When the idea of a 2-hour-long metal album being presented as a semi-interactive video game was first brought up to me, I found it somewhat intriguing. I mean, on a conceptual level, it sounded great.
Featuring all the slow-motion gun fights you could ever want in your life, the game places you in the role of a determined man who must go up against the forces of darkness – werewolves, vampires, and various other assorted nasties.
Described by the team as “a love letter to Castlevania with modern elements,” Elderand places its focus on brutal, skill-based combat that punishes mistakes, all the while sending players on a journey that will see them explore dark, accursed lands and uncover all sorts of buried treasure.
Strangeland is the latest point & click adventure game from Wormwood Studios, the creators of 2012’s Primordia – starring a disturbed man forced to perpetually witness the death of a woman she loves, the game sends players to the twisted, otherworldly carnival of the titular Strangeland, where they must find some much-needed answers to all the big WH questions you can imagine.
Welcome to GTOGG’s June 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.
According to the basic premise of the story, you travel to a calm and quiet village in the English countryside in order to help a woman named Beth find a lost earring that probably lies buried somewhere beneath a local farm.
Taking place in the distant future, the game begins as the evil, maddened Dr. Genos wages war on planet Earth.
Starring Dalila Reyes, a special agent working for an organization called H.A.D.E.S., the game will have you uncover the terrifying secrets of a military research facility.
Originally released via Early Access in September of 2020, Isle of Siptah has since been expanded with additional land to explore, a new religion to engage with, as well as three new factions to fend off: the Stygian Mercenaries in the east, the Black Corsairs in the west, and the so-called Accursed down south.
A dystopian setting is hardly anything new in gaming circles – from cyberpunk-inspired visions of the future to hopelessly apocalyptic timelines, we’ve seen plenty of examples of how disastrously the history of mankind can potentially unfold.
