As a self-proclaimed lover of indie games, I feel it is my duty to share as many promising looking titles as I can with you. Let’s take a look at some of the most promising and interesting looking indie games (hopefully) coming this year.
Minute of Islands
Platform: Steam, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch
You are Mo, a skilled tinkerer in an unstable world. It is a mysterious land, formed not only by humans but also by inscrutable giants. Giant-kind all but vanished since, leaving behind otherworldly tech deeply entwined with the islands themselves and in desperate need of maintenance. Now, an almost forgotten threat must be kept at bay. Mo is on a quest to become a hero, but is this truly what she needs?
Spiritfaraer
Platform: Steam, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch
Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about dying. You play Stella, ferrymaster to the deceased, a Spiritfarer. Build a boat to explore the world, then befriend and care for spirits before finally releasing them into the afterlife. Farm, mine, fish, harvest, cook, and craft your way across mystical seas. Join the adventure as Daffodil the cat, in two-player cooperative play. Spend relaxing quality time with your spirit passengers, create lasting memories, and, ultimately, learn how to say goodbye to your cherished friends. What will you leave behind?
12 Minutes
Platform: Steam, Xbox One
TWELVE MINUTES is a real-time top-down interactive thriller with an accessible click and drag interface. What should be a romantic evening with your wife turns into a nightmare when a police detective breaks into your home, accuses your wife of murder and beats you to death. Only for you to find yourself immediately returned to the exact moment you opened the front door, stuck in a TWELVE-MINUTE time loop, doomed to relive the same terror again and again. Unless you can find a way to use the knowledge of what’s coming to change the outcome and break the loop.
Ooblets
Platform: Epic Store, Steam, Xbox One
Ooblets is a farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Carrion
Platform: Steam, Xbox One
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Sable
Platform: Steam, Xbox One, PS4
Sable is a coming-of-age tale of discovery through exploration across a strikingly rendered open world desert. Go on a deeply personal journey across an alien planet while learning its history and discovering Sable’s place in the world.
Before we Leave
Platform: Epic Store
Before We Leave is a non-violent city building game set in your own cozy corner of the universe. Rediscover and rebuild civilization. Create a multi-planet resource network. Overcome ancient challenges and fend off hungry space whales.
The Falconeer
Platform: Steam, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch
The Falconeer is an airborne ocean-world fantasy RPG set in The Great Ursee. Take to the skies as you explore a vast, bleak and beautiful world.
The Red Lantern
Platform: Epic Store, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch
The Red Lantern is a resource management narrative game where you and your team of five sled dogs must survive the wilderness and find your way home. You play as The Musher as she sets out to train for the grueling Iditarod race.
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
Platform: Steam, Xbox One, PS4
The horns sound, the ravens gather. An empire is torn by civil war. Beyond its borders, new kingdoms rise. Gird on your sword, don your armour, summon your followers and ride forth to win glory on the battlefields of Calradia. Establish your hegemony and create a new world out of the ashes of the old.
In Other Waters
Platform: Steam
Other Waters casts you as an AI operator, guiding a stranded xenobiologist as they explore and study a beautiful and strange alien ocean.
Luna The Shadow Dust
Platform: Steam
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics, and a breathtaking original soundtrack.
Industries of Titan
Platform: Epic Store, Steam
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
The Last Campfire
Platform: Steam
The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Platform: Steam, Nintendo Switch
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! The sequel to the award winning action-adventure. Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
-Will
Spiritfarer is on my must-play list for the year! And some of these I haven’t heard of yet so gonna have to check them out more.
There are a lot of good looking games! 2020 looking great