Xbox Boss Phil Spencer 'Really Enjoying' New Game Pass Indie Title

Yup just finished it yesterday myself. Great game. Really chill, with some good puzzles and gorgeous visuals! Love that indies like this get a look in on Game Pass

ok, yea, now where's the real games phil? i could have stuck with xbox 1 if i wanted indies.

It was a great experience. I just wish it was a few hours longer, with more challenge. Gameplay being a breeze works for a three hour experience, but I would have liked a longer experience with more stuff that really tests you.

Finished it today. Enjoyed it. Nothing groundbreaking but it was well done and nice to look at. Like others said here if you like Limbo/Inside you’ll like this.

Fun and plays well. I am enjoying the story as well.

Phil Spencer should have worked for OUYA.

All the people moaning. We only get so many AAA games per year. And trust me, you get bored of the same 1st / 3rd person action adventures with rpg light elements. It's great to have loads of indies on the service. If it was just AAA you would get maybe 1 a month.

I've come to the conclusion that the moaners have zero inclination to try anything off piste. They want standard, designed in a boardroom fare. Tick box collectaphones with zero creativity. Season pass hoares crying out for day one dlc. I'm going to be honest, all the big highly rated games for the last 5 years outside of a few personal standouts, are hard to remember as they share so many elements.

Give me inside, the witness, celeste, rogue legacy, citizen sleeper, immortality, route 96 etc over the likes of Days gone, Redfall, online shooter 279 any day of the week.

I would love to see the names who voted abysmal and everything under 5. Probably never played it. I’ll bet they are trolling instead of opinions 😉

Still need to give it a shot. Thankfully it's a short one.

@Pusher2021 I gave it a 5. All Xbox games considered, it's a 5. There's nothing really outstanding about it, and it's nothing we haven't seen before. It's Oddworld without the humor and Another World without an interesting story.
Actually I should have gave it less than a 5, but I felt generous.

This guy is stuck in times

@Fishticon I agree it's nothing ground breaking, but less than a 5 would be 'poor' or worse. It's a pleasant enough game, and arguably more than pleasant if you like the genre and some of the other puzzle platformers people here have already mentioned.

While reviews are subjective, to give this game less than 5/10 would be objectively and obviously stupid.

@themcnoisy sounds like you’ve translated people complaining about a lack of AAA on GP into ONLY wanting AAA… far as I’ve seen that’s never been the case.
GP is marketed on AAA day 1 releases - these now cost £70 each…which in turn add more value to the subscription price.
This shouldn’t be confused with quality. They will however bring more people to gamepass than any indie will…which in turn will lead to indies being played by more players

Subscribers just want a consistent balance there.

I agree the creativity and risk taking is with indies though. The budgets for AAA have become so huge that it’s far safer for them to give us more remasters and sequels.

Planet of Lana is a great game. Beautiful visuals and animation. Highly recommend gamers trying it.

@Bleachedsmiles great reply to my comment Bleach but I see the same complaints all the time. Just check out the 1 star reviews on any gamepass game on the ms store. Ridiculous and it makes you wonder what Microsoft could do. A great big game or 5 would help, unfortunately they don't have that luxury as god of war and tears of the kingdom are on other systems. We have Assasins creed through to Fifa on gamepass, outside of having the new Capcom games (never going to happen as they are worth £££s to the stockholders and staff) then I don't see any avenues they haven't tried.

@Fishticon I gave it a 5. All Xbox games considered, it's a 5. There's nothing really outstanding about it, and it's nothing we haven't seen before. It's Oddworld without the humor and Another World without an interesting story.
Actually I should have gave it less than a 5, but I felt generous.

Wow, you really don't like games, do you? But in all seriousness, all games look alike, especially all MP nowadays. Every game borrows something from another. In this game, to me at least, it felt positive. This is an Indie title (good OST + controls) and for me, it is 8/10!

Even though reviews/opinions are subjective, a 5 just seems to be too low, even if it's not your kind of game. It's like Spider-Man 2 (at first glance) & God Of War Ragnarok, are more of the same (for me), but that doesn't have to be bad per se and I get why they get high scores + they still offer something extra imo.

But AA can't be compared to AAA games. I think reviewers (myself included) compare it to other AA games. That is why I like Journey or Stray (even replayed HOA on Xbox which I bought on PS) or other games that create something emotional, atmospheric, chill, good OST, ... and at the end, a good experience to go through.

Just curious ... what Indie titles are 8/10 for you? Or maybe you don't like Indie titles? Which is fine by me, but those games have their merits in gaming land.

@Pusher2021 There's indie games I like. I'm not bashing on indie games. I used to be involved in development of some indie games myself.
Ones I would rate highly are Fez, Super Meat Boy, Human Fall Flat, Neon Abyss, Dead Cells, Wreckfest, You Have to Win The Game, Thomas Was Alone, Prodeus, and Superliminal.
I'm sure there's others, a lot more on PC, but those are the ones I can think of now.

@Fishticon Tbf, there are some good games on your list! (Well, that I like & in my collection). Are you looking forward to Hollow Knight - Silksong?

There are good rated games out there which I don’t like or didn’t click with me but I never considered them bad because I didn’t like them.

@themcnoisy I think anyone with a free hotmail account can add to reviews? I’m not 100% sure though.
No denying that ‘the best value in gaming’ has slowly turned into ‘the gamepass effect’… there needs to be better quality control there all around.

But this is why MS are buying up every one they can… to help get some consistency in releases. That, in theory (as they still have to manage the publishers), sorts out the AAA releases.
Quality though …I guess we wait to see what the likes of starfield, hell blade 2 etc do for the sub count.

@Pusher2021 I've actually never played the first Hallow Knight. I know it's a sin lol, but it's just something about the art that bothers me.