The European video game fair Gamescom 2024 has welcomed news of upcoming releases with a wide catalogue of indie titles such as GreedFall 2, Croak, Beyond Galaxyland, Faaast Penguin and Dwarven Realms.
Future Game Show, the event focused on upcoming releases, has hosted news of 50 titles on the occasion of the European Gamescom 2024 fair, ranging from independent studio games to AAA productions.
This event hosted the previews of Retrieval, a horror, action and survival video game developed by the Spanish studio 333Studios, where the player will take on the role of Hana Loshe, a commander in search of her lost crew on Ryhalian, a planet billions of miles from Earth. It will soon be released on PlayStation.
Nacon, meanwhile, has shown gameplay from two of its titles: the narrative RPG from the Spiders studio GreedFall 2: The Dying World (September 24); and Ravenswatch, a cooperative roguelike action game that revisits tales and legends from around the world.
Indie studio Crater Studios has confirmed that Dwarven Realms will finally arrive on September 27thThis action RPG title for PC has been in early access since December 2022 and allows players to take on hordes of monsters.
United Label’s Beyond Galaxyland offers a retro-futuristic RPG adventure starring a high school student and his gun-toting guinea pig on a mission to save the Earth. It’s coming September 24. Also coming on September 24 is Bloomtown: A Different Story, a narrative-driven RPG inspired by 1960s America that features turn-based combat with monsters and social mechanics.
Bionic Bay is coming to PC in 2025, featuring a puzzle-platformer set in an ancient world. Also coming next year is Mars Attracts, the video game inspired by Tim Burton’s film of the same name. Before that, on August 29, Akimbot, a platform game starring two robots, developed by Evil Raptor, will land on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Woodrunner Games has released Croak, a platformer starring a frog with a crown and cape who turns out to be the prince of a cursed kingdom, while Borealys Games has released the sequel to Mages of Mystralia, Echoes of Mystralia. It stars Mazarim, the protector of the Circle of Memories, who must face the shadows of the past to combat the oblivion that haunts the inhabitants of this world.
Also new is Faaast Penguin (September 2024), from History Inc., a kart-style racing game that puts up to 40 penguins on the track. Maui the Shapeshifter, from Play on Worlds, puts the player in the shoes of the demigod Maui, who must save his world from darkness, and Pocket Games has announced the thief game Monaco 2.
Antistatic has unveiled Phantom Line, a psychological horror first-person shooter set in a post-nuclear Europe. It supports co-op play with up to four players. And Bippinbits has attracted attention with the name of a longer, more convoluted video game: PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, starring a defense cannon operator in a war against an alien invader.
Also participating in this event are Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, Black Myth: Wukong, Exoborne, Haunted Paws, Stormforge, The Stone of Madness, Will: Follow the Light, and many others.