A look back at 12 months of great experiences.
Hello everyone, how was your 2021? For me, 2021 has given me opportunities to play more games than in previous years, as having access to PlayStation 5 has not only removed most of the wait time to get into the games I want to play, but also their loading times thanks to the console’s blazingly fast SSD.
Throughout the year, we have seen lots of amazing, charming, beautiful and totally engaging indie games on PS4, PS VR and PS5. Here are 12 of my personal favourites.
This beautiful yet oppressive Japanese explorative platformer has an interesting approach to combat: discover downed knights and cleanse their souls to have them fight for you, while defeating certain enemies allows you to adopt their abilities for your own use.
At first glance Chicory may seem like an interactive coloring book, yet at its heart lies an engaging adventure. The story’s themes – self-doubt, redemption – are universally relatable.
Of all the games I’ve played this year, this one left the biggest mark. It’s also the one game I can’t reveal much about without spoiling some of the huge twists and turns that await you. I’ll say this only: don’t be deceived by its dating sim-like appearance.
This photogrammetry-powered puzzler challenges you to recreate various real-world places by picking up – and putting together – their fragmented parts like a jigsaw puzzle in VR.
A game featuring a heroic rabbit with a huge mechanical fist attached on his back needs to offer satisfying melee combat, and this delivers. (And the dieselpunk Shanghai-inspired aesthetic is beautiful.)
Everything about Supergiant Games’s roguelike is sublime: razor-sharp combat, superb gameplay mechanics, captivating characters, amazing voice-acting… you cannot stop playing. It’s a perfect game.
A third person action-adventure game with beautiful character animation and engaging combat. You collect “Rot” – cute little creatures – to aid you in combat and puzzle solving.
A PS VR game set in a prehistoric era in which staying alive hinges on your ability to craft, hunt, and fight. Encounter fearsome creatures and soak in the sights of this atmospheric survival sim.
The first 30 minutes of this game is the most cinematic opening of any game released this year and perfectly sets up your role as your civilisation’s chosen one who is tasked to survive in a new colony.
This isometric action adventure mixes varied combat scenarios with light puzzles for an engaging story set in the afterlife.
Glide across clouds and grind on rails in a fantastical sc-fi world. Between combating foes and defeating leviathan-sized bosses, exploration will yield collectables and deepen the story of this world’s past.
One of the most fun multiplayer experiences I’ve had this year. Try and work out who on your spaceship crew is helping prep for launch, and who are imposters intent on killing you all.
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Nice to see two VR games make the list. Song in the Smoke is a fantastic survival game. Can’t wait for PSVR2.
I mean, most indie games are born on PC, so I don’t see anything wrong with it. Especially since it’s his job to bring them to PlayStation.
Damn, Shuhei, I thought you had better taste. I’m sure you prefer PC, but just aren’t allowed to say. 🤫
Shu!
I’m tired of flat world games like Hades it’s like playing on a game boy we’re not stuck in the ’80s people or in the 90s so please stop making those kind of style games.
Variety of games is a great thing. We need 3d games, 2d games, and 2.5 isometric games like Hades. Please make more of all these types of games.
It took me some time to try and adjust to the kind of 2d/2.5d style games because I’m not use to, but eventually I learned to get use to and re-adjust how to think about the perspective and enjoy this way in dimension. One key thing is about applying a bit more of using one’s imagination to relate from the alternate perspective and work with how it is from there – some get these more or less, sooner or later, or not and/or depending on mood of the kind of style someone is up for playing or not at the point in time.
So basically every indie game that released on ps5 this year.
Very believable list.
Won’t lie I own some of them and plan to buy the others at some point.
Keep your eye on Zenith VR Shu, played the Beta and it ROCKS. So ready for PSVR 2 as well! Cheers from PSVR Underground! Thank you for all you do and have a great 2022!
Why did you censor Doki Doki? Censorstation 5.
Hapi new year shuhei sensei! 😊
This is a nices list Shu
Will there be an upgraded PS5 by the time it is available for everyone to purchase? It will be an extra 2 years of development time, so you’d think they’d be working on something.
Nope, their focus is greed. There will only be slims.
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