Silky soccer, novelist and other new independent games that deserve to be checked

Summer is finally there – at least for those of us north of the equator – and you may plan to spend more time outside. Thanks to a band of large portable devices, it has never been easier to play fantastic independent games wherever you are, you can soak up the sun while unlocizing the achievements.

There is a bunch of new intriguing Indies that you can consult at the moment, as well as a significant update for a certain Snapelite inducing a certain plate which is still in early access. I also have some titles to come in this area, the last edition of our independent Roundup. One of them has a steam demo with which you could end up spending several pleasant hours.

Before you start, a small warning: your wishes list and your resolution are about to be tested at the start of the summer sale in Steam next week. I mean, good luck in advance with market hunting!

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I have to hold it my hand, I had skeptical Revenge. When it was revealed that Sloclap – the team behind martial arts games Absolve And Sifif – made a football match focused on the action, I had doubts that it would work. Revenge It looks like the studio had taken Rocket league And the modernity with human characters. And with both this football match in the car and EA SPORTS FC 25 As a competition, Sloclap was really going to have to do something special to unravel. I think the studio has just done this.

Revenge is entirely based on skills without upgrading statistics for your character. You control a player throughout the match, and you will pass between attacking and defending while turning the role of goalkeeper with teammates. The action is very fluid and fast, and the controls are reactive (they should be). As in Rocket leagueThe ball does not come out of the limits. There are also no mistakes or offside.

I really enjoyed my first dozen games of Revenge. I realized that I am more effective in the role of midfielder / playmaker or even as a goalkeeper than as an attacker. I did not manage to use twin commands to aim and shoot the goal still quite well, but I found a way to help my team and have fun.

There are bugs that the developers run to correct and the lack of game crossed on jump is a little disappointing (Sloclap says that he has encountered certain technical problems there, but obtaining it is an absolute priority for the team). Always, Revenge Feels like a very sticky game in which I imagine that many people will flow tens of hours. It’s already a good start – he has exceeded A million players the first day.

Revenge is released now SteamPS5 and Xbox Series X / S. It is on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

After Some delaysIt is finally time to go out with everything Down everything! As the title of this SASSY Chap Games and Publisher Team17 dating card suggests, you can romantize anthropomorphized versions of things around your home. There are more than 100 vocal characters that you can court, from the doors and the wall to a mouse trap and a dust rabbit behind a sofa, to shoot and the air. Things become quite meta, because you can also go out with the developers, the game itself and “your overwhelming feeling of existential fear”.

There are several endings for each character and around 70,000 lines of dialogue, so there is a lot to explore here. Critics were generally positive, with praise for writing and design. I can’t wait to see the reactions of my siege when I play it on my next flight.

Down everything! is now on Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X / S and PC.

Lost in chance Was received quite well a few years ago and now a spin-off roguelite has arrived. Lost in chance: the eternal matrix is on SteamNintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X / S, Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

It is an action game based on the race with an isometric perspective and a certain permanent progression. So it’s a lot Hell-Codé, although it gives the genre a rotation of Gothic tales book with a dice rolling element.

Speaking of this (And in case you missed it), the third major early access update for Hades II Arrived this week. Oh, of course, there are new bosses and combat options, etc. All this is great.

But for many fans, the biggest addition this time is an appropriate character art for Narcissus. Unsurprisingly, it is hot and He knows it.

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From time to time, I will start playing a demo and I quickly feel this Ralph Wiggum gif of Simpsons jump into my head. You know, the one where he is going “haha, I’m in danger!” (GIF is actually a cross Family guy Episode in which characters of this program visited Springfield, fans of facts). This is the case with X Pit BallA game that I am already sure will absorb many hours of my life.

I did not arrive at X Pit Ball Demo until the end of the next festival after Steam, but it is still available until the full game is put online later this year (it also arrives at Xbox Series X / S and Nintendo Switch). After playing the demo, it is easy to see why the editor Devolver Digital dedicated the Fest edition of whole summer game of its DIRECT DIRECT. This project of independent developer Kenny Sun and half a dozen employees.

X Pit Ball is a mixture of Burst And Vampire survivors with basic construction elements. When you play brick survival levels, you will get resources you can use to build your family property, which strengthens projectile chaos. It is an absorbent loop, but the real pleasure for me comes in the pit.

Here, your character will draw (manually or automatically) from the infused magic bullets at enemy tiles while avoiding their attacks and ensuring that the bad guys do not reach the bottom of the screen. You will collect more projectiles and passive upgrades throughout your race. Real magic occurs when you are able to merge a pair of bullets to combine their effects. Thus, a ghost ball that goes through enemies instead of bouncing between them could also deliver a laser attack to other bad guys in the same line or the same column.

It is already obvious that the gameplay here will work deeply. There will be a multitude of levels, characters and upgrades to unlock. I can’t wait X Pit Ball To fully ruin my productivity.

I loved goosebumps and the television show when I was a child, so a stealthy game based on the series caught my attention. In Goosebumps: Little Creek Terror (Of collective phl and publisher Gamemill Entertainment), you are trying to avoid monsters in a nightmarish city, but if you meet, you can defend yourself with your sling.

This game includes puzzles and an original story with several purposes, while the artistic style looks charming the old -fashioned. He arrives at Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X / S Steam August 29.

Let’s close things for this week with the last look at Electric washing simulator 2. I really appreciated the first game, and the new trailer shows more new features that arrive on the rest, which should strike PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X / S later this year.

This time, you can be silent or use a scissor elevator to go to filthy and difficult to reach places. Several floors are also new in Powerwash Simulator 2, And there will be public toilets (Ick) to make a virgin. In addition, you can buy and restore old furniture for your attachment base, while your pet kittens can reach you to clean the work. Cute!