Apart from Wasteland 2, Xbone is getting a pile of indies

I know there's already a thread on Wasteland 2 but this thread is about a whole bunch of other games as well.

Of course, I'm going to emphasise it here first. I'm not overly interested in indies. However, Wasteland 2 excites me greatly, because this is the kind of a game I've been craving and raving about on consoles. I've wanted it on all consoles, period, but it looks like Phil Spencer stroke a deal with inXile.

Anyway, apart from it, Xbone's getting quite a few indies, some of them are coming late to the party after being released on other platforms. Some of them will appear only on Xbone apart from PC.

What is most interesting, The Flame in the Flood was supposed to come out on PS4 if the stretch goal on Kickstarter was reached, but it wasn't, and now it's coming to the Xbone, but so far no word on the PS4 version.

Overall, even if I'm not that keen on indies, but I think Phil Spencer has delivered on the games front again and I want to emphasise it once more: he's not a shooter fan, and he likes creativity and diversity first. This is a sign of things to come. Some of the previously unreleased games, like beloved Shovel Knight will somewhat nullify the void in indies for the platform - however it's a long way ahead of Xbone in this respect - and of course Wasteland 2 is a massive coup. I thought nothing interesting would materialize from it and it wasn't even a blip on my radar, but Spencer somehow managed to make a thing out of it. What are your thoughts?

P.S. Before someone will accuse me of hypocrisy of hyping indies on Xbone (look, I'm hyping only Wasteland 2) and bashing them on PS4 (which I'm not doing - I'm only fed up with most of them regardless of platform), I want to highlight once more that Wasteland 2 is exactly this kind of indie game that consoles have been severly lacking, and despite having an indie status, for me it's a MAJOR one, and if you've really followed me as a poster you would even know that I specifically created a thread about Wasteland 2 on consoles, so at least try to be consistent in your judgement.

Microsoft is holding an ID@Xbox event at GDC, but we have a look now at what titles will be featured. Included is news that Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight is headed to Xbox One.

Other notable titles in the list are Magic the Gather F2P, which will make its debut on Xbox One; The Flame in the Flood by The Molasses Flood; Beyond Eyes from Team 17.

Here’s the entire list of what will be featured:

• Bedlam (RedBedlam)
• Beyond Eyes (Team 17)
• ClusterPuck 99 (PHL Collective)
• Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
• Earthlock: Festival of Magic (Snowcastle Games)
• The Flame in the Flood (The Molasses Flood)
• Fortified (Clapfoot Games)
• Game 4 (The Behemoth)
• Goat Simulator (Double Eleven)
• LA Cops (Team 17)
• Magic Duels: Origins(Wizards of the Coast)
• Mighty No. 9 (Comcept)
• Pixel Galaxy (Serenity Forge)
• R.B.I. Baseball (MLB.com)
• Rivals of Aether (Dan Fornace)
• Shadow Blade: Reload (Dead Mage)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• SMITE (Hi-Rez Studios)
• Submerged (Uppercut Games)
• Super Dungeon Bros (React! Games)
• SWORDY (Frogshark)
• The Sun and Moon (Digerati Distribution and Marketing)
• ZHEROS (Rimlight Studios)

Additionally, Microsoft says that inExile Entertainment’s Wasteland 2 is headed to Xbox One. We’ll have more from GDC.

source: polygon via xbox wire

Nice! Wasteland 2 alone is already quite worth it!

They'd do better if they didn't have that ridiculous clause.

Wasteland is cool though, seeing as the genre isn't exactly booming on consoles.

Shovel Knight is coming out on Xbox?

You all better buy it- it's an amazing game that deserves all the love.

So all of a sudden indy games are good to have on console.

Seems ppl were tearing apart the PS4 for having indies a while back. Just so sick of ppl picking apart the BIBLICAL proportions of this meaningless blah blah blah.

The freaking vita has a more impressive list of upcoming indie games. This is pathetic.

To be fair, upcoming indies is literally all the Vita has.

Doesn't excuse this list. Microsoft need to get off their asses.

It looks like you haven't even read the thread. I've only made it clear that for me it's good that Wasteland 2 is coming there. But of course some other folks might care about the rest of the titles, and I happen to care about a few of them, but of course nowhere near to the extent that I'm interested in Wasteland 2.

@Salt_The_Fries: No....I just know that at the beginning lemmings were all about saying "PS4 is only good for indy games" and such.

Now I'm more than sure any lemming that comes in here will be more than happy that they are getting a bunch of indy games.

@mr_huggles_dog:

To be honest, if opening up the store on XB1 applies to games. Indies are pretty much inevitable

I'm looking forward to Cuphead, I love that style of that very early style of animation.

Also looking forward to White Night, comes out Friday I think.

Space Engineers looks great, but no word on a release date. Hope we hear something at E3.

man, that took some time...a lot of games there.

You don't get it, do you. PS4 didn't have ANYTHING expect for indies. Xbox just has both.

Now all of a sudden indie's are back to being cool! lol lems

indiebox strikes again!

Best part is that none of them are even exclusive. They're all on PC. Atleast some of Sony's indies, like Helldivers or RIME, are exclusive.

Look at all those games we already know about.

The waiting game is awesome.

no, the Xbox360 was all about indie games along with their big studio releases last gen. Xbox gamers love indies.

Cows though, they bashed the hell out of the XB360's indie games last gen. They even went as far to say they didn't count towards anything because they were indie games and not big studio games lol. Cows were very anti-indie last gen (except when Journey came out hypocritically). but now, with the ps4 using a ton of indie games as padding for their mediocre big studio games...a very hypocritical 180 has taken place here.

so of course Xbox users, and others, gave cows a hard time when they try to use indies as a selling point for the ps4. Because they were supposedly so against them counting for anything last gen and they're being total hypocrites. That's why cows get grief about indie games and ps4.

The only Indie game I'm looking forward on Xbox One is really Cuphead only because they are using old school cartoons from 1930-1950s art style and it also looks like the studio borrow some of the ideas from the movie, Who Frame Roger Rabbit. [And possibly Cool World movie]

Lems, do yourselves a massive favor and all of you buy Shovel Knight.

I didn't watch the trailer, do you get Master Chief or something? :p

Lems dont like or play indies. NEXT.

@FastRobby: Neither console had anything in the beginning. If one had a bunch of indies that should have been a good thing.

Now Indies don't count anymore...

@tymeservesfate: I didn't know cows gave a hard time about indies last gen. That makes more sense that the bullshit others like FastRobby are saying.

Fair is fair I suppose.

Did you forget about last gen with the xbox 360 and all the xbox arcade games? Do some reserach before making yourself look childish.

Nice job with addition of The Flame in the Flood to the X1 lineup, that is one of my most looked forward to games.

Microsoft had an amazing launch line-up

Personally indies aren't that important for moving consoles so this list is a pretty good grab for a system not focusing on them.

@FastRobby: For the X1???

You've got to be joking.

No... For launch titles, it was great.

Dead Rising, Ryse, Forza, Killer Instinct, and those are only exclusives. They had in total 22 games at launch, from which 6-8 were exclusives. Pretty great launch, in my regard

yea, the whole situation is just some bullshit pissing contest. cows just look a little worst because of the stance they were taking last gen. last gen, indies suck and they mean nothing for the console and the metagame...this gen indies are great and bring so much value to the ps4. 'smh, what lol???'. teh system warz...

Its like 50 indie titles.

• Knight Squad (Chainsaw Games)
• Gunsport (Necrosoft Games)
• Aritana & the Harpy's Feather (Duaik)
• Inside My Radio (Seaven Studio)
• Anarcute (AnarTeam)
• Screencheat (Surprise Attack)
• Tower of Guns (Grip Digital)
• Tumblestone (The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild)
• Smite (Hi-Rez)
• Soul Axiom (Wales Interactive)
• Bedlam (RedBedlam)
• Beyond Eyes (Team17)
• ClusterPuck 99 (PHL Collective)
• Earthlock: Festival of Magic (Snowcastle Games)
• The Flame in the Flood (The Molasses Flood)

• Fortified (Clapfoot Games)
• Game 4 (The Behemoth)
• Goat Simulator (Double Eleven)
• LA Cops (Team 17)
• Magic Duels: Origins (Wizards of the Coast)
• Mighty No. 9 (Comcept)
• Pixel Galaxy (Serenity Forge)
• R.B.I. Baseball 15 (MLB.com)
• Rivals of Aether (Dan Fornace)
• Shadow Blade: Reload (Dead Mage)
• Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
• Submerged (Uppercut Games)
• Super Dungeon Bros (React! Games)
• SWORDY (Frogshark)
• The Sun and Moon (Digerati Distribution and Marketing)

• ZHEROS (Rimlight Studios)
• Wasteland 2 (inXile Entertainment)
• Blues and Bullets (A Crowd of Monsters)
• Quest of Dungeons (David Jose Lourenco Amador)
• Commander Cherry’s Puzzled Journey (Grande Games)
• Hyperdrive Massacre (Big Things)
• Red Out (Big Things)
• Starpoint Gemini 2 (Little Green Men)
• The Little Acre (Pewter Game Studios)
• Space Dust Racers (Space Dust Studios)

• The Adventures of Pip (Tick Toc Games)
• Paranautical Activity (Digerati Distribution)
• Slain (Digerati Distribution)
• Gear Gauntlet (Drop Dead Interactive)
• Draw a Stickman: Epic (Hitcents)
• Reagan Gorbachev (Team2Bit)
• Twin Souls: The Path of Shadows (Lince Works)
• Raging Justice (Makin Games)
• Grabbles (Noble Whale)
• Run (Torch Games)
• World of Diving (Vertigo Games)
• Luna's Tale: The Curse of the Forgotten Doll (Maestro Game Studio)
• Standpoint (Unruly Attractions)

Some cool looking games there... especially Submerged, Blues & Bullets & Soul Axiom. Exciting!

and Sony picks ones that actually carry some weight like Killing Floor 2 and The Forest and games that actually are appropriate for the platform.

I swear it's like Microsoft was using Steam's indie section as a dart board and blindly threw darts at it to see what games to moneyhat.

L.A. Cops has me pumped too. We could go back and forth on the indies.

The big thing here is Microsoft got their announcements out of the way at GCC. Sony would have a special event or wait until E3 to make fanboys cream with hype.

Thank you Microsoft for giving us more great games and not wasting E3 stage time in doing so.

Dat 24 hour exclusive. Good job Phil. Really using those deep pockets to full effect.

Looking forward to Submerged. love the synopsis (reminds me of waterworld) and the music is fantasic

I love how the Sony trolls love to come into a post geared towards Xbox fans and do what they do best lol. Good Job.