New & Exclusive Deal Inked for North America, Kicking off with the Pre-Order of Wired’s new Black Label range – a celebration of all things Indie!

Raleigh, North Carolina, 10^th June 2021: Limited Run Games and video games publishing label Wired Productions today announced a new partnership that delivers exclusive distribution in North America and expanded cooperation across more product lines going forward. The new partnership will not only see The Falconeer: Warrior Edition launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch August 5^th 2021, but also the release of the new Black Label collection; an exclusive celebration of the best of Wired and Indie gaming.

Both companies initially worked together in 2020 through the distribution of various titles, and realised a shared passion for games, music and community gave opportunity to work even closer as friends in a more fluid and collaborative banner.  Kicking this BFF relationship off is the creation of ‘The Black Label,’ by Wired Productions, a new strictly limited collector’s item featuring numbered and authenticated premium products only available for a limited time that celebrates and fuses gameplay, art and music together.

Victor Vran: Overkill Edition has the honour of becoming the first black label release, holding the coveted BL #01 moniker, as Wired Productions sets out its bespoke and reimagined retail strategy for the future. As consumer behaviour shows a want for choice, not just in retail or digital, but how and what kinds of products they want to consume, Wired Productions has designed The Black Label to answer all the questions collectors and fans have been asking and become a celebration for the artists and studios that create the games.

In addition, Limited Run Games will be calling the big-ass-bird that is The Falconeer, and be the exclusive retailer in NA for fans to claim a copy on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.

Leo Zullo, Managing Director, Wired Productions commented, “Limited Run Games really are an awesome company. We share many principles, beliefs and work ethos.” He continued, “Having spent over a year dealing with Brexit, bureaucracy and really, a lot of bullshit; working with a partner like Limited is like finally breathing fresh air again. Not only are our fundamentals similar, but our gamers are too. Our players understand video games. They appreciate the work that goes into crafting these stories and want to celebrate with us and embrace the curated range of collector’s both Limited and Wired have already released individually. Coming together really is the best of both worlds and I’m so excited to have players receive their first Wired and Limited Run Games orders in the coming weeks and months ahead.”

Douglas Bogart, co-founder, Limited Run Games said, “Working with Wired Productions is like working with our internal teams, where we aim to deliver the passion that these games have given us for so long. Without a doubt, Wired Productions publish some fantastic indie titles, and we’re delighted to be sharing them with our community and customers beginning with The Falconeer: Warrior Edition and The Black label moving forward.”

In North America, Wired Productions physical product, collectors’ editions and The Black label can be purchased directly from Limited Run Games. For all other territories, the Wired Productions store has everything for fans of outstanding indie games.

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About Wired Productions
Wired Productions is an independent video games publisher based in Watford, UK. Wired has produced and published award-winning titles across all major platforms and its games are curated to deliver on its mantra: ‘Driven by Passion.’ Bringing games to market in both physical and digital media, notable launches to date include The Falconeer, Those Who Remain, Deliver Us The Moon, Close to the Sun, GRIP: Combat Racing, Victor Vran: Overkill Edition, Max: The Curse of Brotherhood and The Town of Light.

Recently, Wired Productions announced its upcoming slate of titles during Wired Direct. Upcoming titles include, Lumote, Arcade Paradise, Martha Is Dead, Tin Hearts, Tiny Troopers: Global Ops and The Last Worker.

Get Wired with Wired LIVE: The home of exclusive weekly programmes that celebrate the very best of indie gaming through chaotic live streams, guest appearances, exclusive interviews and more!

About Limited Run Games
Limited Run Games is a Raleigh-based publisher founded in 2015 that focuses on preserving games in a physical format. Publishing over 300 games in its lifetime and winning awards for its bespoke Collector’s Editions, Limited Run is the gold standard in bringing digital games to physical form for casual fans and collectors alike.

ONE HAND CLAPPING IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM! SAVE YOUR SOUL FROM ETERNAL SILENCE IN THIS EXTRAORDINARY GAME

Los Angeles, USA / Giebelstadt, Germany, June 10th, 2021
One Hand Clapping is a wholesome game that teaches you how to control your voice while saving a fantastical universe from eternal silence? A unique game that helps you to feel more comfortable and confident while singing. It takes you by the hand so you can develop a stronger connection to your voice.

One Hand Clapping, being uplifting and accessible for everyone, sets out to make you a believer in your own musical skills.

Interact with a colorful world and solve puzzles with melody, rhythm, and harmony. How you do it is completely up to you: no matter if you prefer singing, whistling, jamming, or even using acrazy instrument, One Hand Clapping will be your unique musical journey!

Be part of the journey!

We don’t stop believing in how much fun you will have with One Hand Clapping, so we decided to open up the game to Early Access. So whether you’re a small-town girl or a singer in a smokey room, your feedback will greatly help us make this game even better for everybody who wants a thrill, finding that bug hidin’ somewhere in the night!

You’ll gain immediate access to the game in its current form and as it evolves.

One Hand Clapping is available as Early Access on Steam now!

One Hand Clapping is currently in development for PC, Google Stadia, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, Nintendo Switch™, Android, and iOS. 

Get excited!

About One Hand Clapping

One Hand Clapping is a 2D puzzle platformer that invites you to sing or play or noise into your microphone to solve musical puzzles and discover the power of your voice as it changes the world. This extraordinary unique game provides you the freedom to express yourself through its mechanics, helping you build confidence in your singing voice and your inner voice. The world of One Hand Clapping is full of vibrant landscapes and mysterious characters portrayed through a warm, minimalist aesthetic that inspires self-expression without overwhelming your senses. All you need is a headset or a microphone with headphones, and your voice or an instrument to play!

About Bad Dream Games

Bad Dream Games was formed in 2018, after the viral success of the One Hand Clapping demo, a student-made project from the University of Southern California. Bad Dream Games are creating new ways to play. The US studio makes games that fuel creativity and engages players beyond just the limits of their controller, and it all starts right now with One Hand Clapping. 

Navegante Entertainment’s captivating story of three siblings and their attempt to escape the lands of Azur to launch on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch™, and Steam.

Thursday, 10th June 2021 – Team17 and Navegante Entertainment have today announced Greak: Memories of Azur will be launching on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam for PC on 17th August. The stunning hand-drawn single-player adventure sees players simultaneously take control of Greak, Adara, and Raydel, three tenacious siblings all offering up their unique abilities that will be instrumental in the fight against the deadly invasion on their homeland.

Step into the beautifully crafted world of Azur: 

With the lands of Azur overrun by the deadly Urlags, players will need to alternate seamlessly between the three siblings to best navigate the increasingly hostile environment and flee Azur. Greak offers up agility and the ability to fit where others will not, Adara wields arcane magic to devastating effect, and Raydel’s skill in battle and specialised gear make them a fearsome trio for the enemies invading their home.

Greak: Memories of Azur Key Features:

• Hand-Drawn Art and Animation: Enjoy a captivating narrative telling a story of family, home, and union, all brought to life with stunning hand-drawn art
• Specially Crafted Puzzles: Players will solve intricate puzzles to navigate the world of Azur, using the three siblings’ unique abilities to flee the threat
• Unique Gameplay: Each sibling boasts their own powers and abilities, and players will swap seamlessly between the trio to best navigate the world
• Live Orchestra Soundtrack: Enjoy the expressive and atmospheric music themes specially created to enhance this unique adventure.

Greak: Memories of Azur is currently available to Wishlist on Steam, and will be available digitally on PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with physical editions coming to PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

About Navegante Entertainment

Navegante Entertainment is an independent video game studio based in Mexico with collaborators in other countries from Latin America. With focus on creating fun, unique, and artistic experiences for the players, their debut title Greak: Memories of Azur is focused on providing a high-quality experience using traditional hand-drawn animation. For more information on the studio and game visit http://playgreak.com/ or www.navegante-entertainment.com.

About Team17 Group plc

Founded in 1990, Team17 Group plc is a leading developer, video games label, and creative partner for developers around the world. Floated on AIM in 2018, Team17, with its extensive portfolio of over 100 titles, embodies the spirit of independent games. In addition to the award-winning Overcooked!, Yoku’s Island Express, and the iconic Worms, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2020, Team17 has helped bring critically acclaimed titles including Hell Let Loose, Moving Out, Golf With Your Friends, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, Blasphemous, and The Escapists to gamers everywhere. Visit www.team17.com for more info.

Arriving shortly after on PS4 and Xbox consoles; as well as other regions for Switch

June 10th, 2021 — Banana Bird Studios and Whitethorn Games announce their upcoming wildlife photography Beasts of Maravilla Island will launch June 12th on Nintendo Switch in North and South American regions, as well as globally on Steam — the game will arrive shortly thereafter in other Switch regions, as well as on PS4 and Xbox consoles.

Beasts of Maravilla Island is a 3D adventure game where you take on the role of a young wildlife photographer who traverses Maravilla Island’s magical ecosystems to discover extraordinary creatures, learn their behaviors, and, most importantly, photograph their majesty.

Features

• Take on the role of an aspiring photographer and embark on your journey to fill your grandfather’s photobook with the magic of Maravilla Island.
• Traverse a beautifully unique world freely by running and climbing to discover and engage with the local wildlife.
• Includes over 50 extraordinary creatures and plants to photograph, each with their own appearance and behavior such as the Sparkling Lamp lily, the Maravillan Mango Kakapo and the Prism-Winged Butterfly.
• Complete puzzles that rely on your cooperation with animals, including playing hide and seek with an Otter Crocodile or helping a Bird Monkey find his perfect match.
• Explore three distinctive ecological zones, the Singing Jungle, the Glimmering River, and the Painted Plateau- each containing their own unique flora and fauna to uncover.
• Put your photography skills to action by taking breathtaking shots, however you like! Choose an angle and adjust the height and zoom to get the perfect shot of Maravilla’s many mysteries.
• Curate your photo book to your liking by capturing multiple photos of each animal and choosing the best ones to showcase.

About Banana Bird Studios
The Beasts of Maravilla Island team is composed of recent graduates and current students from The University of Southern California’s Games Program, Cal State Fullerton, and Art Center. The team met through the USC Advanced Games Project program and has since continued development together under Banana Bird Studios, LLC. We are a group of passionate, nature-loving developers who believe that games need more opportunities for unique, non-violent interactions with creatures.

About Whitethorn Games
We’re an indie game publisher focusing on pleasant, cozy games that can be played in pieces, that require no special skills or knowledge, and that anyone can pick up and play. We’re believers in accessibility, inclusion, and widening the audience that gets to play. We like to consider ourselves the defenders of easy games. Join in on the discussion via our Discord.

Customers Can Equip Multiple Award-Winning MAINGEAR Systems with the Latest NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30-Series GPUs 

Kenilworth, NJ (June 10, 2021) – MAINGEAR — an award-winning PC system integrator of custom gaming desktops, notebooks, and workstations — is proud to announce that the new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti and NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti graphics cards are now available to configure within its product line of award-winning custom gaming desktop PCs and workstations. 

Powered by Ampere — NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture, the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti and NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti feature enhanced performance for a more immersive, jaw-dropping gaming experience. NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture delivers real-time ray tracing effects — including shadows, reflections, and Ambient Occlusion (AO) — allowing NVIDIA’s 30-Series GPUs to take gaming graphics to new heights with ultra-realistic 3D visuals. The groundbreaking NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) 2.0 AI technology utilizes Tensor Core AI processors to boost frame rates while producing sharp, uncompromised visual fidelity comparable to high native resolutions.

“Gamers are hungrier than ever to get their hands on the latest and greatest graphics cards,” said Wallace Santos, founder and CEO of MAINGEAR. “We’re gamers too, so we share that same passion as our customers to have access to the very best. That’s why we’re so excited to work with NVIDIA to equip our amazing line of desktops with the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti cards.”

The NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti are available now as configuration options across multiple MAINGEAR gaming desktops — including PC Gamer’s Editor’s Choice award-winning F131, PC Mag’s Editor’s Choice award-winning VYBE, RUSH, and the impossibly small, yet fully-featured TURBO desktop. New VYBE pre-configured desktops start at $1699, featuring an RTX 3060 Ti, topping out with a system designed to deliver the ultimate gaming experience with the RTX 3080 Ti for $3499. The VYBE brings MAINGEAR’s expertise in crafting the world’s most technologically advanced, best performing, and beautifully designed PCs to a gaming desktop with an unprecedented price to performance.

MAINGEAR’s full lineup of desktops offers countless customization options, including the latest AMD Ryzen and Intel processors, premium HyperX memory, and Gen4 NVMe storage options. These top-end components, paired with MAINGEAR’s exclusive APEX hand-crafted water cooling, unlock the performance potential of every MAINGEAR system. Learn more about MAINGEAR desktops with NVIDIA® GeForce 30-Series GPUs here: https://maingear.com/geforce-rtx-30-series.

About MAINGEAR

MAINGEAR is a high-performance PC system integrator that offers custom desktops, notebooks, and workstations. MAINGEAR has won multiple Editors’ Choice awards from publications such as PC Gamer, Hot Hardware, PC World, Maximum PC, Computer Shopper, and more. Each MAINGEAR system is handcrafted for precision performance and uncompromised quality. With a passion to craft the best and most innovative high-performance computers, MAINGEAR sets the standard among system integrators.

Starting today, customers can order an ORIGIN PC desktop powered by an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti at ORIGINPC.com

Miami, FL –June 10th, 2021, 9:00 A.M. EDT— ORIGIN PC, a leader in custom high-performance systems, announced today the availability of the new NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti graphics cards available across the award-winning lineup of ORIGIN PC desktops.

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti features 2nd gen RT Cores, 3rd gen Tensor Cores, and streaming multiprocessors that offer stunning visuals, amazingly fast frame rates, and AI acceleration to games and creative applications. The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti features 8GB of GDDR6X memory and 6144 CUDA Cores. Powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, which delivers increases of up to 1.9X performance-per-watt over the previous generation, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX RTX 3070 Ti can power graphics experiences across multiple resolutions. With a 30 Series graphics card in an ORIGIN PC system, gamers can turn on real-time ray tracing in select games, use DLSS in several games for AI-powered rendering, activate NVIDIA Reflex to reduce system latency, and use NVIDIA Broadcast to optimize your microphone audio or webcam.

For more information about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and other 30 Series GPUs in ORIGIN PC desktops please visit: https://www.originpc.com/landing/2020/nvidia-30-series/

Customers interested in customizing and ordering an ORIGIN PC gaming desktop with an NVIDIA GeForce 30 Series GPU can visit: https://www.originpc.com/gaming/desktops/

Customers interested in customizing and ordering an ORIGIN PC workstation desktop with an NVIDIA GeForce 30 Series GPU can visit: https://www.originpc.com/workstation/desktops/

About ORIGIN:

ORIGIN PC builds custom, high-performance desktops, workstations, and laptops for hardware enthusiasts, digital/graphics artists, professionals, government agencies, and gamers. ORIGIN PCs are hand built, tested, and serviced by knowledgeable gaming enthusiasts, industry veterans, and award-winning system integrators. Every ORIGIN PC comes with free lifetime 24/7 support based in the United States. The ORIGIN PC staff is comprised of award-winning enthusiasts, experienced in the gaming and PC markets who want to share their passion with others. ORIGIN PC is located in Miami, FL and ships worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ORIGINPC.com or call 1-877-ORIGIN-Ø. (674-4460)

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Exciting new physics-based construction and adventure sandbox game coming soon from Green Man Gaming Publishing and Wizard Games

London, UK 10th June 2021. Green Man Gaming Publishing is excited to announce a new partnership with Wizard Games to publish the upcoming physics-based construction sandbox game Sea of Craft. Available for PC via Steam, Sea of Craft will be released in late summer 2021. 

Sea of Craft is a realistic physics-based construction and adventure game with hundreds of building materials and weapons to choose from, giving you near infinite options to create unique and wonderful sea faring creations. When you’re done building, take to the treacherous waves of the Beela South Sea where wild adventures and rich bounty await you. Band together with players from around the world and do battle with mysterious monsters lurking in the depths or battle your enemies and claim untold riches!

Sea of Craft features three unique gameplay styles; Singleplayer, Open Sea and Sandbox mode, all offering you the freedom to flex your creative muscles and enjoy the game your way, either alone or with other players from around the world. Craft the vessel of your dreams and take part in exciting challenges or battle for supremacy in intense PvP battles. The only limiting factor is your own imagination! 

“As part of the broader investment into the publishing division, Green Man Gaming is excited to be working with Wizard Games to bring Sea of Craft to market” commented Helen Churchill, SVP of Publishing at Green Man Gaming. “We have been tracking Sea of Craft for some time, and are impressed with the marriage of physics-based construction, exhilarating single player, PVP game mode, and an impressive Early Access content plan – we believe Sea of Craft will be the complete packaging to crafting and simulation fans”

“We’ve been working on Sea of Craft for over two years. Sea of Craft has won a huge amount of love and recognition from those who’ve participated in our numerous online closed tests and offline exhibitions.” commented Changmeng Li, game producer. “Now we’re working hard polishing the EA version. In Sea of Craft the possibilities are endless and we can’t wait to see what amazing crafting antics players get up to!” 

Sea of Craft will also be participating in the upcoming Steam Next Fest with Wizard Games hosting two livestream and Q+A sessions on 17th and 22nd June at 7pm BST/8pm CEST/2pm EDT/11am PDT on the Steam page. 

Features of Sea of Craft

• Play your way – Three distinct game modes catering for every playstyle!
• Go big or go home – Immerse yourself in a beautifully crafted, 64km² open world map with realistic water physics
• Create the vessel of your dreams – Using in depth building mechanics you can craft your seafaring vehicles using resources scattered around the world. Paint and decorate them with unique decorating items and take it to the next level by building huge, complex vessels. 
• Expand your armada – Trade ship designs with other players in the in game ship expo! 
• Go solo or buddy up – Jump into the full Singeplayer challenge based story mode or invite your friends to do battle on the high seas in intense PvP open world combat.
• Get creative – Sandbox mode with unlimited resources to let your creativity run wild 
• Four unique minigames – Test your vessel and skills with fun and challenging minigames including Spy Ducks, Fast and Furious, Fishing Challenge, Ghost Ships (with many more to come!) 

Sea of Craft will be setting sail in late summer 2021 for PC via Steam. Fans can wishlist the game now. For more information check out the official website at http://www.seaofcraft.com/

About Green Man Gaming Publishing 

Green Man Gaming Publishing works with developers around the world to bring great indie games to market.  Green Man Gaming Publishing is a division of Green Man Gaming, the multi-award-winning global video games retailer and technology business.

About PuzzleJar (developer)

Having banded together in 2018 with full heads of hair, the lifelong gamers at PuzzleJar form a small indie games R & D team. They wield their many combined years of experience with Unity to create awesome player experiences. In partnership with Wizard Games Global – one of China’s leading game developers and publishers – PuzzleJar toils ceaselessly to bring better games to the world. Each hair fallen in the course of development is offered readily for this noble purpose

Redhill Games’ Nine to Five Will Be Playable for Free During Steam Next Fest

Experience the latest sneak preview of the upcoming team-tactics shooter from June 16-22

HELSINKI – June 10, 2021 – Redhill Games has announced that Nine to Five, the fast-paced FPS that pits three teams of three against each other, will be playable for free on Steam from June 16-22 as part of Steam Next Fest. The demo will let players experience Nine to Five’s core gameplay hooks, as well as exclusive new weapons and armor. Squad up with friends, customize your loadouts, and dive into an exhilarating multiplayer showdown where good teamwork and strategy can make all the difference.

Set in a near-future where corporations rule everything and being a mercenary is just another job, Nine to Five is a free-to-play 3v3v3 shooter that’s as much about outsmarting your rivals as it is outgunning them. Matches develop over three phases, each impacting the next and forcing players to constantly adapt their strategies to win.

Redhill has continued to build up Nine to Five through frequent testing phases with its community toward a future official release. For more info, check out www.ninetofive.game.

About Redhill Games

Headquartered in Helsinki with multinational leadership and talent drawn from many of PC gaming’s top companies, Redhill Games was established in late 2018 with a core focus on creating high-quality titles that capitalize on the team’s extensive knowledge of free-to-play, games-as-a-service experiences. The studio employs over sixty talented developers from nineteen nationalities and continues to grow.

ARUMA STUDIOS IS WORKING ON A NEW POINT-AND-CLICK ADVENTURE GAME: INTRUDER IN ANTIQUONIA

Welcome to Antiquonia. Internet not included.

A modern 2D point-and-click adventure set in a disconcerting town that disregards the Internet. Sarah, the protagonist, wakes up with amnesia and has to solve a series of puzzles to discover her past. Husband-and-wife indie developers, Aruma Studios has announced their first commercial adventure game, Intruder in Antiquonia, which is currently under development and will eventually become available on Linux, Mac, and Windows in 2022.

The story unfolds in present times. Sarah, the protagonist, is found lying on the road that leads to the town of Antiquonia. She is found by Karim, the ambulance driver in town. Together with the police officer and the convent gardener, Karim will help Sarah as she navigates both her lost memories and Antiquonia.

Antiquonia is fairly unique and heavily inspired by the region of Galicia, Spain, where both developers grew up. Galicia has many beautiful towns full of soul and a long history, and the developers worked hard to capture that in the visuals of the game. As Sarah digs deeper into her memories, she discovers that she can hack computers and gadgets. That skill would be a complete game-changer in most places, but Antiquonia is a bit special when it comes to technology, so it won’t be so easy.

Antiquonia is designed to be a delight to explore, not just through beautiful visuals, but also by including charming, fully dimensional characters with motivations and in-depth backstories. Puzzles are deeply integrated with the story and are designed to keep the challenge at a level that feels rewarding when you solve them while still not being too stressful.

While the game is primarily a drama, it’s full of brief moments of comedy to break the tension, inspired by great movies such as Life Is Beautiful and As Good as it Gets. These moments are achieved through the unique personality of certain characters, who are fun to listen to, authentic, and they never pretend to be something they are not. The game’s development aligns with the developers’ return to their roots in Galicia after 10 years of working in Switzerland. It’s also the first time they are working full-time on a video game. “I’ve wanted to make an adventure game since I played Loom and Maniac Mansion with my father as a kid, and this transition provided the perfect opportunity. A break from the usual 9 to 5 to do something very personal, with love and passion.” said developer Rubén López.

Silvia used to be a producer in TV shows and Rubén used to be a software engineer at Google. Together, they have created another short point-and-click adventure for the web and two puzzle games for smartphones. Silvia Izquierdo said “We are capturing a little bit of Galicia in this game, and that feels truly special. Also, I love how I can translate many of my production skills to this genre, while at the same time learning a lot of new things.”

Website: https://intruderinantiquonia.com

About Aruma Studios

Intruder in Antiquonia is the first commercial adventure produced by the indie game studio Aruma Studios. The founders, Silvia and Rubén, are a family team based in A Coruña, Spain. They both love games that make you use the brain and have engaging stories. Aruma Studios has already released three more games. The most recent one is Star Balloon, a puzzle game for mobile with a twist on the classical match-3 mechanics in which you control balloons by blowing air from two fans. Before that, they released Quantum Derail, a point-and-click adventure game for the web in which you play as a police detective solving the theft of the first quantum locomotive. Even before the name Aruma Studios existed, they released their oldest title, Egg Savior, a puzzle game for mobile in which you indirectly control a chicken by adding and moving platforms so it can reach an egg.

Brazil is fast becoming a leading hotspot for game development, and today we’d like to shine a light on seven of the brightest studios — each with titles set for launch in 2021. Following the smashing success of Brazil’s Independent Game Festival (BIG Festival), which registered an incredible 545 companies from 64 countries, the country is experiencing explosive growth in the indie scene. Whether your platform of choice is PC, console, mobile, or VR, there is a little something for everyone coming out of the biggest country in South America.

So without further ado, let’s check out some of the upcoming titles from some of the studios who were a part of the Best by Brazil special selection during BIG Festival!

Seize Studios
What the Duck
Description: An action-adventure RPG set in a world where humans are able to summon spiritual animals to battle for them! Mighty dragons, ferocious tigers, and in the case of protagonist Illy…a not-quite-as-ferocious duckling. Join Illy and brilliant inventor Hellen as they journey across the land seeking revenge and learning about themselves along the way.
Platform: PC

Coffeenauts
Spacelines from the Far Out
Description: Have you ever dreamed of opening up an intergalactic travel agency with your best pals? In this procedurally-generated co-op title, players will plan and execute the perfect stellar vacation for their clients, ferrying them to their desired location safe, sound, and preferably free of space-sickness induced vomit.
Platform: PC, Xbox One

Electric Monkeys
Gravitational
Description: Players will take on the role of Sebastian, a scientist and wheelchair user, as he attempts to solve a series of puzzles in a gorgeously rendered VR setting. They’ll need to use their wits and a hefty dose of spatial reasoning to develop gravitational solutions and prevent the reactor from exploding.
Platform: (Playstation VR) and Steam

Glitch Factory
No Place for Bravery
Description: Join Thorn, an aging but still mighty warrior, as he traverses a brutal and bloody pixel-art world in search of his missing daughter. Ferocious combat and terrifying enemies will challenge Thorn in this 2D action-RPG inspired by games like Sekiro and Dark Souls.
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch

Petit Fabrik
Kukoos – Lost Pets
Description: Reminiscent of classic Nintendo 3D platformers, Kukoos – Lost Pets drops players into an adorable cartoon world where they must rescue a series of brainwashed pets being held captive by a robot frog. With plenty of collectables and hidden secrets to find, Kukoos – Lost Pets will take players back to the golden era of games like Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie.
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

QUByte Interactive
Project Colonies: Mars 2120
Description: The first human colony on Mars has gone mysteriously silent, and it’s up to tough-as-nails Space Marine Lt. Anna “Charlotte” to head to the red planet and see what went wrong. Project Colonies: Mars 2120 is a Metroidvania that features all the hallmarks of the genre like fluid ranged and melee combat, upgradable abilities, and a vast, interconnected world to explore filled with deadly enemies and challenging bosses.
Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

Lunic Games
Evertried
Description: Ascend a tower filled with increasingly deadly floors in this rogue-lite tactics title with a twist on the classic turn-based gameplay the genre is known for. In Evertried, the player’s actions dictate when enemy units move — which means they can only move after the player, offering a refreshing ability to dictate the speed of the match. Make clever use of attacks, movement, and skills along with dash, focus, modifiers and other hazards to clear each floor of enemies and proceed to the next floor!
Platform: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S

All seven developers and their games are looking to offer something fun and new, and show just how Brazil is becoming a leader in indie development.