See Master thread for links to other countries threads and poll, read rules, and tell me which country should receive a thread next:

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/249268/master-thread-favorite-games-from-different-countries/

Turning to Spain for this thread. Quite an interesting country, gaming-wise. Not a super power like Sweden or France, but has had a decent amount of huge titles, certainly more so than Italy. They also got a blooming indie scene, which made it very difficult for me to cover everything, please fill me in on notable omissions.

Some notable Spanish developers and their games:

Pyro Studios

The unfortunately defunct Pyro Studios was specialized in real-time tactic games. Most popular are the Commandos games, but also Praetorians and Imperial Glory have a fanbase.

Notable games:

Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Commandos 2: Men of Courage

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin

Praetorians

Imperial Glory

MercurySteam

After making the action-adventure game Scrapland and the horror tile Clive Barker’s Jericho, MercurySteam caught the eyes of one Japanese giant, Konami, bringing their Castlevania franchise successfully into 3D with Lords of Shadow, to general acclaim, the 3DS sequel Mirror of Fate was also mostly well received, while the more ambitious home console sequel, Lords of Shadow 2 was critically panned. Their ability to craft metroidvanias was not a fluke though, they wanted to prove themselves by making a title in the franchise that gives its name to the genre, hence they pitched Metroid: Samus Returns, a remake of the second Metroid title, to Nintendo, which allowed them to make the remake for 3DS. Delivering well on that promise, they got the chance to develop the much more ambitious original Metroid Dread for Switch, which is by many considered one of the systems quintessential titles, and a cornerstone in the series.

Notable games:

American McGee Presents: Scrapland

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate

Metroid: Samus Returns

Metroid Dread

The Game Kitchen

Another Metroidvania developer, known for the two Blasphemous games, which also take inspiration from From Softwares Dark Souls series. Blasphemous is absolutely dripping with atmosphere, relying on Spanish culture and catholic symbolism. The Game Kitchen then went on to develop the strategy stealth game The Stone of Madness, who would have thought?

Notable games:

Blasphemous

Blasphemous 2

The Stone of Madness

Gameloft Barcelona

They have been handling some of the titles in the acclaimed arcade racer series Asphalt, in particular the most praised among them, Asphalt 8.

Notable games:

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline

Asphalt 8: Airborne

Tequila Works

An indie game developer, who had their debut with the unique, although divisive Deadlight. They really rose to prominence with the puzzle games The Sexy Brutale and especially Rime. Song of Nunu, a platformer starring a character from League of Legends also received some praise.

Notable games:

Deadlight

The Sexy Brutale

Rime

The Song of Nunu

Nomada Studio

When Gris came out in 2018, it was almost an indie sensation, the game got compared to the classic Journey (2012) in it’s atmosphere, gameplay-focused dialogue-free storytelling. A true gem. Nomada Studio’s recent game Neva follows the same template, but is much more ambitious in the scope, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it also ends up as a classic.

Notable games:

Gris

Neva

Other games to consider:

Temtem

Aragami

Severance: Blade of Darkness

World Rally

Snow Wave: Avalanche

Igor: Objective Uikokahonia

Runaway: A Road Adventure

Moonlighter

Castlevania Lord of Shadows. That game is so fun and atmospheric its crazy that the sequel was just plain straight terrible.
Metroid Dread is also goated.

CV LOS

PC Fútbol 3.0… JK. Blasphemous. One of the developers of the game kitchen is a friend of me, the Tabletop VR game they are developing is incredible.

Jejeje, pretty sure no one outside of Spain knows what PC Futbol is. Shame it was only in Spanish, which really limited its global reach.

As I mentioned in the main thread, my pick is easy here, it's Commandos!

You forgot Cursed Castilla Ex. Fun game.

My pick will be Metroid: Samus Returns.

Oh yeah, also remember Unepic, could tell it was Spanish due to its humour. Did some Googling, and got to this reddit post.

Nintendo Spain has published a tweet recommending 15 indie games made by Spanish developers. Here are said games with links to the English eshop in case you can't read Spanish:

GRIS

STAY

Flat Heroes

Candle: The Power of the Flame

Moonlighter

Zombie Panic in Wonderland DX

RiME

The Sexy Brutale

Bleep Bloop

Baobabs Mausoleum

The Count Lucanor

Eternum EX

Cursed Castilla EX

Super Hydorah

Crossing Souls

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Nihilumbra

Unepic

Ghost 1.0

Aragami: Shadow Edition

Etherborn

Blasphemous

Going from this list I could change my choice to Flat Heroes, have had loads of co-op fun with that one.

I'm not being racist or anything but the Spanish don't make great games.

This is an easy one for me: Metroid Dread. It’s one of the best games of the last five years. Although I don’t think it would be quite as great without the involvement of Nintendo EPD.

Metroid Dread for me too, absolutely phenomenal game that controls like liquid lightning and makes the player feel like a badass.

The level design is top notch as well, weaving its labyrinthine world together so cleverly that I never felt lost or like my time was being wasted.

One of the best games on Switch, which is saying a lot given the incredible strength of its library.