These days, Indies are really popping off IMO. Gems like Animal Well are coming out all the time. What are your favorites?
The Messenger/Sea of Stars and Hades
Disco Elysium, Pathos Nethack, Cultist Simulator, Slime Rancher but I think that’s been more than 5 yrs on that one.
Ooblets. It is the game equivalent of a warm hug. Charming, polished, anti-capitalist.
Love me some Noita. Falling Sands physics and coding-like wand building in a world far vaster than the provided path suggests. Difficult as fuck tho. Part of that might be my insistence on always making a wand with every explosive I find stuck in a single trigger which I inevitably misfire.