Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with these stellar games

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While the video game industry has a long history in Asian countries like China, Japan, and Korea, it’s important to note that Asian Americans have also played a major role in the development community since the industry’s conception. Asian American creators have helped craft some of the most unique, innovative, and influential games of the past decade, especially when it comes to groundbreaking indies.

In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we wanted to highlight some of the best indie games from Asian American creators. Seeing as we’re going through a relatively quiet season for AAA games right now, consider this a great time to check these titles out this May.

If you’ve yet to play them, Derek Yu’s masterpiece roguelikes are both must-play titles. This platformer is deceptively simple, as players make their way further and further down deadly caves on the moon with a limited toolset. The game is challenging and rewards thoughtful planning and fast reaction times to various traps and obstacles. Spelunky 2’s roguelike setup also makes it an excellent pick-up-and-play game that constantly makes you want to make just one more run. 

Spelunky 2 is available for PC, PS4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. It’s even part of Xbox Game Pass, so you have no excuse not to check out one of the best roguelikes ever made. Once you complete that game, we also recommend checking out the original Spelunky, as it still holds up to this day. 

Hacking minigames are very common in video games, but few actually make the activity engaging. Quadrilateral Cowboy, from Blendo Games’ Brandon Chung, defies that notion with an excellent game almost entirely about hacking. In Quadrilateral Cowboy, you control a hacker assisting secret agents with pulling off a