Hosted by Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan) and Britt Baron (Tifa Lockhart in VA), the Future Games Show is back for a summer avalanche of AAs that think they’re AAAs, montages of indie games in development and games who put the entire budget into the cartoon which serves as their trailer. What should we remember? Small anthology below.
Sonokuni
Take the aesthetic and edgy top-down view of Hotline Miami, spin on top of some haunting Japanese hip-hop, and you get Sonokuni, the first game from Kakehashi Games. The game is coming out soon on PC, and a demo is already available on Steam.
Nobody Wants To Die
Already teased last year in a video that looked more like a showreel UE5 than anything else, the detective-thriller from Critical Hit Games is a reality and returns with new bits of gameplay in its New York of 2329. It’s perhaps the most beautiful game we’ve seen so far. present in all E3 conferences, but we would like to know what its gameplay will actually consist of. While waiting to learn more about this, we already know that the release of Nobody Wants To Die is planned for this year on Xbox Series, PS5 and PC.
Dredge: The Iron Rig
The big sensation of 2023 is back for new adventures as the hero of Dredge will have to restock an offshore oil platform with mutant fish. The Dredge: The Iron Rig DLC will be released on August 15 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch.
Deliver Us Home
A last one for the road ? After having sold us the Moon and Mars, the psychological adventure game from Keoken Interactive will return home for, we imagine, the grand finale of this now trilogy. There will always be a question of climbing and rover rides in mysterious environments. The Deliver Us Home Kickstarter will launch on June 11.
Sacrifice
The RPG with 90’s accents is shown again in a trailer which details its combat system and allows us to once again enjoy its soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba. But the Pixelated Milk studio specifies above all that the playtest The game is now live on Steam, simply request it on the game page. Sacrifire will be released on PC, Switch, Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS5 and PS4.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
So this one gave us a slap in the face! Unknown to the battalion before the announcement of the game, the Swedish studio River End Games arrives with an ultra chic Victorian world in which the player will have to infiltrate in the purest style of stealth-strategy games (Commandos, Desperados III, Shadow Gambit : The Cursed Crew). OK, the game already sells dreams, but the trailer is worth a look just for the number of assets on screen, the animations, the quality of mocap’ and even the dubbing. We really hope that Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream will keep all its promises upon its still unannounced release on PS5, Xbox Series and PC.
Enter The Chronosphere
THE bullet hell it’s cool, but do you know it bullet hell turn-based in which the pellets and enemies move at the same time as you? This is a bit like the starting pitch for Enter The Chronosphere and we must admit that the concept looks catchy on video. Especially since the whole thing is super readable. No release date, but the game will be available on PC.
Eternal Strands
Action, adventure, magic, climbing and giant monsters. No, I’m not talking about Shadow of the Colossus but rather Eternal Strands which aims to take its giant attack mechanics, but adding a more modern action-RPG dynamic. Coming soon to PC, Xbox Series and PS5.
Nikoderiko: The Magical World
The “mascot-platformer” (don’t laugh) Nikoderiko has a colorful, fairly qualitative universe and platform phases of all types, even flirting with Crash Bandicoot at times. The game looks like it’s going to be awesome and it won’t take long to put our minds to it since it’s coming this year to PS5, PC, “Nintendo” (a little clue about the next-gen?), and Xbox Series.
Bodycam
Developed by two people, the Bodycam multi FPS goes off the beaten track by offering quite innovative photorealistic rendering. Early access begins today on Steam and unfortunately, the first feedback is quite mixed, the fault of only two game modes, no class and menus that lack clarity. The road will be long until 1.0 and we wish them courage.
Tamarindo’s Freaking Dinner
I already told you about Jacob Jazz during one of my streaming evenings on Factor. The slightly crazy developer of Baobabs Mausoleum returns with an all-3D game, Tamarindo’s Freaking Dinner which takes up the horrific-phantasmagorical themes. Here, you play the role of a pizza delivery man who thought he was doing his peaceful errand and found himself on the dinner table of Tagomago and his group of guests hungry for fresh flesh. Explore a strange mansion and meet its occupants in this title available today on Steam.
And as usual, the remains of the conference can be seen in the full replay here.
