Picture through Workforce Meat. Remix by Destructoid.
I wish to begin by saying that this was one of many hardest awards we needed to give this yr, significantly at Gamescom, because of the sheer variety of high-quality indie video games on provide.
This award relies on all of the video games that I occurred to play on the present, and there may need been others that I didn’t get to see. So I simply need individuals to know that should you felt one other recreation was extra deserving, that is based mostly by myself opinion, in addition to based mostly on all of the video games I used to be in a position to get my fingers on through the week.
And belief me, I’ve performed quite a lot of indie video games, however one which all the time stood out was Tremendous Meat Boy 3D. It’s the one I all the time noticed myself coming again to, and it’s the one which’s caught with me out of the handfuls I’ve tried. And belief me, I got here again to attempt it a number of instances.
The 3D areas provide a brand new layer of gameplay to the basic Tremendous Meat Boy expertise, and I used to be shocked to see how nicely the indie builders had been in a position to take the 2D model of gameplay, which is finishing a degree as shortly as potential whereas looking for secrets and techniques, and make it work in a 3D surroundings.
I discovered many areas throughout my play classes the place I might skip massive components of the map by leaping over the 3D environments or clipping round them, which, for a Tremendous Meat Boy recreation, is fairly cool. It additionally has very tight controls that you just’d anticipate, and it was a delight to play.
That’s to not say that it was excellent as some areas have moments the place textures mix in and it’s onerous to see what’s a impediment and what’s a part of the extent and it seems like typically you die because of the bizarre placement However contemplating the sport remains to be within the growth and these items are being ironing out I don’t anticipate it to be a difficulty for for much longer.
I’d like to provide a shoutout to the opposite indie video games I performed on the present, equivalent to Reanimal, PVKK, Energy Wash 2, Silksong, and others I managed to squeeze in. On this event, I felt like Tremendous Meat Boy 3D couldn’t not win this award. All of the indie video games I performed at Gamescom had been fairly cool, although, and it seems like we had been in a golden age of indie video games as soon as once more, and I can’t wait to see what builders work on subsequent.
Revealed: Aug 22, 2025 02:13 pm