If you know, you know. Indie games are built by developers with passion but without the resources of the major companies. Try a new one out, and you'll be confronted with ancient fonts, motion blur, breaking the fourth wall, existential angst, unexpected/over-expected twists, bad art, and an overall feeling that this is just a beta test, and maybe the full game will be ready sometime in the future. But this is as good as it gets, and it really doesn't matter as long as you have fun playing it. Alasdair Beckett-King has obviously done quite a bit of playing these games, because he's got every detail pegged with frightening accuracy. Or at least every detail that will fit into a one-minute video.
Alasdair Beckett-King has written his own indie games (at least two), and they're rather lovely. Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! and Nelly Cootalot and the Fowl Fleet. Point and click graphic adventures in the style of Monkey Island. They're on Steam, and they're both a fair price for what you get. I liked 'em both. Second one has pro voice actors in it, including Tom Baker!
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