Taking place in 1989, shortly after the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall, Industria chronicles the story of a scientist called Nora, who ends up journeying to a bizarre parallel dimension teeming with strange mechanical creatures.
Sam Lake, Creative Director of Remedy Entertainment, has officially announced that an Alan Wake remaster is indeed coming, and that it’s actually quite close to completion.
Taking place in Whitechapel during the year 1886, the game stars a detective by the name of JP Chambers who is forced to investigate the mansion of the maddened Frederick Ulaevan in order to discover the terrifying secrets that lurk within.
Welcome to GTOGG’s September 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.
Starring a group of Polish, German and Lithuanian freedom fighters, the game will have you sneak past enemy lines, distract enemy soldiers or even blend into their ranks to remain undetected, while its storyline will attempt to examine one of history’s darkest periods from a chiefly non-American perspective.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing, and games that evoke the spirit of much-revered classics are often met with unfettered optimism – and so it happened that I took one quick look at Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, a game heavily inspired by CRPG darling (and personal favorite) Baldur’s Gate, and decided I would have to try it.
I think it’s safe to say that even the best video games have things people don’t like about them. Dreamscaper is no exception: tackling the concept of (literally) fighting your inner demons, the game presents this wholly interesting setup in the framework of the classic roguelike dungeon crawler, which, I feel, ends up becoming more of a yoke than anything.
From time to time, I run into a game that makes me question if I’m getting too old for this. Have I become out of touch? Am I missing something crucial that others can most definitely see? Can I no longer appreciate the honest efforts of game developers? And so on – you get the idea...
“Soulslike” and “Metroidvania” are probably among some of the most commonly used terms in the game industry these days, and that’s no coincidence, as both the Dark Souls and Castlevania/Metroid franchises have established templates and patterns that numerous other titles have come to incorporate into their DNAs with varying levels of success.
The Hand of Merlin’s narrative takes place in medieval times, in the corrupted lands of Albion, and your mission is to guide a party of three adventurers all the way to Jerusalem in order to prevent the coming apocalypse. Alas, I stubbornly insisted on sticking to the rather challenging Normal difficulty mode, which resulted in more deaths and failures than I care to admit.
