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The game I wanted to say was already said, so I'll go with a movie! The 2018 Korean film "Burning".

Mine is music and the answer is essentially literally any Indy band that I like, I like WAY more than any mainstream artist.

but like I have several Indy bands that do different styles, so I don't know what my actual taste is.
here's my recent plays if anyone wants to tell me :)

What does hit hard mean? Does it have to be emotionally impactful? Is positively surprised enough?

• Sheepy has great atmosphere (free)
• Halloween Hidden Capybaras with Orange and Pumpkins has great atmosphere, looks great (free)

I remember a game I played a long time ago touched me, but I can't find my review of it.

I found the VR title Surge was great, but it doesn't seem to be available in the Steam store anymore. I sat down and watched and looked around, and the music and visuals had great impact.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

It's an amazing punk rock musical and a kickass indie film.

Adastra.

I'm still infatuated with that dumb wolf. 😩

Harveys neue Augen, Edna bricht aus

A couple of games from recent years: Chants of Sennaar (linguistic puzzles and incredible vibes) and 1000xResist (this game had something many big game devs seemingly have completely forgotten about, specifically, writing).

I just finished ViewFinder. It's peaceful, surreal, beautiful, and poignant. Highly recommended if you like puzzle games. The end hits you in the feels.

I've been a pretty big fan of both Elex games from Piranha Bites.

In terms of world design, scale, etc.. It's rare that I come across a game that actually sucks me into exploring every part of the open world map like Elex and Elex 2 did.

They're also games that don't hold your hand. Enemies don't level with you. Meaning that if you wander into an area with strong enemies, that's on you. A lot of people complained about that aspect of it, saying that it leads to having to spend a lot of early game running and dodging fights. But to me, that's the entire point, finding creative ways to deal with the enemies that you're too weak to deal with.

• I've lured stronger enemies into towns for the NPCs to deal with; adding just enough hits of my own to get the experience points. (added bonus of looting the corposes of the townsfolk that were killed dealing with it)

• I've skipped entire minor fetch quests (like paying off a gate guard to get access to a town) by again luring an enemy to him and having it kill him because the games have very few non-killable characters.

• I've spent an hour skirting along the edge of a crater riding the line between freezing by going any higher and getting one hit killed by enemies if I go any lower just to get to a hut that I spotted in the distance.

Honestly, for AA games that certainly have their flaws, there are parts of both that blow the modern Bethesda games out of the water.

Frisbee

Game - Factorio. Literally broke my 5 year gaming fast. I've spent over 1000 hours in it.

Film - Boondock Saints. Not a fan of the gore in it, but damn is the rest of it amazing. Willem Dafoe, excellent as usual.

Book - I honestly don't know if I've read any indy books. I don't know the production status of books.