After Geoff Keighley’s starting signal and the very interesting Day of the Devs – a good closing with the ambient music of Cocoon – it was the turn of the Return Direct 2024. The script of the little movie This year was dedicated to the fifteenth birthday of Volvy—the famous Devolver mascot who reappeared in our lives a year ago. It may not have been the funniest—nor the bloodiest—but it worked perfectly as a vehicle to take us from one ad to the next.
Neva does not appear in this entry, since it was shown at the Summer Game Fest, despite the fact that Devolver Digital is the publisher of the next Nomada game. Furthermore, the rules of this format force us to be cruel with one of yesterday’s announcements, since beyond confirming that The Brave Squire will be released in 2024, Devolver Digital showed six games… and one will not be able to be part of L5D.
The five of (L5D) is the series of articles in which we will list, five by five, the most outstanding games of June Jugón; Each event, whether there are ten or a hundred games, will be summarized in the five that have caught our attention the most. Do you notice any absence? Tell us what your 5Ds are.
Cult of the Lamb: Unholy Alliance
Cult of the Lamb It is a quite entertaining game and its developers, Massive Monster, have not stopped offering content since its launch in 2022 – both within the game and on social networks. With a camera movement that always suggests something good, a new character joins the universe of the adorable little lamb who works so hard for the well-being of the rest of the animals that worship him. Lamb and goat will face the dangers of the dungeons together in this local cooperative mode that this update will offer starting August 12. Unholly Alliance It can be played on PC and consoles.
The Crush House
One of the latest games announced by Devolver Digital, although it did not have a release date until last night’s event. The thing goes, you know, from a reality show; Your objective is to take care of the technical part, everything that has to do with recording the most important moments. hot of coexistence and the agile editing necessary so that the public does not get bored and the program moves forward. There is something else, a shadow of darkness or a perverse ebb, in this group of thirsty suitors and the house in which they live; probably discover what is one of the advantages of the game.
In two months, on August 9, we will be able to play the new game from Nerial, the creators of Card Shark. We can now try its demo on Steam.
Tenjutsu
Developed by Deepnight Games, the studio founded and formed by Sébastien Benard (the former Motion Twin with whom we have already spoken several times: once in 2019, when he was still working on Dead Cells, and another at the beginning of this year, when he had already left the study and was critical of some of the decisions of his previous study), this Tenjutsu is the epic of a renegade yakuza who kicks Secret Garden City up and down against his former associates. The key is in the combat system, designed to generate “intense hand-to-hand combat that requires surgical precision”; Furthermore, the structure of roguelike It seems designed so that we learn to play run to run, as we watch Secret Garden City flourish again as we free it from the yoke of the mafias. No date.
Anger Foot
One of the protagonists of the Devolver Delayed Showcase broadcast last summer, and which is coming out right now, in no time: July 11. Developed by Free Lives (the very solvent South African studio of Broforce, Genital Jousting or Terra Nil, true all-rounders), Anger Foot It is one of those frenetic arcades in which we have to clean the levels with a clean shoe, sending on the run to all enemies before moving forward; A demo could already be played in mid-2022, and the main ingredients of the game were already visible there, from a gameplay powerful and direct as, very conveniently, a kick in the face to the well-designed levels to repeat over and over again in search of records. In the new trailer, things haven’t changed much but it is clear that there is a game whole behind the joke of kicks and crocodiles, with an extensive repertoire of shoes to wear (from sneakers to Crocs) and more environments to enter feet first, and not in the sense in which that expression is usually used.
Possessor(s)
Nothing better than finishing with a new game, especially if it’s one that looks so good: Heart Machine, the studio behind Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash, presented its new project, Possessor(s), an extremely stylized 2D action game, both for the captivating beauty of each image in the trailer and for the fluidity of the combat, of which a lot was seen in the trailer. The melancholic and pasty tone has to do not only with the world you travel through (“the interconnected ruins of a destroyed megacity,” say those responsible, invaded by demonic cosmic horrors) but also with a story that is about Luca and Rehm, possessed and possessor, and his stormy relationship with the mysteries of the catastrophe that led the city to quarantine as a backdrop.
These people, by the way, are about to take other game, Hyper Light Breaker, an ambitious roguelike in 3D set in the Hyper Light Drifter universe. Still, Possessor(s) isn’t long overdue: it was announced for 2025.
From June 7 to 12, 2024, a series of events and presentations will help us find out what the rest of the year, next year and who knows how many more years have in store for us. In the absence of E3, good is the June Jugón; Click here to see all the content that we publish about the major festival of video games.
