Mountains of ice cream, delicious and refreshing milkshakes and two-handed ordering. With all of this, we can give you a summer experience similar to what Mecano once did, beating the desperate heat by adding salt to the bath and creating lakes. An experience thanks to which you can travel to tropical paradises, aquatic complexes and, for the more daring, torrid universes from the tranquility of your home.
The rules for this list are quite simple: video games that take place on and around the beacheswith lots of activities centered on the beach/ocean, and taking place during the summer or in summer conditions in general, even though they haven’t technically been released during that season.
Proposals that offer a variety of different experiences, eras and perspectives. In addition, they are works for all tastes and all ages, from drama to action, from terror to comedy, from titles designed for the most seasoned gamers to entertainment for all ages.
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Often, opening the trunk of memories allows us to return again and again to past moments that seem better to us now. For example, childhood, for the majority of people present here, was a wonderful and happy time when we remember great summers and also with things in common, because they were made up of moments that will never return but that are part of our history. . Through a third-person adventure, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure reminds us of those three months that seem like three days, remembering some of the things we miss most from our childhood
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In this case, using an attractive Mediterranean setting inspired by the decorations of the coastal areas of the Valencian Community that aims to raise awareness among young people and adults in order to take care of the environment.
Windbreaker 2
As the sun begins to illuminate the beaches, conventional scenes emerge. Between umbrellas and elaborate sandcastles, it’s not uncommon to see swimmers throwing a Frisbee. It is one of the classic distractions sheltered from the sea breeze. But it’s more than just summer fun. It is a discipline that is booming and has found its way into games like windbreaker, a flexible and practical proposalwhich adapts perfectly to all shapes and forms, to all physical profiles, to all environments.
In other words, the work developed by the people of Data East in the 90s was a claim full of power and color in a summer playground. And while throwing a frisbee might seem like a quiet experience on the beach, in the current game it could be quite a challenge if you don’t know how to do it. So much so that each of the suitors offered a fun and challenging experience. A competitive variation of guts where catching the puck is a challenge in itself.
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Otherwise, the sequel to this popular Neo Geo sports game gives fans exactly what they want. A refreshing diversion and an adaptation packed with all the imagery and visual elements of other works from the same studio, each with their own summer style personality. All this involves Windbreaker 2 in a unique and refreshing visual atmosphere. An atmosphere that shows us through its brushstrokes a beautiful feeling of nostalgia that knows how to remain intact after having made a long journey of almost 30 years.
man eater
Shark, Steven Spielberg’s film, forever changed the film industry and the model of mass releases. But also certified the terrifying and very negative image that people have of huge marine animals. Something that the director himself admitted to regret. Because despite the popularity and success of the film, Spielberg assumes that his work had a very negative impact on biodiversity and on the life of sharks. The filmmaker feels responsible for making it one of the great monsters in the history of cinema.
Fortunately, proposals like man eater they take on another aspect, much more casual and satirical, offering an evolution which represents the effort of the human being to justify himself, and which at the same time represents his inability to hide his evil from nature. It’s chaos personified. A development in which we have become chaos and destruction towards the human racetraversing an open and extremely dangerous world.
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A world in which we must fend for ourselves, growing from a simple baby shark to the maximum representation of millions of years of evolution and adaptation to an extremely hostile environment. A perfectly oiled killing machine that has learned from its mistakes and knows how to smash its way beyond what many thought was impossible.
sea of thieves
Pirates are probably the most prominent historical criminal collective in popular culture. Over the past decades, we have witnessed the appearance of numerous books, films, television series and video games about the adventures of these enemies of the law. Although piracy has existed from ancient times to the present day, it was in the 17th and 18th centuries that piracy reached its peak, causing major problems for maritime powers. For this reason, this period is commonly referred to as the “golden age of piracy”.
A time when pirates created a company ahead of its time. So much so that they could see the potential that the democratic system and the separation of powers had for the proper functioning of a society long before the American Revolution. In other words, it is worth remembering that literary and cinematographic pirates have a real historical baggage, that they responded to a specific context and had an impact on the economy, culture and daily life of society. colonial and that, as is the case today, from persecuted and marginalized figures, they became respected and even admired by their contemporaries.
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Otherwise, we wouldn’t have proposals like sea of thieves, the ultimate hacking experienceFull of adventures of sailing, exploration and plunder, puzzles to solve and treasures to discover…everything you need to live the pirate life you’ve always dreamed of.
Subnautical
Of all the survival games out there today, the work developed by the folks at Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Subnautica, continues to be in the spotlight and with growing popularity. After all, this thrilling underwater survival adventure as beautiful as it is fraught with danger that captured the hearts of the more adventurous was an experience that, for practical purposes, revealed a feeling of loneliness and abandonmentfollowed by a fascination of discovery.
He advocated pacifism from the player’s point of view in a context framed by an extremely varied fauna in which all kinds of species predominate, from the most passive to the most predominant. In addition, it uses the environments to offer information about the story to the player, allowing their immersion and establishing a link with the world in which we find ourselves.
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In short, it is work that justifies the importance of promoting discovery and exploration for full development; the importance of experimenting to solve the different problems that can arise in a dynamic, complex, diverse and hostile environment. After all, we are all explorers who want to understand the world we find ourselves in.
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