Holidays in #indiegaming 2022
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Holidays in #indiegaming 2022
The holidays are coming and in this issue of the newsletter I will help you find at least one indiegames that will make you have a nice festive season. Let's start!
Steam Winter Sales will start on Thursday 22 so wait until that date for shopping!
Now let’s start with some suggestions. My aim is to cover as many genres as possible.
Roadwarden (RPG text-based)
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
The Case of the Golden Idol - (Detective Game)
If you liked and loved Return of the Obra Dinn then you can’t miss this one. OK is not at the same level as the masterpiece from Lucas Pope but it’s really great experience.
A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, and unmask the awful truth.
Lost in Play (Adventure)
Go on adventures and solve puzzles on this feel-good journey with a brother and sister as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, Toto and Gal must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
Wildermyth (Turn-based RPG)
Wildermyth is a character-driven, procedurally-generated tactical RPG. Like the best tabletop roleplaying experiences, Wildermyth gives you choices and answers your every decision with consequences that drive your characters forward.
Prodeus (Boomer Shooter!)
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Pixel Cup Soccer - Ultimate Edition (Sport)
Remember the arcade Kick and Run from 1986? This is that game updated to 2022!
Pixel Cup Soccer is a casual retro-style soccer game, a great evolution from the previous edition. It's dynamic, arcade, with fast-paced gameplay, just the fun part of soccer! The game has great pixel art graphics like the games from the 80s and 90s, evoking nostalgia.
There would be many more games to list here but it would become a very long newsletter and difficult to read.
However, I want to close with a bonus game.
Dwarf Fortress (Steam Edition)
You should already know about it but if you don’t then read this review from PCGamer and then go get it even if you will never play it.
The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created. The legendary Dwarf Fortress is now on Steam. Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world.
Another thing that you SHOULD do is read some of the reviews on Steam. Here’s an example of what DF can be:
A ten minute window of events that took place right before writing this review:
- 3 wood cutters fall into a sinkhole while working. A rescue effort went underway and 2 were saved, 1 drowned.
- My sheriff quit her post because she witnessed her daughters dead body after she was mauled by a bear. She is now suffering severe mental illness.
- A bard cockatielman shows up to perform, knocks out fellow drunk human bard, proceeds to play instruments like nothing happened.
- A giant beetle that sprays flesh eating acid just appeared outside where a group of about 6 dwarf children are playing.
- Tavern ran out of alcohol, even though I own 5 facilities to make such.
- A legendary bookcase crafted. Its worth a crap ton of gold.
- The cistern I carefully planned out worked, but an aquifer was accidentally mined into elsewhere, and now im scrambling to not have my entire fortress flooded.
Simply put the creators deserve every sale they get. Support these absolute legends.