Blog:Thoughts I've Been Having...

Hello. You may not remember me given that I've been inactive for the past few years, but since I have a more flexible schedule and more free time than I used to, I can start spending some time here again. So I wanted to start the return with something that I've been thinking about for the past few months:

Has anyone been playing some AA and indie games recently? If the answer's yes, then which ones?

When I say "AA" I'm referring to games developed and/or published by mid-tier companies - larger budgets and teams than indies, but not as large as AAAs. I thought they'd be something you guys might be interested in playing, though I wouldn't be surprised if most of you never played or heard of them given they seem to rely on word of mouth to spread awareness (at least from what I've seen). Here's a list of some AA games I believe you might be interested in:

The Surge/The Surge 2, Greedfall, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Wreckfest, Xenon Racer, Indivisible, The Technomacer, World War Z, Styx: Shards of Darkness, Rise: Race the Future, Remnant From the Ashes, Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Vampyr

Indie titles are, as the name would imply, developed by a small, independent development team. Despite those circumstances, these titles (again, from what I've seen) seem to garner more attention - though in the cases of Digital Homicide and Glumberland, it's for the wrong reasons. Still, I'm not here to dwell on that, I'm here to talk indie titles that I think you would actually want to play. So here's a few of them (and yes, I know some of them are already on AGW, but I figured I'd add them anyway for those who still haven't heard of them):

Night Call, Daymare: 1998, Hades, Hollow Knight, GRIS, Unheard, INSIDE, My Friend Pedro, Katana ZERO, Dead Cells, GORN, SUPERHOT/SUPERHOT VR, The Pedestrian

I made this since I thought people around here may have not heard of them and might find something there they like. Titles like the The Surge and The Technomacer can be found for prices at around $10-15, so if you find I'd say go for it.

