If you’re an indie game developer and a publisher like Devolver Digital agrees to sign you up, it’s amazing news. Devolver holds a reputation for bringing us some of the best Indie titles that have come out in the video game industry. They have covered games that expand across 2.5D visuals to pixelated adventures that tell some of the most profound stories.
Even though Devolver Digital is now a big name in the video game industry, it had humble beginnings. Initially, they released HD remastered versions of Serious Sam games. Later, they started releasing games from other, smaller independent developers after finding success with these remakes and spin-off games based on the series. One of the first was their breakout title, Hotline Miami.
In their lifetime, Devolver Digital has published more than a hundred games. We’ll pick some of their finest titles that you should add to your gaming library.
12. Ape Out
Ape Out lets you go bananas. Or, in the simplest sense – completely apeshit crazy. It’s a beat ’em up that will change how you view the genre. You play as an ape held hostage in this top-down game, albeit not for long as a hostage, as you would have predicted.
You’ll crash, smash and break past armed guards and other obstacles as you navigate each level. Dynamic jazz music will play throughout the entire time in sync with whatever you do. As tranquil and yet equally destructive the game is, symbols and drummers will break the beat as you ape out.
11. Return to Monkey Island
Monkey Island is a series that thrives on the early days of point-and-click adventures and exploration. With little to no prior experience, even beginners may readily enjoy this new entry, and guides can always be found online to assist your journey.
Return to Monkey Island is not just a return to the series as a whole but also to the golden age of retro gaming and the delight of exploring them while learning their secrets and figuring out riddles.
10. Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami is a fantastic twist to stylist arcade-style shoot ’em ups. If you’re a fan of intense brutality and vintage video game action sequences, you’ll enjoy the top-down action on this one. You will embark on deadly rampages as you set out to destroy criminal underworlds without fully understanding why, taking place in the game’s depiction of Miami in 1989.
You must grasp the level’s design to complete them successfully since they move quickly. Enemies will be firing back at you as you shoot them in each new area, so move swiftly and aim for the highest score possible. Although the plot and characters are strange, the style and tempo of its gameplay (and gunplay) make the game stand out.
9. Death’s Door
Death’s Door is what you get when you take hardcore Souls-like games and give them a menacingly cute crow lead with a sword. It’s a game about a group of crows that serve as the world’s grim reapers. They provide passage between worlds and snatch the allotted individuals’ souls.
You must traverse the globe as a little crow who becomes entangled in a challenging mission to gather the great souls of challenging foes hoping to unlock Death’s Door. This Zelda-inspired journey features fantastic dungeons, mesmerizing puzzles, and brutal boss fights.
8. Weird West
Weird West takes an iconic theme and mixes it up with a land of monsters and cowboys. This mysterious adventure puts you in the roles of five distinct individuals as you learn about their backstories and discover how they are all connected by a larger story.
You broadly explore the furthest reaches of the globe, cults, magic, and monsters. You’ll encounter enemies that will hunt and overpower you in this unforgiving world. It’s a complex role-playing game with many options, and it will notice your errors.
7. My Friend Pedro
Imagine having a banana explain what’s going on, at the moment you start the game. You’re an imprisoned guy who wakes up with no memory of his surroundings or what has just happened. The talking banana will quickly get you up to speed and have you dispatching waves of crooks and bounty hunters, so it’s all right.
It’s absolutely bizarre but even more insanely cool. My Friend Pedro is a side-on action game where you’ll discover your past, fend off foes, and journey through an important task. You’ll spend time trying to figure out what this banana is and why you can communicate with it.
6. Enter the Gungeon
Within the roguelike niche, Enter the Gungeon has established a solid reputation. It has every ingredient for a fun arcade-style game—characters, loads of firearms, constantly changing dungeons, and different enemy types and bosses that progressively amp up the difficulty.
If that isn’t sufficient, why not take on the Gungeon with a friend? You and a friend may take on this bullet hell in co-op, and you might make it out alive. Once you’re done and dusted with this one, Exit the Gungeon is a worthy sequel waiting for you.
5. Cult Of The Lamb
As the title suggests, you’re pretty much in charge of a cult. An adorable one, to add to that. As you build a cult of animal dwellers in Cult of the Lamb, you take on the role of a young lamb. It’s up to you how you go about it.
You can make an effort to look out for your employees and invest in things that seem right at the moment. You can be a promising leader by leading a group of worthy followers. In any case, this gritty and endearing game is a fantastic experience and unquestionably among the finest games from Devolver Digital.
4. Reigns
The idea of ‘power’ is wonderfully put into game design elements by Nerial. The game’s central idea centers on the player becoming a monarch. As a monarch, you must make choices that impact the four pillars of the society in the game: the populace, the wealthy, the clergy, and the armed forces.
You will be making these choices by swiping cards either left or right. Decisions will influence events that take place during the ruler’s term.
3. Gris
Nomada Studio’s adventure platformer Gris gracefully weaves its narrative and design. The game’s protagonist is a young lady named Gris, who awakens in a woman’s statue’s disintegrating hand.
When she lands on the colorless Earth, she learns that unusual constructions call for constellations to bring the Earth back to life. It’s a metaphor for how she heals her heart – as she progresses through the stages of grief, the world fills with color.
Nomada’s next game, Neva is in the works.
2. Katana Zero
Katana Zero is a brilliant balance of style and substance. It checks every box for an honorable Indie experience – memorable stories, a lovely soundtrack, and solid gameplay. In the 2D action game, you take on the role of a contemporary Samurai who works as an assassin with the power to slow down time in a neon city.
You’ll fight a plethora of foes in the level, moving swiftly to evade capture and death. If you die, the game resets at the beginning of the level, when your character mentally strategizes his attempts. Although Katana Zero’s plot is considerably more complex than you may expect, the overall charm of this excellent game will take you by surprise.
1. The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle is simply one of the most well-regarded puzzle games. Players assume control of an anonymous robot who must solve riddles and gather sigils for an entity known as Elohim.
You must decide whether or not to defy Elohim as you uncover mysteries about the world the android is discovering. The tale and the enjoyable puzzles are reminiscent of the Portal series, which certainly fills our void for first-person puzzle solvers with mysterious themes in the backdrop.
A sequel, The Talos Principle 2 was recently announced.
These are some of our favorite titles that make Devolver Digital stand out as a publisher. Their taste in picking out absurdly fun ideas (that work very well) remains unmatched! What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments down below.
