{"id":586437,"date":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586437\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:11:08","slug":"blue-prince-devs-want-you-to-go-into-these-indie-games-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586437\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Prince Devs Want You To Go Into These Indie Games Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to tell you anything about the games in this bundle,\u201d says the BlueSky account of Blue Prince developers Dogubomb. \u201cThese are experiences best entered knowing as little as possible.\u201d What follows is a heavily redacted Steam store page for the Hidden Depths bundle<\/a>, featuring five of the finest indie games made in the last few years, which the developers want you to dive into without learning anything else about them.<\/p>\n

I love the conceit here. One of things I find most difficult when writing about lesser-known indie games based on novel ideas is how to communicate how much they deserve playing without robbing the reader of the same experience I had when discovering it all for myself. Short of \u201ccould you just trust me?\u201d it\u2019s nightmarish to convey how delighted someone will be when they experience the surprising and unique selling point for themselves. The Hidden Depths bundle is essentially opting for the same idea when it comes to Animal Well,\u00a0Fez,\u00a0Tunic,\u00a0Outer Wilds and\u00a0Blue Prince.<\/p>\n

The redactions on the Steam page for the bundle mean you have Animal Well, for instance, described as \u201ca\u2026game about\u2026a\u2026\u2026\u2026well,\u201d and Blue Prince as \u201cyou\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026journey\u2026\u2026.to\u2026Room 46?\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s a slight issue here that you\u2019ve likely noticed yourself: these are also five of the most famous indie games available, and the chances are you already know\u00a0loads about each, even if you\u2019ve never played them. I really cannot imagine how anyone in the sphere of video games could have avoided knowing what 2013\u2019s\u00a0Fez is all about, unless they were simply born too late. The other four games are more recent, however: 2020\u2019s beloved Outer Wilds, 2022\u2019s\u00a0Tunic, 2024\u2019s\u00a0Animal Well, and last year\u2019s mega-hit\u00a0Blue Prince. Still, if you\u00a0haven\u2019t heard about them, then keep it that way! Go in knowing as little as possible.<\/p>\n

More odd is that only two of the games in the bundle are actually discounted, with\u00a0Outer Wilds\u00a040 percent off and\u00a0Blue Prince down 34 percent. Quite why the other three aren\u2019t offering enticing prices, despite taking part in a bundle organized enough to have its own bespoke artwork, is peculiar. The result is therefore a pretty pricey $94 for the lot, although given the quality of the games on offer, it\u2019s still money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re not going to tell you anything about the games in this bundle,\u201d says the BlueSky account of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[256520,172319,128327,256521,256522,74,256523],"class_list":["post-586437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-animal-well","tag-blue-prince","tag-bundle","tag-fez","tag-outer-wilds","tag-technology","tag-tunic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}