Wholesome games
Smushi Come Home looked the best of this series of games.
Surmount looked like fun in local coop.
Kibu looked super purty but to what end, you till the land and plant some potatoes? no thanks
Future of Play
Atomic Picnic: 4 player coop shooter/roguelite
Cavern on Dreams: I guess this is very nostalgic of ps1/n64 3d platformers?
Rune Fencer Illya: indie metroidvania, but it’s still on kickstarter campaign. Ugh.
Ritual Night:
Sorry but what the hell it’s a ‘roguelite social deduction game’. Are you throwing buzzwords? Because it seemed a clone of Among Us.
Also, in a way seeing this
was more sanity-loss inducing that a normal Chulthu.
Techtonica looks like a good automation game, but then again so are others in the genre, that I didn’t play.
Artic Awakening: I think I have seen this game on the previous year too, although the name doesn’t ring any bells.
Demon Spore: this looked original when I saw the first trailer a pair of months ago, and still looks good.
Psychroma: another very interesting horror game, which normally I would have skipped if I wasn’t watching these trailers. It reminded me somehow to a manga famous for how trippy it is, about a drug user.
Let’s Revolution: For a second this looked like a souped up fantasy minesweeper. I’m reading it’s actually a puzzle/roguelite game.
Airbone Empire: Flying city builder?