I am very grateful to and proud of our always growing stable of writers from around the world. Intellectualisms and academia and sales reports aside, these are the top 10 games the 15+ independent, impartial writers at IGR polled as the best indie video games of 2015. All of those factors go into our final consideration. We try to focus on games that deliver – in terms of a new mechanic, design, theme – and then bring those things together for legitimately engaging, playable, and maybe even fun experiences. If they happened to then earn $50 million+ on their title after launch, that did not figure in our filter for independent development at the level at which we are focused. Also, at the time of their release, they were made by relatively small indie developers. Please note that the following list represents titles that were expressly released commercially as final products in 2015. We are also going to handle the ever-growing marketplace for unfortunately named “Walking Simulators” with a separate article as well as best mobile games, most anticipated for 2016, best soundtrack and our personal lists. That said, Undertale got so much praise and exposure this year that we are just going to make it our annual sacrificial lamb, and rather than include it in our top ten list, award it instead the honorary Most Disruptive Game of the Year. Undertale: in-game screenshot, courtesy of Steam We would name names, but those opinions keep switching sides and flip-flopping. Some of us at IGR think it is the second coming and others abhor it as a pretentious, tedious slog and a bore-fest. This title is deep and rich and confounding, mysterious, counter-intuitive and very controversial. Well, well! what started as the year of Five Nights at Freddy’s sequels and PewDiePie ubiquity became the year of Undertale.
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After much deliberation, literally tracking every game since January, more 4am discussions than we care to admit, and lots of tomfoolery in FaceRig, Tabletop Simulator and Hangouts, IGR has finally managed to polish off its more or less consensual Top 10 Indie Games of 2015.
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