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Indika
Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia of the late XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
Details
- Released
- May 2, 2024
- Developer
- Odd Meter
- Publisher
- Merge Games, 11 bit studios
- Platforms
- PC · Switch · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
Time to beat · 7 player times (IGDB)
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Indika Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Indika is a must. It stays with you, its heroine is fascinating, and its surreal vision is unsettling. You haven’t played anything like it.
Indika is a thoroughly compelling work that succeeds in throwing out the narrative adventure game rulebook and building on processes from all forms of art to create something wholly unique. It's a brisk, bold, frequently dark, sharply critical and deeply weird thing that deserves to be played by anyone with the stomach.
Indika combines strong themes with fantastic visual and thoughtful delivery, creating something wholly unique and worthwhile. None of the game's hiccups stand in the way of what makes Indika special.
An unapologetically cinematic descent into the darkest parts of the human mind, Indika is a unique and crunchy little experiment that comes alive in its ideas and tone if not always its gameplay.
Indika attempts a lot with its short runtime and it succeeds in many ways but falters in some. I have nothing but respect for the story it is telling and even enjoyed most of my time with it. Great characters and voice acting elevate an already memorable story, but sadly it doesn't always hit the mark and technical issues can bring it down a bit. It's still quite the experience and I look forward to what the developer does next.
INDIKA is a distinctive and stylish game that does not pull any punches. It asks very interesting questions, but the answer to them depends solely on you.
Indika is a game of wild contradiction. It's compelling, thoughtful, and ambitious, but also tedious, rote, and derivative. It's the sort of video game that ruminates on the nature of devout faith, free will, guilt, shame, temptation, and morality, and then asks you to solve boring box puzzles. It's the sort of video game that asks you to solve boring box puzzles and then leaves you earnestly wondering whether the box puzzles were intentionally boring just to mess with you.
Bleak realism meets absurdist fairytale in a stylish, surreal, and astonishingly surefooted - if mechanically unadventurous - exploration of faith, free will, and demonic temptation.
One of the greatest accomplishments a game can achieve is to deliver a unique experience. To present itself in a way that makes it stand apart from the millions of games circulating the market. INDIKA from developer Odd Meter is a game that undeniably delivers an experience unlike any other.
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Overall, Indika is a fun experience if you separate the horror genre tag on Steam from it. It feels more like a dark comedy than anything else, and there aren’t really that many other video games with a tone even remotely similar. That being said, it feels as if it lacks polish, and AI art is a glaring issue, especially with the looming threat of it in the art sector at the moment.