Top 25 BEST Indie Game Hidden Gems of the Year 2024 (GOTY 2024)

Gestalt is beautiful and fun. But there is a TON of dialogue, and it all ends on a cliffhanger where none of the world building pays off. Which is beyond disappointing.

I absolutely love the combat in Arco and am glad they didn't go the standard turn-based route. Makes it much more unique.

Eyyyyy Bo Path of the Teal Lotus. Glad to see it get some love

I'm kinda surprised you haven't done your annual big "Upcoming Metroidvanias" video for the next year or "Metroidvania year in review" yet. You always had done them near the end of every year by this point pretty much.

I don’t hear ANYONE talking about Gori:Cuddly Carnage and that was one of the most fun indie games I played all year. It capture that sophomoric humor that Borderlands used to have but does it better. Just pure stupid fun.

Thanks man for all the work you do, without you I would be one of those idiots who talk about the lack of quality video games. You're the goat!

Is This Game Trying To Kill Me? is my #1 surprise hit. Very creative, fun trap room aspects, doesn't overstay its welcome and it even has super secret endings that were fun to figure out.

Hey ClemmyGames, you should probably do a video on all the canceled indie games that were on Steam cuz I was checking my wishlist and SO MANY of them had their page taken off.

This was a great video where you said a lot about each game. I can tell you also really like games with a distinct art style.

kill knight for me is my indie goty, combat is very well mad, everything tied up

For all its rough parts, i'm glad to see Blud on here. I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to want to shed more of a light on it. That trailer for Arco was awesome. THe setting seems interesting, don't think the in-game art style has my interest much, but the combat system sounds interesting. Perhaps something like that will become more interesting later on. And Ogu looks simply quite cute and fun. My game of the year is probably Loco Motive. Decline's Drops was fun too as was Magenta Horizon, though Magenta Horizon is too difficult for me as of yet. Judero seemed to be fantastic and wonderful, and PRIM appears good too. Same with the Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remasters. For upcoming DLCs, my interest HEAVILY lies with Cookie Cutter, as well as Decline's Drops. For upcoming games, i've got my eyes set on IMMORTAL: And the Death that Follows, My Familiar, Kraino Rebirth, The Eternal Life of Goldman, Ruffy and the Riverside, WOON, Pillory, Promise Mascot Agency, Bad Boro, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, The Midnight Walk, The Dungeon Experience, Phonopolis, the new game by the Papetura developers, and... that's all i can think of for now. Thank you for still being here this year, and wish you and your loved ones a lot of good luck, wisdom, health, strength, joy and fortune wherever you can receive, find, make and share it.

Ogu and the Secret Forest is such a wonderful, whimsical game with LOTS to do. I love it.

Nice list of games. I put a few on my wishlist. Thanks.

16:39 Yes! Shady Knight ♥⚔🏹🔗🔥

can't believe you didn't put "Loco Motive" on the list. that game was fun and the humour was top notch!

I did know most of these, but I guess that's mostly because of this channel. Thanks for all the great game coverage, and looking forward to more next year!

This Wild Woods looks nice, i'm going to take a look!

thank you so much dude, i love your videos!

Gestalt - Enjoyable game but I do agree with the criticisms. I was able to follow the story and enjoyed everything so much I 100%'d the achievements, but towards the end things kinda went off the rails, and the ending was a little bit of a rug pull. Hoping there's a sequel eventually. Karate Survivor - Really cool spin on Vampire Survivors. Being able to use terrain and obstacles is very fun and timing your auto-combos to do the most optimum damage to groups is unique. Definitely give this a try if you're into the genre. Akimbot - haven't played this one but it does look very cool. Love Ratchet and Clank, so this is up my alley. Wishlisted. My Lovely Empress - checked this one out during Next Fest and liked it far more than I thought I would. Frontier Hunter - Played a *VERY* early demo of this one and thought it had promise. DIdn't know it was released, will have to take a look at it. Bo - Love this art style along with Japanese mythologies, so this one's definitely going on my "Metroidvania" list of games to play. Crypt Custodian - Never seen this one before but also very intrigued. Few other games I'm also interested but these are the ones I wanted to point out. Great list.

Where is Antonblast? Such a well-made game!