Hello fellow gamers and welcome to another installment of the releases and indie showcase!
Yes I’ve changed the name from indie update to indie showcase, why? Well because that’s what the end of the blog is, an indie showcase where I “show” you an indie game that’s worth your coppers/silvers/notes (delete where appropriate :P)!
Anyway with that bombshell out the way, let’s get started with the last 7 days worth of releases and what I think you should put your cash down on!
Note: All prices listed below were correct at the time of writing.
04/05/2015 Releases
Box Out! [Full release, £3.74]
Developer Description: “1 box, 6 transformations, 120 levels of increasing difficulty for skilled players who love challenges.
Help Boxy escape its factory and survive the outside world by mastering its 6 transformations: Rocket, Steel, Bubble, Spikes, Vapor and Fire.
More than a hundred levels of increasing difficulty will put your skills, reflexes and cunning to the test. Die, retry, perfect your run and dominate the competitive leaderboards.
– 6 transformations meaning 6 different types of gameplay
– 3 game modes (Classic, Time Attack and Survival)
– 10 worlds to explore, from a cold factory to a hot volcano or a watery jungle
– 120 levels, skill-based or puzzle-based”
Official Trailer:
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide [Early Access, £9.89]
Developer Description: “Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of combat with dynamic action. Manoeuvre your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies. The game offers two distinct modes:
REGICIDE – Plan the attack and command your soldiers through two phases of combat. Open fire on your enemies, utilise tactical abilities and unleash psychic powers to crush your foes. Fight your way through violent single and multiplayer battles to destroy everything that stands between you and certain victory.
CLASSIC – Sharpen your tactics in both single and multiplayer games based on traditional chess rules, executing brutally violent kills in dramatic battlefield terrains. Select your race and go to war online against opponents from all over the world in the fully cross-platform multiplayer mode.
This is only the beginning. The universe spans untold galaxies to conquer.
This is not just war. This is REGICIDE.”
Official Trailer:
05/05/2015 Releases
Apollo4x [Full release, £13.49]
Developer Description: “Apollo4X is a turn-based science-fiction business, trade, and governance simulation.
Do you like Tycoon games? Are you weary of every 4X game being based on the same “labor, famer, scientist” production system? We made an alternative to that.
Colonize planets, invest in their infrastructure, and make your fortune linking exported commodities on some planets with import demands of other planets in your empire. You then take your profits and re-invest into society, to win through philanthropy, political influence, or raise a private military and defend the colonies from an encroaching alien menace. Keep the citizens happy by meeting their societal needs, keeping them safe, and interplanetary commerce flowing.
We strove to make every turn significant, with interesting decisions and no long idle stretches waiting on things to get built. For combat, we went out of the 4X realm and built in a tactical card game inspired in part by some of our favorite tabletop combat games. Morale, combined arms, and multiple possible tactics for each of the very unique units to choose from every turn. Four different enemy clans to battle, based on the four horsemen – death, war, pestilence and famine. Each has an entirely different set of units and tactics and requires a completely different battle plan to beat. War fights with brute force, while pestilence attacks with morale crushing horror weapons, and death gave up their bodies for machines and now are the unliving reapers.
We dared to be different in a genre full of excellent but too similar titles. If different is what you need, this is it.
Digi-Ent and Dog Rescue Charity
Ten percent (up to $100,000) of the profits from the sales of the Apollo4X will be used to help save rescued dogs. It will donated to 501(c)3 non-profit organizations that rescue dogs and finds them Forever Homes. Rescue groups pull the stray or abandoned dogs and pups from high-kill shelters (typical in rural areas) where they have little chance of getting adopted. These dogs and pups are then transported to receiving rescues located in urban areas who foster and shelter them, put them up for adoption and find them Forever Homes. The owners of Digital Entertainment will vet the groups to ensure that the money donated will be put to good use.
“I typically fly them from high-kill shelters in GA, AL and the Florida Panhandle to central FL where they are put up for adoption. Amazing as it may seem, all the dogs you see in each shot all fit into my plane. The most I ever took was on 1 Feb 2014 where I had 25 dogs and pups.” — Mike Young, President Digi-Ent.
Official Trailer:
06/05/2015 Releases
Super Indie Karts [Early Access, £14.99]
Developer Description: “Super Indie Karts is a 16-bit style kart game, similar in style to Kart games from the early ’90s, updated to a HD resolution with smoother controls, particle effects, and a modern physics engine. SIK features crossovers with other Indie Games from around the world, shoving their characters into karts and providing their worlds for racetracks. Indie Games like Canabalt (the original endless runner), Fist Of Awesome, Toto Temple Deluxe, and Whispering Willows. In-development unreleased games such as Aegis Defenders, Lobodestroyo, and Adventures Of Pip, which were also recent KickStarter successes, and many more with other upcoming crossovers yet to be revealed. It’s currently in development for Windows and MacOS through the game delivery service Steam, and on the Android micro-console OUYA (one of KickStarter’s biggest success stories), to be released in June 2015.”
Kickstarter Video (has since been funded on KS but is the best showcase video):
07/05/2015 Releases
Dex [Full release, £13.49]
Developer Description: “Discover the truth behind an enigmatic AI striving to reach the Singularity, a theoretical “event horizon” in which artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence and all bets about the future will be off. How will you play your part in the story?
Explore the futuristic city of Harbor Prime and meet its many inhabitants, answer the challenges the city has to offer, roam the neon-lit streets, and augment your character with skills and implants.
Designed as a tribute to the classic RPGs from the ‘90s, updated for a modern audience, Dex invites you to become part of a living, breathing cyberpunk universe as you decide which ultimate path you will embrace.”
Official Trailer:
08/05/2015 Releases
Yomi [Full release, £6.92]
Developer Description: “Yomi is a fighting game in card form. Learn your character, practice combos, and read the opponent’s tendencies. 10 characters to choose from, plus 10 more expansion characters available inside the app.
Yomi captures the mindgames from fighting games such as Street Fighter, and was created by the lead designer of Street Fighter HD Remix, who was also a long-time fighting game tournament player. Yomi itself is a strategy card game that has held up to many years of tournaments. Start practicing now!”
In-Game Screenshots (I couldn’t find an official trailer I could embed sadly):
Indie Showcase
Songbringer by Wizard Fu Games [PC, Mac, Linux]
Developer Description: “Explore millions of unique and lush worlds rife with re-awakened evil, forgotten artifacts and heroes jailed for centuries. Songbringer is a Zelda-like action-adventure RPG in which you journey through procedurally-generated worlds overflowing with recently awakened demons, virus androids and other sullied creatures. Along the way you will uncover long lost devices and combine them into powerful artifacts. If you are skilled with the nanosword you will vanquish giants and save a planet from being overrun.”
Songbringer Features:
- Single-player realtime action adventure RPG
- Procedurally generated – over 300 million possible worlds
- Deterministic six-letter world seed always creates the same world on any platform
- 1 world seed uniquely generates: 1 overworld, 9 dungeons, 9 bosses, 25 combinable items and at least 200 secrets
- Roguelike-inspired permadeath option with extra rewards for players who dare so greatly
- Online leaderboard highlighting the top players based on completion time, percentage of secrets uncovered and game mode (regular or permadeath)
- An epic science fiction narrative featuring a spacecutter named Songbringer, its crew of art-warehouse comrades, psychedelic cacti, an ancient evil army, and the Second Great War of Wizards
- 8-bit pixel art fused with 32-bit shaders and 3D effects
- Original soundtrack
- Gamepad support
Official Trailer:
In-Game Screenshots (used with permission):
Useful Links:
Website: Songbringer.com
Facebook: Facebook.com
Twitter: Twitter.com
YouTube: Youtube.com
Kickstarter (Has been funded but still 2 days to go as of the date when this post went live): Kickstarter.com
