We’ve had the Guerrilla Collective indie showcase, we’ve had the main event of Summer Game Fest with the 2024 Summer Game Fest showcase, and now we turn to Day of the Devs 2024 Summer Game Fest Edition!
Check out all that was revealed below:
Battle Vision Network (Mobile, Netflix, PC, Console TBC)
Battle Vision Network is an online PvP Puzzle Battler fusing cozy color-matching puzzle gameplay with deep turn based tactics. Coming in 2025.
Cairn (PC)
Also shown at the Summer Game Fest showcase, Cairn challenges you to reach a summit never climbed before in this mountain ascent adventure from the creators of Furi and Haven.
Petal Runner (PC)
Petal Runner is a slice-of-life RPG that tells an imaginative tale about becoming a motorcycle courier.
Karma: The Dark World (PC, PS5, Xbox Series)
In Karma: The Dark World, you are Daniel, a Roam Agent for Leviathan's Thought Bureau, and you have been brought in to investigate actions that have happened in a very specific moment in time. A moment which opens the mind to a world of espionage and betrayal, littered with deep and dark secrets. Fall into the rabbit hole to see what lurks in the darkest corners of people minds.
UFO50 (PC)
From the creators of Spelunky and Spelunky 2 comes a collection of 50 brand new games, it’s been in development for seven years and is due to release this year. UFO50 is releasing on 18 September.
Cozy Grove Camp Spirit (Mobile via Netflix Games)
Help ghostly bears find peace in this relaxing sequel to the beloved role-playing game where kindness rules and new friends, crafts and mysteries await.
Koira (PC)
Save and befriend a puppy and embark on a musical, hand-drawn adventure. Journey together to the heart of a magical forest while avoiding danger along the way. Discover your untapped powers and learn the true value of friendship. Releasing in 2025, with a demo coming this summer. It looks wonderful.
Arranger: A Role Puzzling Adventure (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS5)
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure follows the story of Jemma, a small-town misfit on a journey of self-discovery. Venturing out beyond her stiflingly cozy confines, she finds an inspiring world – but also one ruled by fear, and a strange, immovable "˜static' force. Can she disrupt a culture of stagnation, and find a place to fit into it?
Gameplay takes place on a unique, interconnected "˜grid' that spans the entire world, snappily uniting movement, exploration, and combat. When Jemma moves, the world moves with her – creating both a playful sense of chaos, and a regular stream of small, thoughtful puzzles that twist and play with the central mechanic.
The game releases on 25 July 2024.
Fear the Spotlight (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series)
Fear the Spotlight is a creepy love letter to classic 90s horror experiences with a focus on rich storytelling, puzzle solving, and a tense atmosphere.
Screen Bound (PC)
Screenbound is a game about being distracted, but totally in control. Check out the latest Screenbound trailer to see gameplay from this upcoming “5D” platformer game, where you move in first-person view in a 3D world at the same time while playing in 2D on the screen of your Qboy (an in-game Game Boy-like device).Â
Zoochosis (PC)
Zoochosis is a bodycam horror simulation game. You're a zookeeper. Identify infected mutant animals, make a vaccine and cure them. Will you save all of them and survive?
While Waiting (PC)
It’s a game about waiting for things to happen.
Psychroma (PC)
Dive into the unsettling world of Psychroma for the upcoming narrative-driven side-scroller, where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine
Building Relationships (PC)
A Little to the Left: Seeing Stars DLC (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series)
The DLC for the puzzle solving game releases on 25 June.
Hello Again (PC)
Exploration and puzzle solving in a never-ending timeloop.
Tom the Postgirl (PC)
Follow Tom the postgirl on her daily duty to deliver packages, which always takes a wrong turn. Most of it comes down to Tom being a creep, peeking inside homes whenever she gets the occasion and messing with the content of the packages. Explore the consequences of voyeurism in a hand-drawn environment, where dark humour and intense weirdness create a unique multilinear tale.
After Love EP (Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series)
Step into the shoes of Rama, a young musician struggling to move on with life after the death of his girlfriend, Cinta. Whilst his close friends and bandmates are all determined to help him move on, Rama has been stuck for more than a year. He's neglecting his music, his mental health and his relationships. Making things harder, he's hearing Cinta's voice inside his head, unsure if she is a spirit or part of his imagination.
A demo is available on PC now. The full game is aiming to launch in Q3 2024.
Phoenix Springs (PC)
Point and click your way through Phoenix Springs, a mystery adventure game set in an exotic, neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Tides of Tomorrow (PC)
Survive the waters of Elynd against the choices of your Friends & Streamers! Carve your path to shape the destiny of the planet. By the makers of Road 96.
And that’s everything from Day of the Dev Summer Game Fest Edition. Anything take your fancy. Some weird and wonderful indies in this show for sure.
