From magic to pixels to moving really fast, these games should be in your eyeline
With the flurry of news over the last month or so, it may be real easy to miss some of the excellent announcements from smaller game studios and indie projects. We thought it would be important to get some of these really neat projects front and center, because who knows what the next few years will hold for the industry. There have been a few showcases and announcements, and plenty to drool over.
Welcome to Brightville is a first person action adventure in the vein of Dishonored, Atomfall, and Bioshock, mixing Victorian era designs with mysticism for what it’s calling “Mana-punk.” It focuses on an automaton that is doing its best to avoid the city of Brightville’s takeover by a rogue AI, so players will need to use stealth, combat, and its powers to survive. These types of first person games can be extremely solid experiences, and with a strong narrative and unique design, Welcome to Brightville could be one of the more memorable in the genre. The game is set for a 2027 launch for Xbox, PlayStation and PC.
Neverway is an upcoming combination horror & life sim, but done so in a retro pixel style. Visually these kinds of games are aimed at the cozy culture, but not here: the game stars Fiona, who has quit her job to take on a farm while she becomes the herald of a dead god. The game includes dating, too, because WHY NOT, and it all mixes together with a potion made of horror as the darkness of the world slowly starts to seep in. There’s no release date announced yet, but it’ll be in our dreams (and nghtmares?) until it does.
The Alters, the wild clone-in-space narrative, finally has a release date and a stellar new trailer. The game is set for launch on June 13th for PC, Xbox and Playstation, and the latest vid is ethereal and kind of hard to explain, but its mystery continues to suck us in.
Sometiems we just need to shoot the heck out of a lot of stuff, and VOID/BREAKER may fill that necessity. The game is an FPS in which we move really fast and break things (by shooting at them). The game seems to take the speedy parts of Doom Eternal and make them even faster and shootier, with a fresh aesthetic style to keep us drooling and our fingers pushing buttons. It’s due in Early Access this year.
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