Neon Abyss 2, A Prison-break Rpg And Other New Indie Games Worth Checking Out

Welcome to our play roundup of nan goings connected successful nan indie crippled space. It's been rather nan engaged spell, pinch respective notable games debuting aliases landing connected much platforms and immoderate intriguing upcoming projects popping supra nan parapet.

The Steam Automation Fest is taking spot this week (it runs until July 21 astatine 1PM ET), truthful fans of games for illustration Satisfactory and Factorio mightiness beryllium looking to prime up immoderate bargains connected akin titles. As good arsenic offering a assortment of discounts, Automation Fest besides saw nan debut of respective caller games.

One of them is from a workplace formed by nan original squad from nan celebrated developer Zacktronics. The first title from Coincidence (with nan thief of patient Astra Logical) is Kaizen - A Factory Story. This puzzler is group successful 1980s Japan, and you're tasked pinch building celebrated electronics of nan day, including calculators, arcade cabinets, individual computers and artifact robots.

Dawn Apart besides arrived during Steam Automation Fest. This is simply a blend of abstraction colony sim and automation sandbox group successful a destructible, voxel-based world. Astra Logical is besides publishing this project, which is from Industrial Technology and Witchcraft. Dawn Apart is available now connected Steam successful early access.

Other caller releases

One of nan highest-profile indie games to debut this week is Neon Abyss 2, from Veewo Games and Kepler Ghost. The original crippled has sold much than a cardinal copies, truthful plentifulness of group will person been looking guardant to nan sequel. This clip around, you tin play pinch up to 3 friends successful co-op. The game's creators are promising "unlimited point synergies" here, which is useful since there's an onus connected creating overpowered builds successful this action roguelike. Neon Abyss 2 is retired now connected Steam successful early access.

Ready aliases Not has been a deed connected Steam since it arrived location successful precocious 2023, and now Void Interactive's tactical first-person shooter has made nan leap complete to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Here, you'll lead a squad of SWAT officers successful an effort to reconstruct bid to a metropolis that's go overrun by corruption and chaos. You tin play nan 18-level run solo aliases pinch up to 5 friends.

Back to nan Dawn is simply a story-driven RPG from Metal Head Games and patient Spiral Up Games that's now retired of early entree connected Steam. It has besides arrived connected Xbox Series X/S and Game Pass.

As Thomas nan Fox, you're an investigative journalist who has been framed for revealing authorities secrets and tossed into prison. You'll person to forge alliances pinch different prisoners successful your effort to break out.

As portion of Back to nan Dawn's afloat launch, Metal Head is introducing a caller character, Bob nan Panther, arsenic good arsenic a caller storyline. I for illustration nan creation style here, and nan premise is beautiful compelling.

Thinking is cool and all, but sometimes you conscionable want to move down nan measurement connected your encephalon and sprout a bunch of stuff. Kickback is an arcade slug hellhole shooter pinch a nosy twist: you tin only move while you're shooting and, arsenic nan tile suggests, you'll beryllium propelled backwards. I'm into it. Kickback — from Dot humor and patient Targem Games — is retired now connected Steam.

I'll beryllium honest, I had nary thought what Fretless - Wrath of Riffson was erstwhile I sewage an email from Steam this week telling maine that this game, which I apparently had placed connected my wishlist astatine immoderate point, is now available. But hey, that sanction is an absolute winner.

I admit nan pixel creation look of this turn-based RPG from Ritual Studios and patient Playdigious Originals. According to nan Steam page, you'll play "as Rob, a friends musician trying to reconstruct harmony successful an off-tuned world wherever wacky villains are corrupting music." That sounds rather lovely, actually.

Upcoming

I person perfectly nary thought really Strange Scaffold does it. The workplace down I Am Your Beast, nan brilliantly unsettling Clickolding and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is astir to unleash its seventh crippled successful nan abstraction of 2 years. Co-Op Kaiju Horror Cooking is Strange Scaffold's first co-op game.

The trailer makes it look delightfully chaotic, arsenic players unreserved to navigator meals to satiate elephantine monsters and enactment alive. Co-Op Kaiju Horror Cooking is retired connected July 29, but until past you tin play nan full crippled for free arsenic portion of a playtest.

What's more, Strange Scaffold has announced 2 much games: Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! is simply a "chaotic anime-inspired vehicular action crippled astir driving into objects astatine precocious velocity to rescue nan firm ladder climber you accidentally isekai'd into a vulnerable medieval imagination world" while Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is a "fast-paced banal marketplace sim astir buying, selling, and shorting stocks based connected nan simulated lives of adorable alien children."

Beautiful one-line pitches. Zero notes. Can't hold for those, aliases to find retired astir different caller crippled demonstrating a "unique method of developer collaboration" that Strange Scaffold plans to unveil adjacent week.

If you're hankering for much first-person parkour successful a akin vein to Mirror's Edge, Neon White aliases Ghostrunner, Jetrunner mightiness conscionable do nan trick. Riddlebit Software's platformer-shooter hybrid, which is published by Curveball Games, is coming to Steam connected September 4. It looks for illustration it could beryllium fun! If nan announcer's sound successful nan trailer sounds familiar, that's because nan characteristic is played by Matthew Mercer.

I missed this 1 past week, but I conscionable want to very quickly mention Ghost Haunting. The world needs much funny point-and-click adventures successful nan vein of those classical LucasArts games. Three Headed Monkey Studios and patient Daedalic Entertainment person made a affirmative first belief to propose they're fresh to return that peculiar baton. There's nary merchandise day aliases model arsenic yet, but this was an instant summation to my wishlist connected Steam (let's conscionable dream I don't hide astir this one, eh?)

I would emotion to play a circuit head simulator crippled astatine immoderate point, getting into nan nitty gritty of making judge gigs and everything other progressive successful a band's life connected nan roadworthy goes smoothly. Rockbeasts is not quite that, but it still seems for illustration it could beryllium a bully time.

This is simply a "grungy" narrative-driven stone set guidance crippled from Lichthund and Team17. The trailer is nosy and location are immoderate absorbing talents progressive here. Rockbeasts was written by writer Jakub Szamałek, who was elder writer of The Witcher 3 and main writer of Cyberpunk 2077. Even cooler is that Iggy Pop voices connected of nan characters, who is named Iggy Pup. Love it.

Rockbeasts is coming to PC and consoles adjacent year.