A zoo simulation with a difference, relaxing city planning and a dating dungeon crawler – you should check out these 10 games.
Even though we’d like to, we can’t report on every game that will be released in a year. That’s why we take the opportunity to offer you 10 great games that you may not have heard of – and there are also a few honorable mentions at the end.
Exo One
One of the most surprising games this year was – at least for me – Exo One. Actually, you don’t do that much, apart from navigating a small ball with momentum over foreign planets. You catapult yourself from planet to planet via strange constructions, all of which are breathtakingly designed.
The whole thing is embedded in a framework story, which is told indirectly, among other things, via journalistic contributions. Here and there you learn something about space programs or the “gravity drive” of the ball. But you don’t get the content simply served, so there’s plenty of room for interpretation. Exo One is meditative and an exciting gaming experience that doesn’t require much action.
Building Games will find joy, challenges and even food for thought here. Because at Let’s build a Zoo it’s not just about expanding and designing your zoo and earning more money with more visitors. It’s about moral decisions, equality, environmental awareness and animal welfare. Do I build wind turbines or do I prefer to tap into the power line of the local grid? Do I buy rare animal species on the black market, or do I save animals from forest fires?
Added to this is the possibility to use a CRISPR station to create wild crossbreeds between all sorts of animals: pig with snake, goose with lion – there are only moral limits. Everything happens quickly, you always have to keep track of the enclosure, animals, food and workers. This is very engaging and surprisingly deep – plus it’s very cute when a pixel bunny bounces on a trampoline.
Let’s build a Zoo costs around 16 Euro and is at Steam and in Epic Game Store available.
not over. As the name suggests, for this successful
Co-op game two players . Together you slip into the role of a quarreling couple who are about to divorce. The daughter’s desire for peace turns them into dolls that have to get into the house through the garden, as in “Darling, I Shrunk the Children”.
They meet all sorts of warlike squirrels and wasps, float over ball pools, slide through enchanting snowy landscapes (caught in a snow globe) and compete against a monkey-astronaut that has come to life -Doll on. The skills of the two complement each other and only together can opponents be defeated and puzzles solved. As the game progresses, however, it becomes increasingly clear that the behavior of the two quarrelers is at least questionable, sometimes even repulsive. In contrast to the cute look, there were scenes that emotionally affected me – but the gaming experience was all the more intense.
It Takes Two is a EA Game and therefore requires a Origin account. The positive thing is that only one of the two players has to buy the game, the other person can make friends via . -Pass
Eduard But, who (still) finances the game entirely through donations. You only need one account, you don’t have to pay anything – and that makes it a real alternative to GeoGuessr which requires a monthly subscription for full access.
A colorful planet full of absurdities is crushed by a huge rolling cylinder. Players have to cope in this world and escape from the threat. You control a group of cute creatures called Trebhums, who can customize their bodies through certain meals. So they can eat grasshopper legs and increase their jumping power. The game has fascinated me with its absurdity alone.
It varies somewhere between Open World Survival and Action-Adventure with puzzle elements. How to use their limited time until the cylinder has crushed everything is up to the players themselves. Do you try to discover the cylinder’s origins or do you discover the world before it is destroyed? Again and again you can stop the reel for a while by activating towers. But if you cross a border on the map, it rolls on and you have to flee.
This little game is a marvel. Because actually you do nothing here except to create majestic cities or picturesque island villages. Enchanting
colorful houses, bridges, cathedrals and turrets
2021 was a pretty strong year for indie games, we can’t name them all here. Nevertheless, I don’t want to omit a few games that are wrongly not featured on this page:
Kena – Bridge of Spirits: Disney meets Ghibli in this enchanting adventure (40 euros, PS4, PS5 , Epic)
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