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Essays 05 July 2022, 16:00

author: Marek Jura

15 Indie Games With Best Graphics

Indie games are customarily developed by relatively small teams, so they rarely bring "vast, open world" and complex decision systems. Nevertheless, some of them simply can dazzle you with their audiovisual design!

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Outer Wilds

  1. Genre: adventure game
  2. Engine: Unity
  3. Music: Andrew Prahlow

Outer Wilds has become one of the biggest video game sensations of 2019 for a reason. The debut production of Mobius Digital studio is more than an exploration game – although the main task of the player is a journey through a planetary system full of secrets and anomalies, an important element of the game is also solving the mystery of the time loop, which includes all the celestial bodies we learn.

There are also surprises for the player – the surroundings are changing irregularly, so often returning to the same place means discovering new interesting clues, and even creating different landscapes. The adventure is even more pleasant thanks to remarkably atmospheric soundtrack by Andrew Prahlow.

Some of the players only complain about the controls. In fact, it may seem counterintuitive and somewhat clunky at first. However, you can get used to it and then completely ignore the mechanical inconveniences, and focus entirely on enjoying space exploration.

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Marek Jura

Marek Jura

In 2016, he graduated in philology at UAM. Since then, he has been reviewing prose, poetry, movies, series, and video games for GRYOnline.pl. He took his first steps in the journalism industry as a newsman in a local tabloid. He ran his own company - he designed, created, tested, and sold board games. He published several short stories and is also preparing his debut volume of poetry. Trains martial arts. A feminist, vegan, fan of pineapple on pizza, cat lover, dislikes Bethesda and Amazon, likes Lovecraft, Agents of SHIELD, P:T, Beksiński, Hollow Knight, performance, abstract art, game mods and dumplings.

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