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Are Steam followers the best predictor of success for unreleased games? GameDiscoverCo's Simon Carless examines how Steam festivals and showcases have changed the impact of being wishlisted. Saturnalia is coming to the Epic Games Store in She Dreams Elsewhere , as you may have guessed, takes place within a dream. Described as an adventure role-playing game, the indie game has a surrealist vibe set — the perfect setting for a bad dream. The music, composed by Mimi Page, is perfect.
Season , from developer Scavengers Studio, was recently announced during The Game Awards , and it was one of the standout games from the event. The game looks like an atmospheric wonderful, featuring a woman collecting memories of a gorgeous, mysterious world. Season is coming in Nuts is a game about watching squirrels. Nuts will be out in on Windows PC.
There are puzzles, crops, battles, but most of all, no taxes. But there is more to the genre, and you can see that in Chinatown Detective Agency. There's also an element of mystery wrapped up in Season's unique setting, and I can hardly wait to discover everything it has to offer. Saddle up and get ready to venture into WolfEye Studios' fantasy reimagining of the wild west.
In this isometric action RPG from the co-creator of Dishonored and Prey, Weird West presents you with the adventures of five different heroes whose destinies are all intertwined and connected. Also described as an "immersive sim", there are many different playstyles to try out, and every choice you make will be reflected in the game; each hero's journey will be tied to the actions you take.
With its dark take on the wild west, you'll encounter fantastical creatures as well as fellow gunslingers. It sounds like one highly replayable adventure. Venba, from Toronto-based developer Visai Games, is a narrative cooking game set in the s.
Taking on the role of an Indian mother who immigrates to Canada with her family, you cook all kinds of dishes and bring back lost recipes as you go.
Experienced through branching dialogue, Venba tells a story of "family, love, and loss" — it already sounds like it has all of the right ingredients for one very charming experience full of warmth and heart.
In Stray, from developer BlueTwelve Studio, you play as a cat who roams the rundown alleys of a forgotten cybercity. You're a cat. Need I say more? Experiencing the sights and sounds of the neon-tinted futuristic setting through the eyes of a feline, you can make use of your agile form and be stealthy as and explore the world from the ground or up on high with your nimble paws.
The cat is also said to befriend a small flying drone called B12, which sounds adorable. Facing many dangers in the Cybercity's underbelly, you journey with your drone companion to find a way out. Sounds pawsome, doesn't it? I'm sorry. Taking things out of boxes when you move in reality is stressful and, frankly, no fun at all.
But in Unpacking, from developer Witch Beam, it becomes incredibly satisfying and unexpectedly relaxing. I tried out the demo for this indie gem last year, and I can hardly wait to dive right back in and continue neatly organising everything just so.
Described as a "zen" puzzle game, you go about unpacking boxes in various different rooms and setting items down so everything brings the room together. The things we own can say a lot about us too, so you'll learn more about the person from the possessions you unpack. She Dreams Elsewhere from Studio Zevere is a "surreal RPG" full of striking pops of color and distinctly eye-catching character designs that really evoke its dreamscape setting.
Exploring themes such as mental health and self-identity, you play a woman named Thalia who struggles with anxiety and has to face the nightmares that are keeping her stuck in a comatose state.
Along with its unique art style and interesting dream setting, She Dreams Elsewhere also features turn-based battles, various different playstyles to try out, and a "connection system" that allows you to bond with the characters you meet. In this 2D platformer, you play as Francis Vendetti as he gets ready for his very first live performance.
Diving into a world of his own imagination to get inspiration for his own stage persona, you journey through surreal landscapes made of sound that will play as you move.
With outlandish encounters and plenty of slick-looking moves, The Artful Escape looks like one musical journey you'll want to take note of. In Smarto Club's narrative adventure, you play as a shy, introverted frog called Teacup and must get everything together for a tea party. Teacup loves drinking tea and reading books, and I can already tell that she's going to steal my heart later this year.
After running out of tea the horror , you set out into the woods to find herbs and gather a list of ingredients to restock the pantry. With it's wonderful illustrated art style and adorable characters, I'm more than ready to take a stroll through its colourfully inviting world.
You play as Aletheia, a fierce redhead with a deadly aim. When you're not battling monstrous automata, you're trying to unravel a massive conspiracy by interacting with NPCs in choice-driven dialogue.
And with side quests to complete and abilities to craft, there's plenty to do in this excellent-looking RPG. Grime looks so cool: It's an action-adventure RPG where you play as a sentient black hole. So instead of firing a weapon, you can manipulate gravity to fling enemies' attacks back at them. The world is really creepy, featuring statue-like enemies that seem to spring out of the floor and walls. There are also far more nightmarish creatures, like this voluptuous woman-looking enemy--if said woman's torso was a human mouth.
It's really gross but in a dope way, if that makes sense. The game seems to have metroidvania influences as well, featuring an interconnected world that slowly opens up as you gain abilities that change how you both fight and explore. Hollow Knight: Silksong looks to build on the superb design of its predecessor, offering another soulslike metroidvania that takes place in a gorgeous interconnected world and features a cast of bug, fungal, and arachnid characters that run the gamut of cute to terrifying.
In Hollow Knight: Silksong, you play as Hornet, the secondary protagonist of the first game, who becomes trapped in an unfamiliar kingdom. In order to escape, she must ascend to the top. Hollow Knight: Silksong is scheduled to launch for Switch and PC, and it does not yet have a release date. A rhythm game, Impossible Bottles tasks you with solving the global energy crisis through the power of dancing robots. In each level, you must fire streams of electricity in time to the music, which powers a robot, who will dance to the beat in these cute animations, while messing up too many times results in the robot's destruction.
Powering up the robots unlocks new resources for scientists to invest in, allowing you to slowly save the Earth through the production of clean energy. Originally set for , Impossible Bottles will now release for Android and iOS at a future date, which has yet to be announced. Developed by wife-and-husband team Sarah and Colin Northway, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a narrative-focused life sim with deck building-focused combat. You start the game as an adolescent living in a colony on another planet and then decide how you want to live your life.
Study hard? Go out and fight monsters? Spend all day flirting? It's up to you, but your choices will have consequences. With 10 dateable characters, 25 different jobs to pursue, battle cards to earn, 1, story events to experience, and 50 endings to unlock, you'll need more than one lifetime to see it all.
In Jack Move , you play as Noa Solares, a sassy vigilante hacker trying to save her father. Set in a cyberpunk-inspired world, Jack Move's battles take place in a cyberware-like space, so having good tech is the key to victory. Upgrading the hardware of your Cyber Deck allows you to upload more powerful software. And you can upload different software during battle to change the attacks and defensive moves that Noa has access to in the virtual world.
It looks to be a fairly technical and intricate system that allows for a great deal of customization, and the battles themselves are really cool because every move has a stylish animation. Jack Move is set to launch for Switch and PC in In Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries , you play as French artist Jennifer Chevalier, who's convinced her father's death is no accident.
Hoping to get answers, she tries to summon his ghost The two decide to solve the mystery surrounding Jennifer's father's death together, speaking to both the living and the dead in an investigation that takes them across France, Ireland, and England. Jupiter Moons: Mecha is a narrative-driven roguelike where you pilot your own custom mecha and battle in deckbuilding-focused combat. Adding new weapons and support items to your mecha translates into new cards in your deck, creating tense battles where the outcome is decided by both your skill and a little luck.
Jupiter Moons: Mecha is scheduled to launch for PC in Designed by Malaysian studio Persona Theory, Kabaret takes inspiration from Southeast Asian folklore for its story, characters, and gameplay. This visual novel sees you play as Jebat, who's transformed into a monster and told that he has 30 nights to break the curse before it becomes permanent. Like most visual novels, you'll spend a lot of time talking to other characters, but in Kabaret, you complete conversations by finishing your tea, flipping your cup, and doing a tea leaf reading.
You'll be brewing your own tea and doing a bit of self-reflecting in Kabaret as well, deciding by the end of the game whether you want to become human again or remain a monster. Kabaret is scheduled to release for PC in An action-adventure game, Kena: Bridge of Spirits sees you play as the titular Kena, a spirit guide responsible for helping those who have died move on to the spirit world.
You're aided in your endeavor by the Rot, cute black creatures that can assist you in both battle and exploration. You're not helpless on your own though--Kena can use her staff for both offense and defense, as well as an assortment of magical abilities. Kinder World is a game all about self-healing through the act of raising houseplants and practicing kindness. So yeah, like the perfect thing to look forward to after You grow your plants through the completion of quick activities like expressing gratitude and completing breathing exercises, and each one grows procedurally.
Plants can grow rare variegations as well, and developer Lumi Interactive--a Melbourne studio--promises that additional houseplants will be added post-launch.
Kinder World is scheduled to release for Android and iOS in In Last Stop , you play as three different characters, whose stories all connect in a mysterious way. John is jealous of his bachelor neighbor's lifestyle, waking up one day to find they've both switched bodies.
Meena is a ruthless business woman who stumbles upon a mystery hidden in the company she works for. And Donna bites off more than she can chew when she and her friends investigate a man who appears to be kidnapping women. This supernatural adventure game is also fully voice acted and features an original soundtrack by BAFTA award-winning composer Lyndon Holland.
In Little Nightmares II , you play as Mono, a paper bag-wearing boy trying to survive a journey across a land that's home to monstrously grotesque individuals. Mono is joined by Six, the protagonist of the first Little Nightmares , and together the two must work as a team to solve platforming challenges and puzzles, usually while some creepy monster is trying to shoot, strangle, break, or eat them. In Love Shore , you play as one of two different protagonists, Sam or Farah.
Both Sam and Farah are S.
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