Best South African indie games: as good as any other

[gr33nFIEND]

Best South African indie games: as good as any other

The SA indie scene is growing from strength to strength, and there's always room for more. Here are some noteworthy South African indie titles.

 

[MetalSoup]

Eventually, Celestial Games re-opened in 2010 and released a full HD remake of the game called Toxic Bunny HD which was met with rave reviews.

Actually Toxic Bunny is pretty fucking terrible. I'd love to see these "rave reviews".

 

[Klipkop]

You left out Viscera Cleanup detail. It is shocking that I can love cleaning up.

 

[HavocXphere]

Colour me unconvinced.

 

[blaaislaai]

Toxic Bunny, reminds me alot about Jazz Jackrabbit!

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Colour me unconvinced.

Agreed. Granted, getting funding for ANY type of development in South Africa is nigh on impossible, so these devs have to make do with what they have.

 

[Solitude]

Colour me unconvinced.

What do you mean?

Agreed. Granted, getting funding for ANY type of development in South Africa is nigh on impossible, so these devs have to make do with what they have.

Stasis was successfully kickstarted for $132,523 which turned a hobby into a full time game company. But yeah the others didn't have much in funding.

 

[HavocXphere]

What do you mean?

I'm not convinced the SA indie community is comparable to the international one. Broforce aside I can't even think of another SA game to be honest.

 

[Solitude]

I'm not convinced the SA indie community is comparable to the international one. Broforce aside I can't even think of another SA game to be honest.

The three big ones are named in the article. You know Broforce but then there's Desktop Dungeons which was an IndieCade finalist in 2011 and won the Excellence in Design award at IGF. It has sold almost 100 000 copies on Steam without being in a bundle. Not bad for a game going at $15. Then there's STASIS of which Rock Paper Shotgun has this to say: "The best adventure game I've played in years. STASIS punches so far above its weight that I almost can’t believe it exists." The music composer for the game is Mark Morgan. The guy who made the music for the first Fallout games, Planescape Torment and recently Wasteland 2. He offered to work on STASIS because he loved the look so much.

Those 3 games are not only comparable to international ones but are the cream of the crop. Commercially successful games (esp Desktop Dungeons) with critical acclaim and loved my many.