The Guerrilla Collective, a new online digital games festival, was hosted this year by Greg Miller and produced by Media Indie Exchange (The MIX) in collaboration with Kinda Funny Games Showcase. This one of a kind show spanned from June 13 – June 15 and had plenty of new announcements, game reveals, dev interviews, and deep dives! We had reported about the showcase on 28 May when new companies had joined the Collective. For the complete show on Youtube check out: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.
Here is our selection of games from the show that piqued our interest! For the sake of highlighting indie games we are keeping some well-known games out of the list – Crusader Kings 3, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 and System Shock. Also, we have already covered some of the games shown here on our website – Drake Hollow press release, The Falconeer trailer, Summer In Mara review, and the West Of Dead review.
Nuts
Nuts is a single-player mystery game by a small development team from Iceland. What started off as a small demo made for Global Game Jam 2018, has snowballed into a full-fledged surveillance game with a unique art style, full voice-acting, and an immersive story. You are an amateur field researcher who has been sent on an assignment to Melmoth forest to track the lifestyle of squirrels by arranging cameras and analyzing the footage.
Available on: Microsoft Windows, macOS
Release date: 2021
Trash Sailors
A co-op roguelite survival game where you play as castaways stranded on a raft in the middle of a trash flooded world. You and your friends will need to collect garbage and recycle it for resources to keep floating. Navigate through hostile weather conditions, fight wild mutants and other deadly aquatic adversaries The game features a remarkable hand-drawn aesthetic reminiscent of the Don’t Starve series. Made by a two-person team from Poland, this game is surely one to look out for!
Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch
Release date: 2020
Metal Hellsinger
Be the part-human part-demon Unknown and tear your way through demonic hordes of Hell while listening to death metal tracks created specially for the game. One of a kind rhythmic FPS, where if you are in-sync with the music, the intensity will increase, and the more destructive your rampage would be. Armed with a skull-clad blade and a bevy of murderous guns, each with their unique abilities, conquer the Infernal Planes to defeat the Red Judge. This game has an epic story campaign and also a challenge mode.
Available on: PC
Release date: 2021
The Eternal Cylinder
The makers of Zeno Clash and Rock of Ages welcome you to a gorgeous procedurally-generated alien world where you have to control a herd of cute creatures called Trebhums. Their existence is constantly threatened by a monolithic gargantuan cylinder that squashes everything in its way. Your job is to explore this surreal world, manage unique mutations, solve dynamic puzzles, and learn about the other exotic inhabitants while escaping the all-crushing pipe God.
Available on: PS4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows (Epic launch exclusive)
Release date: 2020
El Hijo – A Wild West Tale
This game is an isometric non-violent spaghetti-western stealth game from a Berlin-based studio. You play as a six-year-old on a quest to find his mother – sneaking past the real dangers of the world with a childish mischievousness. You will encounter dark monasteries, harsh desert environments, a frontier town, and use the game’s shadow stealth mechanics to hoodwink enemies and solve tricky puzzles to reach your goal.
Available on: Microsoft Windows, macOS
Release date: TBA
That’s it, folks. Tell us what your top picks from the Guerrilla Collective are in the comments below!