Hello! It is indie day of repentance Once again! The day all Americans put their differences aside and unite to celebrate the joy of making independent games. Ever since the founding fathers played their first game world full of goothe celebration was observed by every American by law. Our legally sanctioned contribution to the event is this list of unknown indie games that you will most likely be buying or wishlisting in moments.
As always with indie penance or IndiegeddonI have not played the games listed below unless otherwise noted. Your inclusion is via my tweeted call for suggestions on under-reviewed indie games, selected at random (qualified) from the responses. However, each one looks like it could or should be awesome. So, let’s go!
Coincidentally, I’ve played quite a few of them bright screen, the Early Access Doom-like that gives you the added benefit of a rear-view mirror and the ability to shoot backwards. It’s incredibly fast and has the benefit of dealing double damage as you move forward while shooting. Fire backwards while moving forward and you’ll deal quadruple damage! It’s so lively, but could definitely use more dynamic opponents.
If we can avoid a Paramount/CBS lawsuit in the Gamma Quadrant, this could be it Star Trek: Bridge Crew for the new decade. spaceship simulator promises a fully simulated “Magellan-class space exploration ship” that you can explore and poke around at your leisure, then fly around a supposedly “scientifically accurate Milky Way galaxy.” It sounds damn great if they pull it off. If you want to see how it fares, there’s a demo.
While the title sounds like the prettiest thing I can think of right now, the game itself is made out of heavier material. This is a collection of short stories about men and their relationship to mental health. That’s – oh my god – right at the top of the most important discussions we need to have. The beautiful monochrome line art could be just the right medium to address the issue, as long as it’s handled with skillful care and hopefully with the involvement of mental health experts.
Will be released in autumn 2023, somnipathy is a pixel point and click horror game, a genre description I haven’t read in far too long. It’s about, says the store page, about helping a character named Aggy survive “nightmarish insomnia-themed dungeons,” which sounds terrifying if you’re as tired as I am.
Please I beg the developers at Tearcell Game Studio to remove those horrible, barely legible fonts that appear in many screenshots so that the game can be truly loved when it comes out later this year.
If you were to blame me for picking up this game just because of its title, you’d be absolutely right. Still, it’s garnered almost no attention in the two years it’s been on sale, earning only a paltry Steam review. (Positive!)
I’ve just had a quick try and it’s insane insisting on running in the top left corner of my monitor. The point is that as a student you have to write a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Rai using the post-colonial 4X strategy. I, um, had no idea what was going on, but I never knew either civilization either. But it apparently goes against nationalism and promotes a non-violent path through history.
With the most spectacular voiceover, colored pencilsThe trailer of shows what looks like a mix of, um, to me. Vampire Survivor, sands of timeand a survival base builder. Yes indeed! There are waves of enemies, a rewind time mechanic, and a base that just keeps growing and improving. Gosh, it would be great if this all fell into place.
I played with it briefly smushi, and it’s just adorable. A game about being a mushroom and trying to find your way home after being snatched by a bird! Along the way, you’ll meet tons of cute characters, solve environmental puzzles, and learn tons about different types of mushrooms!
It was released last month but didn’t get the press coverage it deserved, which is also my fault as I haven’t written a review for it yet Buried Treasure.
Owlskip Enterprises has developed some fascinating games over the past few years, most of which are based on solving puzzles by searching through documents and recordings from different eras and music genres. With The deadly way, developer Tim Sheinman makes a real difference with a card-based tower defense game. You build your dungeon, defend it and attempt to create a dark lord to usher in the “Age of Reckoning”. What I call “Thursday”.
death without a phase is a nice looking precision dashboard based platformer. Sprinting allows you to overcome walls or obstacles and create your own imaginative routes to the exit of each level, with the ultimate goal of shaving picoseconds off your and everyone else’s best times. It’s supposed to come out in the fall.
After the joy of PowerWash simulatorI’m willing to give all chore sims a try. Leaf Blower Man gets you annoying your neighbors at 6am on a Saturday, but then things seem to take a stranger turn.
I love something that looks like a combination of voxels and 2D assets in a flip-flop that seems to transition from suburban neighborhoods to – erm – outer space.
We’re not short of games that are all about bringing color back to a gray world, but I’m a huge fan of them every time I see them. Then farewell to the north takes this one step further and tells a story about a young woman and her border collie dog, in which you play as… the dog. It looks very warm, very pretty and even offers canoeing. Probably not from the dog though.
If you’re trying to trick me into wanting to play your game right away, make it look like this advance wars but also enormous. It’s a turn-based tactics game that features PvP and PvE co-op, but most importantly has pixel art that I’d love to cuddle with.
Hopefully it will come out this year.
A “tactical rogue autobattler” immediately leads me to assume: “Vampire Survivor clone”, but The dungeon below looks like something very different. This is more of a blobber game (salute to the old folks) where you delve into dungeons with a group of characters and see how deep you can go with the gear you’ve collected. In fact, it reminds me a lot more of the glorious Pixel dungeon from the old days of Android gaming.
It came out in 2020 and is still updated regularly. I’m installing it now.
Every once in a while I look at a game’s screenshots and immediately miss it my wonderful father. royal bloodan RPG about exploring dungeons, solving quests, and collecting inventory looks like a game it would have loved. However, he would also have been intimidated by the automated “Autochess” battles, because unless it was a game concept developed before 1989, he wasn’t entirely trustworthy.
Still, I’ll watch this one in his honor because it looks great. It was only released a few weeks ago.
