Just dropping that, while disco elysium is a top 10 favourite game for me, corporate suits stole the IP and none of the money goes to the creator

Pirate that shit boy

I really enjoyed Chants of Sennaar. Heaven's Vault is also worth checking out for those that liked it; it's by an independent British team, the language puzzles are similar but (in my opinion) a bit more involved, and there's more narrative & character stuff going on. It is not as smooth a gameplay experience as Chants, but it's manageable to get cool puzzles

Oh! A friend of mine (that I haven't seen for quite a while) is a Drova dev! Never expected to see it listed here. I'm super happy

I dunno last I played factorio my base was destroyed by bugs

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. (It also has much chiller vibes than Factorio, which I think more people will appreciate.)

edit: to those downvoting, please feel free to reply and explain, since I'm genuinely unsure what part of this you disagree with.

Also Shapez 2 if you like factory games. They’re German

Last I heard, the studio that made Disco Elysium kicked out the people who worked hard to make it great and collect all the money now. I think I got it from an Epic Games giveaway, would recommend getting it for free.

mind adding My Summer Car/My Winter Car to the list for visibility?

I spent 2-3 hours on Noita, but it never clicked for me, sadly. Loved Baba, added it to my post as well.

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.

Yess I love VS

Great game but Motion Twin are dicks.

Don't tell anyone I said this, but the the Swedes to be making some pretty awesome indie games.

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.

Then do another thread?

To let everyone know how pricipaled they are. Gotta come in here to shit on America to get your badge!

Ugh, game looks pretty good but I can't stand that visual style anymore. I'm very appreciative of games that use voxels for environmental destruction capabilities but that smooth them out instead of everything looking like it's made of giant pixels, like Enshrouded.

This one looks a lot better than minecraft for the environment (at least based on the trailer, not sure if they just used camera angles that hide the blocky look), but I was disappointed as soon as I saw the enemies/player characters.

No hate or judgement if you are into that, it's just annoying when something sounds like exactly what I'm into but then features a pet peeve, especially when it's something so central as the overall visual design.

Other threads have mentioned this game has a healthy mod community, any mods for making it look not like minecraft?

Why yes, buying indie games from non-US studios are a fantastic way to support alternative modes of production.

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.

We don't care. The machine is broken.

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.