The Indie games scene has produced one other week’s value of trailers, gameplay and loads of new games to get enthusiastic about. This solely means one factor: you’re studying our weekly hidden indie gems function the place we hope to maintain you up to date on the world of indie games.
There are not any Steam festivals this week, so whereas there aren’t 20 odd demos to obtain, we introduced you a few games you’ll be able to play this weekend.
Hot indie games week of May 18
Naraka: Bladepoint
It has been shut to 6 months now since we first saw Naraka: Bladepoint at The Game Awards. Bladepoint is a melee-based enviornment motion game with a selected deal with fashionable fight and fluid motion.
This week, developer 24 Entertainment dropped a brand new trailer to indicate the motion skills of the game’s characters. Entire elements of the surroundings appear custom-made for parkour, wall operating and varied methods of grappling and anchoring.
From the temporary seconds of footage we now have, motion seems as slick because the game’s fight, which was already trying fairly thrilling. One of Bladepoint’s largest concepts is that it doesn’t function a block button – solely parrying, which is a part of why it appears to be like so good in movement.
The game continues to be on observe for launch this 12 months on Steam, however this week’s new gameplay trailer sadly didn’t include any recent information. Still, that is undoubtedly one to control.
Teenage Blob
Being fully sincere, I’m not completely positive what’s occurring on this reveal trailer for Teenage Blob. We like our justifiable share of psychedelic games right here at VG247, however generally a game is simply too bizarre to be known as that.
Teenage Blob is basically a mini-game assortment of precisely six games from various genres that even embrace courting sims. Each game is about to a brand new music by punk rock band The Superweaks. I truthfully couldn’t say if that’s probably the most elaborate idea album I’ve ever seen, or some deep meta commentary on video games.
What I can say for positive is that Teenage Blob appears to be like like a playable, acid-infused model of a Rick and Morty episode. It’s weird in one of the best ways, and exhausting to disregard.
The developer admits it’ll take you round 30 minutes to play the entire thing, so wishlist it on Steam to maintain it in your radar. We’re not but positive how a lot it’s going to price, however hopefully the value will replicate the game’s uncommon nature.
Games you’ll be able to play this weekend
Timelie
Timelie is an isometric stealth game with a neat mechanic: time manipulation. In Timelie, all of your previous and future actions are tracked on an interactive timeline.
Scrubbing by the previous helps you keep away from errors you could have made, whereas peering into the longer term might change the way you make selections within the current. To make issues a bit of extra fascinating, Timelie has two important characters: a woman and her cat. You management each characters, which provides one other layer to how you intend out strikes, and probably complicates sure moments as you attempt to verify each survive a harmful state of affairs.
But having two characters additionally permits you to create elaborate setups the place one distracts a guard someplace whereas the opposite is ready at a close-by door, just for each to hyperlink up later. The trailer exhibits off some neat moments of each characters being in sync by the timeline, making for an fascinating puzzle mechanic.
Timelie got here to Steam this week, the place it’s accessible for $17.
Project Genesis
If you’re an avid reader of this very weekly function, it’s possible you’ll already be aware of Project Genesis from the March 20 chapter. Project Genesis is an area fight/area shooter hybrid.
The formidable game makes an attempt to convey collectively the ship-to-ship fight of Dreadnought with Halo’s first-person capturing mechanics. Genesis is designed to be accessible, so ship fight isn’t as advanced as area sims, and on-foot capturing mechanics must be straightforward for any shooter participant to choose up.
Today, Project Genesis launches into Steam Early Access, which is a few month later than initially deliberate, nevertheless it means everybody will lastly be capable to soar in.
