Plus, Steam Next Fest, food-based horror games and a bunch of Dispatch updates.
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Welcome to our latest roundup of what’s going on in the indie game space. There are some neat new games you can play this weekend and we’ll take a look at a few that are on the way. However, much of the attention this week is on
<p>I absolutely had to carve out time to check out the demo for Golden Retriever Simple Life, which I’ve had on my wishlist since I first saw it last year. This is an FMV life sim in which you take care of a golden retriever named Pichu. The demo runs for a week of in-game time, during which you’ll feed, pet, play with, train and go on adventures with this very good boy. Mechanically, it’s pretty light, but I absolutely do not care because this game is utterly lovely so far. I can’t wait to play the full thing in <a m planning to check out other demos this weekend, including one of the big hits of this edition of Next Fest, the cyberpunk shopkeeping sim Probably Stolen. Also on my to-do list are the Backrooms-style puzzler Geodyssey, propeller plane schmup Iron Skies, 2D Metroidvania with no jump button Moonbrella and comedy game My Arms Are Longer Now, in which you pull off heists with a very long arm.
On the news front, there was an ID@Xbox Showcase this week, along with one from Critical Reflex. The former
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As well as platform updates, demo announcements and something we’ll get to later, Critical Reflex Time included two wild game reveals. In the surreal RPG amFM, you’ll hop between dimensions and create machines to defeat your enemies. To survive in Keykruncher, your character has to eat keyboards. Gosh, I love indie games, don’t you?
New indie game releases
Developer: Team Peak
Publisher: Aggro Crab, Evil Landfall?
Platforms: Game File the team has doubled how much content is in the game since its initial release, “which necessitates that we double the perceived cost of the game from 5 bucks to 10 bucks, even though the game price for consoles is only literally going up by 2 bucks. If we were really smart we’d go to 12 bucks which is basically 10 bucks, but we decided to have mercy.”
