Hello! Welcome to the latest Geeky Brummie Games Release Roundup!
This week, a stealthy octopus, theatrical vampires, meat men and Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Paragnosia: Museum (PC) places you into a haunted museum where your job is to exorcise the spirits within. Keep an eye out for any spooky happenings and snap photos with your special ghost camera to clear the anomalies out. Developed by Sine Coda.
Fishbowl (PC, PS5) is a quiet visual novel about dealing with change. You play as Alo, a 21-year-old woman starting a job in a strange new city while simultaneously dealing with the grief of her grandmother’s death. The game sees you living out her days in isolation, reflecting on the world around her and making choices about where to go next. Developed by imissmyfriends.studio and published by Wholesome Games.
Aether & Iron (PC) is a noir RPG set in an alternate 1930s New York where the entire city has taken to the clouds. You play as a smuggler deep within the seedy underbelly of the city, looking to build a crew. Features turn-based vehicle combat in addition to a choice-based narrative. Developed by Seismic Squirrel.
Last Man Sitting (PC) is a roguelike shooter set in an office building besieged by sentient appliances. The only way to defeat them is to drive your office chair around the building, blasting them with makeshift weapons. It’s silly and chaotic, basically. Developed by DoubleMoose Games and published by Raw Fury.
All Will Fall (PC) is a tough survival city builder, where you’re building a city on top of ruins in the ocean. Naturally, this is not a stable place to build, so you must make sure your structures are sound enough to brave the storms and waves that plague your entire project. Developed by All Parts Connected and published by TinyBuild.
Grime 2 (PC, PS5, Xbox X/S) is a gruesome Metroidvania where you play as an art mimic that steals the forms of creatures in the world with its tendril hands. Visually there is some wild stuff going on here. Developed by Clover Bit and published by Kwalee.
On the tonal opposite end of the Metroidvania scale is Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland (PC), based on the old comic strips about a boy who goes on adventures in his dreams. Collect Nemo’s favourite toys to gain new abilities, and death causes him to wake up, where he can change up his outfits and abilities. All hand-animated and features a soundtrack from Anamanaguchi’s Peter Berkman, so it has all that going for it too. Developed by Die Soft.
If Bloodborne is too British for your tastes, Tombwater (PC) is a top-down Soulslike set in the Old West. You’re a lone gunslinger who’s come to the ghost town of Tombwater in search of a friend, but all he finds are horrors beyond comprehension. Developed by Moth Atlas and published by Midwest Games.
This week sees the release of two Balatro-likes, where a simple game turns into a number-go-up roguelike. Cursed Words (PC) from Buried Things and Forklift Interactive does this with Boggle (and, apparently, chess?) while Raccoin (PC) from Doraccoon and Playstack does this with those coin machines you find in arcades at the pier. ()
Hozy (PC) takes the gameplay concept of Unpacking and expands it into a relaxing game about assembling a series of rooms to your liking. There are no timers or objectives, just a relaxed vibe as you arrange the rooms to your liking. Developed by Come On Studio and published by TinyBuild.
I Am Jesus Christ (PC) has released just in time for Easter. Yes, it’s an action-adventure game retelling the life of the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth himself, where you can cast spells that turn water into wine and so on. Already attracted a lot of attention online for the sheer absurdity of playing a first-person action game where Jesus can do parkour. I am not Christian, so I don’t know how blasphemous this is, but I do know video games, and it looks like a particularly bad one. Happy Easter! Developed by Space Boat Studios and published by PlayWay.
It’s been 24 years, but we now have a new Legacy of Kain game. Legacy of Kain: Ascendance (PC, PS5, Switch 1, Xbox X/S) brings back much of the original cast for a side-scrolling adventure telling new stories in the universe, including a focus on Raziel during his time as a human Sarafan knight. Developed by Bit Bot Media and published by Crystal Dynamics.
Eventually all the classic 2D platforming heroes end up in 3D. And apparently Super Meat Boy is no exception to this, as Super Meat Boy 3D (PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox X/S) takes the bastard hard challenge platformer from 2010 and adds an extra dimension. Whether that adds much to the experience remains to be seen though. Developed by Sluggerfly and published by Headup.
Game of the Week this week is Darwin’s Paradox! (PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox X/S), a stealth game starring an octopus.
You play as Darwin, a resourceful octopus who is plucked out of his ocean home and sent to a strange industrial facility. Now he must escape, using every ability he has. Along the way he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens not just him, but the fate of humanity as well.
I was already sold on the idea of a cinematic puzzle platformer where you play as an octopus. It helps that everything about Darwin is so god damn charming on top of that. The animation in this game is superb and sells the idea of you playing a squishy sea creature. An octopus is also the perfect choice for a stealth game with their natural camouflage and ability to squeeze into anything and everything. Developed by ZDT Studio and published by Konami.
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