For a coop shooter I cannot shill for Deep Rock Galactic enough, it is so well oiled a game that it just bleeds extremely iterated and well thought out design from every crevice of it.

BattleBit has amazing quality for a game made by 3 indie developers. I've been enjoying it a lot, and it's only early access

I like battlebit because of how intense the moderation is, ive never met a single toxic person in the game everybody is just enjoying themselves, not taking it seriously at all, and it really does remind me of when people used to just play games to have fun instead of grinding their double xp for the battlepass this month

It's nice to play some of these other games for a change. I'm getting really sick of the sweatiness and aggressive Skill Based Match Making of modern games so playing to have fun has kind of been a lost treasure

Dude I still got so much faith for you to be one of those huge devs that makes another sick popular game

I love Battlebit's trailer and how everything blends together

I'm so glad you included DUSK in this video. It is one of my favourite games

After taking a step back for a while and seeing how the market settled (and then seeing the absolute dog water of the Summer Games Show), I think now is a really good time to be an indie dev. As you said, a huge number of people are looking for games that 1) aren't strictly live service, and 2) aren't AAA cash grabs.

Building on the stalker advice, if you have a VR headset, you could get Into the Radius, which is basically stalker VR. The atmosphere is like none other and its honestly terrifying on your first playthrough at some points. Very engaging, totally recommend it.

I've stuck with Paladins for just about 7 years and it feels great to see the game even slightly revitalized, although recently coop titles such as Deep Rock Galactic and Risk of Rain 2 have been proving to be far more fun, especially with friends

Wow these alternate games are doing it big

Thank you for covering the original trilogy of Stalker, everybody’s just jumping straight to Anomaly/Gamma nowadays because Drewski made a video on it.

Battlebit feels like what ravenfield could be if it was fully multiplayer, except a little more polished.

STALKER series really is the only FREE* all-in-one package: shooting, horror, treasure hunting, survival, exploration, atmosphere and SO many more. If STALKER 2 can manage to pull off even more RPG elements, itd be the ONLY fps game I play.

I don't think it's fair to say XDefiant was never marketed as a Call of Duty competitor. They developed the game in collaboration with Call of Duty pros and influencers (and are using these people to promote the game) and specifically have marketed elements in reaction to things people have complained about in CoD (eg skill matchmaking). Even if they have never specifically said "this game is designed to compete with Call of Duty" it is extremely obvious that is what they are trying to do.

Hunt Showdown is such a great game. The audio is soo good, never played any game were you can spot enemy’s based on sound so well. And the devs a great too, very community focused. some of them have their own Twitch channel, where you can ask questions

I can't wait for the finals to come out

My friend recently gifted me the game called Squad for birthday, and its really fun. Its a modern battlefield simulator focused on infantry and armoured forces cooperation. Its very realistic, and in the current playtest it is getting even more realism. Its like less realistic tarkov, but battlefield.

I've played BattleBit regularly every week during the early weekly playtests, really glad this is getting the recognition it deserves

Wow your selection of recommendations is perfect

Would love to hear your take on more single player games!

Thank you garbaj for covering this topic

hey garbaj! rather unrelated to the video really but i wanted to ask about your opinions on the starfield gameplay deep dive. people originally very critical of how the combat felt. that changed with the latest direct. what do you think could be the key factors that made that combat gameplay better? i personally noticed that the addition of hitmarkers helped a lot.

there are some excellent indie single player games out there, dusk and ultrakill are the more well known ones, nightmare reaper is a personal favorite of mine

Battle bit has amazing gunplay, it is counter strike level refined, kinda camping heavy depending on the map tho. I hope some fun community mods come out for battlebit. Paladins also was always really fun, a shame the player base never got bigger.

So the time has finally come where people are growing tired day by day of AAA games

The fact that you didn't mention The Finals... That game is in a league of it's own

Paladins has also benefited from some really top-tier people pushing to make it better than ever. The Community Manager's even been trying to clean up the lore so it makes sense for newcomers. Plus none of the characters in Paladins have been horrendously broken with late-stage reduxes like what happened to Mercy and Symmetra in OW. Instead, that character you loved years ago? They're still fun to use!

Just yesterday I bought Industria since I heard good things and it was on sale. It doesnt have the lenght, polish and optimization of a triple A game, but I still had a great time.

Thanks for pointing out battlebit, i hadnt heard about it and I bought it as a result of this video. Its awesome.

I've spent the last 2 and half years making my own multiplayer FPS, its still in pre alpha quality but hey its a bit of fun. hopefully people like it once its released.

Trepang2 just came out and I'm straight up addicted to it right now.

I would love to see a list of best low quality games like battlebit coming from you. You have some very good gaming taste my friend!

did you manage to play 'the finals' beta mr. Garbaj? I thought it was really fun

Not covered in the video, But I strongly recommend keeping an eye on The Finals. The most recent closed beta felt great to play

Battlebit is amazing. Everything I have ever wanted in a battlefield game.

echo point nova demo on steam is awesome, great movement. very excited for Sprawl and Midair2 coming later this year. also been enjoying Friends vs Friends a rare 1v1 2v2 fps

2 single player games I highly recommend are ultrakill and noita. Ultrakill is a movement shooter and it's possibly the best one made so far despite not being complete yet, it has a lot of tech and moments that you think "it would be pretty cool if I could just do this..." and then you do it and it actually works. It also will absolutely kick your ass in some areas, especially bosses, but every time you defeat one of them and go to the next level and it feels a bit easier to you, there is a faint and sweet feeling of "I'm getting better at this". Also, the soundtrack is absolutely great. Noita is a 2d pixel game about a silly little wizard dude going down into a mountain. It has one of the best and most complex wand building systems I've used, which allows the player to create some pretty crazy stuff, and every pixel does something, which pairs very well with the alchemy system

Battlebit is crazy good. Cant wait for the future

After being similarly frustrated with overwatch I tried out Quake Champions for the first time this month and I love it. I still suck at duels but I'll get there. Strongly recommend for anyone looking for a fast paced fps that can either be super laid back or super competitive

Project Reality is something too if you want a free old coop shooter that's still somewhat active. Has constant 70+ players in American PVP servers; with EU and Asian coop servers very active at certain times.

BB runs like a dream, local voice chat, no loot boxes. If it weren't for the EULA it would be perfect.

Can't wait for your game to come out, looks like it would make a fun addition to the indie shooter genre :)

XDefiant is so awesome!

I love movement shooters, i recommand THE FINALS. I played the bêta 2 and its amazing i think

It heartens me to hear others reaching for alternatives, because it's always been one of my core philosophies to search for the option that is best for me, not the one created on the largest budget. I think the march of progress has really closed the gap, offering small teams of developers the tools the do more with less than they had been able to do previously. In addition, there's also greater ability to get exposure as a smaller studio/team, though that does sometimes mean there can be over saturation in the games market. Both have been true for a while, and I think the limiting factor has just been the mindset to maintain a dichotomy between AAA and Indie. The hesitancy to consider playing a game amongst many people because it's been labeled and looks "Indie" has been the slowest to change, but I think that hesitancy has certainly been weakening. Especially as more and more supposedly "Indie" games make as big of a splash as AAA titles.

Super stoked for Battlefield/mil-sim fans. Not a fan of that type of gunplay myself, but hopefully we can get a good arcade shooter in the future with this working as a proof-of-concept

shatterline needs to get noticed by more people also when it comes to coop games you gotta try rocking and stoning

now lets wait for 1 man to make an arena game

Personally, I can(and have for a while) advocate for paladins. The game is in a MUCH better state now than at launch, and I think the game is way healthier than it was years ago, during its peak player count. The devs have made big improvements to the game, and honestly, I'd love to see the game be popular again. The biggest issue is, due to the smaller playerbase(and the shadow of overwatch) many people don't really take the game seriously, even in ranked, which can be frustrating. I think if the game released at its current quality, it would've done much much better.

im sure the finals will also be a good competitor for the arena shooter playerbase :D

Not sure if this is as relevant, but I think it might be: Another game called Vintage Story that can be described as "Minecraft, surviving, making tools etc. is much, much more realistic" has gotten in my eye. Updates provide tons of stuff, more than Mojang did in 3 year (in terms of actual content or "per update") and it looks like it can become quite the amazing game in the future!

I went back to Insurgency Sandstorm lately because of the Arbusto aka ISMC2 mod which brings a bunch of new stuff to the game.

BattleBit is an example when you focus on gameplay over quality. It does an excellent job at doing so.

Enjoying my daily news channel

NGL i'm rly rootin for Ubi and hope they will their best with new games they announced and plan to release, Assassin seems to be going back to the roots, Xdefiant yes, doesn't look rly fancy, but they bring bunch of somewhat controversal things to gameplay, and it's good (like weak af Aim Assist), Prince of Persia like in my school days, is sidescroller platformer, i rly hope they manage to get over crisis they induced on themself and we will get Ubi Renascence. Which will be super cool, since it will affect industry as whole. Same goes for those games with "cheap" visuals... Gamedev lie dormant lately, i mean ye, we have releases here and there, but big industry with big money didn't rly bring anything good in past years, it's rly sad

If anyone is looking for a solo movement shooter you have to try ultrakill. It is one of my favourite games ever.

I'm interested in a tutorial on how to make lo-fi polygons like on the DS, particularly with more realistic proportions. All the tutorials I have found are for PS1 and N64 style graphics. A good reference point to what I mean are the graphics from games such as Phantasy Star 0, Avalon Code, and Cop the Recruit.

yes battlebit is fun for a few days before active playerbase deeps down to below a thousand

Yeah love the Mythic wild west of Hunt Showdown. Battlebit is a wonderfully competent game.

Don't forget The Finals and Ultrakill!

I haven’t seen anyone really talk about it but prodeus is really fun and basically doom with friends is the best way I can explain it

what even cool with paladins is that, their current anniversary event is catered toward new player / returning player

I've been meaning to play stalker for a while now, will probably get it in the summer sale

"Triple A" has been seen as obsolete for movies for a while. It's about time other media follows this example.

I've been playing titanfall 2 through the northstar client since february because i'm tired of regular paced mp FPS and want a faster one. Been having a blast since

Hopefully this is the start of the multiplayer industry actually changing. People are finally getting fed up with their favorite games constantly dropping in quality, and instead of just dealing with it they are moving on. Its what the industry needs, you shouldn't be able to put minimal effort into a game and still retain a playerbase.

BattleBit really reminds me of Ravenfield which wad an absolutely great game and still is.

planetside 2 is still kicking hard for large scale warfare games

Another reason for Xdefiant's recent success is Activison shut down Xlabs and other COD clients forcing players to find an alternative.

Just wanna add, that bf1 is still an amazing game. On pc the servers are still active with many different gamemodes

since ironsight died, im looking for a good f2p cod-esque game. thank you for making me aware of xdefiance

good one

Hunt Showdown might be the first game that has retained my attention for over 1.5k hours

what do you think about roblox enhanced graphics games like MW2 in roblox

a small game that was just released that is absolutely incredible is the 1v1 or 2v2 game Friends Vs Friends. i play it with a few friends and sometimes online it's an absolutely wonderful game and you should give it a shot.

nice vid

It wasn't mentioned that that last game shown is Dusk.

It feels like there hasn't been a good multiplayer game released since 2018

My only gripe with battle bit is that its not free to play. I know a lot of people like this move but it puts battle bit on a limited life span if they dont put micro transaction. I just dont understand why they could have some not over the top skins for guns or custom win animations or something of the sort. I know people are sick of micro transactions and I respect the devs for doing it but it just makes it so the game is closed off to such a big audience which would've loved it.

All brazilian battlebit servers were full last night, me and my friend almost couldn't join lmao

Paladins deserves the recognition!

Im always looking

I have been causaly playinh paladins for 5-7 years. Its good to see people playing paladins again. Its a great game with big unused potential, the company behind it just did not use it fully.

BATTLEBIT is the best $15 i've spent on a game ln like 6 years. the games amazing, the devs are amazing, the community is golden.

1:55 I feel like generic/uninspired are never genuine problems for a game Like it can make a bad game worse, but a good game is a good game

Now we just need an alternative to Unreal Tournament!

I’m glad more people are finally realizing how much of a Dystopia gaming is and ending their toxic relationships with games like CoD

Nice video

People might be willing to try smaller games but ultimately most of them will probably end up back with the big games before long. The recent release of Street Fighter 6 is a great example. A lot of Street Fighter players ended up switching to primarily playing Guilty Gear or KOF because of their dissatisfaction with the state of Street Fighter 5, but now 6 is out and it provides a much smoother online experience than those games so lots of people are back to Street Fighter now. Smaller devs may be in a better position to respond to player demands but they'll always struggle to keep up with major developers that have lots of resources to provide reliable netplay and new content.

Fucking love Dusk

Ad a Ravenfield fan, im gonna get battlebit.

i’ve been playing deep rock since it went on sale and it’s rlly good :>

Man Ubi needs a W for sure lol

Ooh, I might try that game Ex Defiant. It looks like if COD bo4 were more polished...

Valheim! It's easily the best 15 bucks I've spent on a game in my life. It's a beautiful game with limitless replayability. and if your of the peasant persuasion, it's on Xbox too.

battlebit is how my graphics look anyways :D

BattleBit Remastered is one of the better things that happened in the gaming market recently

Garbaj, what are your co-op games recommendations? I am very burned out from all the live-service competitive games

The only Multiplayer games I was left with are DotA2 and Tarkov. Dota2 mainly because I have a passionate hate towards the League community, there is NO WORSE COMMUNITY, than of Riot Games ... games... I'm dead serious, their games are super well made, but if it is a multiplayer title? I'm good. With Tarkov It's been a real rocky ride. Been playing Tarkov since 2017, been through thick and thin with this game and even I must admit, their development and fixing stuff up REALLY needs a step up. There's been many issues with the game, where fixing it would literally take couple of days AT MOST. Yet they are kept in game for WEEKS. But at the same time? Other issues that doesn't ruin the experience are fixed within hours from the update. Yet there's just no other game like this. Hunt Showdown has been in my library since It's release, I vividly remember how Crytek said It's their last chance or else they might go bankrupt (or at least people were sayin' that) and when the game released? It was a mess. It was crashing all the time, even a good pc had the mushy models and fuckedup textures, bosses were abused into oblivion, BUT nowdays It's a really, REALLY great game again, with no other game like it. Sure, people call it "an extraction game" which is fair and true, but you don't really loot anything. It's 85% shooting, 10% running and 5% gunning (and 100% remembering of the name ofc) and It's just fine... one thing I'm a bit ... well "fed up of" are the events and updates. The updates slowed down reeeally good, the events were fun and exciting, yet it just feels like they are just reusing the previous events over and over... the last time I had genuine fun again, was when the Beetles were released. It revived the old me of trying out weird builds like going into the game with a free hunter and just 4 beetles (so did my friends) or when we were going with the small small gun that has 4 barrels (can't remember the name right now... derringer? something like that) or simply by grabbing just a sword, Bomb lance and that's it :^) Just a month ago, I saw the whole Mass Effect Trilogy + Andromeda in a huge sale, so I bought it and played through it after years again. I had such a blast, finished it in 2 weeks on 100% achievements (had a vacation, planned a trip to my friend in Sweden, but he got sick so I stayed home and played games and made music the whole 2 weeks) and after I was finished, tried out Andromeda finally, hated it so much I've stopped playing after 20 hours, bought Red Dead Redemption 2, finished the story for the first time, such a great game!! Bought LA Noire that's yet to be played and the whole Dishonored series, but after finishing the first game... I don't know... I'll rather play Thief 1 & 2 over again :^) Def. do play some singleplayer games if you are getting bored of multiplayer ones... such a relief not to argue with anyone all the time, just find a good singleplayer game and have fun, afterall that's what they are made for, have fun :^)