A new and improved website calls for a new and improved Trailer Roundup! This time, we have hypnotic llamas, giant space battles, seductively swaying reapers, and more.
Windows | 20€ | Q1 2020 | Indiegogo
From developer Sleepy Sentry: “Brave the depths in Stirring Abyss, an upcoming deep sea exploration and strategy game. Glimpse the chilling unknown as you explore an ancient mystery at the bottom of the ocean. Lead a secret U.S. Navy expedition during the height of the Cold War and help your crew uncover ancient mysteries and escape the abyss!”
Windows, MacOS | $15 | Q2 2019 | Kickstarter
From developer Moebial Studios: “Aquamarine is a sci-fi exploration game about a lone space traveler marooned on an unknown planet covered in water, who must explore and survive the alien ocean to recover her crashed ship. The artwork is 100% drawn and animated by hand, inspired by the comics of French artist Moebius. The gameplay is a loose blend of turn-based roguelikes, adventure games, and elements of the survival genre.”
Windows, MacOS, Linux | $TBA | available now (Early Access)
From developer Arcen Games: “AI War II is a grand strategy/RTS hybrid against an overwhelming, inhuman enemy who has conquered the galaxy. The enemy has made only a single error: underestimating you. You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks.”
Windows, MacOS, PS4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One | $TBA | 2019
From developer Kong Orange: “Felix works at The Ministry of Death and is in love with Betty The Maiden from The Ministry of Life. He believes that going to the human world as a field reaper will enable him to one day meet her. Hence he’s taken the job of making sure people die and taught himself to dance to impress Betty.”
Windows, MacOS | $TBA | “coming soon”
From developer Cranktrain: “The Eldritch Zookeeper is an upcoming PC zoo-management game where an unfortunate zookeeper is cursed to run a zoo full of otherworldly monsters! You build a zoo, keep creatures fed and happy, and construct amenities for zoo visitors. Surrounded by fangs, claws, tentacles – can our zookeeper escape his curse?”
Windows | $TBA | October 2018
From developer Codebyfire: “You take control of a team of self-replicating robots designed to simulate human civilisation who have escaped from Earth. You join them searching the galaxy for a new home where they can fulfil their misguided dream of being human. The Colonists lets either you create sprawling settlements in peace or race to compete against AI colonies in military winner-takes-all scenarios.”
Nimbatus – The Space Drone Constructor
Windows, MacOS, Linux | $19.99 | available now (Early Access)
From developer Stray Fawn Studio: “Craft drones out of hundreds of different parts and explore a destructible, procedurally generated galaxy. Build autonomous drones to fight other players’ creations. Do you have what it takes to become a drone engineer?”
Windows | $9.99 | available now
Machines are on the rise while magic is all but forgotten. Few even remember the destruction of the Elemental Tree so many years ago. Team up with a band of unlikely heroes as you rediscover this world’s past and fight to save its future.
Windows, MacOS, Linux | $TBA | release TBA
You will explore the nostalgic suburbia of New England, its primeval misty forests and mountains, abandoned farmlands riddled with undulating ancient rock walls, the extravagant ruined castles and mills of long forgotten industrialists, neglected shopping centers and so much more! Ode to a Moon was inspired by actual events and the general belief that Truth is oftentimes stranger than Fiction.
That’s all for now, see you next month!
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Thanks for bringing this series back, Thomas!
I love the music in Aquamarine’s trailer. It transports you to that 70s psychedelic sci fi setting like nothing else.
Felix the Reaper looks amazing. It’s been less saturated in the “super weird but charming games” as of late. Eldritch Zookeeper also nails that with its concept right out of the gates. The Greater Good has an AMAZING soundtrack, and looks like its a pretty epic quest, but just a teensy bit of more contextual clarity could help push it closer to “I need this” for would-be players.
All in all, I love how I didn’t know most of these games.
Second on that soundtrack for the Aquarmarine trailer. Perfect Vangelis-style stuff.