Nintendo is hosting its first Indie World Showcase of 2024. As the name implies, this digital event focused entirely on indie games that were headed to Nintendo's hybrid gaming system, the Nintendo Switch. IGN has you covered with everything announced during the first Indie World Showcase of 2024, which you can read below.
Steamworld Heist 2 Officially Announced, Out August 8
Thunderful announced today that Steamworld Heist II is in development and will be released on August 8th, 2024.
The new gameplay trailer revealed at the showcase showed that SteamWorld Heist II would keep the same turn-based ricochet strategy gameplay while being set in a lush tropical environment called Carribea.
Thunderful spoke with IGN before the announcement, and producer Peter Magnusson explained that this upcoming release is a “milestone of size and scope” for the Steamworld franchise. Story and crew customization will be given greater emphasis than in previous releases.
Little Kitty, Big City Let's You Explore a Quirky Neighborhood as a Cat
If you are looking for another game in which you play as a cute little cat, Little Kitty, Big City is just the game for you. Players explore a colorful yet quirky neighborhood as they venture across the setting on their way home, while also helping other animals they encounter and tripping humans if they wish to cause chaos.
Little Kitty, Big City is out on May 9 for Nintendo Switch.
Atari Announced Yars Rising at Indie World Showcase
Yars Rising is a new side-scrolling run and gun platformer from Atari. The gameplay looks similiar to games like Metroid and Mega Man based on first glances. With some stealth components as we see snippets of the protagonist Yar evading robotic enemies.
Yars Rising arrives later this year.
Refined Self is a Timed-Exclusive Arriving This Summer
Refind Self: The Personality Test Game is an exploration-based adventure game with heavy themes of self-discovery. Players control an android created by a now-deceased doctor. Throughout their adventure, players will learn more about the characters they control based on their choices and decisions, providing ample replayability to see how the story unfolds.
Refined Self: The Personality Test Game arrives this summer as a timed exclusive for the Nintendo Switch.
Sticky Business Is Headed to Nintendo Switch Today
Originally released last year on PC, this cozy, vibrant game has players running a small business where they create and sell stickers. Players can pack orders and hear customers share testimonials about their experience purchasing products.
Sticky Business and all the DLC released will arrive on Nintendo Switch today as a timed console exclusive.
Antonblast Gets November 12 Releaese Date
Announced at the 2023 Guerrilla Collective Showcase last summer, Antonblast is headed to PC and Nintendo Switch this November. Antonblast is a chaotic action platformer where players will bhave ample opportunities to destroy enemies and worlds.
Valley Peaks Is Getting a Switch Port
Valley Peaks is an adventure game in which players climb mountains. Each mountain is a unique puzzle that requires a different strategy to solve to reach the top. Valley Peaks was first announced over a year ago as a PC exclusive, but today's Indie Showcase confirmed that Nintendo's hybrid console will also be a platform option.
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Gets May Release Date
An action-adventure puzzle game published by Annapurna Interactive, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is set somewhere in Europe where players control a young woman who has become entangled with increasingly dangerous illusions. Its nonlinear mystery will challenge players with new riddles to solve, which will inch them closer to solving the mystery.
Europa Delayed Again, a Demo Will Head to the Switch eShop Today
Announced back in 2022, Novadust Entertainment has provided a new release window for Europa, its action-adventure 3D platformer, by creative director Helder Pinto. Initially supposed to release in 2023, the studio announced it was delayed to April 16. After the game missed its release date yesterday, today's indie world showcase revealed a new release window of sometime before the end of 2024.
While players will need to wait a little longer, the studio announced that a demo would be available on the eShop starting today.
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