You can get Knytt on Steam now

It's hard to overstate how important Nifflas was to "the indie games scene" when I first got involved in indie games. Back then, Steam barely existed, and most PC indies weren't releasing on it. "Indie games" were, to me, free web games - mostly flash games, and mostly on sites like Newgrounds. I only knew about a couple downloadable titles. I think the first one I ever got was Seiklus. Knytt blew my brain wide open. Like Seiklus, it's a dreamy, calming platformer with pretty achievable challenges. I remember playing it in two or three breathless sittings, then immediately rushing downstairs, connecting my laptop to the television, and forcing my family to see the game. This must have happened during my freshman year of college, because I didn't own a laptop until then. I remember trying to explain to my dad why Knytt being easy was kind of a revelation to me. My family probably just wanted the TV back. I played Nifflas's other big mid-2000s game, Within a Deep Forest, shortly…