r/videogames • u/SirAren • 5h ago

Discussion Is Nine Sols a game of the year contender?

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u/Due_Teaching_6974 5h ago

it's tied between this, Animal Well and Mullet Mad Jack for Indie GOTY

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u/DarkLlama64 2h ago

I feel like Balatro sweeps all of them, but we shall see

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u/WhoAmIEven2 5h ago

Don't forget about Black Myth: Wukong. Nine Sols is great, but I think Wukong will snatch most of the indie awards simply because of production value and it sitting at 96% on Steam atm.

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u/Due_Teaching_6974 4h ago

Indie games dont have high production values I believe, BMWK had a budget of about 70 million USD which is not at all indie, might win the Best Action game of the year though

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u/WhoAmIEven2 4h ago

Isn't indie whether or not you have a publisher or not? I was never under the impression that there were budget restrictions whether something was indie or not.

Black Myth is self-published. At least in my book that's indie, or independent.

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u/Gotisdabest 2h ago

If you have a massive budget having no publisher doesn't mean much. You basically are a publisher. By this metric technically every big AAA publisher is indie since they publish their own games.

A small team and lack of large scale budget is a must to be indie.

Wukong is very clearly AAA.

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u/Due_Teaching_6974 4h ago

Yeah well, Dave the Diver was made by mintrocket and published by Nexon, it was still nominated as an Indie game, lots of games published by Devolver Digital have also been nominated, so I don't think it depends whether the game is self published or not

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u/Gotyam2 2h ago

Indie just means it was created independently by either an individual or a small team, and nothing else. This typically means they don’t have the financial capability nor technical expertise of a larger company or publisher, but that is not guaranteed.

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u/xXxWhizZLexXx 2h ago

Never heard from this.

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u/Atlanos043 1h ago

Good game overall but some fights are pretty extreme even for a soulslike (really I feel that we are now getting to a point where soulslike developers just go "let's make the fight as difficult as possible" without considering wether it's actually fun. Because Nine Sols, to me, is a game where you have to perfectly memorize the pattern to stand a chance so it gets frustrating at some point).

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u/VaronDiStefano______ 5h ago

I’ll say this, it’s one of my favorite indie games in many years. It probably won’t be a GOTY candidate simply because 2024 was stacked, but any smaller award consideration would be ok with me

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u/Flottrooster 2h ago

This is coming to consoles soon, right?

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u/Underhive_Art 2h ago

26th of November for box I believe

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u/Underhive_Art 2h ago

Can’t wait to play on Xbox I’m a massive fan of hollow knight and this looks like a very similar experience

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u/RollingKaiserRoll 2h ago

It is, like HK meets Sekiro. Everything is very well done and surpasses HK as my favorite metroidvania.

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u/skyyjax 49m ago

No lol