Swimsuit? It's okay. A good book? Okay, sun cream? Yup. Evidence of vaccination? Check. Don't worry you didn't inadvertently click on an article from Current woman Hey! Indeed before going on a family holiday on this good old Hexagone, the expatriate contributor I am has concocted you a small non-exhaustive list of independent projects to monitor in the coming months. They're all dazzling in their own way and most of them look pretty promising or have a playable demo. Given their presence in my Wish List Steam / Epic Games Store / Gamepass, as much as they will certainly be tested on MaG!
Most of them are still in development, so we will return in time and time on the details of their final supports. Whether you're one of those guys who's going to tear up tears in front of the last Woody Allen, close to breaking up aneurysm on an arcade nugget, or rather slaughter your fellow bipedes in the first person by psalmodizing insults in Latin: this list of titles planned for 2021 / 2022 should inspire you. Excuse me? I'm told in the earpiece that there are too many games to play? Let's see, I'd know if the days were too short to play anything.
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Axiom Verge 2
Developer / Publisher : Thomas Happ Games LLC / Thomas Happ Games LLC
If there is a metroidvania that has successfully restored the feeling of Elders Metroid, it's the first Axiom Verge, achieved Total by Thomas Happ. Read the previous sentence and perform the content of the work done by this man who also composed the original tape himself. We're looking forward to it!
BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad
Developer / Editor : Ritual Games / The MIX Games, One Eyed Robot
Far from being the game of this selection most visually surprising, BATS could create surprise with a gameplay that seems to cross between Deadbolt and Katana Zero. So the enemies die screaming like in Metal Slug This is a positive point from the outset.
Chinatown Detective Agency
Developer / Editor : General Interactive Co. / General Interactive Co., WhisperGames
You'll get some cyberpunk back into a futuristic universe with neons in which social inequalities are as deep as a crater in Verdun? We do.
Conscript
Developer / Editor : Catchweight Studio / Catchweight Studio
A young French soldier who struggles for his survival in the middle of the trenches during the Great War does that mean anything to you? No, I don't mention your family dinners with your great-grandfather who's losing the ball, but the first Catchweight Studio project that's going to add a layer of survival-horror in this sad period of history.
Death Trash
Developer / Editor : Crafting Legends / Crafting Legends
With his cracra pixel art and a disgusting artistic direction that would not deny David Cronenberg or the late Tobe Hooper, as much as saying that Death Trash has all my attention. Learly access is due to be released on August 5.
Happy Game
Developer / Editor : Amanita Design / Amanita Design
Don't be fooled by its falsely friendly aesthetic: the future creative spirit project of Amanita Design actually seems to be turning more to the dark side Little Misfortune or Fran Bow. To be followed after a Chuchel effective with similar graphic style but with radically opposite comic thematic register.
Harold Halibut
Developer / Editor: Slow Bros. Slow Bros.
His visual style way stop-motion marked MaG. With this project undertaken more than 4 years ago, the Slow Bros studio impresses. We let you judge for yourself.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Developer / Editor : Team Cherry / Team Cherry
The wait is unsustainable and KillerS7ven will not say otherwise. The game could land at any time, a bit like aliens in short.
Immortality
Developer / Editor : Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid / Half Mermaid
If the only reading of Sam Barlow's name puts stars in your eyes after a Her Story innovative and innovative Telling Lies more mixed but nevertheless captivating, then these few seconds teaser dImmortality should set you on fire.
Incantamentum
Developer / Publisher : Cloak and Dagger Games / Cloak and Dagger Games
This point rural with a background of Victorian legends intends to make us explore the most remote corners of the English countryside of the time. In view of the title, we suspect that a fantastic twister is hiding at the turn of a trail. The artistic direction has already charmed the author of these lines.
Last Stop
Developer / Publisher : Variable State / Annapurna Interactive
Intriguing Virginia made curvatures supported by some of David Lynch's flagship works with musical support nothing less than the Prague Symphony Orchestra. For their second game, the Studio Variable State promises to cross the fates of three characters during a global supernatural crisis.
Mechajammer
Developer / Editor : Whalenought Studios / Modern Wolf
Tactical cyberpunk RPG turn by turn, Mechajammer promises a story that will adapt to our decisions. We've heard this promise a lot, so we'll judge on a piecemeal basis. In any case the graphic style all in shades of the sky arch of the poop does not leave indifferent.
Metal Slug Tactics
Developer / Editor : Leikir Studio / Dotemu
If you, too, wake up sweaty in the middle of the night thinking about that giant fucking jellyfish that's been stopping you for years. Metal Slug 3 and despair facing the infamous artistic direction of the next Advance Wars So this trailer should pack your sensitive heart. Visual respect for original works is complete. The marriage of Tactical RPG and the arcade universe of Metal Slug Augurs the best and we will obviously look at the baby as soon as it comes out of Steam's pansu belly.
Prodeus
Developer / Publisher: Bounding Box Software Inc. / Humble Games
For this one I send you back without shame at the glance of the venerable KillerS7ven available by clicking Here.
Replaced
Developer / Editor : Sad Cat Studios / Coatsink
Replaced presents itself as a action-platform game anchored in a 80s retro-futuristic universe. The combat system seems to be supported by a perennial camera that should clearly emphasize the impacts of blows and other cracks of the bone for who would dare to get in the way of your character, an I.A. forcibly held in your human envelope. A whole program.
Sand
Developer / Editor : Shedworks / Raw Fury
Sable is beautiful but the first feedback from the players suggests an ungrateful technical balance as the release is already coming in late September. It is hoped that the remaining time will be used for the Shedworks studio to resolve the concerns by the end of the summer.
Scorn
Developer / Editor : Ebb Sofware / Ebb Software
We no longer present Scorn and its grandiose aesthetic, the result of a filiation between the most disturbing works of H. R. Giger and symbiotic fist weapon excellent eXistenZ by David Cronenberg. Announced a long time ago, the game has remained very (too?) discreet in recent months. When he arrives when he is ready, we wait firm foot.
Sifu
Developer / Editor : Sloclap / Sloclap
Nostalgia hugs you when you resemble your deadly frascs in Miami Hotline ? The violent action film The Raid 2 is part of your must-sees? When you observe a hammer you immediately think about Old Boy ? Wait more and watch the trailer below.
Silt
Developer / Editor : Spiral Circus / Sold Out
At first contact Silt recalls the monochrome contrasts marked with Limbo. Where he stands out is in his promise of gameplay that will make us explore the ocean depths with a diver with the supernatural ability to possess the carnal envelopes of the surrounding creatures. Spiral Circus' first game augurs for high-pressure puzzles.
Solar Ash
Developer / Editor : Heart Machine / Annapurna Interactive
With Solar Ash the creators of the memorable Hyper Light Drifter (fly on the original Disasterpeace) make their great return. The synopsis is still mysterious if it is that we will evolve again in a mysterious world highly stylized.
Somerville
Developer / Publisher : Jumpship / Jumpship
Piloted by former Playdead Co-President (Limbo, Inside), Somerville echoes the two flagship titles mentioned above. We will wait to see how the Jumpship studio stands out from the two works. The trailer with the gentle dramatic tone makes us furiously envy.
Songs of Conquest
Developer / Publisher : Lavapotion / Coffee Stainless Publishing
Combining the two addictive genres of the RPG in turn and the management of kingdoms, the title of Lavapotion arouses the expectations of MaG. Her visual style in the same vein as Octopath Traveler Didn't leave us marble.
The Last Faith
Developer / Editor : Kumi Souls Games / Kumi Souls Games
Like the fruit of an incestuous orgy between Castlevania, Blasphemous and Bloodborne at the end of which only the right genes would have been preserved, The Last Faith "sends heavy" as was said in high school classes in the mid-2000s. But between a promising trailer and a good gaming experience there are a hundred steps we won't dare to cross. I want to play it.
The Sundew
Developer / Publisher : 2054 / 2054
Hold another one. point Cyberpunk! It is not because he reaches the end of this list that we will not give him equal chance. This one takes place in Shibukawa, a sort of alternative neo-Tokyo of 2054 and is controlled by a cyborg rebelling against its hierarchy. He's supposed to go out this summer without further details.
Trepang2
Developer / Editor : Trepang Studios / Trepang Studios
Yes the "2" is glued on purpose: it is not a typing error band of small polishes. The first time I played the demo of Trepang2, I quickly called my wife to show her the action on the screen. The excited voice, I explained to him how the dismemberment engine of the game was fun and how the general gameplay feeling referred to the best hours of F.E.A.R. The playable demo is always available on Steam and you are advised to dive into it first. You like automatic bloodbaths, the sweet melody of the heads that explode like watermelons as well as the slides in slow-motion on the fresh blood of your freshly slaughtered enemies? YES? So what are you still doing here?
Twelve Minutes
Developer / Editor : Luis Antonio / Annapurna Interactive
Announced during the 2019 E3, this interactive thriller puts us in a view of top right down a small apartment unit. A man has dinner with his wife when he suddenly knocks on the door. A policeman then bursts in and accuses the young woman of murder. Then everything turns to vinegar and you fight to death when after you have seized a knife to defend your beloved. The twister? Are you a prisoner of a time loop that makes you relive the nightmare infinity, unless you can put an end to it? With Willem Dafoe and actress Daisy Ridley (the heroine of the last Star Wars, it seems that the recent trilogy exists) at the vocal casting, the game promises many script twists. Really on August 19.
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Wow, promising titles do you want some!!!
It's a good time to play in front of us! Special mention to artistically replaced. There is a sense of how much development tools have become accessible and allow the independent international scene to express itself.
Super article, I like Sable's DA very much which clearly makes you think of Moebius.
Songs of Conquest, too, can be a worthy successor to HOMM?
As for Metal Slug Tactics and Sifu, no mindgame, I buy directly.
The level design of Replaced, the DA of The Last Faith and the charm that emerges from Sifu (to name but a few) leave me dreaming!
What's left of the Majors?
Thank you for this excellent article, Ummagumma!
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