For those unfamiliar with the franchise’s history, the Syberia series began its life all the way back in 2002 with the release of the first game, Syberia, which put players in the role of Kate Walker, a New York lawyer who ends up going on a fantastical journey across Europe and Russia.
Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s terrifying mythos of cosmic abominations and otherworldly terrors, the game will follow the stories of four separate characters, each with their own unique characteristics, as they investigate a friend’s mysterious disappearance.
Taking on the role of the Gloom Girl, the last surviving member of her kind, players must slash and dash their way through seven highly detailed, interconnected biomes as they master the symbiotic relationship they have with the titular Doomblade.
In it, players enter a deadly gambling tournament called Death Game 2000, where they must gamble not just with chips, but their own body parts as well, which leads to all kinds of gory (but somehow still hilarious) results.
Set in the gloomy wilderness of Green Park, players will have to explore a desolate house and its haunted surroundings as they look for various clues in the form of photographs, videotapes and other types of key evidence – however, they’re not alone in the oppressively heavy rain, as someone is always watching and listening.
Welcome to GTOGG’s June 2023 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”.
LudoNarraCon, as you may or may not know, is a digital convention focusing primarily on narrative games – titles that prefer to add a bit more story to their campaigns, focusing on words instead of shooting, and intriguing plotlines instead of non-stop explosions (disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with games about explosions).
Ravenlok is a charming action-adventure game from developer Cococucumber and it’s about a young girl getting transported to a magical fantasy land, where she must take up sword and shield to stop a tyrannical queen because… she’s evil, I guess.
Welcome to GTOGG’s May 2023 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.
Rendezvous is a cyberpunk adventure game with some mild action/stealth segments. Set in a futuristic Indonesia, it puts you in the role of a man named Setyo on a quest to find his missing sister in a dystopian world of greedy megacorps, seedy criminal organizations and bodily augmentations.
