Thank you so much for the Brutal Orchestra shout out! This was such an absolute joy to watch! I’m so glad you took the plunge into the depths of purgatory. Keep your eyes peeled though, there is a circus coming to town 🤡🥩
Fun fact about the procedural generation in DRG that isn't explicitly told to you and can be difficult to notice organically: Another part other than the layout of the caves themselves that's variable from mission to mission and contributes to keeping things fresh is that there's a pool and priority system for determining what shows up during a mission and how often. Grunts (+elite variants), praetorians, and oppressors are always going to be on the table, but everything else is limited by either a limited number of slots in a pool, or a priority system that makes the director handling the enemy spawns much more likely to spend its credits on one enemy type than another. Like, you know how you'll go tens or twenties of missions without seeing a Bulk, and then in one mission you get two or even three? That's probably why; it wasn't in the pool in those other missions, but that one it *is*, it's on the table every time the director has credits to burn. Those missions where you feel like you can't take a second to breathe without getting mouthful of web from a web spitter? The ones where you look at the corner of the screen and it definitely isn't a Mactera plague but by god does it feel like it? The priority system. It's fucking brilliant. Ghost Ship are great.
Citizen Sleeper was my game of the year when it came out, and it felt rough to leave it behind when I finished it. It's been a while since I genuinely cared about the fate of digital characters. The game has a lot of heart, and I'm incredibly happy to have been able to experience it.
So happy to see BRC on the thumbnail! This game needs more attention so that more people can check it out. I feel like it is also important to mention that the modding community in this game is also very active, that you basically have a dlc expansion because of them! ..and they are still going at it! PS they are also releasing a 3xLP/vinyl record of their awesome soundtrack! To which i'm sure Yakko would be thrilled with!
26:52 This combo is slightly better when you take Discipline the Insolent’s additional effect of “Damage spreads indirectly to enemies on the Left and Right” into account.
Dude i adore this series. More creators in this scene needs to look for and showcase indie games, im sick of seeing the same 5 new AAA games every month. I always know 2 or 3 of these but you always manage to put a couple of new bangers on my radar. Insert praise for the design of Deep Rock here.
Thanks for covering Brutal Orchestra. It is criminally underrated and I feel has a really unique and fun combat system and some of the best writing I've heard in quite some time.
My partner and I are two of the 5 or 6 people that are gamers AND fans of Hieronymus Bosch (they even have a dress with a print of one of their paintings). Thanks for showing us Brutal orchestra, we are going to love the hell out of this!
I think you should take a look at Laika: Aged Through Blood. It's a "motorvania" as the devs called it. They basically turned the Trials games into a metroidvania where you do backflips to reload. Also, the story, art style and music are all amazing. I think its right up your alley.
As a pretty damn huge brutal Orchestra fan, I’d say you described it precisely as it is. It’s one of the best roguelikes to date, and I’m sad knowing only a handful of people ever know about it, let alone played it
Have you played Rain World before? It’s a 2D platformer/survival game where you are just a little creature exploring abandoned superstructures while trying to survive at the bottom of the food chain. I’ve heard people call it the “New York city Rat Simulator” and honestly that sums it up better than I ever could. Oh plus it has lots of cool movement tech and a killer soundtrack-
Man, the indie scene really knows how to get games a-going. And I swear, that end card with the Brutal Orchestra head, I swore it moved every time my mouse hovered over it. That's detail!
In terms of Indie Games you haven't talked about, you definitely gotta give both Dust:An Elysian Tail and CrossCode a go, they're my favourite indie games for good reason.
I found out about pseudoregalia thanks to Iron pineapple A bite sized 3D platformer metroidvania with fluid movement and a bunny girl protag with a (pardon my french) sublime arrière train, all for a price equivalent to a 4 scoops ice cream while being infinitely less unhealthy and not costing anything to re-experience This game was a true feast for my platformer loving heart so thank you Yakko for helping spread the word 🙏
I like the video's thumbnail illustration, looks good and clean and makes me wonder what could happen if those three characters/games were to meet up. Also sweet to see Brutal Orchestra in here, and generally indie games get more coverage. If more of these videos get made, i hope the likes of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, Soulstice, and the upcoming Cookie Cutter and Genokids may become part of them. Perhaps No Straight Raids and Metal: Hellsinger as well.
as a art history major whose favorite painter of all time is hieronymous that last game blew my mind and i will pick it up immediatly... seeing the knife ear killed me
you should totally talk about RAIN WORLD, it genuinely scared me at some points without necessarily being a horror game just because of the atmosphere and the fear of the unknown which is something you find at every screen, not to mention the gorgeous art style that i've never seen used and the impressive Artificial Inteligence of the enemies which makes them a real threat and i personally never found a way to "cheese" the AI if you play rain world you'll really feel like a spec of dust in a big world where nothing revolves around you besides wanting to reach your own personal goal, it's tough as nails and has no mercy for the player, no hand holding besides the first few screens that just show you the basic controls there's also some cool movement mechanics, interesting themes about life and cycles, adaptive music, hundreds of ways to die, a bit of rng sprinkled in the enemy spawn locations and their interactions, branching paths to get to one location, similar to outer wilds you can finish the game if you know where the goal is, and of course the most important part: slugcat :)
Great video Yakko! Always glad to see some Brutal Orchestra representation too! If there's one game I'd recommend I would choose Golden Light. It's a messed up horror rougelike where the props hunt you down and everything is made of MEAT
fun fact!: big sea monster that has a weird human face above its mouth is actually from one of the developers' other games called "swallow the sea" where it serves as the primary antagonist
I love this series! indie games are amazing and it's great to see you giving them a spotlight like this, especially the less known ones. I don't know if you've played it already but I would love to hear you talk about Signalis. It's absolutely amazing and one of those games I could not stop thinking about for months after finishing it.
Finally. An indie games list that isn't just a copy and paste from the top selling indie games on steam. Well, besides DRG. but everyone NEEDS to know about that game
Yakko this is the first time I knew about all these games before watching, feels very weird after being introduced to so many amazing games from your previous videos in this series. I still enjoyed it a lot and hope you make more full of more obscure stuff!
Psudoregalia is so good, I saw it popup on the steam new releases, gave it a click and soon It was in contention for my game of the year. An inde game iron pineapple recommend back in early access I think you might enjoy is lunacid. A beautiful atmospheric first person dungeon crawler with some incredibly rewarding exploration
Citizen Sleeper is such a great game, even if i feel it gets a little too easy to maintain at the end. There are choices in the game that made me genuinely have to walk away and think for a moment. It's full of flawed but understandable characters, to the point that even the early villain ends up looking like he needs help somehow. The end of the game takes a lot of the focus off of your personal survival and makes you wonder where your path has brought you, including the people you influence throught the game. I loved it, i still think about it, and it's been months. Im waiting for the day when i forget most of it to go back and play it again
_Hieronymous Bosch's Brutal Orchestra_ is giving me strong _Lisa: The Painful_ vibes. What with its eclectic cast of party members, plethora of oddball status effects, grotesquely comedic enemies, etc.
I know that it just came out like 3 days ago but kinda surprised Knuckle Sandwich wasn’t on here. Really recommend it btw for people who haven’t heard about it it’s a really good rpg
These videos are like a holiday for me because your recommendations are so good. Even if I some don’t do much for me, the ones that hit, hit like a train.
I would LOVE to see you check out The Upturned at some point. Same dev as who made Lethal Company that's blown up recently, but The Upturned is just super special and didn't get nearly as much attention as it should have!
Yeah the soundtrack of brutal orchestra is phenomenal. So much so that my top artist was the creator of the music lmao. Almost 5000 minutes according to Spotify wrapped
An Extremely underrated game this year is "American Arcadia" which is basically the truman show if it was made in 2023 and with an entire city. It Parodies Disney and reality shows a lot.
pseudoregalia is one of those games that show potential of movement platformers. a platform game that its so satisfying to move around like finally nailing a combo you landed in a fighting game is a joy. Team reptile did a spiritual sucessor of jet set radio, and they did not disappoint. the base game is already great, but now imagine the modding community that was(and in some regard is )active for lethal league blaze, now they're in their way to mod the game, and the new wave of modders shows a bright future upon this game(hell, there is a multiplayer mod and plenty of model swap and voice mods already) upon recomendations. i would recommend the Ys series. technically is not indie. but what the hell the series is so good it needs to be talked more
Dinkum is a gem too. It's Animal Crossing in the Australian outback with more to do, they just released the summer update which adds a bunch of new stuff.
I feel like you would enjoy CrossCode a lot Yako. It has a very satisfying action combat system with a lot of fun exploration and even has an optional mission that acknowledges a common movement exploit.
15:56 if I was working at ghost ship on deep rock, I would add an OR to the missions. Like,” complete a morkite extraction OR complete a mission on haz 4 or higher in the crystal caverns” that just seems to give more variety
Some recommendations of my own: 1.) Spiritfall: wow this game blew me away. Imagine a rogue-lite that plays like a smash bros game. The graphic style is incredible and the combat is fast and fluid. The game rewards you for getting good and the ability to hitcancel every move is a nice touch. A must-play. 2.) Into the Breach: I know this game is not so new anymore and it is available on Netflix gaming but man is it good and underrated. Each mission is laid out like a chessboard and you get a team of three mechs that you have to use intelligently to avoid damage to civilian cities in this world infested by giant bugs. Each move requires thought and it is such a well thought out game that there are endless possibilities for how you take on missions 3.) Tunic: wow this game slaps. The sound track is something I listen to on my own time and the gameplay is a wonderful mix of isometric zelda and dark souls difficulty. The mystery of the instruction menu pages and decrypting those pages give the game a fresh sense of mystery. 10/10.
Brutal Orchestra is absolutely amazing, and I agree that it needs to be played. And I say this as someone who absolutely sucks at the game. It's so good that I have fun even when the game is kicking my teeth in.
Citzen sleeper losing the stress in end gane felt like your sleeper finding rheir groove in the eye, now wether thay was intentional is something else entirely
If you ever plan on making a pt. 2 I must recommend you Ultrakill. Amazing movement, the weapons mechanics are extremely cool and satisfying and breakcore OST slaps HARRRRD
Oh yeah, btw DRG has the best monetization system ever. They have a battlepass...which is 100% free. cant pay for it if you wanted to. And also, if you want loot from a previous battlepass, you can just switch to that battlepass. It'll save all your progress on your currenty one, and you can just progress on the one you want and get the loot you want. And its all free. The only thing you can buy is the game itself, and sporadic (and quite affordable) cosmetic DLCs. I've bought every DLC the game has to offer, and probably still spent less than the average League player.
I like how you can customize your dwarf however you choose without having to spend a single penny. You will have to play to get the money to buy the cosmetics, but it’s not super grindy.
I cherish this series... There's always one or two games that sneak under the radar even when I try to be vigilant and this makes sure I don't miss them. The jokes and editing were top notch too
an indie game that i think is SUPER underrated is Laika aged through blood. Its essentialy a game where your an immortal furry riding through an apocalyptic wasteland ON A MOTERCYCLE. The combat is amazing (i mean you reload by doing a backflip how is that not awesome) and the characters and writing are genuinely amazing. It depicts the struggles of war and the pain that it brings absolutely perfectly and honestly its an amazing game to play through.
I love BRC so much. It's kinda funny how right now my picks for my personal game of the year are between Baldur's Gate 3 because well it's baldur's gate 3 and BRC. Something about that thought just is funny to me. Also damn it Yakko every time you make one of these videos I feel I need to try all of the games because you're so good at making them sound like the exact type of games I enjoy! (it's usually because they are)
commenting 6 months later to say that citizen sleeper is SO slept on, pun fully intended. i absolutely adore that game, just watching the review made me cry again
A pretty new game you would probably like is Chants of Sennaar. You basically scale the tower or Babel to learn all the different languages of the people who live in it and figure out what's going on.
Here's a fairly obscure indie game that might be worth checking out- Battle Brothers, it's a tactical turn-based RPG where you command a small band of mercenaries through a dark fantasy world (with a procedurally generated map), taking jobs to fight various monsters and human enemies as you build up wealth and notoriety. It's tough, enemies hit hard, and troops can be permanently disfigured or killed
I think BRC needs a sequel that expoands on two aspects, tricks and combat, so why not tie both together make some kind of street fighter type special attacks that double as different tricks, the skates or bikes would be like classes and each character could have some unique super moves
oh my god thank you SO much for including Citizen Sleeper. its such an overlooked gem, that quickly turned into one of my favorite indie games of all time. AND its on gamepass.
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
it's been a little while, but i'm back! hope you enjoy these funny little video games :)
FULL DEEP ROCK GALACTIC VIDEO WITH YOUR FRIENDS OR I'LL CRY.
@@potterinhe11 He's a vitamin D-deficient psychopath, he'd enjoy watching you cry.
Hey Yakko, would you consider making a video about retro games?
Nice seein ya back
game recommendation: Wildfrost
you describing brutal orchestra's combat system made me think of it.
she rock on my rock and im rock
Bizleboy be freakin
She rock on my stone to the bone
and stone
I AM ROCK, IT AINT NO BREAKING ME
AND ROCK
Thank you so much for the Brutal Orchestra shout out!
This was such an absolute joy to watch! I’m so glad you took the plunge into the depths of purgatory.
Keep your eyes peeled though, there is a circus coming to town 🤡🥩
Love the vibes of BO, its that sorta dream like eldritch vibe that I adore emulating so much.
thank you for the kind words! i'm excited for Clown Meat 😎
rephrase please
@@yakkocmn PAUSE
Quick question, mr./ms. devs: on a scale of 1 to Yes, how much do you like Hylics?
I love every game on this list, but DRG will always hold a special place in my heart. Rock and Stone forever!
Did I hear a Rock & Stone...?!
ROCK AND STONE
ROCK AND STONE
ROCK N’ STONE TO THE BONE!
ROCK AND STONE BROTHER
Fun fact about the procedural generation in DRG that isn't explicitly told to you and can be difficult to notice organically: Another part other than the layout of the caves themselves that's variable from mission to mission and contributes to keeping things fresh is that there's a pool and priority system for determining what shows up during a mission and how often. Grunts (+elite variants), praetorians, and oppressors are always going to be on the table, but everything else is limited by either a limited number of slots in a pool, or a priority system that makes the director handling the enemy spawns much more likely to spend its credits on one enemy type than another.
Like, you know how you'll go tens or twenties of missions without seeing a Bulk, and then in one mission you get two or even three? That's probably why; it wasn't in the pool in those other missions, but that one it *is*, it's on the table every time the director has credits to burn. Those missions where you feel like you can't take a second to breathe without getting mouthful of web from a web spitter? The ones where you look at the corner of the screen and it definitely isn't a Mactera plague but by god does it feel like it? The priority system. It's fucking brilliant. Ghost Ship are great.
Its also dependant on the biome. Some biomes are guaranteed to have webspitter, acidspitters, or sandsharks, etc
Whaaaat thats awesome!! Ive got like almost a thousand hours and i never knew this. That explains all the swarmers....
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
• Pseudoregalia
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Case of the Golden Idol
• Citizen Sleeper
• Brutal Orchestra
Citizen Sleeper was my game of the year when it came out, and it felt rough to leave it behind when I finished it.
It's been a while since I genuinely cared about the fate of digital characters.
The game has a lot of heart, and I'm incredibly happy to have been able to experience it.
I love how I see the thumbnail and my brain immediately goes "ROCK AND STONE" without skipping a beat
heckyeah brothar
did I hear a rock and stone?
rock and stone to the heart!
STONE AND ROCK
Oh wait...
Rock and Rolling Stone
So happy to see BRC on the thumbnail! This game needs more attention so that more people can check it out. I feel like it is also important to mention that the modding community in this game is also very active, that you basically have a dlc expansion because of them! ..and they are still going at it!
PS they are also releasing a 3xLP/vinyl record of their awesome soundtrack! To which i'm sure Yakko would be thrilled with!
you say that last part as if i haven't already pre-ordered the vinyl 😎
@@yakkocmn yea part of me was thinking you most likely already did! lol
I just finished pseudoregalia recently, it deserves every penny and can't wait for more from the dev in the future.
Fr, I beat it a few months ago, and I've never played anything else like it. Genuinely an awesome game.
You'll be happy to know they're working a a new game called ElectroKinetic, a Rougelike 3D platformer
@@derple8524 HELL YEAH, and I'm gonna look forward to it
yeah! finishing it with 1 hand was tough!
@@VintageMarine I'm not a furry, BUT DAMN SHE'S THICC
26:52 This combo is slightly better when you take Discipline the Insolent’s additional effect of “Damage spreads indirectly to enemies on the Left and Right” into account.
29:45 I’m so glad yakko cares about us Bosch enjoyers who also like games
It’s always cool to see how creative the indie scene is
Dude i adore this series. More creators in this scene needs to look for and showcase indie games, im sick of seeing the same 5 new AAA games every month. I always know 2 or 3 of these but you always manage to put a couple of new bangers on my radar. Insert praise for the design of Deep Rock here.
BRC was such a fun little game. By far the most fun I’ve had with a game all year
You clearly haven't played deep rock
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a truly fun 3D trick-based platforming that respects its players, like most indies
fr and the mods just make it even better
@@xigboythe13th40repetitive ahh game
@@civilizedpizza5902 you also clearly haven't *played* deep rock
This video has my like for having DRG and Brutal Orchestra.
ROCK AND STONE!! Thank you for your hard work and for sharing this wonderful video! You have given me some great ideas for gifts for my friends!
Thanks for covering Brutal Orchestra. It is criminally underrated and I feel has a really unique and fun combat system and some of the best writing I've heard in quite some time.
I'm a simple man. I see deep rock galactic. I click
I'll rock and stone to that ⛏️
ROCK AND STONE 🍻
Rock And stone
ROCK AND STOOOONNNE
play thunder goober's personality dungeon
How is this real?!?!?
berd i dont thinks thats a real thing and i wont look it up
Great video and nice list also Sybil in the thumbnail is just a chef’s kiss 😩
My partner and I are two of the 5 or 6 people that are gamers AND fans of Hieronymus Bosch (they even have a dress with a print of one of their paintings). Thanks for showing us Brutal orchestra, we are going to love the hell out of this!
I think you should take a look at Laika: Aged Through Blood. It's a "motorvania" as the devs called it. They basically turned the Trials games into a metroidvania where you do backflips to reload. Also, the story, art style and music are all amazing. I think its right up your alley.
Absolutely. I think he would love the soundtrack
I came to the comments just to recommend this game, too.
It's outstanding.
As a pretty damn huge brutal
Orchestra fan, I’d say you described it precisely as it is. It’s one of the best roguelikes to date, and I’m sad knowing only a handful of people ever know about it, let alone played it
Have you played Rain World before? It’s a 2D platformer/survival game where you are just a little creature exploring abandoned superstructures while trying to survive at the bottom of the food chain. I’ve heard people call it the “New York city Rat Simulator” and honestly that sums it up better than I ever could.
Oh plus it has lots of cool movement tech and a killer soundtrack-
scug
Yeah! Rain World appreciation!
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Man, the indie scene really knows how to get games a-going. And I swear, that end card with the Brutal Orchestra head, I swore it moved every time my mouse hovered over it. That's detail!
In terms of Indie Games you haven't talked about, you definitely gotta give both Dust:An Elysian Tail and CrossCode a go, they're my favourite indie games for good reason.
Definitely agree on Dust. Never did finish it, but it's definitely a game I plan to revisit.
Dust is great
Crosscode is an all time best for sure.
CrossCode fucking slaps and I need more people to talk about it
Crosscode is an indie cult classic™
This really is the Brutal Orchestra
I found out about pseudoregalia thanks to Iron pineapple
A bite sized 3D platformer metroidvania with fluid movement and a bunny girl protag with a (pardon my french) sublime arrière train, all for a price equivalent to a 4 scoops ice cream while being infinitely less unhealthy and not costing anything to re-experience
This game was a true feast for my platformer loving heart so thank you Yakko for helping spread the word 🙏
Brutal Orchestra sounds complicated and overwhelming but I'm tempted to play it just for the music
I like the video's thumbnail illustration, looks good and clean and makes me wonder what could happen if those three characters/games were to meet up.
Also sweet to see Brutal Orchestra in here, and generally indie games get more coverage. If more of these videos get made, i hope the likes of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos, Soulstice, and the upcoming Cookie Cutter and Genokids may become part of them. Perhaps No Straight Raids and Metal: Hellsinger as well.
You sold a copy of Brutal Orchestra to me, just when I said to myself I was done with the Steam purchases for the rest of the year. Thanks
goodness me yakkocmn is on the deep rock grind as well! ROCK AND STONE!!!
Bought Brutal Orchestra today, on a 50% sale, because I wishlisted it back then after wathing this video. Thank you!
BRC holds a special place in my heart forever, glad you're spreading the word
First time hearing about Brutal Orchestra, looks right up my alley! Thanks yakko.
omg did not expect brutal orchestra, I'm so glad it's getting more traction
as a art history major whose favorite painter of all time is hieronymous that last game blew my mind and i will pick it up immediatly... seeing the knife ear killed me
you should totally talk about RAIN WORLD, it genuinely scared me at some points without necessarily being a horror game just because of the atmosphere and the fear of the unknown which is something you find at every screen, not to mention the gorgeous art style that i've never seen used and the impressive Artificial Inteligence of the enemies which makes them a real threat and i personally never found a way to "cheese" the AI
if you play rain world you'll really feel like a spec of dust in a big world where nothing revolves around you besides wanting to reach your own personal goal, it's tough as nails and has no mercy for the player, no hand holding besides the first few screens that just show you the basic controls
there's also some cool movement mechanics, interesting themes about life and cycles, adaptive music, hundreds of ways to die, a bit of rng sprinkled in the enemy spawn locations and their interactions, branching paths to get to one location, similar to outer wilds you can finish the game if you know where the goal is, and of course the most important part: slugcat :)
Your videos are part of what made me start development as a hobby. Thanks for comin back bro.
Great video Yakko! Always glad to see some Brutal Orchestra representation too! If there's one game I'd recommend I would choose Golden Light. It's a messed up horror rougelike where the props hunt you down and everything is made of MEAT
fun fact!: big sea monster that has a weird human face above its mouth is actually from one of the developers' other games called "swallow the sea" where it serves as the primary antagonist
I love this series! indie games are amazing and it's great to see you giving them a spotlight like this, especially the less known ones.
I don't know if you've played it already but I would love to hear you talk about Signalis. It's absolutely amazing and one of those games I could not stop thinking about for months after finishing it.
You sold me on brutal orchestra
I'm so happy that you had brutal orchestra in this video it's such a great game
Man that one character in the thumbnail is really hot. And I guess the right and left characters look pretty okay too.
You should really try Wuppo.
Its an little Metroidvania I fell in love with because of the Artstyle and charm of the game.
I second this. Wuppo's a gem.
Wuppo!
YES PLZ THE WORLD NEEDS MORE WUPPO LOVE
Finally. An indie games list that isn't just a copy and paste from the top selling indie games on steam. Well, besides DRG. but everyone NEEDS to know about that game
Why do you have such great taste in games? I wish I could just talk to you about games for a whole day
already knew some of the games from Olexas Channel, love u both :)
Yakko this is the first time I knew about all these games before watching, feels very weird after being introduced to so many amazing games from your previous videos in this series. I still enjoyed it a lot and hope you make more full of more obscure stuff!
Fun Fact: The Ouroboros from Brutal Orchestra is also the main antagonist from the game Swallow the Sea.
So happy to see some Citizen Sleeper representation! Such a fantastic story. Looking forward to the sequel.
Yes! I was very happy to see him review it and talk about how much the story grips you.
Purchased brutal orchestra before the video ended. Reminds me of darkest dungeon mixed with into the breach
Psudoregalia is so good, I saw it popup on the steam new releases, gave it a click and soon It was in contention for my game of the year.
An inde game iron pineapple recommend back in early access I think you might enjoy is lunacid. A beautiful atmospheric first person dungeon crawler with some incredibly rewarding exploration
Bomb Rush AND Deep Rock in the same thumbnail?! Its like a dream😢
Citizen Sleeper is such a great game, even if i feel it gets a little too easy to maintain at the end. There are choices in the game that made me genuinely have to walk away and think for a moment. It's full of flawed but understandable characters, to the point that even the early villain ends up looking like he needs help somehow. The end of the game takes a lot of the focus off of your personal survival and makes you wonder where your path has brought you, including the people you influence throught the game. I loved it, i still think about it, and it's been months. Im waiting for the day when i forget most of it to go back and play it again
_Hieronymous Bosch's Brutal Orchestra_ is giving me strong _Lisa: The Painful_ vibes. What with its eclectic cast of party members, plethora of oddball status effects, grotesquely comedic enemies, etc.
I know that it just came out like 3 days ago but kinda surprised Knuckle Sandwich wasn’t on here. Really recommend it btw for people who haven’t heard about it it’s a really good rpg
i was actually just finishing up the edit when it came out - i'm excited to check it out and maybe feature it in the future :)
These videos are like a holiday for me because your recommendations are so good. Even if I some don’t do much for me, the ones that hit, hit like a train.
I would LOVE to see you check out The Upturned at some point. Same dev as who made Lethal Company that's blown up recently, but The Upturned is just super special and didn't get nearly as much attention as it should have!
true the upturned is goated
I got into Deep Rock Galactic because my friends kept playing it, and one of them gifted it to me so we played it together constantly.
I am so glad you mentioned Citizen Sleeper. That game is so amazing and so few people know about it
Yeah the soundtrack of brutal orchestra is phenomenal. So much so that my top artist was the creator of the music lmao. Almost 5000 minutes according to Spotify wrapped
An Extremely underrated game this year is "American Arcadia" which is basically the truman show if it was made in 2023 and with an entire city. It Parodies Disney and reality shows a lot.
Brutal Orchestra is now one of my favourite rpg's ever
Thanks for giving indie devs some spotlight!
pseudoregalia is one of those games that show potential of movement platformers. a platform game that its so satisfying to move around like finally nailing a combo you landed in a fighting game is a joy.
Team reptile did a spiritual sucessor of jet set radio, and they did not disappoint. the base game is already great, but now imagine the modding community that was(and in some regard is )active for lethal league blaze, now they're in their way to mod the game, and the new wave of modders shows a bright future upon this game(hell, there is a multiplayer mod and plenty of model swap and voice mods already)
upon recomendations. i would recommend the Ys series. technically is not indie. but what the hell the series is so good it needs to be talked more
Look i am not a furry
But...
So happy to see Brutal Orchestra! I was convinced I was the only person who'd ever played it and it was driving me crazy!
Dinkum is a gem too. It's Animal Crossing in the Australian outback with more to do, they just released the summer update which adds a bunch of new stuff.
Great to see you back with a video, and I love seeing Deep Rock get attention from youtubers I watch!
I feel like you would enjoy CrossCode a lot Yako. It has a very satisfying action combat system with a lot of fun exploration and even has an optional mission that acknowledges a common movement exploit.
bangers, I've played about half of them. Indies are where it's at
couldn’t even edge to this, I exploded immediately!!! Clean up on aisle MY PANTS🤣🤣🤣🤣
15:56 if I was working at ghost ship on deep rock, I would add an OR to the missions. Like,” complete a morkite extraction OR complete a mission on haz 4 or higher in the crystal caverns” that just seems to give more variety
“Look at me! I’m Stony Rock!”
0:09 Insert Bad to the Bone guitar riff
BRUTAL ORCHESTRA YEAHHHHH
Some recommendations of my own:
1.) Spiritfall: wow this game blew me away. Imagine a rogue-lite that plays like a smash bros game. The graphic style is incredible and the combat is fast and fluid. The game rewards you for getting good and the ability to hitcancel every move is a nice touch. A must-play.
2.) Into the Breach: I know this game is not so new anymore and it is available on Netflix gaming but man is it good and underrated. Each mission is laid out like a chessboard and you get a team of three mechs that you have to use intelligently to avoid damage to civilian cities in this world infested by giant bugs. Each move requires thought and it is such a well thought out game that there are endless possibilities for how you take on missions
3.) Tunic: wow this game slaps. The sound track is something I listen to on my own time and the gameplay is a wonderful mix of isometric zelda and dark souls difficulty. The mystery of the instruction menu pages and decrypting those pages give the game a fresh sense of mystery. 10/10.
Brutal Orchestra is absolutely amazing, and I agree that it needs to be played. And I say this as someone who absolutely sucks at the game. It's so good that I have fun even when the game is kicking my teeth in.
Citzen sleeper losing the stress in end gane felt like your sleeper finding rheir groove in the eye, now wether thay was intentional is something else entirely
00:20 truly same
If you ever plan on making a pt. 2 I must recommend you Ultrakill. Amazing movement, the weapons mechanics are extremely cool and satisfying and breakcore OST slaps HARRRRD
Oh yeah, btw DRG has the best monetization system ever. They have a battlepass...which is 100% free. cant pay for it if you wanted to. And also, if you want loot from a previous battlepass, you can just switch to that battlepass. It'll save all your progress on your currenty one, and you can just progress on the one you want and get the loot you want. And its all free. The only thing you can buy is the game itself, and sporadic (and quite affordable) cosmetic DLCs. I've bought every DLC the game has to offer, and probably still spent less than the average League player.
I like how you can customize your dwarf however you choose without having to spend a single penny. You will have to play to get the money to buy the cosmetics, but it’s not super grindy.
I’ve been checking for a new yakko video every day for quite a while now and this video does not dissapoint
I cherish this series... There's always one or two games that sneak under the radar even when I try to be vigilant and this makes sure I don't miss them.
The jokes and editing were top notch too
It's still crazy to me they got Hideki "Family Guy Funny Moments #3" Naganuma" to do parts of the OST for BRC.
an indie game that i think is SUPER underrated is Laika aged through blood. Its essentialy a game where your an immortal furry riding through an apocalyptic wasteland ON A MOTERCYCLE. The combat is amazing (i mean you reload by doing a backflip how is that not awesome) and the characters and writing are genuinely amazing. It depicts the struggles of war and the pain that it brings absolutely perfectly and honestly its an amazing game to play through.
6:12 "Knocked it out of the park once again-" pun intended?
oh my god i didn't even mean for it to be that clever
We reach 9:51 rock and stone
I can't begin to thank you for the amount of amazing indie games you've made me play through this series
I love BRC so much. It's kinda funny how right now my picks for my personal game of the year are between Baldur's Gate 3 because well it's baldur's gate 3 and BRC. Something about that thought just is funny to me. Also damn it Yakko every time you make one of these videos I feel I need to try all of the games because you're so good at making them sound like the exact type of games I enjoy! (it's usually because they are)
BRUTAL ORCHESTRA MENTIONNED (i knew all the games am I cooked)
Play Void Stranger, and go in blind. Trust me, it's something special.
commenting 6 months later to say that citizen sleeper is SO slept on, pun fully intended. i absolutely adore that game, just watching the review made me cry again
A pretty new game you would probably like is Chants of Sennaar. You basically scale the tower or Babel to learn all the different languages of the people who live in it and figure out what's going on.
Here's a fairly obscure indie game that might be worth checking out- Battle Brothers, it's a tactical turn-based RPG where you command a small band of mercenaries through a dark fantasy world (with a procedurally generated map), taking jobs to fight various monsters and human enemies as you build up wealth and notoriety. It's tough, enemies hit hard, and troops can be permanently disfigured or killed
I think BRC needs a sequel that expoands on two aspects, tricks and combat, so why not tie both together make some kind of street fighter type special attacks that double as different tricks, the skates or bikes would be like classes and each character could have some unique super moves
oh my god thank you SO much for including Citizen Sleeper. its such an overlooked gem, that quickly turned into one of my favorite indie games of all time. AND its on gamepass.