Set in a grand medieval world threatened by the apocalypse, the game has you follow the exploits of mortal heroes on a dangerous quest to reclaim the lost fragments of their souls as they travel between parallel dimensions.
Aiming to tell a coming-of-age story about “self-discovery, legacy, and belonging”, the game follows young Annika Stonefly, a brilliant but somewhat naive inventor on a quest to retrieve a family heirloom.
The brand-new story campaign will see original protagonist Rania on the run from a variety of factions – meanwhile, her story will intertwine with that of Hayse, a drunkard and a gambler who serves as the DLC’s second playable character.
First released almost a full thirty years ago, Flashback awed audiences with its striking visuals and lifelike character animations, and is considered a true genre classic to this day.
Hoping the recapture the magic of that era, Lucy Dreaming stars a young girl with recurring nightmares who – as the titles also implies – goes on a wild lucid dreaming adventure full of oddball characters, quirky humor and all the retro-style pixel art you could ever want.
Welcome to GTOGG’s May 2021 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.
Do you like games that tell stories? Well, so do we! Which is why we're very pleased to talk to you about LudoNarraCon 2021, a digital convention hosted on Steam that celebrates narrative games and the talented people making them – it runs between April 23-26.
At its core, DWL is a 2D action-platformer that falls squarely into the “metroidvania” category of video games. There’s a large, twisty labyrinth to explore with visually diverse aesthetics and some genuinely gorgeous pixel art, a bunch of different creepy-crawly monsters to hunt down...
Naturally, we browsed and browsed until there was nowhere left to browse, and tried our hands at some of the more interesting-looking titles on offer – some of them proved to be just as pleasant as they seemed, while others were… well, disappointing, to say the least. But hey, such is life, you know? Box of chocolates and all that jazz.
Amnesia: Rebirth starts not entirely unlike its predecessor, although the circumstances surrounding it are quite different. Our protagonist, one Anastasie "Tasi" Trianon, suffers a catastrophic plane crash in the middle of the Algerian desert and wakes up in the wreckage realizing that the rest of the crew is nowhere to be found – what’s more, she also has trouble remembering exactly what happened to them.