Which games to look out for from Glasgow Indie Games Festival

Final weekend featured the inaugural Glasgow Indie Video games Competition in Scotland, that includes demos, talks, and game-themed slam poetry. The occasion was bought out, however ReadWrite Gaming was fortunate sufficient to get hands-on with some video games. Lots of the video games at GIGF have improvement groups of only a handful of individuals, making all of them the extra spectacular. Right here’s our roundup of what to maintain your eyes open for!

Valley Peaks

Valley Peaks received Finest in Present (as voted by attendees) and the demo stand was in use for the entire day. It’s a first-person recreation full of frogs with a love of climbing, and it’s your job to place a radio on the peak of every of the native mountains. As a recreation, it’s as if A Brief Hike and Demise Stranding had a toddler.

A lovely, healthful setting and cheerful characters are the set dressing for motion puzzles that depend on utilizing the left bumper to your left hand and the fitting bumper to your proper hand. Climbing is satisfying and enjoyable and reaching the highest of a mountain and seeing the attractive recreation world splayed out earlier than you was rewarding.

Valley Peaks releases on Steam on July 24, 2024, and can come out on the Nintendo Change sooner or later.

Morgan Metallic Detective

Tackle the function of Morgan, a teenage woman whose grandfather has left her a metallic detector. Discover the quaint Cornish island of Glasden, assist the locals, and perhaps uncover some mysteries when you’re at it.

The characters in Morgan Metallic Detective are charmingly drawn and totally voiced, full with Cornish accents. The primary activity you got down to full is to assist a hapless fisherman get well the engagement ring he misplaced so he can suggest to his love, which units the tone excellently.

It’s a comfortable, comforting recreation, a “love letter to childhood Cornish holidays” and takes inspiration from video games like Firewatch and Alba: A Wildlife Journey, each beloved indie titles.

There’s no launch date for Morgan Metallic Detective but, however you possibly can Wishlist it on Steam to maintain up with launch information.

Condo Story

Condo Story is a recreation a couple of love triangle and a single gun. On the face of issues, it’s a Sims-like life administration recreation the place it’s worthwhile to maintain struggling journalist Arthur afloat so he can proceed to eke out a meager existence.

Nonetheless, there’s a deeper story unfolding round you as you make cheese sandwiches and watch grownup movies, and it’ll rapidly have an effect on how properly you’re capable of handle the minutia of Arthur’s life. Your roommate is away however Diane desperately must get into his locked room. What does she want? Will she neglect about it when she and Arthur hit issues off?

The artwork fashion has a retro, low-poly look whereas nonetheless being detailed and fascinating, and regardless of the brief demo, we left eager to know what occurs between Arthur, Diane, and the locked door.

Initially deliberate for a March launch, Condo Story will now be launched on 26 September 2024, and you’ll Wishlist it on Steam now.

The Enjenir

The Enjenir is a really foolish physics recreation. Construct intricate, delicate buildings within the gridless constructing system solely to look at them fall to items as you try to stroll The Enjenir throughout them, QWOP-style.

With the myriad instruments accessible to the participant, each stage in The Enjenir may be solved in an virtually infinite variety of methods. Do you need to recover from that hole with a bridge, a catapult, or one thing else? Something is feasible within the physics engine of the sport… so long as you possibly can information The Enjenir to the target.

On high of hilarious constructing hijinks, the sport seems implausible and has an excellent “medieval lo-fi” soundtrack to construct alongside to.

The Enjenir is out in Early Access now and has tons of ranges able to go.

Whereas we couldn’t characteristic each recreation, each demo was enjoyable and there have been some actually novel concepts there – take a look at the total roster of video games on the Glasgow Indie Games Festival web site. And if you happen to love the healthful vibes introduced by Valley Peaks and Morgan Metallic Detective, take a look at our roundup of the latest Wholesome Direct.

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