Are you going to the glittering Imperial metropolis of London subsequent month for video games present EGX Rezzed? I’m not. I’ve bought a stag weekend in Madrid the place I’m anticipated to play Gaelic soccer with a crowd of storming drunks. Trust me, you’re higher off within the shiny glass hallways of Tobacco Dock, particularly now that six extra video games have been added to the line-up, together with Disco Elysium, the surreal isometric journey formerly known as No Truce With The Furies.
What’s that? How dare you! How dare you recommend I’m solely bigging this up as a result of RPS is an editorial appendage of Gamer Network, the organisers of the present. You suppose that as a result of we’re a completely owned subsidiary of a giant company entity recognized for its large expos that I’ll simply make any previous put up concerning the upcoming present!? No. NO. Well, sure. But additionally, I’m telling you about this as a result of after I performed a snippet of Disco Elysium I got here this near willingly taking pictures a baby. Twice. I do know. I do know. But to know all is to forgive all. So I would like you to go to the present and play the sport so you possibly can see my reasoning, and uncover how laborious it was to restrain myself.
Here, let me let you know what different video games have been added to the line-up. Everspace is a roguelite sci-fi dogfighter that I enjoyed but maybe not enough. Iconoclasts is a platformer that Dominic liked however John thought got worse the longer he played. And then there’s three none of us have tried. Steredenn: Binary Stars is a boss battly “mashup of a classic shmup and a rogue-like”. Velocity G is a futuristic zero g racing recreation. And Locomotion is a single participant train-based puzzler. They’re all given more thorough descriptions here, which I’ll allow you to learn your self. What am I, your secretary?
Meanwhile, the complete line-up for Rezzed is here, and there’s quite a bit occurring. Phoenix Point, the brand new XCOM-ish recreation from Julian Gollop will be playable. The Truck Simulator builders can be talking to us, and Tim Schafer can even be hanging about. It’s an absolute nerrrrd fest and I’m sorry to overlook it. Spare a thought for me as I pant closely and chase an unstoppable striker throughout a dry Spanish soccer discipline, all within the service of friendship.
