To me, personally, they're very important, because they are quickly taking the place of what used to be hotly anticipated big publisher, retail releases. I still have some companies that put out retail games I like, such as Nintendo, Vanillaware, Way Forward, once in a blue moon Sega (when they actually bother to make something good anymore), Platinum Games, etc.
But some of my most anticipated games were/are:
Shovel Knight, AVGN Adventures, Two Brothers, Another Castle, Heart Forth Alicia, Teslagrad, the Shantae games, Adventures of Pip, Mighty No. 9, A.N.N.E., 90s Arcade Racer, Reven, Rex Rocket, Insanity's Blade, etc.
To me, they are not only making (often) more creative, fun games than most of the big publishers, but many are also harkening back to an era of gaming I prefer, the 8bit and 16bit era, the sprite based, 2D gaming era. And I honestly couldn't be happier with that, because as much as I do love some modern 3D games, I will always prefer old school gaming.
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