Recommend some indie games since 2008ish

Soldato
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I've been gaming for about 25 years but somehow I've avoided playing pretty much any indie games since they became a (mainstream) thing. I'm looking to fix that in 2024 and have come up with a chronological list of indie games that appear on "best of" lists each year. I'm planning on doing one (or two) games per release year. Which game would you recommend for each year (that is on my list or not)

2008 - Braid
2009 - Machinarium
2010 - Limbo, Game Dev Story
2011 - Bastion, Binding of Isaac
2012 - Journey, Fez, Hotline Miami
2013 - Don't Starve, Papers Please, The Stanley Parable
2014 - Shovel Knight, Transistor, This War of Mine
2015 - Prison Architect, Apotheon, Undertale
2016 - The Witness, Firewatch, Inside, Abzu
2017 - Cuphead, Pyre
2018 - Celeste, Return of the Obra Dinn, Dead Cells, They are Billions
2019 - The Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts
2020 - Spiritfarer, Cloudpunk, Paradise Killer, Hades, Factorio
2021 - Sable, Loop Hero, Unpacking
2022 - Noby Saves the World, Not for Broadcast, tunic
2023 - Dredge, Sea of Stars, Venba, Chants of Sennaar, El Paso Elsewhere

The indie games I've played are: Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, What Remains of Edith Finch.
 
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