Indie Games April 2023 – Exogate Initiative – Shadows of Doubt – Raidborn – Zaps Indie Game News

Indie Games April 2023 - Exogate Initiative - Shadows of Doubt - Raidborn - Zaps Indie Game News

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 Review – Space Action Strategy RPG – Freelancer Meets Civilization in this Test

Spacebourne 2 Review Deutsch - Space Action Strategie - Freelancer trifft Civilization - Game 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.

Survival in the dark: Lumencraft combines top-down action with base building and tower defense

Lumencraft - Top-down Action mit Tower-Defense und Basenbau - Titel

Lumencraft combines elements of a top-down shooter with base building and tower defense. Players must dig and drill their way through a completely destructible environment to find Lumen – a mysterious resource that is the only hope for humanity’s survival. In the process, they’ll have to fend off dangerous creatures that lurk in the shadows.

Forspoken Review – Save a Strange World Full of Light and Shadow – Test

Forspoken Review [Deutsch PC] Rette eine fremde Welt voller Licht und Schatten - Test-German

In the action role-playing game Forspoken from Square Enix, we travel with Frey to a fantasy world and learn fantastic magic and parkour skills to defeat chaos and find a way home

In this Forspoken Test / Review (no Let’s Play) you will get everything you need to know about the Action RPG with Open World Gameplay. There have already been a lot of uproars, and I’ll tell you my opinion after more than 30 hours of play. Forspoken came out with a release date of 01/24/2023 for PlayStation PS5 and PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Tortuga A Pirate’s Tale Review – Pirates 2023 or Port Royale the Other Way Around – Review

Tortuga A Pirate's Tale Review - Pirates 2023 oder Port Royale mal andersherum - Test Deutsch German

Tortuga Delivers Turn-Based Pirate Strategy and 3D Ship Cruising Across the Caribbean Sea

In Tortuga (Gameplay Test – Let’s Play Game Review) we play a pirate in the Caribbean, similar to Pirates. We fight in turn-based ship battles against merchants, pirate hunters, and other pirates and try to build an empire that will eventually be strong enough to plunder the legendary Spanish treasure fleet. Tortuga hit the Epic Games Store with a release date of Jan. 19, 2023, for PlayStation PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with a Steam version likely to follow later.

Aquatico Test – 1000 Miles Under the Sea – Fancy City Building Sim in Review

Aquatico Test (Deutsch) - 1000 Meilen unterm Meer - schicke Städte Aufbau Sim im Review

The City Builder Strategy Game Aquatico Lets Us Build a City in the Sea – A Special City Builder with Relaxation Factor due to Aquarium Feeling

The underwater build-up game Aquatico in the gameplay test with review video – The earth is sinking in the chaos of the climate catastrophe, and we are building a new home for mankind deep in the sea. Complex city builder strategy with aquarium charm.

World Turtles – How is life on the back of a turtle?

world turtles new publisher and release date - world turtles cover

The build-up strategy game World Turtles gets a publisher contract and shifts the release to 2023

In the strategy game World Turtles, the dwellers called Meeps live on the back of a turtle flying through space. Sounds like Discworld, it’s also meant as an homage to Terry Pratchet’s fantasy world, but it’s not an official product of the franchise.

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