[slmjkdbtl]

not surprised games bring bond happiness and laughter which can cure cancer, but the problem is a lot of games have fragile net code, you sometimes have to rely on the "big" online multiplayer games cuz a lot of indie / small games prob won't work or can be frustrating to work with. I was looking for a multiplayer game to play with my little brother who's in China, I have a 1000+ steam library and Portal 2 is the only one I found that's playable through the wire.

[hiccuphippo]

That's more China's great firewall's fault than the indie game's fault. Also try more strategy/turnbased games than fps if the lag is an issue.

[slmjkdbtl]

It's not, China's great firewall don't block all foreigh servers they only block a few, it's more of a distance and internet infra problem. Not saying it's indie game's fault but it's true very few indie games have online multiplayer and very few really made it awesome, most of the time networking is not worth it for smaller games, a lot of awesome local multiplayer games won't even consider online. And yeah strategy/turnbased games definitely will be better.