Video Gamers Podcast
Dreadmoor, Deep Rock: Rogue Core and Over the Hill - Indie Gaming Podcast
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
Gaming hosts Josh, Ryan and Ace are back with another incredible indie episode. We've got a ton of indie video games to chat about this week as we break down some of the best from the Triple I Initiative. From horror fishing games to beautiful calm driving games, we're bringing all the indie video games to you and talking about which ones have us excited! It's another gaming packed episode from your favorite gaming podcast! Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Community: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VideoGamersPod?sub_confirmation=1 Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What indie games are being discussed in this episode?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. We've got a slew of indie games to talk about today, and man, I just gotta say, indie devs are really upping their game lately. From insane-looking combat to graphics that would make a AAA studio jealous, indie gaming is truly something special.
Chapter 2: Who are the hosts of the Video Gamers Podcast?
But before we get into some awesome-looking titles you should know about, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh. And joining me, he's half of Team Smash Bros. Smashing people in the face with Mjolnir and wondering just how he ends up with half my kills. It's Ryan.
Hello, ladies. I'm here for the tears. The tears of metal. Wait, is Thor Irish? It's for future discussion. It's on topic, buddy.
I didn't know Thor was Irish.
Pay attention.
Okay. All right. Well, I mean, hey, you learn something new every day on this podcast. Oh, boy. I don't even know how to follow that up, so let's just go with this one. And joining us, he's the healer supreme, and his back may be hurting, but it's not because he's middle-aged. It's because he's busy carrying the team. With his epic healing skills, it's Ace.
It's time to put on a show, baby.
All right.
What a combo, man. The Bash Brothers and then Ace Healer Supreme. Nobody can stop us. They can't.
If people can't tell, we've been playing a good bit of Rivals still.
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Chapter 3: What is Deep Rock Galactic Rogue Core?
As a healer myself, I couldn't help but feel bad for those people. Oh, it was. You guys were just on them constantly.
It was gnarly, so. All right, well, people are like, dude, I thought this was an indie episode. Is this the Rivals? We'll get there.
We'll get there.
Part two. We're getting there, people. Don't worry. We just got to brag a little bit, you know? Yeah. We actually have an incredible amount of indie titles to talk about. The Triple I Initiative happened, which gives us a look at a lot of different indie titles. Ace, you actually put this list together for us. I know one game on this list.
Uh, so that tells you how much more in touch ACE is with the, uh, the indie, uh, scene there. But this, I, I saw this one and I was like, Ooh, I've heard of that game. Um, but I'll tell you what, man, let's just, let's just jump in, man. Cause we've got a lot to cover on this. I want to start off.
With the one game that I knew about, and this is – I mean, all I got to do is say one thing, and I know you guys can answer.
Say it. Say it. Come on. Rock and stone. Rock and stone. See?
See? Gamers know, man. Everybody knows. Deep Rock Galactic Rogue Core. What's funny about this is we've actually had people in our community saying, hey, have you guys seen this? Are you going to talk about it? Like, are you excited about it? Because we have covered Deep Rock Galactic as a deep dive. Fantastic game.
When people say, hey, what's a game that I can play with my buddies that's a lot of fun? Deep Rock Galactic is one of those suggestions that is just so easy to throw out there because you're going to have a good time. Like, plain and simple. You're just going to enjoy it. Then we covered Deep Rock Galactic Survivor. It's Survivors, right?
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Chapter 4: What makes Over the Hill a unique gaming experience?
Snow runner is probably one of the more popular ones in this, but there's this game called over the hill. And I was like, of course, ACE put this on the list, but like what a pleasant looking game, man. Like, I feel just vibed out. I feel like I just am chill, and the world is peaceful, and I just feel zen, and everything is great.
Dude, this game made me emotional watching the trailer. I felt something watching it, because it's a co-op game, thankfully, too, which is great. But you get in your cars, and you're going to travel over rough terrain together, and you've got to help your buddies if they get stuck in the mud, and you don't want to leave anyone behind. But you're just like...
driving across the countryside or up mountains together, taking in the landscapes. And I think maybe Ryan, you want to come do that with me? Josh doesn't want to.
I know Josh definitely doesn't want to for sure. Um, the one thing that it, that it made me feel is, uh, It gave me that vibe of what I wish Pacific Drive made me feel like. And maybe this could give me that pleasant, cozy feeling of just exploration and a great environment, a great scenery. And that's what I wanted out of Pacific Drive.
But there were so many bugs and so many issues with the car vehicle stuff. We know all that. We've, you know, beat it into the ground. But this definitely, it piqued my interest for sure. And I'm not usually one for these types of games. But I was highly impressed by the trailer.
It's something about it, man, where you have games that you can play with your buddies where you fight armies or you race racetracks and things like that. There's not many games where you have buddies across the United States, across the country, where it's like, you can't drive together. You can't hang out together out in the wilderness, so why not do it online? I...
Don't you get it, Josh? Don't you see the vision? Number one, I hate driving because like going on vacation, like I just want to be there. You know, I don't want to spend six hours like getting to the fun. I just want to be there. So like the six hour driving to me is like the bad part. And then like, you know, and I am a very much, I love chaos. I love fast paced.
And then like a game where it's like, but what are we doing? And Ace is like, follow me. And I'm like, cool. Where are we going? We're going up this mountain.
We're going up the mountain.
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Chapter 5: What is Clover Pit and how does it work?
And then I drop and die. Ryan's the first we lose in the clover pit, I guess.
I was going to say. Ryan's just going to be like, just bet it all. One skin.
And Josh is not a gambler. I am not. Dude, he went to Vegas and just went to shows. No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, you watched your wife play slots for a little bit. I don't like slot. So this is my complaint with this game is like, if I'm going to gamble, I want to play blackjack or craps with for sure.
Right.
Like those are the two games where you're going to have the most fun slot machines to me. It's so I hate RNG is the problem. Like, I mean, people have heard me talk about like, I hate hearthstone because it's like, I know how to play, but then you get a bad draw or you refresh seven times and don't get a single, you know, card for the build that you're trying to do or something like that.
And it just infuriates me. And having a game that is based on RNG gambling like here's the thing with Bellatro at least you have some like poker knowledge and you can say okay well I have a higher chance of getting this and this hand beats that hand and there's some skill involved. with a slot machine, it's all just random. And, and like, have you guys ever accused a game of cheating?
Do you remember like way back in the Nintendo days when games were really hard and you're like, dude, this game's cheating.
Jackson does that now, dude. Just like yesterday. He's like, this game's cheating.
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Chapter 6: What are the expectations for Tears of Metal?
Chapter 7: How do the hosts feel about driving games?
yeah you know i get it i get it you don't want to promise anything and indie devs they just kind of get ready for release and then they just release you know they don't try to do the shadow drop oh like yeah let me give you an announcement about my announcement that we're gonna announce guys bungee um you know where it's like that kind of thing they just go hey guys my game is out please play it and like it and tell your friends about it i'd like to or they just ghost you like a girl from tinder like uh silksong
You don't hear anything for five, six, seven million years.
Then you just get some random text late at night where it's like, hey, I'm releasing in 2025, by the way. Hey, by the way. I'm in the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, by the way. Just so you know. You're like, why did you send this to me?
You trying to make me jealous? What is this? I thought we were done.
There are a lot of people nodding right now going, I feel you, boys.
They know our pain.
All right. Well, how about this? Let's shift gears. All right. And let's talk about something completely different than a very chill, tranquil trip up a beautiful mountain. And how about a demonic slot machine? Because you owe the devil a debt. Dude, this...
clover pit i don't i don't even know ace ryan somebody somebody explain this to me dude hey clover pit is like if you took bellatro and you mixed it with another indie game called shotgun roulette the graphics are pretty much the same as shotgun roulette as well which is also the same as lethal company so you gotta have like a little web of every little horror indie game.
I got inscription vibes from this big time.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of community feedback for indie games?
This is a kind of third person combat oriented game, but the kind of the hook in this one is the different types of weapons that you use affect how you fight the characters that you're coming up against and the different monsters, different creatures or characters are weak to certain weapons, whether it be a piercing, a slashing, a blunt weapon, something like that.
This kind of trailer that we saw goes into that a little bit. I think the art style is fantastic. I think the animations in this game look great. The weapons look really fun.
I mean, it looks like it's action combat, but it almost has a little bit of the tactical nature where it's like you really have to think about how you're approaching swinging your weapon or thrusting your spear or something like that. What did you guys think about this one?
I thought this game looked great. crazy good like I don't know I don't know a whole lot about it I don't know what you do in it I don't know if it's a souls like if it's just action if it's just a hack and slash or what it is but like The thing that really sold me on it is you have the three damage types, but you could use one weapon to do two damage types by shifting the way you hold the weapon.
So I was like, oh, your sword is slashing damage usually, but if you change the way you hold it, now it's piercing damage. I was like, that's super cool. With different attack styles and animations and all that as well. That's just so cool, and it makes common sense. Like, of course.
I definitely... I know I am big time against those tactical turn-based style games. But for this, I got that same feeling where it was not turn-based, but it has that tactical nature, but it's still fluid. It has that flow to it to where... You can alter your type of attack or style of attack based on the enemies that you're facing.
Look at their weak points, and you can use your weapon as a piercing weapon versus slashing weapon. And so those types of tactical natures are what entice me into a game. The stand and wait while I select this attack, and then I attack them, and then they attack me, I don't like that. This is what I can get behind when you're talking about a tactical game.
And I liked, I thought the art style was beautiful. I thought it looked very fluid. I thought that it had some weight to it. And I loved the kind of combat situation that they had. So overall, man, as far as this style of game, I'm much more enticed with something like this than I am any of the turn-based stuff or any of those kind of in-depth style combat games.
Yeah, the trailer shows you kind of walking through, like, castles and dungeons and open forest and stuff like that. You're definitely fighting, like, you know, multiple creatures at once. I'm almost reminded, and I've never played this game, but, like, For Honor kind of jumps to mind where it's, like, it is combat. Yeah. But it's just not like just button mashing. Like, it is intentional combat.
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