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Celebrating the rise of Indie Development by Josh Bycer on 04/23/21 11:09:00 am   The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.   2020 was the end of yet another decade of the game industry, and like with each one that came before it, the industry would grow and completely change to the point that it would be unrecognizable to look back. For today, I want to ce...

Last year brought RPG gems like Disco Elysium. Was there an RPG as good released in 2020? We've updated our list of the best RPGs of all time to reflect the best of the past year - and there's still dozens of older classics, too. As always, we've taken a broad view of the genre rather than splitting hairs over how many upgradeable stats a game must contain before it qualifies. Whether you want Japanese RPGs, party-based dungeon crawlers, turn-based combat or frantic brawling, you'll find something below. The main rule is that the game needs to still be fun to play today, and not simply ground...

Discworlds. Updated on 6 March 2021 There are many worlds in Jay Weston's Exo One, but I'm not sure I want to leave the one you explore in the game's Steam demo. I love hurtling towards its whirling horizon so much I would hate to actually cross it. If you've yet to have the pleasure, Exo One is a scifi-me-do of monolithic abstraction and giddy kinesis, like a pinball table built by the aliens from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It puts you in charge of a gleaming craft that can tumble over planets as a silver orb or squash itself into a flying disc, generating en...