Undead Co-Op Shooters, Great Hack-And-Slash Action And Other New Indie Games Worth Checking Out
Far Far West got off to a good start after it hit Steam in early access this week. The co-op shooter from Evil Raptor and publisher Fireshine Games sold more than 250,000 copies in its first 48 hours. It normally costs $20, but there is a 10 percent introductory discount until May 5.
As a robot cowboy, you can play alone or form a group of up to three friends and go on a good hunt. You will hunt down elusive, dangerous targets to take them out and earn rewards.
You’ll encounter undead enemies like skeletons and vultures, as well as spooky mines and ghost trains. There is an element of deduction to this (you can try to complete more objectives to get better rewards), although it seems to be along the lines Helldivers 2 there is a similar survival-oriented experience Arc raiders. You can use your loot to upgrade your loadout with new guns, skills and spells. You can customize your cowboy and horse as well.
I’m really digging the pixel-art look of the 2D hack-and-slash adventure SoulQuest. The animations (which are said to be very smooth) in the trailer are very smooth, which makes sense given that the combat is built around a combination of light and heavy attacks. You will have magical powers and keep them at your disposal.
You play as Alys, a newly widowed heroine who refuses to accept her husband’s fate and sets out to reclaim her soul. Soul searching, if you will. It took the small team at SoulBlade Studio seven years to develop the game and seven seconds to add it to my wishlist.
SoulQuest is available on Steam (normally $20, though it’s 20 percent off until May 15). You can get a taste of what it has to offer by checking out the demo.
Gambonanza based on chess, Balatro– esque roguelite. It has strong momentum, as over 170,000 people downloaded it during the recent Steam Next Fest event.
The objective in each round is to capture all of the opponent’s pieces on the small chess board. You’ll probably need to break the traditional rules of chess to do that. It helps, Gambonanza It has over 150 powerful “games” that change your running. This can make your pieces too powerful or force the enemy to skip a turn. Tiles on the board can be moved (to, for example, lock an enemy piece in place) and you can use additional pieces to move around yourself.
Along the way, you will face bosses. It seems that one of those machines is called M2ch4gnus C4rls3n, apparently after the real grandfather and five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen. That alone sold me on checking out this game.
Gambonanza – from single developer Blukulélé and publishers Sidekick Publishing and Stray Fawn Studio – is out now. The Steam version works on PC, macOS and Linux. It normally costs $15, but it’s a whopping 35 percent off until May 15. You can also grab the game on iOS and Android for $7.
As I first watched this trailer, I thought Bobo Bay looks like a nice, cozy creature collector. But then these Bobos started fighting each other in a beat-’em-up style, and one of them pulled out a gun to shoot the enemy. That didn’t seem as intense as it seemed Palworld for the first time but it made the game more interesting than it seemed at first glance. “Imagine the collection of creatures meets the idyllic island life, with surprising depth beneath all that beauty,” the press release said. It is not played.
You can grow and transform Bobos and combine their features. You can customize them and have them participate in races and other events. And they shoot each other, apparently.
Bobo Bayfrom NewFutureKids, is out on Steam. It would normally cost $25, but there is a 16 percent discount until May 6.
Like Ball x Hole cko, I’d rather not talk about the latest free update, which arrived this week. It added two new characters, 11 super powerful balls, some abilities and your way to re-roll the upgrades of your previously chosen characters.
Alas, I was busy with another game to check out the new characters and balls at the moment. I know that, as soon as I do it, Ball x Hole probably held me for at least another twelve hours.
