My favorites are:

Outer Wilds, Silksong (& HK), Hades 1 & 2, Nine Sols, Blue Prince, Subnautica, Dave the Diver, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Inscryption, Baba is You and Factorio.

Some of these are not recent though.

A bunch i really liked were:

• Hades (and Hades 2) (action roguelike)
• Dead Cells (side scroller roguelike)
• Celeste (Precision Platformer)
• HexCells (puzzle game)
• Shadow Tactics: Blade of the Shogun (Stealth Strategy, the other games by the same dev are great too)
• Prey (well, maybe its not an indie, but its great)
• Vampire Survivors (Bullet Heaven, great to zone out too, lots of things to collect)
• BugSnax (Not sure if Indie, but a lot more fun than it looks)
• Cave Story (Side Scroller)
• Creeper World 4 (Strategy game, I think 4 is the most recent. No need to play older ones unless you want more of the same)
• Earth Defence force 6 (janky, but fun multiplayer with friends)
• Heros Hour (strategy)
• Oxygen Not Included (colony builder)
• Rim World (colony builder)
• Satisfactory (Automation game)
• Pit People (strategy game)
• Supraland (puzzle game, sequel is fun too)
• The Talos Principle (Puzzle game, I think its indie?)
• Undertale (RPG, its fantastic)
• You must build a boat (Match 3)

Hero's Hour is a fun Hero's of might and magic crossed with an auto battler

Dwarf Fortress is the worlds first and most in depth colony sim their motto is "losing is fun"

Crawl is really fun 4 player pvp local co-op dungeon crawler

YOMI hustle is an absolutely bizarre turn based 1 on 1 fighting game

7 days a stranger will bring you down a rabbit hole of point and click horror mystery

Due Process is a very fascinating take on team based shooters

FTL is a rougelike space battler

Into the Breach is a fun strategy battler with mechs and knockback mechanics

Rift Wizard topdown rougelike wizard sim

Noita sidescrolling rougelike wizard sim where every pixel is simulated gets real nuts

What I've played and can 100% vouch for:

• Another Crab's Treasure
• Celeste
• Fly Knight
• Katana Zero
• Noita
• Terraria
• The Messenger
• Ultrakill
• ZeroRanger

What I haven't played but looks good:

• A Hat in Time
• CrossCode
• Echo Point Nova
• Frogmonster
• Lunacid
• Mohrta
• Metro Gravity
• Pseudoregalia
• Sword Hero

The most libre FPS: (zlib engine, CC-BY-SA assets)

Red Eclipse (= parkour shooter)

https://store.steampowered.com/...

(I prefer the gameplay and physics of RE1.6, but should still have a good time with this 2.0)

Highly recommend crosscode. It is a snes era style rpg. It has great puzzles, boss fights, combat, exploration, and story. What more could you ask for.

You play as Lea who is brought into the world of crosscode, a fictional mmo where the avatars that people play as are physically present. Lea has amnesia and plays the mmo to try and recover her memory.

The devs just recently released their new game, alabaster dawn, into early access. I would say it is more GameCube era style.

I really recommend Slay The Spire 1 & 2, fantastic game!

https://mindustrygame.github.io/

I really enjoyed I was a Teenage Exocolonist, its a narrative game where you grow up in a colony being established on a distant planet. It has skill training mechanics where you can develop skills to pass skill checks and has card based gameplay for determining the outcome of some events.

Ena: Dream BBQ is another game I really enjoyed it has a really unique art style and has some great humour. It's definitely really fun to go in to this one blind

Best rogue-like(GPLv3):

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

https://store.steampowered.com/...

My Summer Car is an incredibly well-designed game.
The problem is that it's designed incredibly well to simulate rural life in Finland during the 90's economic depression, and punish the player at every step.
The dev is open about it. The first sentence of the release trailer is "This is not a fun game".
Release trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXkgdijz1c
Fan-made trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brlM92kScmM

I don't game as much as I used to, but I have a list (in no particular order).

• Project Zomboid
• Planet of Lana (1/2)
• The Drifter
• Replaced
• No, I'm not a Human
• The Long Dark
• Nine Sols
• Stray
• Firewatch
• Disco Elysium
• Spiritfarer
• Sea Of Stars

There's more, but these are off the top of my head.

• Full Bore is IMO one of the most underrated games on Steam (10+ years old and only 78 reviews) if you like puzzle platformers.
• Baba is You if you like puzzles without platforming.
• Dropsy surrealistic point-and-click.
• SteamWorld Dig 2 metroidvania, and currently on sale.
• Ittle Dew Zelda-style adventure game... with puzzles.
• VVVVVV retro puzzle game, with platforms but no jumping.

I thought I had more varied taste in games but kind of realizing that there's a pattern now that I'm writing down the ones I've enjoyed the most.

A few games I really enjoyed Planet of Lana which just had a new instalment, Tunic, Selaco, Arco, Spritfall, Bionic Ban, Prodeus, Neva, Children of the Sun, and Children of Morta.

Check out Skyrim! /jk

Exanima is fun and frustrating. Screenshots don't really tell the story about its gameplay, check out a video or go in blind lol

I've been playing Thrifty Business. It's really chill

https://youtu.be/XRG5X-BY3Gs

Timberborn recently hit 1.0, it's good.

Abiotic Factor is pretty amazing. I'll play with ya.

The downfall of any good indie game is that it's a target for acquisition. Anything we love can be turned against us. ROCKET LEAGUE.

I played s.p.l.i.t fairly recently, and I was seriously impressed. It's a very unique narrative-driven game where you're in communication with a small group of hackers in a uniquely dystopian world, and you need to collaborate with them to hack a specific device.

It's only about an hour or two long, but it's priced to match at $3, and wow did it leave an impression on me, it's unlike anything else I've ever played.

Highly recommend it if that sounds at all intriguing.

Knowing some basic MS-DOS/Linux terminal commands beforehand, like how to change directories/navigate would be helpful (this quick guide would be all you really need).

Endless sky , relic hunters zero remix.

Lost Skies

Balatro

Sadly not, all of the 10,000 games per year released are by triple A

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