Indie games are no longer becoming cute little distractions between AAA releases, they are now becoming the AAA releases as major companies have lost their imagination and ability to create new and unique experiences. Every year this just builds up more and never falters, with many of my most memorable games being indie, you should not overlook this category.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Kingdom Come is a massive undertaking for such a small studio. With state of the art visuals and tech on top of a massive open world, great voice acting and characters, and ambitious combat, it’s not surprising it had such a rough launch, but the developers have put so much love into patching the game out, and quickly, that’s it’s almost an entirely new game now.

Runner-Ups

Celeste

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Dead Cells

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Vampyr

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Wreckfest

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