All aboard the hype train, there are some great indies on the horizon!
Proving that our ability to organise recording a podcast episode wasn’t some sort of one-off fluke, the Indiescovery crew are back again! Going forward, this is going to be a fortnightly podcast, but we just couldn’t wait to share our thoughts on this year’s best upcoming indie games, so we decided to release Episode 2 a week early, as a treat (the treat is for us, really, but we hope you enjoy it too!).
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We begin with a nice little chat about what we’ve all been playing since we got back from our Christmas hols. I’m eager to extol the virtues ofTiny Life, a pixel art spiritual successor to classicThe Simsthat’s just hit early access. Liam likes similarly retro-styledNightmare Of Decaybecause it’s likeResident Evil, but somehow even gorier, and also puts in a good word for upcoming open-world parkour-precision-platformerBallistic Zen, which in a happy coincidence is due out the very day this episode releases! Rachel, meanwhile, has lately been all about magical coming-of-age ’90s nostalgia tripA Space For The Unbound.
Liam’s belovedHypnospace Outlawis getting both a sequelanda spinoff inDreamsettlerandSlayers Xrespectively, if you can believe it! He also can’t wait for reverse citybuilderTerra Nil, which looks so peaceful it makes us all want to have a little cry.
Rachel also submits Mary Poppins-esque Metroid-likeGunbrellafrom the makers ofGato Roboto. She follows this up withThirsty Suitors, an action-plaftormer-RPG about learning to forgive your flaws and get over your exes through skateboard battles and homestyle cooking.
We conclude the discussion with a big love-fest forDemonschoolbecause, as it turns out, we’re all very stoked forDemonschool.
We also get sidetracked onto a few incidentals, like a quick (spoiler-free!) chat on The Banshees Of Inisherin; a brief, friendly disagreement over which Sims game is the best; and the revelation that my rarely-seen mean streak is apparently activated when I drink a second cup of coffee.
