Long Gone Days combines visual novels, RPGs, and shooters to tell the story of Rourke, a soldier who has abandoned his post after learning the truth about a deadly covert op he was lead to take part in. Its combat is fierce and explosive and its rendering of old-school games of its ilk is both faithful and fresh. You play Joy Lantz, a skilled motor knight out to save the world with the help of her massive motorized drill-lance. The Joylancer is a technical action platformer in the style of old Game Boy games. It promises rich characters, a clever metanarrative, and weighty choices in a classic mystery tale that will appeal to players of all ages. Jenny LeClue is for everyone who grew up loving Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes, but craves a new detective adventure for the modern era. It’s funny, hyper, weird, and almost frighteningly familiar. The webpages of Hypnospace’s future internet is technocolored and dystopian, like Geocities in a totalitarian state. You are a Hypno Enforcer, a shady agent of the law whose job it is to track down internet outlaws and other cyber criminals by scouring the digital storefronts and chatrooms of the web. Jay Tholen, the creator of Dropsy, explores it with trademark dark comedy in Hypnospace Outlaw, a wild web browser simulation. What will the internet look like in the future? With the FCC recently voting to repeal net neutrality protections, that's as heated and relevant a question as ever. As part-time lab assistant to one of the lead scientists on board the ship, it’s up to you to explore the vessel, interact with its occupants, and try to make a second launch possible. The ship was originally meant as humanity’s last-ditch effort to continue life outside of Earth, but the crash-landed would-be utopia now serves as the bitter home of inhabitants born generations after the original launch. Harold Halibut is a stop motion-inspired claymated adventure game about a lone janitor stranded on a submerged spaceship deep below the surface of a mysterious water planet.
Learn more and follow its development on Twitter. A dreamy, muted color palette and simple low poly art make this one especially GIFable. The Twitter for Dead Static Drive describes it as a “road trip in a world of cosmic horror,” which - alongside games like Overland - is looking more and more like its own subgenre. A self-described “first-person hell labyrinth,” Crypt Underworlds promises to feature aggressive urinating, an upgradable apartment, and “more in-game strip malls than you can imagine.” According to its Kickstarter, “every alley, every door, will lead somewhere worse than before.” Dead Static Drive
Crypt Underworld is a sequel to her most iconic work, Crypt Worlds, and - if we’re lucky - will fulfill exactly that, but much, much bigger. Lilith is a master at constructing worlds you can spend the whole day getting lost in. Procedurally generated dungeons and a cast of characters that are distinct in appearance and ability promise to keep the game fresh and unique every time you play. Children of MortaĬhildren of Morta’s strikingly detailed pixel art might be the first thing you notice about it, but one of its most charming elements is its focus on a strong family bond that spans generations. It’s shaping up to be something truly special. It’s a weird and colorful playground that doesn’t hide its inspirations, but also isn’t content to merely copy them, creating something uniquely its own. Everything in it feels alive, from its characters to its worlds to its energetic soundtrack - even its dialogue boxes. Like the games of Keita Takahashi, the upcoming Burrito Galaxy seems to have a deep and natural understanding of fun and play. It’s been awesome watching it grow over time into something potentially even greater than the original. Bernbandīernband is already a few years old at this point, but the first-person exploration game set in a whimsical alien city became is getting expanded into something even bigger.
Bad North is about defending tiny, procedurally generated island from Viking invaders, in what developer Plausible Concept calls both “charmingly brutal” and “deceptively simple.” Learn more on its website and Twitter. Isometric tactics games have never looked this charming. An emergent soundtrack made of rhythmic drum beats and cymbal crashes accompanies every swift punch and throw in this hyper-violent top-down action game about an escaped gorilla.
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