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Hollow Knight

Indie developers, due to the fact that they don't respond to a corporate bureaucracy of an AAA studio, are able to experiment with the visuals, themes and mechanics of their games - and it's certainly a good thing as it can lead to new and interesting games - or whole genres - we wouldn't be able to imagine before (even if a big innovative indie success will inevitably lead to thousands of derivative indie copycats, as evidenced by the countless 'pixel platformers', 'rogue-lites' and 'multiplayer survival games' flooding Steam and other platforms).