Hello! Welcome to the latest Geeky Brummie Games Release Roundup!
This week, 90s anime with friends, samurai with fancy gloves and men with vampire powers.
Shoe It All! (PC) is a game all about kicking off your shoes. Literally. You’re on a swing and must time when to kick off your shoe to cause maximum chaos in each stage. Abundantly silly, with a fun sketchy art style. Developed by Amberbite.
In game ideas clearly created off the back of typos in a group chat, Worming From Home (PC) sees you playing as a humble earthworm who got themselves a remote office job. Fill out spreadsheets, make graphs and somehow attend Teams meetings, all while attempting to keep your identity as a worm secret. Developed by Zach Northrop and Mason Sabharwal.
He Who Watches (PC) is a puzzle game that combines block puzzles, anti-gravity mechanics and Zelda dungeon items into a surreal game about navigating an incomprehensible space. Developed by Bobby Vanden and published by Draknek and Friends.
Sucker for Love: Crush Landing (PC) is a horror visual novel, the latest in the Sucker for Love series which states that it puts the love in Lovecraftian. A meteor has crashed into your apartment, and its sentient flames have revealed they can transform into a hot woman (literally and figuratively) named Hheily who wants you to feed her flames and build a relationship. She also promises to not do anything horrendous to the planet. Which seems reasonable, right? Developed by Akabaka and published by Black Lantern Collective.
Leaving Early Access this week, Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault (PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox X/S) is about a merchant adventurer who ventures into dimensional rifts, collects loot and then sells it in their shop for profit. Developed by Digital Sun and published by 11 bit Studios.
Serious Sam: Shatterverse (PC, PS5, Xbox X/S) is the latest game in the ironically named Serious Sam series. As a bit of a change of pace from usual, publisher Devolver Digital roped in Dead By Daylight devs Behaviour Interactive to produce a roguelike version of the series for solo play or up to 5 players in co-op.
The Blood of Dawnwalker (PC, PS5, Xbox X/S) is a new action RPG from Bandai Namco and Rebel Wolves, a new team led by the co-director of The Witcher 3, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. Set in 14th Century Europe, you play as Coen, a man who has been attacked by vampires and turned into a Dawnwalker, a human-vampire hybrid that exists between day and night. While he has an overarching quest to save his family, the game promises that you are free to pursue that quest however you feel, switching between human and vampire forms between day and night.
Because Capcom are proving to be an unstoppable force putting the rest of the industry to shame, Onimusha: Way of the Sword (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox X/S) is not only yet another essential game from them, it’s also their third this year (possibly fourth depending on how you feel about Monster Hunter Stories 3). A revival of the Onimusha series of samurai hack and slash against the forces of darkness, The Way of the Sword puts you in the shoes of Miyamoto Musashi (based on the late Toshiro Mifune, the iconic star of many Akira Kurosawa films) as he battles demons in historical Kyoto.
Game of the Week is Orbitals (Switch 2), a co-op game inspired by 90s anime, developed by Shapefarm and published by Kepler Interactive.
Set in the far future, you and a friend play as Maki and Omura, two space explorers whose space station home is crumbling in a cosmic storm, and they must set out to find a way to save it. To do so, you must work together through a series of co-op puzzle-based stages, all with a 90s anime art style inspired by Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Orbitals caught my attention when it was announced shortly after the Switch 2’s release, as it looked like an anime version of Split Fiction, which is excellent. Turns out, one of the directors is a former designer with Hazelight, so that certainly explains that similarity, and also makes this an even more exciting prospect. Now I just need to figure out how to play this with my usual co-op partner despite her lack of a Switch 2. Hmmm.
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