Balatro dev shares an excellent list of his favourite indie games of 2024

Although somewhat unrelated, I thought this excerpt from the article was interesting and sad.

Asked in an interview if he regrets Balatro's success, he replied: "Honestly, yeah. Don't get me wrong - this has changed my life in a lot of amazing ways. I'm so grateful. But I do miss that time before. It was just a hobby that recharged my batteries. Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I would've been happier if I had never released this game to the public.'

Animal well is great, but still has one massive problem; the keyboard controls can't be rebound, which is an absolutely unforgivable miss in 2024. Beat the game but had to use a controller... I really don't understand why he still hasn't added this basic feature.

Animal Well is also my game of the year.

No other game was more interesting and exciting when you found something new. Or solved a puzzle.

While on the surface it’s a simple Metroid style game, once you start noticing things it becomes so intriguing. I have a document on my iPad full of handwritten notes and maps. It felt so novel to return to a feeling of the late 80s where paper maps and notes were king.

While there were a lot of great games last year, I put so much more brainpower into Animal Well, and it felt so good to do so.

Animal well surprised me completely, and it's definitely the best metroidvania I've played in a long time

Thanks for the TL;DR!

Damn, bot hasn't heard of any of these. Bot has spent bot's entire year mostly playing Warframe, which is probably why :/