10 Incredible Indie Games You Must Consider

2. Inside (2016)

Ori And The Blind Forest
Playdead Studios

The game starts with a boy sliding down a rocky incline to escape the guards. The boy uses farm animals and equipment he finds along the way to escape to a seemingly-abandoned city where lines of zombie-like people are moved through mind control. Beyond the city is a large factory of flooded rooms, a shock wave atrium, and a laboratory environment where scientists perform underwater experiments on bodies.

Continuing through the office and laboratories, the boy sees scientists observing a large spherical chamber. The boy enters the chamber and discovers a large blob-like creature, the Huddle, made of humanoid limbs connected to four control rods. After disconnecting the rods, the boy is pulled into the Huddle.

The Huddle escapes confinement, crashing through offices, killing some of the scientists in its path. The scientists trap the Huddle in another tank, but the Huddle escapes again and breaks through a wooden wall. It rolls down a forest hill and comes to a stop at a grassy coastline bathed in light.

Inside is a critical look at our own capitalism-driven societies, rounded-off with gorgeous animation.

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