User:NegativeMP1/Indie game canon

This is the "indie game canon", a list of what I view to be the most important independent video games, broken up into three groups based on importance. This list functions as my own personal list of articles to possibly maintain or expand one day, though this obviously can be used by anyone else as well. While I have attempted to take into account as many games as possible, this is obviously my list and may differ from what others would have personally picked.

The name is based on the game canon, and is organized similarly to vital articles. Series are not listed, only individual games.

This list is under construction.

Level 1
This section will have 10 articles.


 * 1)  Minecraft
 * 2)  Cave Story
 * 3)  Fez (video game)
 * 4)  Braid (video game)
 * 5)  Journey (2012 video game)
 * 6)  Hotline Miami
 * 7)  Papers, Please
 * 8)  Dwarf Fortress
 * 9)  Terraria
 * 10)  Stardew Valley

Level 2
This section will have 25 articles.


 * 1)  Undertale
 * 2)  Inside (video game)
 * 3)  Human: Fall Flat
 * 4)  Castle Crashers
 * 5)  Dusk (video game)
 * 6)  Angry Birds (video game)
 * 7)  Super Meat Boy
 * 8)  Geometry Dash
 * 9)  Shovel Knight
 * 10)  Cookie Clicker
 * 11)  Among Us
 * 12)  Hollow Knight
 * 13)  Cuphead
 * 14)  Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)
 * 15)  The Binding of Isaac (video game)
 * 16)  Limbo (video game)
 * 17)  Bastion (video game)
 * 18)  Flappy Bird
 * 19)  Celeste (video game)
 * 20)  Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
 * 21)  Yume Nikki
 * 22)  Spelunky
 * 23)  Garry's Mod
 * 24)  Rocket League
 * 25)  Flower (video game)

Level 3
This section will have 50 articles.


 * 1)  Deep Rock Galactic
 * 2)  Risk of Rain
 * 3)  Satisfactory
 * 4)  Postal 2
 * 5)  Pixel Gun 3D
 * 6)  Hatred (video game)
 * 7)  Valheim
 * 8)  Rust (video game)
 * 9)  Subnautica
 * 10)  Cult of the Lamb
 * 11)  Lethal Company
 * 12)  Unturned
 * 13)  Omori (video game)
 * 14)  Firewatch
 * 15)  Transistor (video game)
 * 16)  Dave the Diver
 * 17)  Slime Rancher
 * 18)  Pizza Tower
 * 19)  Factorio
 * 20)  Hades (video game)
 * 21)  Disco Elysium
 * 22)   Doki Doki Literature Club!
 * 23)  Deltarune
 * 24)  Amnesia: The Dark Descent
 * 25)  Superhot
 * 26)  Goat Simulator
 * 27)  Sayonara Wild Hearts
 * 28)  Sea of Stars
 * 29)  Stray (video game)
 * 30)  Tunic (video game)
 * 31)  Katana Zero
 * 32)  Dead Cells
 * 33)  The Witness (2016 video game)
 * 34)  Ori and the Blind Forest
 * 35)  No Man's Sky
 * 36)  Untitled Goose Game
 * 37)  Slay the Spire
 * 38)  Phasmophobia (video game)
 * 39)  The Stanley Parable
 * 40)  Perfect Cherry Blossom
 * 41)  Friday Night Funkin'
 * 42)  Enter the Gungeon
 * 43)  Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
 * 44)  Serious Sam: The First Encounter
 * 45)  Baba Is You
 * 46)  PowerWash Simulator
 * 47)  A Hat in Time
 * 48)  World of Goo
 * 49)  Foxhole (video game)
 * 50)  Islanders (video game)

Key

 * Level 1 lists games that had such a large on the indie game scene that it echoed throughout the entire video game industry. This could be for either pioneering independent game development or serving as an example of video games as art.
 * Level 2 lists some of the most popular and undoubtedly important indie games, but did not necessarily reach a level of critical acclaim to single-handedly change the video game industry.
 * Level 3 is an assortment of indie games that received vast critical acclaim or high player counts. Not necessarily industry-impacting, but rather just some popular examples of indie games.

Comments

 * Since when is Angry Birds an indie game? QuicoleJR (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Since mobile games were typically developed by smaller teams (or one person) back in that point in history, I chose to include some, including Angry Birds. λ Negative  MP1  22:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)