Top 10 Indie Multiplayer Games

Top 10 Indie Multiplayer Games

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They may not be as famous as the AAA counterparts, but they’re no less fun. Join Http://www.WatchMojo.com as we countdown our picks for the Top 10 Indie Multiplayer Games. For this list, we take a look at local and online games with innovative and unique features that have been built outside of the traditional powerhouses of development. Any game that has evolved into a mainstream title from their humble beginnings, like Minecraft, will not be up for consideration.

Even in it’s free-to-play state, this cave-exploration roguelike was one of the most popular PC games, the HD remake simply took it to another level. The weapons, enemies, levels and music have all been refined but the addition of local multiplayer is possibly its greatest enhancement. Communication is key in the chaotic 4-player co-op and a haphazard approach will certainly end with you killing off your allies and your whole party being thrown right back to the beginning of the game. The deathmatch is just as frantic but now you’re rewarded for blowing up or whipping your friends to death. They just need to add that highly demanded online mode to really reach procedurally generated perfection.

This Smash Bros inspired bow and arrow based brawler only gained any attention once it’s exclusivity deal for the cursed Ouya console ended, finally allowing PC and PS4 players to experience the rapid and addictive combat. Developed by a selection of creatives sharing a house, they took inspiration from the co-operative nature of their living arrangements to make a game with local multiplayer as it’s central component. This makes the arrow-flinging action incredibly personal, spawning arguments galore as you all bounce around the stage in search of power-ups and the arrows you have already fired. You better work on your reflexes otherwise you’ll be taking many an arrow to the knee.

Without platforms like the Xbox Live Arcade, we might never have got this Newgrounds-style beat em up that unabashedly embraces toilet humor. You and three other knights use individual traits to slash and cast spells through beautifully animated stages to rescue four kidnapped princesses. The RPG elements lets you boost your strength, agility, magic, defense and even give you a pet to aid in your slaying. These upgrades give you a wide selection of attacks to pull off, moves which you can then inflict on your chums in the arenas dotted throughout the main game. It’s an old school experience but one that never feels out of date.

#7: “Don’t Starve Together” (2014)

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Survival games are all the rage right now but few look quite as good as this dark fantasy that seems to have come straight from the mind of Tim Burton. Incredibly, “Don’t Starve” received the ‘Together’ multiplayer expansion a year after release, allowing you and your friends to forage, build and stave off insanity together. If you’re not one for co-operative survival however, you can hop into a PvP server to actively make some poor soul’s time in this oddball nightmare as hellish as possible. It’s a brutally sombre game but, with your buddy by your side, you might just make it through winter.

#6: “Lethal League” (2014)

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When initially seeing the game you can be forgiven for not having a clue what on earth is going on: a crocodile, robot and baseball player whacking a ball at each other won’t make sense at first but once you get the gist of it, you’ll be hooked. The aim of the game is to avoid a gradually speeding up ball and, if you’re lucky, bunt it straight back at your opponent. Even after putting a few hours in there’ll be times it all gets too frantic and you can barely see the ball, but by that time, you’ll be too pumped on the upbeat dance soundtrack to care.

#5: “Guns of Icarus Online” (2012)

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Whoever decided to use blimps as warships is probably crazy but it sure makes for some serious fun in this competitive multiplayer game. Teamwork and coordination is essential to keep your airship in the sky and if your captain can’t steer, your engineer is slow with the hammer or your gunner has poor aim, you’ll soon be forced into a premature meeting with the ground. With a relatively small player-base you might have to wait for a game, so our advice is get yourself a microphone and form your own crew. You’ll soon slot into your roles and be working as mechanically as your zeppelin to rapidly become a feared presence in the clouds.

#4: “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes” (2015)

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Before you go snipping any wires in this bomb defusal puzzler, you ought to know there is a genuine chance of it tearing your relationships apart. There will be yelling and misunderstandings in abundance as those with the manual frantically try to make sense of a selection of puzzles that will allow the guy with the clippers to prevent an explosion. The sweat will be dripping off your collective brow as the team progress through each challenging module, just make sure you’ve all studied the defusal manual hard beforehand to keep the inevitable fallings out to a minimum.

This arena battler published by Adult Swim might seem like a bit of a gimmick on the surface, but after a few short minutes leaping and blasting around as a duck with a random hat on, you’ll realize there’s far more substance than you might expect. The platforming and shooting controls are incredibly tight and easy to learn, allowing party players to quickly develop strategies with the arsenal of nearly 50 diverse weapons. Each battle takes place on vastly different stages and lasts around 30 seconds only, supplementing the randomness and never letting a match become too one-sided. You might say the whole experience is utterly ‘quackers’.

So many indie developers use a pixel-art style that it’s become something of a cliché, yet this fencing platformer has found a way to put new life into that retro aesthetic. In combination with a high tempo electronic score by Daedelus, every stage has been carefully crafted to make every face-off require a different approach to kill your opponent and sprint to their end of the stage. This tug-of-war creates appropriately tense confrontations and one false lunge or acrobatic leap will inevitably end with a skewering and your colorful blood splattered all over the place. The tournament mode allows eight of you to fight like musketeers and potentially discover who could be the next d’Artagnan. Before we reveal our top pick, let’s take a look at some honorable mentions. “#IDARB” (2015) “ibb and obb” (2013) “Interloper” (2015) “Brofroce” (2015) “Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime” (2015)

#1: “Rocket League” (2015)

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With a combination of rocket-propelled cars, sport and explosive team-based action, it’s no wonder this sequel to the aptly named Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars has had over 15 million unique players. Up to eight players can take the field or court for matches resembling soccer, ice hockey and basketball, all of which can be modified in offline mode to create a crazy match with low gravity or a giant ball. For more discerning players, there are competitive online matches where organization and adherence to roles is key, but for those who want to mess around and go for demolitions, your opportunities for customization are endless. Do you agree with our list? Which indie games have you introduced your friends to? For more gaming top 10s published every day, be sure to subscribe to WatchMojo.com.