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BritishGuy54
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    Anyway, I'm starting to get the hint that you don't like how the indie game space is put on such a high pedestal sometimes.
    BritishGuy54
    BritishGuy54
    That’s true to an extent. More so, I just think we’ve passed the Golden Age of indie games.

    2014-2018 was when indie games were huge and arguably at their peak. FNAF, Undertale, Cuphead, DDLC to name a few. They were everywhere online and you couldn’t escape them.

    You don’t really see the same popularity anymore. The only one I can recall from recent times is Pizza Tower.

    It’s really a situation of you either die indie or live long enough to become AA/AAA. People still parrot Shantae and Minecraft as indie. Are they?

    I also think with a future Smash game, we’re going to see less third parties. That includes indie games.
    Quillion
    Quillion
    Diamond-hard agree there.

    It's not just that some indie companies have risen up to become either mid-sized or even bought out by a AAA publisher, the indie space has succumbed to a lot of the same money-grubbing, trend-capitalizing, polish-neglecting problems as AAA games have.

    It really does seem like the 2014-2018 period is what everyone thinks about when they think of the creative potential of indie games; I'd even include the "early rise" period of ~2010-'13 as a good example of their potential. I can't say the same for indie games at this present moment.

    All in all, the problem was never big corporations; it was always capitalism itself.
    Janx_uwu
    Janx_uwu
    Seems like Palworld and Lethal Company performed really well.
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