@picofarad even though a lot of indie devs make leader shooters, most of them are pretty bad quality and specifically the genre I like the most is first person looter shooters and those are even harder to find. The only ones that have somewhat of a decent quality.
Like destiny 2, Warframe and then borderlands but those are all mainstream.
I can't think of any big looter shooter from an indie dev team. they're probably is some esoteric one out there that I just haven't heard of that's incredibly good but there is not much competition in this genre unfortunately.
@Mr_NutterButter i've only ever played borderlands, recently.
There was a 2.5d space game, made by graduate students at some university; all weapons and levels were procedurally generated, you could combine weapons and stuff. There was multiplayer servers and the like.
It was called galactic arms race