Last week, video game fans got to enjoy the Future Games Show. There was a lot shown off and I wanted to run through just some of the titles. What announcements have you the most excited.
First, Daedalic Entertainment revealed Aiko’s Choice, the standalone expansion for Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. Experience the early Edo period in this brand new chapter for the stealth tactics game. You’ll be able to enjoy Aiko’s Choice later this year on PC.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko´s Choice focuses on one of the main game’s protagonists: the kunoichi adept Aiko. She is a master of camouflage and distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. While Aiko was certain that she left her old life behind, a new enemy deeply connected to Aiko’s past reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her friends, a group of deadly assassins, she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
That’s not all that Daedalic Entertainment showed off though. Inkulinati is a strategy game based on illustrations and manuscripts from medieval Europe.
Inkulinati by Yaza Games is a strategy game straight from medieval European manuscripts. Become a master of living ink, grow your bestiary of fantastical and hilarious creatures based on 700 year old illustrations and defeat your foes with strategy and trickery. Snails fighting knights fighting donkey bards fighting rabbits with spears is just the beginning of a journey into the art and humor of the middle ages.
Fling to the Finish looks like a crazy racing game.
SplitSide Games’ cooperative/competitive fun-racer Fling to the Finish puts up to four teams of two players through colorful, chaotic obstacle courses while tethered by a stretchy elastic rope. Co-op partners can fling each other up ledges, swing around obstacles … or get hopelessly tangled. The game can be played solo, online, with local splitscreen or – for some close co-op encounters – by literally sharing the same controller.
Life of Delta from Airo Games is a game with over 50 mini-games to enjoy.
A Daedalic lineup would not be the same without a point-and-click adventure. Life of Delta by Airo Games is set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans are extinct and only derelict service robots and humanoid lizards survive. Follow the small robot Delta on a journey through 25 beautifully handcrafted levels and more than 50 mini-games while he searches for his lost friend and meets a cast of unique characters.
Glitchpunk, a cyberpunk game inspired by Grand Theft Auto 2, got a new trailer as well.
Inspired by classic top-down action games, Glitchpunk lets you brawl, shoot and drive your way through a dystopian future. As an android bounty hunter in a brutal world of gangs, cults and corporations there’s plenty of work for you. Lock and load, let her rip!
The sci-fi thriller and homage to 80s horror, Hidden Deep, also got a new trailer showing off the co-op feature.
Control members of your team: explore, climb, swim, scan, blast, shoot and more to accomplish dangerous missions in a huge suboceanic mining and research facility. Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action thriller, heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life.
Modus Games showed off a new trailer for Cris Tales, a JRPG that follows the time mage Crisbell who’s learning how to use her powers. The trailer also highlights some of the characters that will be joining you such as Christopher, Zas, and JKR-721, and the talking frog Matias. This game looks like fun and Modus Games also announced that the voice cast will include Kira Buckland (Nier: Automata) as Crisbell, Cody Rock as Matias, Lindsey Vega (Ghostrunner) as Willhelm, Zeno Robinson (My Hero Academia), Lizzie Freeman (Sword Art Online) as Zas, Daman Mills (My Hero Academia) as JKR-721, and more.
Cris Tales is an era-bending JRPG where past, present and future are brought together on one screen. Players can use Crisbell’s amazing ability to slip between time periods to both aid citizens across Crystallis’ kingdoms and perform surprise attacks on enemies. If Crisbell wants to save her magical world from the evil that threatens it, she must make use of her power to shape the past, present and future while gathering allies that will help her in her quest.
Muse Games and Curve Digital also revealed that the frantic firefighting game Embr is going to be leaving Early Access on Steam this summer and also releasing on console at the same time.
In Embr, players either take on the game solo or work together in online teams tackling blaze after blaze to earn tips from clients, picking up the ever-so-crucial 5-star rating in order to earn cash, upgrade tools, and hopefully become the ultimate ‘have-a-go hero’ firefighter. Want to make a little money on the side? Then you can also deliver takeout food on the fly with ‘Embr Eats’. Embr really is the ‘uber’ experience for anyone who wants to get to grips with the gig economy.
Team17 also had quite a bit to show off. There’s the SWAT-inspired stealth and strategy game Ready or Not from Void Interactive coming to PC via Steam Early Access soon. OverBorder Studio showed off the action-RPG Thymesia later this year. Epic Chef from Infinigon was announced for Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One this summer. Hokko Life from Wonderscope is heading to PC via Steam Early Access this year. Manage your own cult in Honey, I Joined A Cult. Narita Boy is a recently released “retrovania” for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One also available through Xbox Game Pass. 3D Clouds also announced that King of Seas will be avialable to play this May on Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, and Xbox One with a Switch and PC demo coming in April. Overcooked! All You Can Eat has also launched on more platforms for more fans to enjoy. Enjoy up to 60fps and 4K graphics on PC, PS4, and Xbox One with the Nintendo Switch offering 30fps. It was also announced that Worms Rumble is coming to Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.
LKA and Wired Productions showed off their psychological adventure Martha is Dead. The game is set to release later this year on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.
Developed by LKA, the studio behind the celebrated psychological adventure The Town of Light, Martha is Dead builds upon the studio’s signature style of deep multi-layered narratives, combining real-world locations and links to historical events with superstition, folklore, and deep psychological distress.
24 Entertainment announced that gamers will be able to participate in an open beta for the upcoming Naraka: Bladepoint. The game will release this summer on PC and fans can sign up for the open beta through Steam.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT is an exciting new take on the action royale genre: with player experience built around three core pillars of gameplay; speed, agility and close-quarters combat. To facilitate this, players use grappling hooks to traverse trees, buildings and all manner of temples and structures littered across Morus’ stunning environment. Coupled with some crazy parkour skills, players can quickly scale anything in sight, offering huge variations in strategy — not to mention tactical verticality — to each pulsating battle.
The final highlight is Green Hell from Creepy Jar. The game has seen success on PC and the Future Games Show revealed that the game is coming to PS4 and Xbox One this June.
Survive the Amazon – Resource management, base building, crafting, hunting, wound inspection, sanity management, and more. Green Hell relentlessly puts players to the ultimate survival test in the remote reaches of the Amazon rainforest.