For Switch I would recommend Golf Story, an exclusive for the platform. It’s a golf RPG similar to the Game Boy Color Mario Golf game where you do silly golf challenges around an island full of weird characters and become a golf champion. The story is funny and the golf mechanics are surprisingly deep too.

Edit: just saw I’m not the first to plug this game. :)

Give babaisyou a try. It’s a logic puzzler and that’s all I’m going to say about it. Part of the fun is discovering the mechanics and how to break them

In no particular order:

• The Forgotten City - (loved it)
• Rain World - (love/hate. Unique game where you play as a slugcat)
• Hollow Knight - (someone said it, but I second it. 10/10)
• Celeste - (same as above)
• Furi - (very cool, bullet hell, great music)
• Hotline Miami - (top down fun and murder lol)
• Firewatch - (a good linear story)
• Stanley Parable - (choices, choices 10/10)
• Don’t Starve Together - (survival, great art style)
• Fez - (a really cool puzzle platformer)
• Undertale - (should you kill?)
• Dead Cells - (pretty hard, but fun)
• The Forest - (horror survival)
• Subnautica - (ocean survival. Thalassophobia)
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent - (horror story)
• What Remains of Edith Finch - (good linear story)
• Outer Wilds - (I loved this one so much 10/10)
• The Witness - (cool game, puzzle)
• Outlast - (horror, damn good)
• Deep Rock Galactic - (Rock and Stone!)
• Blasphemous - (Spain inspired metroidvania)
• Abzu - (a very cool ocean experience)
• Soma - (linear horror story)
• Untitled Goose Game - (be a goose)
• Goat Simulator - (be a goat)
• Thumper - (Music, beetle, on a rollercoaster)
• Journey - (go on a journey)
• Risk of Rain 1,2 - (lots of fun)
• Slay the Spire - (a very good turn-based card game)
• Overcooked 1,2 - (fun co-op that gets hard)
• Unravel - (puzzle about yarn)
• No Man’s Sky - (has gotten good since launch, I was at launch)
• OlliOlli - (side scrolling skateboarding)
• Minecraft - (you should know)
• Terraria - (you should know this too)
• Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey - (not sure if indie, but I love it)
• Descenders - (procedural mountain biking)
• Everything - (well, it’s everything feat. Alan Watts)
• The Swords of Ditto - (top down metroidvania?)
• Tails of Iron - (9/10 metroidvania as a rat)
• Ghostrunner - (fast hack and slash awesomeness)
• Rimworld - (management sim, crash landed)
• Slime Rancher - (be happy farming slimes)
• Deadbolt - (play the reaper, like Hotline Miami but side scrolling)
• Kingdom New Lands - (manage your kingdom and survive)
• Limbo/Inside - (two games, puzzle and strange)
• Super Meat Boy - (speedy puzzle platformer)
• Downwell - (arcade game about going down a well)
• Thomas Was Alone - (minimalist puzzle platformer)
• Human Fall Flat - (try to platform, funny)
• Spiritfarer - (cozy management game about dying)

Well, that’s about all I can remember playing. I enjoyed all of these games and they are 7/10+ Anyways, whatcha think?

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I absolutely adore no man’s sky. It’s my favorite game of all time.

Ctrl+F “Tunic”: 0 results. What?

Tunic came on Game Pass, later to Switch, and at first look it seems to be “Indie Zelda imitation 15”. When actually playing it, it ends up functioning a bit like Dark Souls; very low-explanation exploration, some tough combat, and some really cool secrets. It was my Game of the Year, in a year when Elden Ring released.

Gold Story is a phenomenal Indie Switch exclusive. You definitely don’t have to enjoy golf to have fun playing it. I highly recommend it.

A mix of genres, but some of my favourite Indies include; Gris, Lunark, Golf Story, Death Squared, A Short Hike, Cat’s Quest, Rigid Force Redux, and Coffee Talk. All are on Switch, and many on PlayStation too.