Starring a young girl called Anita who’s been implanted with Apostle, a sentient nanomechanical entity, the game will have players embark on a journey wrought with countless dangers and challenging boss fights.
Developer DDDistortion’s project takes players to the near-future of 2036 – to the so-called Quarantine City of Shin-Chiba, where they’ll be placed in the role of a youkai hunter called Misha facing off against a great variety of supernatural anomalies and mystical beings inspired by folklore and urban legends.
Perennial Order, the so-called “plant horror” game from developer Gardenfiend Games, is out now. Brought to life with a 2D painterly style inspired by Dark Souls and Princess Mononoke, the game will take you to a medieval world infested by botanical monstrosities where every encounter is a deadly boss fight with 1-hit death mechanics – yup, that means if you get hit even once, it’s Game Over, man.
Taking place in the so-called Land of Fumes, the game will invite players to explore a gruesome post-apocalyptic world where artificial life forms known as Homunculi have been driven to insanity by the toxic fumes rising from underground.
Set in a quarantined building filled with infected residents and a variety of other supernatural anomalies, the game will have you fight for your life in fast-paced turn-based battles as you encounter creatures designed by renowned horror artist Trevor Henderson.
Welcome to GTOGG’s September 2024 edition of Promising Indie Game Releases, where we highlight indie and non-mainstream titles that we believe deserve your attention – in other words, “look at all this potentially cool stuff you might’ve missed otherwise”. That would’ve been too long for a title, though.
Time Treker wasn’t an easy game for me to judge. In fact, after my first hour with the title, I felt certain that it simply wasn’t for me... until it was. But before I get ahead of myself, let’s actually talk about what it even is.
Soulslikes have become an immensely popular genre, with many a developer trying their hand at crafting their version of what From Software began more than a decade ago. We’ve seen creators put their own spin on the genre in various ways, but what if I told you there was a game that sort of just... paid homage to the original Dark Souls in a very obvious way?
I love games that let you unwind in a Zen kind of way. Whether it’s arranging your personal belongings in a title like Unpacking, or driving across a lonely highway in the calming silence of the night in Euro Truck Simulator 2, I can always appreciate it when a game lets you completely tune out the outside world to the point it becomes almost therapeutic.
Man, how do I even begin? Dark and Deep is a game that kept me in a cautiously optimistic mood at first, because clearly a good deal of work had gone into it. It’s a first-person, narrative-driven adventure game with puzzle-solving and mild exploration as its main focus, featuring a storyline that’s hoping to blur the lines between the real and the nightmarish.
