Check out these attractive and interesting indie games!
Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every week, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. We’re running late again because of Monday’s holiday, but the games are still just as good. This week, my eye has been caught by big spaceships, some sort of Looney Tunes logic take on Hitman, and a game about the very real lives of the video games media. Come see!
I was struck by the look ofApartment Story, but fear it might be just too close to my own life as a games blogger after readingon its webpagethat the “third-person drama meetsThe Simsin a single-room thriller” game is about “a hard-up videogame journalist” with drugs and dancing and threats and a gun and murder and games to play and articles to write. Sometimes you just want to forget what you did last Tuesday, you know?
New Gameplay Screenshots#screenshotsaturdayDropping the game’s first trailer soon, so watch this spacepic.twitter.com/E0thV98OfR
Joke’s on you, thalassophobia simFull Fathom(coming to Steam), I absolutely would:
Would you free dive here?#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/aAwahBpDet
A slightly distressing character in party gameAbomiracers(coming to Steam), where you build your guy fromparts made from modelling clay:
some helicopter walking on a barbie doll legs for you this lovely#screenshotsaturday. made with#UnrealEngine5pic.twitter.com/XzDAH4qCRo
The cuteBernband-style hands really did not prepare me for the Hitman-style murder:
Many complex systems all working together to ruin this NPC’s day 😂#screenshotsaturday#gaming#indiedevpic.twitter.com/jpcaC3nyVT
A cracking storm from adventure game Age Of The Witch:
Happy stormy#ScreenshotSaturday! ⛈️ Luckily, it’s bright and sunny where we are. 🌞#WIP#pixelart#indiegamedev#gamedev#indiedev#ドット絵#retrogame#pointandclick#pointandclickadventure#retrogames#retrogaming#indiedevspic.twitter.com/bFTtIhMwJM
A cool look to turn-based rhythm JRPG Keylocker (coming to Steam) - and do readour wee previewfor more:
Different locations and tilesets @ Keylocker for this#screenshotsaturday#gamedev#pixelartpic.twitter.com/b8eebiE654
I don’t know what this cutscene is from but dang:
#screenshotsaturday#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/ziyhq6fEPP
Co-op with retro vibes in this yet-unnamed game:
Anchorites prepping for a mission! This anchor device will be central to the game’s title art, which I’ll be showing soon ⚓️#lowpoly#indiedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/yxcjbT75uS
A cool spaceship and cool explosions in real-time tactics game Salvo (demo available on Itch):
Busy with mostly UX improvements, but new content too! Just finished with a brand new player ship~ 🚀#screenshotsaturday#indiegame#indiedev#madewithunity#RTSpic.twitter.com/Koy9xUOhsv
More spaceship violence comes from “open-world Lovecraftian spacefighter RPG” Underspace (coming to Steam, with a demoon Itchnow), here shown off by the dev responsible for the Skyrim mod which replaced dragons with Thomas The Tank Engine characters:
More campaign work, big boss battleship fight. Did you know that ship cannons light up the clouds around them?Neither did I, apparently.#underspace#gamedev#unity3d#screenshotsaturday#indiedev#indiegame#madewithunity#indiegamedev#spacegame#space#gamedevelopmentpic.twitter.com/YzmwLOVYv0
It’s an old joke that immersive sims are games where you stack crates to create routes, but in RetroSpace (coming to Steam) you can stack crates in ways the developers didn’t anticipate:
Ah, little joys of Immsim game making: finding solutions that even you, the developer, haven’t thought of. 🤔😄 (sorry for the janky animations and such, it is a super early proto thing)#screenshotsaturday#immersivesim#gamedev#indiedev#RetroSpace#scifi#horror#fpspic.twitter.com/StAcsCLAkE
I dig this hoversilo in “surreal survival horror” Becrowned (coming to Steam):
New screenshots of the retro-styled survival horror game “Becrowned” I’m working on.#survivalhorror#game#screenshotsaturday#IndieGameDev#indiedev#indiegame#horror#HorrorGames#Unity#PSX#liminal#lowpoly#vibe#Videogame#Retropic.twitter.com/iQ0ssN1iLs
And ah gwan, I’m always interested in wonky stairs:
Architecture in Coma!a first person puzzle solving game about architecture…#ScreenshotSaturday#gamedev#madewithunrealpic.twitter.com/Tyc7PEVJ7n
What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?
