Full Release – Cute, but complex construction game leaves Early Access
In the strategy game Against the Storm, our country is ravaged by terrible magical storms that regularly tear everything down. At least everything we build outside the capital. Nevertheless, we must move out, search for the causes of the storm, and keep building new outposts under various difficult conditions.
In this episode of Zap Indie Game News, I show you indie games that have just been released in April 2023 [PC Gameplay], all fresh and new. There’s base-building strategy and aliens in Exogate Initiative, murder mystery and detective gameplay in Shadows of Doubt, and RPG monster fighting and dungeon crawler feeling in Raidborn. All three games are fresh in Early Access, so they are not fully developed yet. They were released from late March to late April 2023 and are available for PC on Steam. Briefly presented as a mini review/preview, each game was more than 5 hours in a test.
SpaceBourne 2 is a space-open-world sandbox, with lots of spaceship combat, but also action as a soldier on stations and planets. It offers an extensive story around the liberation of mankind from slavery and a complex space conquest part that offers long-term motivation in the style of a 4X strategy with combat, diplomacy, and sophisticated battles.
In Clanfolk we are responsible for the survival of a family clan in the Highlands of Scotland – A Colony Sim similar to RimWorld in Review/Test
Clanfolk is a village-building simulation set in ancient 14th century Scotland. We manage a family clan and learn to survive in the harsh wilderness. The game mixes survival, building strategy, and village simulation in minimalistic 2D graphics.
Holomento is a Permadeath Roguelite RPG in Which we Gradually Rebuild the World Over Several Characters
Holomento was released on Steam and GOG in Early Access on April 27th, 2022. What kind of game is Holomento, how far is the game in development, and most importantly, is it fun to play? I’ll tell you in this short preview of the Early Access version. Holomento is being developed by Indie Solo Dev Sean Weech, with a little help from the German studio Deck13 (known for The Surge).
Zap zockt Swag and Sorcery Review (English) – Swag and Sorcery is the new game from Uroboros Games & Lazy Bear Games, the successor of Punch Club & Graveyard Keeper. In Swag and Sorcery, we build a village, train heroes, and send them out on adventures to save the kingdom.