Your favorite non-mainstream/niche game developers!

[KomeijiKoishi]

Nippon Ichi, because I'm playing Disgaea for DS at the moment and already spent 40 hours and I STILL HAVEN'T REACHED THE MIDDLE OF THE MAIN STORY.

Team Shanghai Alice for obvious reasons.

[Tarquinius]

Ice-Pick Lodge, the makers of the wonderful games Pathologic and The Void (Tension). Their games are pretty much the definition of games as art, and both tell excellent stories. (Considering that my current avatar is artwork from The Void, my love for IPL is fairly obvious)

[Sieron]

Studio e.go & Blue Impact
18+ warning, past that one might end up in nsfw territory. 

With there were translations so I knew what was going on.

[SONIC BHOCOLATE STRIKER]

No one mentioned Nippon Ichi?

Didn't know if they counted as mainstream. But I should've pieced that one together, seeing as only one of my friends (who is really into anime and strategy RPGs) ever talks about the series <_<

[trancehime]

Studio e.go & Blue Impact
18+ warning, past that one might end up in nsfw territory. 

With there were translations so I knew what was going on.

the only good game Studio e.go made was IZUMO 2 ok