Teardown is kinda too weird to have any direct competition in the voxel-based demolition and parkour heist genre at the moment, but if you want more voxels to blow the shit out of Sector's Edge is a free to play multi-player fps where you can just fuck up the whole map and also build cover if you're a huge nerd I guess. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but its free so, whatever, you play video games, its not like your time has value.
Hollow Knight is easier, if you want another beautiful yet depressing 2D metroidvania check out Blasphemous, if you want another game with charming characters and beautiful hand-drawn art that murders you over and over play Hades, if you want Hollow Knight but with gross people instead of cute bugs play any of the Dark Souls games, if you want a mix of all three of those play Dead Cells.
Those are the games that I'd say are most Hollow Knight adjacent either tonally or gameplay-wise, but we're just ass-deep in indie metroidvanias at this moment so I'm just gonna throw some of my favorites out here:
Axiom Verge the most NES Metroid game since NES Metroid, it even made the graphical glitches you'd get if the cart wasn't seated properly a plot point
Hyper Light Drifter like Link to the Past if that game was vaporwave as fuck and also actually hard and also really haunting and beautiful
Timespinner You got your Chrono Trigger in my Castlevania! You got your Castlevania in my Chrono Trigger!
Bloodstained: Symphony- I mean, Ritual of the Night legally distinct from any franchise owned by Konami Inc, and also made by one of the many talented people they shitcanned for being too awesome at making video games and not awesome enough at making slot machines (The Switch version runs a little worse than the others though, just FYI)
Carrion Did you ever watch The Thing and think to yourself, "man humans do be lookin' kinda tasty though"? Then boy do we have a game for you and a nice padded cell to play it in.
Oh! And it isn't out yet, but Radio The Universe may be one to keep an eye on, since it's finally coming out after I backed it on Kickstarter seven years ago.
yo thanks for recommending it, I'm gonna have a blast with this!
this game has a free demo on steam that's about 20 minutes long, and it's fucking rad, give it a look!
If I bring anything to the revolution, it's an encyclopedic knowledge of which video games are really, really cool
more please! Anything in the vein of Teardown or Hollow Knight?
Teardown is kinda too weird to have any direct competition in the voxel-based demolition and parkour heist genre at the moment, but if you want more voxels to blow the shit out of Sector's Edge is a free to play multi-player fps where you can just fuck up the whole map and also build cover if you're a huge nerd I guess. I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but its free so, whatever, you play video games, its not like your time has value.
Hollow Knight is easier, if you want another beautiful yet depressing 2D metroidvania check out Blasphemous, if you want another game with charming characters and beautiful hand-drawn art that murders you over and over play Hades, if you want Hollow Knight but with gross people instead of cute bugs play any of the Dark Souls games, if you want a mix of all three of those play Dead Cells.
Those are the games that I'd say are most Hollow Knight adjacent either tonally or gameplay-wise, but we're just ass-deep in indie metroidvanias at this moment so I'm just gonna throw some of my favorites out here:
Axiom Verge the most NES Metroid game since NES Metroid, it even made the graphical glitches you'd get if the cart wasn't seated properly a plot point
Hyper Light Drifter like Link to the Past if that game was vaporwave as fuck and also actually hard and also really haunting and beautiful
Timespinner You got your Chrono Trigger in my Castlevania! You got your Castlevania in my Chrono Trigger!
Bloodstained: Symphony- I mean, Ritual of the Night legally distinct from any franchise owned by Konami Inc, and also made by one of the many talented people they shitcanned for being too awesome at making video games and not awesome enough at making slot machines (The Switch version runs a little worse than the others though, just FYI)
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight (I haven't played this one personally yet, but I've heard good things)
Carrion Did you ever watch The Thing and think to yourself, "man humans do be lookin' kinda tasty though"? Then boy do we have a game for you and a nice padded cell to play it in.
Oh! And it isn't out yet, but Radio The Universe may be one to keep an eye on, since it's finally coming out after I backed it on Kickstarter seven years ago.