Day one of Gamescom 2024 has come to a close and I wanted to give some attention to the Awesome Indies Show. The livestream showcased a boon of games for PC gamers, and console players will have a chance to grab a number of the titles in the spotlight today.
I’ve got my eye one over half of the games shown in the Gamescom 2024: Awesome Indies Show. There was a hearty mix of titles and genres, with plenty of cozy, management, rougelite, strategy, and RPG games, along with a few horror titles.
You can watch the full showcase here. I’m sharing each game in the order it was shown in the showcase.
Pets & Stuff
HyperVR games
Help adorable, furry friends with all kinds of different treatments. Let your imagination run wild and impress not only your fuzzy customers, but everyone around with a completely renewed, colourful and healthy look. Everyone deserves to be happy, groomed and in style!
Out now on Meta Quest, available to wishlist on SteamVR and PlayStation VR2
Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall
Brave At Night
Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.
Wilmot Works It Out
Finji
Wilmot Works It Out is a puzzle building game about completing beautiful images and using them to decorate the walls of your house.
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Megagon Industries
Test your skiing skills in serene mountain scenery. Perform tricks, discover shortcuts and try to best your time in the snowy followup to Lonely Mountains: Downhill. Enjoy the slopes alone, participate in thrilling online multiplayer races or gather your friends and conquer the mountains together.
Altered Alma
Critical Reflex
Altered Alma combines the beloved classic Metroidvania formula with RPG elements, dating sim features, a slick pixel-art presentation, and a gripping story. Whether you want to beat up bad guys, find love, or just explore the beautiful cityscape, Neo-Barcelona awaits!
Sulfur
Perfect Random
SULFUR is a modern old-school action-adventure: Outsmart enemies, find treasure, improve weapons, harness powers. Delve deeper, find answers, make it end.
Demo out on Steam now, releases sometime in 2024.
The Nameless Slay Dragon
The Nameless Epic
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is a gamebook-adventure flavored turn-based RPG In short – how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends….
Will release on September 26 on PC via Steam, with Nintendo Switch getting a launch at a later date.
Mouthwashing
Critical Reflex
The five crew members of The Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.
The Berlin Apartment
btf
One apartment, many stories: Witness turning points in the lives of the inhabitants of an apartment in Berlin over the course of a whole century.
Tavern Keeper
Greenheart Games
Build and manage your own tavern in this charming fantasy business sim. Dive into every detail or relax and decorate to your heart’s desire. Upgrade your tavern and navigate light-hearted tales of unlikely heroes as you play the most important role of all: the Tavern Keeper!
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain
Chibig SLU
Mika and the Witch’s Mountain is a fantasy adventure about an aspiring witch who delivers packages to the townspeople of a small island. Explore every cranny and soar through the sky with your magic broom.
Available on Steam and Nintendo Switch now!
Royal Revolt Warriors
Upright Games
Thrilling 1-4 players co-op survivor gameplay combined with stunning graphics, where powerful Warriors battle through hordes of vicious enemies using a blend of melee and ranged weapons.
Go Go Town!
The Cult Games
Plan, Build…Prosper? As mayor, it’s up to you to breathe life back into this rundown town. Construct shops, hire staff, automate deliveries with couriers, and attract tourists to town, all while managing infrastructure and avoiding catastrophes! Who said being mayor was going to be easy…
Out now in Early Access on Steam.
Deathbound
Tate Multimedia
Deathbound is a one-of-a-kind party-based soulslike set in a callous world where Faith and Science clash. Dynamically transform between fallen warriors all with their own unique skill sets, combat styles, and rich history. Conquer a brutal reality where Life and Death were never more conflicted.
#Drive Rally
Pixel Perfect Dude
#DRIVE Rally is an arcade-inspired rally-driving experience set in the golden racing era of the ‘90s. Grab your co-driver and burn some rubber on iconic race-winning cars across a variety of terrains in some of the most iconic rallying locations in the world!
Demo out now and will launch into Early Access on September 25.
Drill Core
Tiny Build
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers’ safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Enters Early Access on Steam on September 12. Demo available now.
Zero Sievert
Modern Wolf
ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive…
Out in Early Access now and fully launching on Steam on October 23.
Fruitbus
Krillbite Studios
A journey of flavors and friendships awaits you in your cozy, customisable food truck! Forage for fresh ingredients to create your own menu, then feed tummies and souls with home-cooked meals. Change the world, one apple at a time.
Demo out on Steam now, releases on PC on October 28.
Fera: The Sundered Tribes
Massive Damage
A Monster hunting, survival action RPG that includes village building and tribe management! No release date has been announced, but the game will launch on PC “soon” via Steam and the Epic Store.
Grimoire Groves
Stardust
Become a masterful witch as you grow cute plant creatures with your magic in this cozy rogue-lite dungeon crawler. Craft powerful spells and items, discover new plant types, befriend magical creatures, and restore the magical forest.
A cozy Roguelike dungeon crawler! Wishlist now on Steam.
Paraside: Duality Unbound
Whisper games
In a fractured world of colliding planes, wield your reality-bending abilities to lead Earth’s remnants against cosmic threats. Develop your task force. Explore unknown territories. Manipulate space and minds ingeniously to reignite hope for humanity in this new strategic RPG.
A surreal strategy RPG. Releasing in 2025 on PC via Steam and Epic, and on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox consoles.
EVERSPACE 2 DLC
ROCKFISH Games
Releasing on September 16 on PC via Steam.
Wild Indigo Ranch
Funday Games ApS
Wild Indigo Ranch (formerly Don’t Die In The West s) 1.0 launches on September 18, and Early Access is out now! Up to 4-player Co-Op.
Endzone 2
Assemble Entertainment, Gentlymad Studios
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity’s survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Early Access launches on Steam on August 26.
Eldritch Empathy
LUAL Games KIG
Study cosmic horrors to uncover their mysteries or eliminate them and face the repercussions. Your decisions will shape the fate of humanity.
A Roguelite strategy RPG that leans on Lovecraftian horror. Wishlist on Steam.
Squirrel With a Gun
Maximum Entertainment
Squirrel, meet gun. As the neighborhood’s most obnoxious rodent, develop a knack (and a love?) for crime and mayhem in pursuit of golden acorns in this nutty sandbox shooter and puzzle platformer. Fight tooth, claw, and gun to escape a secret underground facility and defeat the Agents.
Launches on PC via Epic Games Store and Steam on August 29, and on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S this Fall.
CACTUS
Axon Flux AG
Unleash your prickly prowess in this single player FPS! Embark on an extraordinary journey, where you assume the role of a spiky hero navigating through meticulously crafted stages.
With a blend of classic FPS elements and quirky new ideas. Master foes, evade traps, discover artifacts, and even confront the blazing sun in a unique indie gaming experience!
Available to wishlist on Steam, and expected to launch in 2025. Demo out now.
Cairn
The Game Breakers
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
Solarpunk
rokaplay GmbH
Solarpunk is a survival game in a technically advanced world of floating islands. Alone or together with your friends, you can construct buildings, grow food, craft gadgets and hop on your airship to explore distant islands in the sky.
Will launch on PC via Steam and on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.
