Is story even important in indie-games?
I'm not talking about a "good" story, but any story at all. I mean, there have been a lot of successful games without a plot in the last few years. Vampire Survivors, Balatro, Megabonk, Vampire Crawlers, Sol Cesto — they're all great and fun games, but their stories are mostly a couple of sentences on the Steam page.
Yes, I understand that in such games the story isn't important at all — it's all about the gameplay and stuff... But after playing Kingdom's Return (a repetitive, grindy game), a portion of small and silly dialogues feel like a breath of fresh air. Like, I don't need walls of text and deep lore, but it's nice to have some story pieces here and there.
What about you guys? What do you think about the importance of story in such a games?