If you miss the sandbox of floating islands, customizable airships, and grappling hooks found in Worlds Adrift—the MMO from Bossa Games that shut down in 2019—you’re about to get another chance to sail the winds and swing around. The developer of I Am Bread and Surgeon Simulator are taking another stab the sky with a new co-op survival game coming next year. Lost Skies, announced today at the Humble Games Showcase, is an open world co-op adventure for 1-6 players. Like Worlds Adrift, you’ll be free to explore the world, construct customizable airships, and yes, use a grappling hook and…
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Humble launched the Black Game Developer Fund in 2020 with a pledge of $1 million per year toward projects from Black indie devs, and the program has since funded over 30 games. BGDF funding doesn’t guarantee that Humble will go on to publish the game itself, but the company did ink a deal with upcoming BGDF-funded game Protodroid DeLTA, and now it’s done the same with a second game. Breeze in the Clouds, a game about a corgi who winds up on an adventure in a “weather world,” will also be published by Humble, the company announced during its 2023…
Story-based RPG Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical turned up at the Humble Games showcase today to share a deeper look at its choice-driven narrative and some words from studio co-founders David Gaider, Dragon Age’s former lead writer, and Liam Esler about how choices also affect the music in the moment. Stray Gods is an urban fantasy in which college dropout Grace has been granted the powers of the Muse but has to help solve the mystery of her predecessor’s death while surrounded by hot, meddling gods. “While everyone’s familiar with games where you make choices during the story—you do that…
One of the moodier trailers shown at the Humble Games Showcase today was for Cataclismo, a new base building tower defense RTS from Digital Sun, developer of The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story. Cataclismo is a game about building fortresses, “brick-by-brick,” in a dark fantasy world where a deadly mist has enveloped the landscape. In the trailer, the camera moves slowly through the game’s murky world, showing us swarms of ghostly white creatures in the midst of attacking a towering fort defended by medieval archers. It’s only a small glimpse of the game, but an intriguing one, and it…
The launch of its new Epic Rewards program isn’t the only big thing the Epic Games Store has going on today. It’s also kicking off the 2023 Mega Sale with discounts of up to 75%, the return of the never-ending Epic Coupon, and a free copy of Death Stranding for everyone. Death Stranding is this week’s Epic Store giveaway game, and it’s definitely one of the biggest games that Epic has thrown on that particular pile. But this isn’t the first time it’s been free: It was previously Epic’s giveaway game on December 25, 2022, which—without wanting to go too…
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