Indie games are worth your time

I don’t know if you play video games, but it’s likely you enjoy games in one form or another. Maybe you play a cozy game on your phone, a card game on your work computer (definitely only during breaks), or a cute adventure game on your gaming console. And table top games count, too, of course! NoteThere is no such thing as a real gamer or not, only gamers and gatekeepers. I mostly play on PlayStation, and a bit on PC, but also play a lot of sudoku on my phone (yes I am 400 years old), and the occasional word puzzle on my work computer. I’d like to focus on indie video games, though, for this post in particular. Or at least, indie in how they feel, since the term has lost a bit of its meaning, much like indie music, in my mind’s ear. I’ve played through a handful of few smaller games recently. Stray, where I wandered a post-human world as a cat. Cocoon, where I jumped in and out of worlds to solve puzzles. Or Herdling, where I found, named, and led gentle creatures through a dangerous…