Indie games are overrated, there are some great games, but with the small budgets most indie games aren't even a fraction of the quality that larger budget games are. You get what you pay for couldn't be any truer.
Cave Story is one of the few indie games that the quality of gameplay is alongside the quality of larger budget releases and if it was released at $30-40 MSRP for a portable game(before the 3DS version,) then it would have been worth it.
Hotline Miami, as much as I enjoyed it, is like I said above. You get what you pay for. $15 for a cheap indie compared to $60 for a retail title, yeah, it's worth it. But even an decent $60 retail title is better than even Hotline Miami.
There's a rare few indie games that can actually compare to the quality of the better retail titles that they should actually be released $40 - $60. Most indie titles aren't worth the $10-$15 they are released as.
The shmups, like Jamestown, are worth it over the $60 console releases. Shmups are a dime a dozen and Jamestown is just as good as any that's been on consoles last gen.
