This community is for battlefield-like first person/third person games that are made by indie developers.
My top three favorites right now are:
- Operation Harsh Doorstop
https://store.steampowered.com/app/736590/Operation_Harsh_Doorstop
- Easy Red 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2
- Angels Fall Fall First
https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/
All three of these games include large levels with mixed infantry and vehicle gameplay focused around team objectives, which is what type of game indiefield is the intended community for. Games that fit the category of "indiefield" as I am vaguely defining here don't have to have vehicles in every mode or level but they shouldn't be an afterthought and they NEED to be in the game for it to count as an "indiefield" (think battlefront as a very arcadey example).
Why "indie"?
Because AAA studios no longer seem to be interested in simply selling you a multiplayer game you can play with friends who also bought said game. Everything is lootboxes, subscriptions services, battleplasses, predatory monetization and enshittification of game mechanics and overall game quality. Am I bitter? Yes. Am I wrong? Not as wrong as I should be for how big of a generalization I just made.
There aren't a lot of indie/small developers in this genre and often the successful games get bought out by much larger studios and are slowly choked to death. Larger studios making these types of games rarely have the incentive to actually create modding tools and allow creative new ideas to spawn from the framework of their games, and in many ways the genre is often unaccessible.
I called this community "indie"-field partially because so many of these indie games value mod support from the beginning as part of the core package of the game. What I think makes moddable games in this genre so important is they inherently make a good general basis for a whole variety of other modded games.
It is such a fun genre! What I like about these games is the satisfying blend of competitive deep gameplay with the ability to play more casual and focus on supporting teammates if you want. It is a bit like feeling like you are playing in an improvised orchestra where a variety of intensities and energies are needed to make everything pull together.
Do you have any favorite games that come to mind that are indie games like this? I am also fine with conversation about non-indie games in this genre such as battlefield and battlefront too, I just intend this community to be mainly focused on indie games that don't get as much coverage or attention and that geinuinely respect the player/customer.
Games I Want To Try
- Gates Of Hell
.... many others!