The electronics that once served as a lifeline to the outer world are now untethered and untamed, an explosion of static and noise that serves as a direct line to the void. If you’re into skulls, Beautiful Desolation has you covered: some people wear skulls, some emaciated humanoids look like skulls, and some characters have faces that just are skulls, their meat having been willfully scraped away in some terrifying attempt at ascendance.īoreal Tenebrae Act 1: “I Stand Before You, a Form Undone”Ī Canadian fixed-camera horror adventure with ennui to spare, Boreal Tenebrae explores a small town’s death throes through an eerie lo-fi aesthetic.
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The menus have patched bits of metal and exposed wires and stuttering screens, all of them serving as our obscured windows into a genuinely imaginative far, far, far future South Africa lousy with weird greenery, robots, dilapidated machinery, and skulls. This isometric adventure from South African developer The Brotherhood harkens back to ye olden times of user interfaces that weren’t supposed to blend in and be invisible so much as call infinite attention to themselves.
This is what I, a lone human being, had time for in one especially hellish year and what I believe is worth your time now that we’re out of it. I haven’t spent enough time with collaborative efforts like the Dread X Collections or the various Haunted PS1 projects, though they all sound wonderful in theory. There’s plenty of early access stuff I’ve ignored entirely, plenty of game jam experiments I haven’t touched (though you wouldn’t go wrong to have a look at Pink River and Hypnagogia ). But if you’re looking for something you might have missed, I have some titles for you.Ī few caveats: any list is constrained by time relative to the volume of content, and the space of indie games has so much more than I could do justice to. There were a lot of great indie games in 2020, and many have already been covered at Fanbyte: Umurangi Generation, Signs of the Sojourner, Noita, and Paradise Killer, to name a few.
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