A trend you may have noticed in the promotion of modern indie games is for lavish 2D animated trailers, as seen from indie hits like Dead Cells, Vampire Survivors, or indeed the launch of just about every Devolver Digital release.
These promo trailers are essentially the indie equivalent of the CG trailer for AAA, and usually outsourced to an animation studio. A great recent example is Absolum, a new beat-em-up game from Dotemu that follows on the success of 2020's Streets of Rage 4.
