I love indie games, but I feel that I'm missing out on the whole reason for gaming online.
What are some less known, yet populated multiplayer games?

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ESF

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+1
IM WAITING FOR THE FULL GAME ALREADY 5 YEARS :\

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Earth's Special Forces? I don't think that'll ever finish :P

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+1 for mentioning ESF, +10 for doing it in the first comment!

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Altitude maybe.

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+1 Excellent game!

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+1!

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  • and it is free
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Not sure this is unknown, however Awesomenauts is an awesome indie title.

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Yea, this title wasn't on my radar till recently. Exactly what I'm looking for, thanks.

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Agreed, I've only had it for 4 days and already put 19 hours into it. Great game.

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This is a great game, i havent played this on steam, but i'll sure buy it later

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Awesonenauts is the best choice.

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Awesomenauts is nowhere near underrated

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A lot of people still don't know how good it is.

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If only I could stay connected to a match for more than thirty seconds.

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I don't think that "less known" and "populated multiplayer" fit together...

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^this

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+1

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Alien Swarm (not indie, but free)
Cubemen (competitive tower defense)
Multiwinia (I haven't played it in a while, so it might be empty)
Plain Sight (fun, movement-based game, but for me it didn't have that much to make me come back. Also same comment as above)
Awesomenauts (2d sidescrolling MOBA)

And this brings me to two of my favorite games:
Shattered Horizon. (It's set in space. And it's well done, realistic--but still fun--space) Unfortunately, it is basically empty. They recently(ish) added bots, but I would recommend it only if you have friends who have or are going to buy it.
Frozen Synapse (Buy this. Look at some reviews if you need, and then just do it.)

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^This

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Just download Alien Swarm and call 3 friends... Also, use voice chat or Skype, so that you can maximize the pleasure when you play on insane difficulty

Oh, the screams...

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I think I'll try this sometime.

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+1 Alien Swarm is one of the best cooperative I've ever played

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^ Alien Swarm is really fun with friends. It's at its absolute best when you have three friends and yourself in the same room or connected via Skype. That way you can communicate with your teammates quickly and you all get to hone your teamwork skills!!

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Payday: The Heist

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Under rated?

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It's kind of underrated in my opinion

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There's a reason for that, it's one of the worst games i've played so far.

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lol, worst? One of the best games I played last year. It is very simple objective wise, but difficulty wise, heh good luck.

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It's kind of a weird case. I didn't like it all the much either, but a friend of mine adores it.

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I'm right there with ya. A group of friends love it, played every facet of it on the highest difficulties and maxed out their reputation, but even when my game was working (would repeatedly break entirely, needing a re-install) I never got into it.

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Sure, if you can accept that police forces are spawning from air and then zombie-like rushing you, go for it. It is mindless, unreal and to be honest disgusting from the point of "lets whack unlimited number of cops" theme.

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Not the worst one, but I regret a little bit buying it. Scenery and setting are fine, but everything else like the perk-system, the locked weapons, the feel of the guns, aiming and the missions is quite bad.
Some of the missions are extremely short and except for getting from one point to another there isn't much diversity in them. It definately needs community maps, but I haven't seen any. Instead they sell some as DLC.

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Competitive or cooperative? Awesomenauts is good for competitive, Killing Floor for cooperative.

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I think he meant both by multiplayer

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I prefer a good coopetition myself.

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Revelations 2012.

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Are you sure about that jade?
Do you play it with your fiancee?

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All day, every day. You best believe it, baby.

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Spec Ops: The Line. Plays almost exactly like SOCOM. Love that shit.

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+1, I haven't really found anyone yet for online, but the story line is god-like

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Oh man, SOCOM, it's been so long...

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More like underdeveloped

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Hiyoooooooooooo

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+1

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its like socom? I think I might buy it just for that

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The Ship

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+1 for this one too :)

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+1

Especially if you have a group of friends using voice chat, my god that'll be some of the most fun you'll ever have.

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+1 THIS

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+1 from me as well :)

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+1, its a great game; unfortunately, there is usually only one populated server and its never full (at least when I play). More people should play considering it was free...

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TRIBES ASCEND

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It lost me on the sixth hour of gameplay...

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I put about 200 into the beta.

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^this, I think people can't get into it cause it's different then other shooters (different in a good way cause it's fast and doesn't have that many hitscan weapons)

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castle crashers? it's indie and multiplayer and mad fun

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is that game underrated?

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it doesn't have much hype on pc from what I've noticed, so I would consider it so, it's really meant for multiplayer and the problem is a lot of people try to solo it so everyone makes it look bad

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Maybe if it was a better PC port it would have more hype

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It's really good port, if you have troubles get gamepad.

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LOL, sure it is. The on screen messages display xbox controller keys, even if you don't have one plugged in and only have a mouse and keyboard.

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Good port and gamepad required don't go together.

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The only issue you have is with that gamepad. Everything else works perfectly. If you want to know what a bad port is then go play Dark Souls or COD:MW3.

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ALIENS VERSUS PREDATOR 3 ,2010.

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+1
I enjoy it

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+1

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I was scrolling down the list of comments thinking of a game and as soon as AVP popped into my h ead I read your comment!

+1

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I heard its the most underrated game way many months before i bought it....But i was surprised,it's not
I still find people to play with,from time to time :D . IT ROCKS
PREDATORS RULE !!!
Meh disc be rollin,homiez..I can throw bettah than Xena B-) like a baws . !

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there are always people playing multiplayer, but you have to change it so you see the server list instead of going into quick match
EDIT: I hope you like Russians

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Even with the srv list.You still have to wait sometimes :P for more people (=> more fun).
Nope. I have 8-9 years of DotA 1 :) & 2-3 Heroes of Newerth & League of legends ( zero days Demigod tough)
And i thot biggest noobs in gaming are brazilians followed by turks ( tough turks are nice in real life,well,most of them) and by that i mean all gaming not just moba gametype.
Since DotA 2 :) i really really really hate most of the russians who think they're pro but they arent.Sorry to say that.I did have one very pro russian friend and one ukrainean,but most of them suck in dota 2 for example.And most of them only speak in @!$%@!$ chirilic fonts,they don't know english aparently or don't wanna write it. -.- . If you are pro and you know english at least partially than ofc we can play :D

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Primal Carnage.

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I had a Beta key, it was boring

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It has dinosaurs. Your argument is invalid.

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I won it off the devs and after I got past the graphical errors I got a bored.

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Super MNC

Lead and Gold

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  • for Super MNC
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SMNC is highly underrated because of the match making issues made a lot of people instantly quit. But if you get in on it it's a really great TPS MOBA

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Homefront

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+1
indeed an epic game :)

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Really BAD game.

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Bad for you but good for me :) People can have different tastes in game.

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Of course, bad for me :)

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Actually heard not bad things about the multi (haven't played it myself, though). But yeah, single is surely crap.

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Not populated but XCOM : Enemy Unknown has an amazing online

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Not nearly as fun as solo, but pretty good with a friend.

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Demigod is underrated, but still great imo.

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:( haven't played it yet :D
I did play DotA 1 for 8-9 years tough :D and HoN& LoL 2-3 years,thinking of re-trying LoL these days

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Sven Co-op.
It's populated, like around 50 people on at times and the maximum a server can have is 24. Really fun.

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Homefront.

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Alien Swarm

I love that game

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^This.

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It's fun. Played it a lot.

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Shadowrun on Xbox 360

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Moonbase Commander maybe. You can find it on GOG.com.

Edit: sorry I missed the part where it was supposed to be populated.

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Gotham City Impostors free to play. It's somehow addictive, the game is fast-paced and the feeling is very good.

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And it lags even on powerful PC's

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Terrible lag always...really bad net code and no dedicated servers last I checked.

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Spent 14,99€ on it,played 40 minutes before it went f2p because of the lag. Devs are idiots.

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wow man.. you are f..ing unlucky

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There is lag when the game forcibly choose you as host, it's the shittiest part of the game : p2p hosting sucks but I play it for free so I can't complain too much :x
About netcode, I don't know, I live on a island and in all games, the min ping is 230, most of the time I can deal with it and GCI is one of the rare game where I don't see much the impact of my ping.

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I don't know have had any lag problems with the game.

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Altitude , Awesomenauts and Super MNC .

Super MNC is free.Its a like a dota game where its more important to let your creeps push then to kill enemy team.

Awesomenauts is similar while killing enemy team is nice pushing creeps to turrets is the whole secret to wining the game.Also its sidescroller and 3v3 its quite fun and cheap game.

Altitude is 2d plane shooter game with Ball and Base Destroy game types.It doest have a huge playerbase mostly 100 people or so at primetimes for europe.Not sure about USA.Ball game type is like soccer/football like game where you pass the ball and try to shoot it to others teams goal.Base destry is carring a bomb from your base or snatching one from the middle of the map and deploying it to destroy enemy base vehicle thing.

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Indeed, altitude is a great game, but I was not really fond of SMNC. I don't know, but the game is mostly confusing, it feels like a badly made spinoff of dota

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