Game news Nintendo Indie World: Toem, Loop Hero, Necrobarista … The other announcements to remember
Yesterday, Tuesday, August 10th, Nintendo surprised everyone (once again) with the announcement that a new indie world will be unveiled today, Wednesday, August 11th. Almost twenty titles were shown during the broadcast of this twenty minute video dedicated to the upcoming indie games on Switch. A small summary of all announcements so that you don’t miss a thing.
Summary
- The most important information to remember:
- What games are featured and available now?
- Which featured games are planned for later?
The most important information to remember:
What games are featured and available now?
In addition to these four announcements of highly anticipated independent games, Nintendo Indie World is also offering the opportunity to highlight the games available at the end of the broadcast. Among the best known, we think in particular of Axiom Verge 2, a metroidvania set in a science fiction universe, of which you can already find the test in our rubrics. For visual novel enthusiasts, they will surely be excited to discover it Necrobarista in its Director’s Cut version, a title originally published on Apple Arcade, the action of which takes place in a Melbourne bar where the dead can meet the living overnight.
Fascinating in principle, the atypical RPG / Hack’n’slash Boyfriend Dungeon is now also available. If its course is quite classic, the peculiarity of the latter is that you have to seduce your weapons in order to maintain its fighting style. In a wiser way The action RPG Garden Story is also coming to Switch as we embody a young grape who has become a guardian who must protect the island of The Grove. To prove itself, it will first serve the residents, making it possible to beautify the island.
On the rogue side Curious Expedition 2 gives players the opportunity to explore the world Thanks to expeditions, buried treasures were brought back. Your team will be about venturing into the unknown while being careful to use your resources and mental health well so as not to falter in the face of the wild beasts. However, if you prefer quieter tracks, Islanders: Console Edition offers a city builder experience in a relaxed atmosphere to build colorful cities with gameplay and minimalist style. To conclude, let’s finish the list of featured and already available games with Slime Rancher, an intergalactic farm action and simulation game in which the player has to fight slimes.
Which featured games are planned for later?
While October 8th is an important date in Switch history as it is the launch day of the OLED model, it is also the time when Tetris Effect: Connected is to appear for Nintendo’s portable console. As a reminder, this is a Tetris experience where the visual and sound effects are modified according to the player’s actions. As for the connected aspect, this is an update that adds cross-platform multiplayer, even with a new spectator mode and Pas Speed Mode and Slow Speed Mode options. In a much less colorful register, autumn is expected at the same time the toem photo adventure game in black and white. In these calming landscapes and their relaxing soundtrack, the player takes on the role of a little character who comes to the aid of people by taking photos in levels inspired by the Nordic regions. Same output window for Gang Beasts, a multiplayer action game in which players control a plastic toy able to meet and fend off other participants in environments with a simple and colorful artistic touch.
After being very successful on the PC with more than 500,000 copies sold in a week, the loop system-based rogue-like Loop Hero will hit Switch this winter. The latter is reproduced on a map system that depicts enemies as well as buildings and obstacles that the player must put in the way of his hero so that he can improve himself and undertake endless expeditions. For wine lovers, Hundred Days – Winemaking Simulator is planned for the same periodwhich, as the name suggests, is a simulator for making your own wine by following the entire winemaking process, from selecting the vines to selling them.
Further away, in 2022, FAR: Lone Sails will get a sequel with FAR: Changing Tides. With this puzzle adventure game, the developers promise “an emotional and meditative journey” into a “great post-apocalyptic world”, in which the player embodies a boy who sails with his ship on a huge ocean. Same exit window for Lumbearjack, a physics-based puzzle game in which you play as a bear which tries to save the environment by destroying all human constructions that are put in its way. Of those games slated to be released next year, the first should be Astroneer, who announced a launch window for January 2022. In this space experience we play as a hero who tries to find life on his planet and to explore and analyze every corner of the distant and unexplored planets that he will meet.
Of TheXsable, Journalist igamesnews.com
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