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Indie is kind of a fraught term in whatever genre it's used I feel like. It has too many connotations and too few clear definitions. How much big label backed mass produced "indie rock/pop" did we not get back in the early 00s music scene, for example. Same with gaming: see the whole Dave the Diver being nominated for best Indie Game despite being backed by NEXON debacle.
Baldur's Gate 3 is tricky because while Hasbro was involved it was still self-published by Larian. It doesn't feel right to me to call it an indie game, but... how exactly should we define them then? Is there a budget cutoff where a game is no longer allowed to be called an indie? If Sandfall uses their huge budget from the success of Expedition 33 to make a blockbuster sequel but stayed with Kepler as publisher would we refuse to call it an indie game?