwise.

2015 best indie games simulator#

Goat Simulator consists entirely of a player-controlled goat roaming freely around an environment stilted heavily towards being manipulated and, especially, destroyed by goats. How much Mountain can you take before you close it in boredom?- Cameron Kunzelman The mountain becomes about how I relate to that mountain and what it does to me, and most importantly, how long I can stand to witness it. That flips the relationship onto the player. It is like every other mountain, and if we wanted, we could try to mine that normality for profundity. I’ll come out and say it: There’s nothing special about this mountain. It wants to cultivate that, with its poetry, with its random objects, with its sometimes-soaring spouts of music.

There’s a desire to see Mountain as profound. What constitutes an “indie” game? Is it fair to compare an independent studio’s slickly produced, VC-funded masterpiece side-by-side with a short Twine piece created by one person in their bedroom? Probably not, but here you are, reading a list that will do that very thing over and over again.