In my panic to make sure that Walmart doesn’t cancel my Switch 2 pre-order, I totally forgot about Two Game Tuesday. Which is fine really, since I’ve been working on names for each day in case I do for get. So, for your weekly indie game fix, welcome to Some Games Saturday (I guess. I’m still working on it). Let’s keep it simple. It’s Two-Game Tuesday: Saturday Edition.
Near-mage: a point and click indie magic adventure
Until the last few weeks, I never realized just how much of a comeback the point and click game was making. Stuck In Attic, a Transylvania based team making games that are authentic to their culture, has just dropped Near-Mage. It’s an adventure game with incredible animation and voice acting. And given my love for The Holy Gosh Darn and Lil Guardsman, writing wise, Near-Mage seems to be exactly the type of game I would love. The Stuck In Attic team gives a far better description of the game than I ever could:
Near-Mage just released on May 27th on Steam, and not only will I be picking this up, but I’ll also be grabbing their game Gibbous – A Cthulhu Adventure which seems to be of the same comedic style.
Gnaughty Gnomes- Castle Crashers meets SMASH BROS
It’s been a while since I highlighted a multiplayer game. After all, I’m mostly a single player guy. Even when dealing with indie games. But I saw the trailer for Gnaughty Gnomes and I need the whole crew in on this. You can throw just about anything on the map at your opponents to eliminate them. And yet the game seems to have a level of complexity in using cards to create a build for your gnomes.
– Customization
Choose from +5000 combinations to unleash your inner gnome.
– Upgrades
Enhance all your abilities and change the game rules by choosing between +100 cards with different tiers and synergies.
– Maps
Play on +20 randomly selected maps with different themes, each featuring their own weapons
– Weapons
Anything can be a weapon if you have imagination and very few scruples. Use everything you see, including the heads of your rivals. You can even drive some of them!
This is a game that looks to be pretty deep which given the art style and the party-based nature of it, I wouldn’t have expected. But I’m in on this. There’s no release date, but the demo is up on Steam now
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