Symphony of War takes clear cues from Fire Emblem. It’s set in a robot factory where music is prohibited, and features rhythm-based cyberpunk hacking. Keylocker is a sci-fi tactical game with ‘80s vibes (aka a synth-heavy soundtrack). A lotta metal music, and most of the enemies appeared to be shirtless dudes with bulging eyes. Greedventory is a turn-based fantasy RPG with no obvious Final Fantasy references.Alterium Shift is a turn-based fantasy RPG with very obvious old-school Final Fantasy inspirations.These all flew by too quickly to get a sense what they are. Sizzle reel! Grid Force: Mask of the Goddess, Live by the Sword Tactics, Necroboy: Path the Evil Ship.Seems, if nothing else, like nothing else I’ve played.
Various skills are tied to various hands a full house will be more powerful than a two pair, but you’re less likely to draw it. Zeoti is a roguelike based on the most classic game of all: poker.WrestleQuest is a turn-based role-playing game about wrestling that features actual real-world wrestling icons.Various armour that grants you different elemental abilities. In Nine Years of Shadows, a side-scrolling fantasy action platformer, you become best friends with a magical teddy bear.It comes out in October and will feature - sit down for this - a battle royale mode. Yes, Arkanoid is getting a modernised remake. They said it couldn’t be done, but they did it anyway.
Skald: Against the Black Priory is a pixel art fantasy role-playing game coming to PC at…some point.By now, the only thing folks want to know about the beat-em-up TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge is “gimme gimme gimme.” It’s out on June 16 and will feature six-player co-op.Contract Killer is a side-scrolling action game coming this summer to Switch and Xbox.The latest entry in the growing realm of Pokémon-likes is Cassette Beasts, which blew Kotaku’s brain when it was first announced last fall.Doja Cat may want EA to remaster SSX Tricky, but Slopecrashers - an arcade snowboarding game that allows you to shred as farm animals - might be all we get in the snowboarding game genre for the foreseeable future.There are some neat comic-inspired visuals, which should be interesting in VR. It stars Jason Isaacs and is out this year for consoles and VR. The Last Worker is a first-person narrative adventure game about the inevitable decline of capitalism amid the rise of automation.Five years after the release of survival game This War of Mine, the developers have released a “final cut” edition, adding new content to the game.South of the Circle is a strikingly beautiful adventure game about power, memory, and the “promises we make in life.” I’m extremely here for the aching music and East Berlin vibes of Industria, a first-person shooter in which you fight robots.First-person psychological horror game The Fridge is Red currently has a demo live on Steam now.You’re accompanied by a Polaroid camera, and there seems to be some sort of interdimensional hijinks at play. Madison is a first-person psychological horror game wherein you stroll around rusty bathrooms and abandoned churches.Playable co-op or competitive, and currently in early access on Steam. Gravewood High is a first-person platformer about trying to not get caught by an imposing figure.Signalis is blissfully low-poly, which means hey, maybe I’ll be able to play it. Confirmed: the indie events feature plenty of horror games.Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle at least seems like it folds in Mass Effect-inspired space magic abilities. OK, I suppose even the indie events aren’t immune to sci-fi space horror games.Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms is an isometric fantasy role-playing game.The first-person astronaut shooter Boundary is getting a beta this summer.Ugly makes use of a dual-realm perspective a la The Medium, except twice as scary and two-thirds as dimensional.I Was A Teenage Exocolonistis exactly what it sounds like: an adventure game in which you’re a teenager who, alongside other teens, stakes an exolplanet.