New Year Update! Top Games of the Year + New Posts Coming Soon!

It's a new year, meaning that this blog is active once again. To start up the new year, I would first like to state what I consider to be the top three indie games to come out this year. These are games that I already made a recommendation post for so you can check those out if you want to know more about the game.

Top #3: 

-#3: Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

"Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt (by Ludosity developers) is a fun, challenging RPG (role-playing game), and guess what? It's free! You can find it on Steam for free, and you can get a prequel expansion pack (Princess Remedy in a Heap of Trouble) for $2.99 (I have yet to finish the game so I haven't seen the expansion pack yet)."-Recommendation Post #2 
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I feel that Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt deserves to be number 3 in the Top Games of the Year because it has the best value of all the games shown on this blog, being free of course. For that price, it packs plenty of content, characters, and gameplay.

-#2: Stardew Valley

"Stardew Valley (published by Chuckle Fish and developed by Concerned Ape) is one of the most addictingly fun games out there. It uses the elements of Animal Crossing, Facebook games, and phone games, adds depth and complex gameplay, and then creates something new." -Recommendation Post #3
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Stardew Valley is given the number 2 spot here because it is the game that has taken up the most time in my life. It's highly addicting atmosphere and ambiance makes it a fun way to spend the time, developing your farm and feeling like you're accomplishing something. It was all developed by ONE person, so it's existence is a plea of passion on its own, nevermind all the options and beautiful design that it has. 

-#1: Undertale 

"Now here's one you've probably all have heard about by now. Undertale, developed and published by independent creator toby fox, is one of the most popular indie games in recent years. It gained popularity as YouTubers everywhere began to play it. It's not that hard to understand, though, it has a complex story that changes depending on how you play it, interesting characters and settings, a new take on RPG gameplay, and it was all made by only a handful of people. " -Recommendation Post #4
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Undertale achieves the number one spot here because it was worth its price and has all of the characteristics that a good game should have. It's a story told through battle and quirky characters, and a lot of heart and passion was put into this. Its popularity has already reached its peak, but it's still a worthy game to check out. 

Now that that's settled, I would like to move on to talking about some of the games that I will be making Recommendation Posts later throughout the year.

Recommendation Posts

Hyper Light Drifter

-Hyper Light Drifter is a new indie game that came out last November. It is highly puzzling and addicting and uses a unique fighting RPG style with beautiful graphics.

OxenFree

-OxenFree is a very interactive game with well-developed characters and well made 3-D graphics.

Psychonauts

-Psychonauts is a well made 3-D game with a complex story and characters that has been around for many years now. 

Papers, please

-Papers, please is a simple puzzle game with simple graphics, but its story and atmosphere add to its core gameplay.

Game Recommendation #2: Princess Remedy

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt (by Ludosity developers) is a fun, challenging RPG (role-playing game) , and guess what? It's free! You can find it on Steam for free, and you can get a prequel expansion pack (Princess Remedy in a Heap of Trouble) for $2.99 (I have yet to finish the game so I haven't seen the expansion pack yet).

Game Play 

The gameplay of Princess Remedy is similar to other RPG's, but there is no turn based gameplay. In the game, you take the role of Princess Remedy and help heal the world of 
Hurtland. 

After searching through the hub world, you can go into towns and structures to explore. You can talk to the NPC's (non-player characters) and they'll tell you if their sick, and then you'll go into a battle mode called heal mode. Within heal mode, you constantly shoot pellets and have to defeat all the enemies in order to heal the NPC. If you get hit, you will heal slowly, but if you die, you have to start over. It starts out rather easy but gradually becomes difficult as the enemies begin to vary. 
You get upgrades constantly, but the 
game gets twice as 
hard as you get twice as strong. 

Game Modes 

In this game, there are three game modes of difficulty, but that's not the only reason to replay this game. In the game, you can make conscious decisions that change the story of the game. This makes it incredibly re-playable so that you can see all the different story lines. 

Writing

The writing in this game is wonderful. It may have simple graphics, and its story isn't incredibly complex, but the writing makes it fun and quirky. There are constant jokes that usually use irony and expectation that come from the NPC's dialogue. It only takes a few hours to complete the entire game, since the story is rather short, but again, there is a ton of replay-ability. 

Who would I recommend this to? 

I would recommend this game to generally anyone. It's game modes make it accessible to both hardcore gamers and casual, and it's fun and quirky style makes it a fun way to pass the time. Its challenge can be hard to get past, but it never gets to the point where it's frustrating. The greatest part is, at a price of $0.00, there's no real reason not to check it out. You can find the free version on Steam and the expansion pack here. 

So what do you think of Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt? What about Princess Remedy in a Heap of Trouble? Comment below with your thoughts and what I should recommend/review next.