Indie games prove that you don’t need a huge budget, several teams, and a whole lot of hyperbole to sell a video game in the 21st century. You need only look at Stardew Valley, one of 2016’s most profitable games on Steam, to see this. More often than not, it’s AAA titles that are being hyped to the moon and back, but with the right innovation and audience, an indie game can become just as praised and popular, if not more so. Since we all started worshipping the internet, all kinds of games are getting the attention they deserve. Huge AAA games like the latest Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty may come along and make a huge splash, but it’s indie games like Undertale that people remember the fondest. In fact, it could be argued that well-crafted indies receive more love than their far bigger cousins. To see a prison that works flawlessly to put criminals in jail and under control is a feeling like no other.There used to be a time when the best indie games would go unnoticed, whispered about on gaming forums and rarely in contention for awards, swept aside by annual releases and the million of dollars spent on animating the protagonist’s eyebrows.
The challenge is rewarding though once a perfectly mapped prison is erected from the hundred of failed attempts. These prisoners can start gangs, sell drugs, kill other inmates or guards, and even start a riot. Prisoners are very quick to get out of hand if they don’t have their needs met or if they are just problematic people which of course are worth more money to the player. There is a balance that must be found between adding more prisoners to make money and making sure the prisoners already there are under control. Money is earned based off inmate numbers, but one must spend large amounts of money to increase the size of the prison and its facilities. The tricky part in this simulation is finding the money to balance all the pieces needed. Duties involve providing decent enough housing and food for inmates as well as ensuring there is ample security for the prison’s walls. Prison Architect is a game in which players take over as a manager of a prison. Paper’s Please has thought of all angles when showing off what it must feel like to be a real immigration worker these days. Too little and the family starves, but too much illegal money can have the police coming after you.
Money is needed to sustain the player’s family. The regulations that the player has to follow continuously changes as the game progresses to become more complex and challenging. To really shake things up players can take bribes for letting bad people through to make more money.
There are also people with no vaccines, people with missing documentation, and expired papers that will cause the player to have an internal debate on what the right choice is. The player is an immigration inspector who must use a variety of tools like fingerprint scanners and background searches to find out if each immigrant has any malicious intent in their motives. Some of the types of people the player can run across are terrorists, criminals, and drug runners. Paper’s Please is a game about an immigrant worker in a world where tensions between two neighboring countries are high. This makes for an interesting strategy while trying to banish the evil from the dungeons below. Heroes with high stress will make themselves an easy target and once the best heroes on the team is gone it can become very difficult to rise back to a powerful squad. The game allows players to take 4 heroes on each mission and recuit up to 25 heroes. This adds a level of severity to each mission as the best heroes have probably leveled up a lot through combat with higher stress levels. Players must be careful how they use each hero because once the hero is dead they are gone for good. Higher stress for the heroes will lower their stats and make them weaker.
The stress level rises from a combination of factors including long periods of combat, certain curses, and damage to the hero. A key feature in the game is to balance each hero’s stress level. This game has the player manage a group of heroes to explore a variety of dungeons below a gothic mansion that the player has inherited. The game combines a turn based fighting style with a bit of real time action to keep things interesting.
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