Nintendo rounded up 16 of the year’s top-sellers

Nintendo highlighted the best-selling indie games of 2020 on Nintendo Switch, and not to guilt-trip you or anything, but I’m curious: how many of these did you manage to play? Anything slip by? Any to-dos?

Here’s the list of games, in order of appearance:

We could get into which of these games are truly “indie” in spirit, but they’re all keepers.

I leftSpiritfarerhanging somewhere in the middle of the story, and I still feel bad about it. (Don’t worry, I’m planning to return.) Of the stuff I haven’t checked out yet but am open to playing, the mind-bending puzzles ofSuperliminaland the soothing ARPG vibes ofCrossCodeare speaking to me the most.

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Otherwise, there’s a little bit of everything on this list –Castlevania-style platforming, calm rice farming, party-game hijinks, a goofy sports game and a comparatively serious one, and the untouchableHades.

I’m a little surprised to seeA Short HikeandManifold Gardenmiss the cutoff. Anything else?

The ghost at the end of the hallway

Picking up the smiley face post-it off the broken mirror

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Looking at the ghost of Jackie inside the lighthouse