Jump to content

User:NegativeMP1/Indie game canon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the "indie game canon", a list of what I view to be the most important independent video games, broken up into three groups based on importance. This list functions as my own personal list of articles to possibly maintain or expand one day, though this obviously can be used by anyone else as well. While I have attempted to take into account as many games as possible, this is obviously my list and may differ from what others would have personally picked.

The name is based on the game canon, and is organized similarly to vital articles. Series are not listed, only individual games.

This list is under construction.

The canon

[edit]

Level 1

[edit]

This section will have 10 articles.

  1. Minecraft[1]
  2. Cave Story
  3. Fez (video game)
  4. Braid (video game)
  5. Journey (2012 video game)
  6. Hotline Miami
  7. Papers, Please
  8. Dwarf Fortress
  9. Terraria
  10. Stardew Valley

Level 2

[edit]

This section will have 25 articles.

  1. Undertale
  2. Inside (video game)
  3. Human: Fall Flat
  4. Castle Crashers
  5. Dusk (video game)
  6. Angry Birds (video game)
  7. Super Meat Boy
  8. Geometry Dash
  9. Shovel Knight
  10. Cookie Clicker
  11. Among Us
  12. Hollow Knight
  13. Cuphead
  14. Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)
  15. The Binding of Isaac (video game)
  16. Limbo (video game)
  17. Bastion (video game)
  18. Flappy Bird
  19. Celeste (video game)
  20. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
  21. Yume Nikki
  22. Spelunky
  23. Garry's Mod
  24. Rocket League[1]
  25. Flower (video game)

Level 3

[edit]

This section will have 50 articles.

  1. Deep Rock Galactic
  2. Risk of Rain
  3. Satisfactory
  4. Postal 2
  5. Pixel Gun 3D
  6. Hatred (video game)
  7. Valheim
  8. Rust (video game)
  9. Subnautica
  10. Cult of the Lamb
  11. Lethal Company
  12. Unturned
  13. Omori (video game)
  14. Firewatch
  15. Transistor (video game)
  16. Dave the Diver
  17. Slime Rancher
  18. Pizza Tower
  19. Factorio
  20. Hades (video game)
  21. Disco Elysium
  22. Doki Doki Literature Club!
  23. Deltarune
  24. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  25. Superhot
  26. Goat Simulator
  27. Sayonara Wild Hearts
  28. Sea of Stars
  29. Stray (video game)
  30. Tunic (video game)
  31. Katana Zero
  32. Dead Cells
  33. The Witness (2016 video game)
  34. Ori and the Blind Forest
  35. No Man's Sky
  36. Untitled Goose Game
  37. Slay the Spire
  38. Phasmophobia (video game)
  39. The Stanley Parable
  40. Perfect Cherry Blossom
  41. Friday Night Funkin'
  42. Enter the Gungeon
  43. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
  44. Serious Sam: The First Encounter
  45. Baba Is You
  46. PowerWash Simulator
  47. A Hat in Time
  48. World of Goo
  49. Foxhole (video game)
  50. Islanders (video game)

Key

[edit]
  • Level 1 lists games that had such a large on the indie game scene that it echoed throughout the entire video game industry. This could be for either pioneering independent game development or serving as an example of video games as art.
  • Level 2 lists some of the most popular and undoubtedly important indie games, but did not necessarily reach a level of critical acclaim to single-handedly change the video game industry.
  • Level 3 is an assortment of indie games that received vast critical acclaim or high player counts. Not necessarily industry-impacting, but rather just some popular examples of indie games.
  1. ^ a b This game is no longer published or developed by an independent studio, but was indie upon release.

Comments

[edit]
  • Since when is Angry Birds an indie game? QuicoleJR (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Since mobile games were typically developed by smaller teams (or one person) back in that point in history, I chose to include some, including Angry Birds. λ NegativeMP1 22:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:NegativeMP1/Indie_game_canon&oldid=1231374669"