Hello! Welcome to the latest Geeky Brummie Games Release Roundup!
This week, cosmic terrors, space terrors and undersea terrors.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is now on Switch 2 as of this week. Making full advantage of the increased power of Nintendo’s newest system, you’ll be able to take Indy across the world in portable fashion. Or never leave the Vatican, of course. That’s up to you.
Better Than Dead is an FPS about revenge, told through the lens of a bodycam. You play as a former kidnapping victim on a mission of rampaging revenge against her former captors. Blast your way through gang members in disturbingly realistic visuals, inspired by Hong Kong action movies. Developed by Monte Gallo and published by MicroProse.
Despite Krafton’s best efforts to not let this happen, Subnautica 2 is out now in Early Access. The sequel to the smash hit indie diving survival game offers a whole new ocean to explore, but expect to find more horrible creatures again while trying not to drown. Now has co-op! Developed by Unknown Worlds.
Leaving Early Access, Nitro Gen Omega (PC, PS5, Switch 1, Xbox X/S) is a turn-based mecha battler where you act as director for big anime fights. Plan your moves, watch them play out in animated sequences. Developed by DestinyBit.
Wilds of Dacrima: Field Notes from a Poorly Supervised Alchemist and His Unruly Clockwork Companion (PC) is easily the winner of longest title of the week. It’s also a puzzle game where you play as a poorly supervised alchemist navigating a mysterious forest with the help of his unruly clockwork companion. Search for ingredients, uncover the forest’s mysteries and use potions to further your investigation. Developed by Antler Studios.
The Caribou Trail (PC, PS5) is a World War I game but if you’re here expecting a patriotic FPS where you give the Germans a kicking, look elsewhere. Instead, this is set during the disastrous Gallipoli campaign that left around 300,000 allied casualties. Your objective in this game is instead to survive this horrific battle, inspired by real testimonies. Probably not a fun time but certainly an interesting one. Developed by Unreliable Narrators.
Roadout (PC, PS5, Switch 1, Xbox X/S) is a top-down action RPG where you play Claire, a mercenary working in the deserts of The Dead Zone. Fight your way through dungeons with an arsenal of Zelda-style tools, before heading out onto the roads for some classic Micro Machines action. Developed by Rastrolabs Game Studio and published by Dangen Entertainment.
Clockwork Ambrosia (PC) is a run-and-gun Metroidvania set in a steampunk world of fantasy. You play an airship pilot named Iris as she fights off robotic enemies with an arsenal of custom weaponry. Developed by Realmsoft and published by OI Games.
Outbound (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox) is a game about van life. Drive out to the countryside and build a self-sustaining community around your camper van with up to four players. Developed by Square Glade Games.
Here with a title that only makes sense in the logo and nowhere else, Octopinbs (PC) (“pinbs” is “squid” upside down) is what happens when Splatoon and Among Us have a horrible baby inside a fire station. You play a team of octopus firefighters trying to put out a blaze. Seems simple enough EXCEPT one of your team is secretly a fire-setting squid who is here to ruin your day. Developed by tri-Ace and published by Aniplex.
Vultures: Scavengers of Death (PC) asks one bold question: what if Resident Evil was a tactical RPG? You are a special operative who has been sent into an infected city with the goal of extracting materials and information while surviving the horrors within. Encounters are all turn-based, allowing you to be a little more tactical than the likes of Leon Kennedy. Developed by Team Vultures and published by Firesquid.
Not letting Star Trek Voyager have all the fun, another classic sci-fi series is getting a management-based game. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes (PC) sees you in charge of a fleet of survivor ships on their way to reach Battlestar Galactica. However, Cylon attacks and invasions plague the journey, and it’s up to you to keep everyone alive. Developed by Alt Shift and published by Dotemu.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new entry in Supermassive’s Dark Pictures Anthology, but Directive 8020 (PC, PS5, Xbox X/S) is here after a few years of development. Continuing the series’ tradition of narrative-focused horror games where your choices decide who lives and dies, this latest entry adds sci-fi to the mix with a crew crash landing on an alien planet in hopes of finding a new home. However, this is a horror story so something is already there and it’s not fond of humans. Oh no!
Game of the Week is Call of the Elder Gods (PC), the sequel to 2020’s Call of the Sea.
At Miskatonic University (uh oh), Professor Harry Everhart is dealing with dark shadows creeping into his vision at all times while a student named Evangeline Drayton is experiencing dreams about an artefact. Together they must solve puzzles and investigate the secrets that haunt them both.
I admittedly never played Call of the Sea but I did always think it looked interesting. But I am always on board for some brain-bending puzzles and a cosmic horror narrative, so Call of the Elder Gods looks like a solid prospect even without that past knowledge. Developed by Out of the Blue Games and published by Kwalee.
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