Welcome to GTOGG’s December 2020 edition of Promising Indie 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.
The story of The Good Life centers around Naomi Hayward, a New York journalist who finds herself in the sleepy little English town of Rainy Woods where people mysteriously transform into cats and dogs at night.
Inspired in large part by Frank Miller’s graphic novel Hard Boiled, as well as renowned games like Deus Ex and Max Payne, Foreclosed has players step into the role of Evan Kapnos, a man whose very identity has been stolen from him.
Being the sole person to wake up from cryo-sleep aboard a huge spaceship, you have to venture off alone to find a way to gather resources, wake the other colonists, and figure out what’s going on.
Developed by 2 Ton Studios, Unto the End is about a father trying to get back to his family – but in order to do so, he must make his way across a dangerous wilderness teeming with all sorts of intelligent creatures, and engage in a series of demanding combat encounters where every wrong move can lead to death.
Sporting delightfully bizarre, Tim Burton-esque visuals, the game takes place in the lucid nightmare of a boy named Lloyd, who’s somehow unable to wake up and must therefore navigate the twisting, turning corridors of his own mind in order to survive.
Taking place in a pixelated version of the 1940s, the game stars John Souza, a private eye and former cop who gets an unexpected otherworldly visit from the ghost of Charlie “Two Angels”, a deceased mob boss – thing is, Charlie wants to go to Heaven, but in order to do so, he first needs to redeem himself by taking out his former associates.
Originally released in Japanese back in May, the game stars a young girl called Hal who wakes up in a strange town without any of her memories – and to make matters even stranger, the only friendly face to greet her is an AI-equipped talking traffic light.
The game stars the titular El Hijo, a 6-year-old boy whose mother leaves him at a monastery as a way to protect him from the bandits that razed their farm – El Hijo, however, is not content to stay in one place, and soon sets out on a perilous journey to catch up to his mother.
You’d think trying to survive and build a settlement in the Carpathian Mountains would be challenging enough on its own, but Night is Coming, a survival/base management sim from developer Wild Forest Studio, has a lot more in store for its prospective players.
