A selection of interesting indie games. April

As I have repeatedly written in such collections, in addition to the well-known large AAA Taytlov, almost every day on the gaming industry market appears another new indie game, for example, only in Steam there are over 1000 in this two months. In this article, in this article. You will find another selection, in my opinion, interesting Indie games that came out from April to March 2022.

• Songs of Conquest
• Little Witch in the Woods
• stacklands
• URAGUN
• Abriss
• Dune: Spice Wars
• Dorfromantik
• Ravenous Devils
• Loot River
• Trek to Yomi
• Citizen Sleeper
• We Were Here Forever
• Before The Last Hour
• V Rising

stacklands

• Release date: April 8th.
• Genre: Construction.
• Developer and publisher: Sokpop Collective.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 133 rubles.
• Steam.

Stacklands is a very unusual and extremely exciting urban planning simulator built around the collecting system of various cards. The main gameplay is reduced to a single action, you combine several cards to get resources, create something new or repulse enemies. For example, having dragged a resident’s card on a card with berries, after a while you will get food, and if you drag two residents into the card of the house, after a while they will create a child’s card.

The player receives new random cards after opening the sets of cards purchased for gold, it can be obtained, say, selling an excess of resources. In total, there are 7 sets of cards in the game, they gradually open as you develop and each contains random cards of a certain purpose. In total in the game there are over 100 cards, 50 quests and 25 drawings for the construction of buildings.

URAGUN

• Early access.
• Release date: April 12th.
• Genre: Shoot 'Em Up, isometry.
• Developer and publisher: Kool2Play.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 360 rubles. There is a demo version.
• Steam.

Uragun is a simple isometric action, in which the player has to take control of the fur (robot) and repulse opponents in the post-apocalyptic world of the future. Since Uragun belongs to the Shoot 'Em Up genre, the gameplay in it boils down to two actions-move and shoot until you reach the end of the level, of which more than 30 pieces (scattered in 3 regions).

To simplify the destruction of opponents, the fur is equipped with 2 active abilities, passions and 2 guns. All this gradually opens as the game passes, and weapons can also be improved by various passive modifiers.

Abriss

• Early access
• Release date: April 14th.
• Genre: Puzzle.
• Developer and publisher: Randwerk.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 399 rubles.
• Steam.

ABRISS is a fascinating puzzle that makes the player show creativity in the destruction of various objects. At the time of writing, in total, ABRISS has 36 levels and in each the player put one single task-to unleash all the white platforms. To achieve it, a certain set of parts is issued, from which you should come up with the mechanics of total destruction. As you deepen into the game, the assortment of details is becoming more and more diverse, and the levels are more distinguished.

Dune: Spice Wars

• Early access.
• Release date: April 26.
• Genre: RTS.
• Developer: Shiro Games.
• Publisher: Funcom, Shiro Games.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 1050 rubles (at the time of writing an article on a discount 840).
• Steam.

Dune: Spice Wars is a typical RTS (Real Time Strategy) in every sense, wrapped in the shell of all the beloved universe of the dune. Having chosen one of the four main houses (fractions), the player will go to the Arrakis planet to fight for control over its territories and the most valuable resource and spices.

The gameplay is similar to all other RTS games and follows 4x-cyme-Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterinate. Throughout the game, you have to explore the map, removing the fog of water, expand your boundaries, capturing the nearest settlements in any available way, build buildings, conduct research (4 days available), collect various resources and, if desired, establish diplomatic relations.

One key feature is Dune: Spice Wars is the collection of spices, because using noisy harvesters, you can attract the attention of majestic sandworms. If you do not remove the Harvester in time, you will forever lose it in the mouth of the worm.

Dorfromantik

• Release date: April 28.
• Genre: city building, puzzle.
• Developer and publisher: Toukana Interactive
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 309 rubles
• Steam.

Dorfromantik is an unusual head-headed strategy, and perhaps the very relaxing, calm, moderately fascinating game from the whole list. Dorfromantik's key idea to make up your own world and expand it as far as possible, but because of the main unusual mechanics, almost every action will have to be thought out to achieve this goal.

The creation of its own world begins with one central rhombuster cell and a set of additional cells, on the faces of which various objects are located that interact with each other. As soon as all additional cells end, the game ends, but their supply can be replenished by fulfilling the conditions associated with the location. This, in fact, is the aspect of the puzzle, for example, if a cage with trees fell, it must be connected to other trees, thereby forming the forest.

Ravenous Devils

• Release date: April 29.
• Genre: Management.
• Developer and publisher: Bad Vices Games.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 133 rubles. There is a demo version.
• Steam.

Ravenous devils is a rather unusual and strange game from a certain side, in which you have to control the restaurant and atelier. According to the plot, the spouse Persival and Hildred move to a two-story house to open two establishments in it and make money quickly. This harmless pair decides to achieve their goal in very terrible ways: Persian kills customers and sees their clothes for sale, and Hildred uses bodies instead of ingredients for various dishes.

If you simplify, the Ravenous Devils game process boils down to 5 things: preparing, so to speak, resources, creating clothes and various dishes for receiving money, cleaning evidence and improving the house. There is also a gradually developing plot.

Loot River

• Release date: May 3.
• Genre: Roguelike.
• Developer: Straka.studio.
• Publisher: Straka.studio, Superhot Presents.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 599 rubles.
• Steam.

Loot River-Isometric Horned with procedurally generated levels, extremely unusual movement mechanics and puzzles. Players have to try on the role of an nameless hero who will have to explore the mysterious ruins, consisting of numerous individual islands and locations. The main feature of the game is just in the islets, with the help of a mysterious artifact, our brave hero is able to move them. On this mechanics, moving around the world is tied, various puzzles and partly the combat process, because some opponents, unlike the hero, cannot jump between them.

Otherwise, the game includes such common features as:

• In case of death, the levels change, and the character loses all equipment.
• The character level, with an increase, allows you to pump characteristics.
• The battle system includes a regular attack, an enhanced attack, rifts and parrying.
• Various types of weapons, which first need to be unlocked through the tree of improvements. Unique abilities are attached to some weapons.
• Equipment affects various characteristics of the character. It can be found in an open world or knocking it out of opponents.
• World modifiers have a positive or negative effect for each new race by level.

Trek to Yomi

• Release date: May 5.
• Genre: action, adventure.
• Developer: Leonard Menchiari, Flying Wild Hog.
• Publisher: Devolver Digital.
• Platform: PC, PlayStation 4 | 5, Xbox One | S | X.
• Price: 549 rubles.
• Steam.

Trek to Yomi got into this list solely due to a chic stylistic black and white design in the spirit of old Japanese films. In this 2D Side Scroller, players will have to try on the role of a samurai named Hiroka, who is destined for fate, full of adventure and dangers. For detailed familiarization with all the pros and cons of the game, I strongly recommend reading our review by the link.

Citizen Sleeper

• Release date: May 8.
• Genre: Interactive literature.
• Developer: Jump Over the Age.
• Publisher: Fellow Traveller.
• Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One | S | X.
• Price: 435 rubles.
• Steam.

Citizen Sleeper is for the most part a slightly complex text RPG with elements of survival and decision-making with consequences. The action of the game unfolds on a crumbling space station, on which the main character of the Sleeper-social, presented in the form of digitized human consciousness in an artificial body arrives, trying to escape from a hopeless fate. Now, in order to survive and achieve his goal, he has to establish acquaintances, solve various everyday problems and simply get food to survive another day (cycle).

The features of the game include:

• Several possible endings.
• A huge amount of text, the main narrative is conducted through it, and, unfortunately, only English is officially supported.
• In the breaks between the texts, each game day (cycle) will have to explore the station in search of new acquaintances and making important decisions.
• Every day, based on the state of the character, a certain number of playing bones is issued, they are used in the decision-making system and affect the chance of a positive / negative outcome.
• The main character has two main indicators of CP (charge level) and satiety. The first is reduced every day and special resources are necessary for restoration. The second affects the speed of reducing the first.

We Were Here Forever

• Release date: May 10.
• Genre: puzzle, adventure.
• Developer and publisher: Total Mayhem Games.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 399 rubles.
• Steam.

We Were Here Forever is a cooperative adventure-head-headed, part of the series We Were Here. According to the plot, the main character and his partner, due to mysterious circumstances, are locked in a strange castle, now there is only one task in front of you-to find out. As in all previous parts, the main gameplay is built around the solution of various sometimes unusual and interesting cooperative puzzles. Actually, only because of this, the game was on the list, because recently there have been not many interesting projects sharpened under the cooperative.

Songs of Conquest

• Early access.
• Release date: May 10.
• Genre: A step-by-step strategy.
• Developer: Lavapotion.
• Publisher: Coffee Stain Publinging.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 499 rubles.
• Steam.

Songs of Conquest-if to express himself briefly, this is an ideological heir to such legendary step-by-step strategies as Heroes of Might and Magic. The game is made in extremely pleasant pixel style and does not try to rethink the main features of the genre, but only brings various improvements. The main gameplay still rotates around 3, most likely, things familiar to you: research on the world, a step-by-step system of battle on a separate map and, finally, improvement of the city.

The features of the game include:

• Several plot campaigns, multiplayer mode and cards editor.
• The world is made in a standard scheme for Might and Magic. You control one character, glasses are spent on the movement, replenished after the transition, during the study of land, you can stumble upon resources / structures / opponents.
• The character has a level, abilities and slots for equipment. All of them affect the troops.
• A step-by-step combat system is almost standard, with the exception of the presence on the map of hills that enhance damage on the goals below and passive \ active abilities.
• The troops, in addition to various basic differences, also allow you to accumulate mana of one of the schools of magic and then use its spells.

Before The Last Hour

• Release date: May 16.
• Genre: Adventure, KKI, ROGUELIKE.
• Developer and publisher: Lunaris Iris.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 465 rubles.

* Steam.

Before The Last Hour is a step-by-step slide with a card collecting system as a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic SCI-Fi world of the future. You have to try on the role of the last traveler, who turned out to be in the midst of an empty and lifeless desert inhabited by the shells of dead creatures. You can only explore the vast expanses of this dying world.

The features of the game include:

• Beautiful 2D cartoon stylistics with places of amazing animations.
• Roguelike is performed standardly: at each death, on the basis of progress, various awards are issued.
• The world of the game can be called open, only it is divided into many sectors, between which you move. Some sectors contain various events with a certain outcome, whether it is a certain reward or battle with the enemy.
• The battles are built around an almost standard step-by-step card system, with the exception of the ability to combine maps, enhancing their effects, and influence the enemy’s combo, canceling one or more attacks. New maps open as they study the world.
• In the process of studying the world, you can stumble upon equipment equipment, it enhances various characteristics and adds special effects of battle.

V Rising

• Release date: May 17.
• Genre: Survival.
• Developer and publisher: Stunlock Studios.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 435 rubles.
• Steam.

V Ringing is a very exciting isometric survival, in which the player is offered to try on the role of a vampire, who turned out after a centuries-old sleep and wants to regain his former force. The game process V Ringing contains almost all aspects of the games of a similar genre: the need to periodically replenish the main resource (blood), resource production, development of the character, the system of building a personal lock, a craft of equipment, various PVP \ PVE servers and so on. You can familiarize yourself with all the key features of the game in a separate article in more detail.

Little Witch in the Woods

• Release date: May 17.
• Genre: Adventure.
• Developer and publisher: Sunny Side Up.
• Platform: PC.
• Price: 627 rubles.
• Steam.

Little Witch in the Woods is an extremely cute relaxing game telling about the life of a novice witch named Ellie and her speaker Virgil. According to the plot, our witch goes by train to a certain city, but during a series of banal events leaves him and remains in the abandoned house of another witch. Actually, in the vicinity of this house and the nearest village, the adventures of the witch will be held.

The game process Little Witch in the Woods can be called very peaceful, very sweet and relaxing, because it does not imply any fighting at all. Throughout almost the entire game, you have to go through quests, solve riddles, collect information about creatures, recording them in an encyclopedia, collect resources, then crawl out various things, simply explore the world, etc.