Thanks to user-friendly development tools and improved graphical engines, independent game developers can now create pretty good adventures that are both exciting and fun to play. The interstellar FPS title Moon Mystery is a really great recent example.
Starless Abyss is a unique roguelike where players are charged with jumping fleets of spaceships across realities to fight eldritch horrors. It’s a brilliant mesh of sci-fi, horror and roguelike deck building that offers unlimited spacefaring adventures.
The new Star Wars Outlaws Wild Card DLC adds lots of amazing content to a universe already overflowing with it. Wild Card finds Kay on a mission filled with espionage, double crosses, a high stakes sabacc tournament and even Lando Calrissian.
Just like in a great Indiana Jones movie, the year is 1937 and lots of really bad people are searching the globe for an ancient, world-altering power called the Great Circle. In the title Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, only a charismatic archaeologist with a quick whip and a quicker wit can stop them.
King Kong is the ultimate movie monster, but he takes a back seat to the action and adventure in Kong: Survivor Instinct, a title where players try to navigate and escape a broken city ravaged by monsters and other deadly challenges.
Mixing genres can be a risky move for game developers, but it can also pay off big time with something unique and fun, just like it did for Dustland Delivery, an amazingly complex post-apocalyptic survival business simulator.
Part horror story and part murderous mystery, Pneumata is a cosmic horror survival adventure that should be a joy to play for fans of the genre. Most players should enjoy exploring its frightening world despite a few flaws. Dim the lights, crank up the sound and let Pneumata give you a scare.
With facing so many challenging obstacles including an actual war, it’s a wonder that developer GSC Game World was ever able to finish S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl. Now that it’s released, players can finally enjoy this incredibly detailed open world adventure.
Sengoku Dynasty is a fully customizable empire and society builder where players start with a single house and slowly expand their realm until they’ve mastered the Sengoku Era of ancient Japan. It’s a unique building type of title with a lot of great qualities.
Using Unreal Engine 5 to bring the wild and deadly world of the humble ant to life in Empire of the Ants makes for some eye-opening adventures and a unique new form of real-time combat that will make you appreciate these hard-working insects of the world.
