We’re again to our common schedule this week after two weeks of particular occasions. In case you missed it, we coated loads of indie gems as a part of the primary EGX Rezzed Digital final week, and some of the titles that participated in Steam’s Game Festival the week earlier than.
Some of the games featured on this week’s episode have been introduced final week, however we’ve had our eyes on them since and we nonetheless needed to inform you extra about them right this moment.
As all the time, the primary part of the piece covers new trailers and customarily focuses on new bulletins, and the second half is devoted to games you may play this weekend.
Hot indie games week of March 30
Bright Memory: Infinite
Bright Memory lastly left Steam Early Access final week. To coincide with the information, developer FYQD launched a brand new trailer for Bright Memory: Infinite, basically the full-length game due out later this yr.
Bright Memory is likely one of the most fashionable, action-packed shooters on Steam. Made largely by a single developer in China, it manages to mix the perfect of Titanfall and Devil May Cry. Yes, the 2 totally different genres of agile capturing and combo-based character motion mix collectively shockingly properly and make for a singular fight movement.
The fluid motion and satisfying capturing on their very own would make this a straightforward suggestion, nevertheless it’s how Bright Memory additionally works motion game skills into the combination that actually offers it identification. You’ll be juggling enemies, whipping them round, teleporting right into a sword slash, throwing a grenade and dashing again out whilst you hearth off your gun.
On its personal, Bright Memory is a reasonably brief (two-to-three hours) expertise. What’s there, nevertheless, is extremely well-polished. The game even helps the newest graphics tech, together with ray tracing and Nvidia’s up to date DLSS 2.0. The worth simply went as much as $10 after leaving Early Access, however homeowners of the bottom game get Infinite totally free when it launches, in order that’s nice worth.
You can check out Bright Memory your self right this moment, and wishlist Bright Memory: Infinite on Steam.
(The trailer above is for Infinite).
Airhead
Airhead is a metroidvania platformer with a intelligent gimmick. The protagonist is a headless physique, who spends most of their time separated from the top. The game truly begins with the center taken away, which I’m positive will come into play later.
The foremost mechanic is conserving the top inflated by means of air tanks scattered across the ranges. This is used for platforming, after all, and the top itself positive factors upgrades over the journey that mean you can remedy Airhead’s varied puzzles and entry beforehand inaccessible areas.
The trailer even reveals the participant leaving the top afloat on a lake, presumably to maintain respiratory, whereas the physique ventures underwater. Seeing a decapitated physique separate from and reunite with its head a number of occasions over the course of the trailer was uncommon, in a great way.
If 2.5D puzzle platformers are your factor, keep an eye on Airhead. It’s coming to PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch subsequent yr.
Prodeus
Readers of this web site in all probability know by now that I don’t want an excuse to write down a couple of classics-inspired shooter. There are many good ones on the market right this moment, however Prodeus seems to be further particular.
Prodeus is a gory first-person enviornment shooter in the identical vein as Doom and Quake. The game is attempting to kind of bridge the hole between trendy rendering methods and the basic presentation so far as aesthetics and design sensibilities. The trailer demonstrates that fairly properly, with a tonne of particle results and enemy dismemberment that wouldn’t have been potential again within the day, all wrapped in a mode impressed by the classics. I additionally respect how chunky the weapons sound, which actually helps illustrate how properly it’s punching above its weight.
One of developer Bounding Box’s huge guarantees with Prodeus is a streamlined degree creator, and a simple means for gamers to browse and obtain community-created content material. It all seems to be very promising, and it’s coming to PC this yr. There’s a Steam page the place you may keep updated with improvement.
Games you may play this weekend
Art of Rally
Art of Rally developer Funselektor Labs has been very quiet because the game was first introduced about a year ago. Art of Rally is a minimalist, top-down driving game much like the studio’s Absolute Drift. It takes what the developer discovered from its debut game and pushes it to new ranges with the equally difficult-to-capture rally races. Funselektor guarantees over 50 vehicles and 60 phases from 5 totally different international locations.
The developer not too long ago launched the game’s first public demo, fully free on Game Jolt. The demo helps you to discover a single monitor, although it’s a playable in several climate situations and occasions of day, utilizing two vehicles.
The included Finnish monitor options a mixture of gravel and tarmac, and the vehicles you may select from come from Group 2, and the notorious Group B. The demo is offered for Windows, Mac and Linux, and it’s simply 155MB.
If you want what you play, you may wishlist Art of Rally on Steam. The game launches later this yr.
In Other Waters
In Other Waters is likely one of the most attention-grabbing games we’ve talked about on this function. It’s a narrative-focused game the place you play as an AI whose job is to assist a xeno-biologist find her lacking associate on an alien planet.
This explicit setup is probably not attention-grabbing by itself, nevertheless it’s how In Other Waters interprets it to mechanics that’s value exploring. The interface could be very sensible with not a number of visible flourish. It goals to interpret how an AI would understand the world.
As the AI, you’re a part of the protagonist’s diving swimsuit, and also you’ll be analysing the info she comes throughout and making discoveries on that alien planet alongside her. The total visible fashion is minimalist, so many of the heavy lifting is finished by means of narrative, which promise to be about greater than learning alien marine life.
In Other Waters launches right this moment on PC and Switch for $15, and you may play it on Steam.
Radical Relocation
Radical Relocation is a physics-based shifting simulator, which is an idea I’m positive you’ve heard earlier than. Rather than make co-op the main focus, Radical Relocation is as a substitute a single-player game the place you’re alleged to be devising the most secure, best means of shifting your belongings between two factors.
The game is extra within the logistical finish of that downside, which is the place the puzzles inevitably lie. Watching the debut trailer, I in some way respect the ache of all these Death Stranding gamers whose supply journeys ended abruptly as a result of they did not steadiness their hundreds properly. Perhaps that is what Kojima meant by a Strand Game.
The two are extra comparable than you might initially realise, although you’ll be counting on automobiles much more right here in comparison with Death Stranding. Before Radical Relocation involves Steam Early Access this spring, you may attempt it out right this moment by grabbing this free demo on Game Jolt.
