But it’s together that they set out to learn about their family’s dark secrets and mysteries after they discover a cache of old documents hidden in their house’s attic. It focuses on 16-year-old Tess Devine, whose relationship with her mother, Opal, has never been easy.
Speaking of that hopeful mom game wave, Open Roads is also definitely a stunning-looking Mom Game.
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It is coming out for PC in November 2021. I’m especially excited considering this is one of several games that have made me hopeful we’re going to get a mom game wave. As the daughter of an immigrant who has used food to make sure assimilation has not broken my connection to my Latin roots, I can’t wait for this one. In this story about family, loss, and love, you’ll cook various dishes and restore lost recipes in between branching conversations. Venba is a narrative cooking game in which you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada in the 1980s with her family. It is coming out for PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Game Pass in 2021. She Dreams Elsewhere is being developed by Studio Zevere, whose sole employee is Davionne Gooden. Drawing inspiration from JRPGs like Persona and Final Fantasy, it’s a surreal hip-hop-infused RPG that focuses on self-identity and mental health and is led by an entirely Black cast. (Hi Thalia, I’m also an average millennial sadgirl who’s just trying her best). Instead, Thalia is “an average millennial sadgirl who’s just trying her best.” As he says, this is definitely pretty relevant during these times. Its sole developer, Davionne Gooden, told Fanbyte he didn’t want to create a game about a chosen hero. You’ll wander through surreal locations in her mind in hopes of waking her from her deep slumber. You play as Thalia, a woman struggling with anxiety and depression who has become comatose. She Dreams Elsewhere has gotten lots of love for its eye-captivating art and hypnotizing style. It is planned to be released in the second quarter of 2021. Know by heartis being developed by Ice-Pick Lodge, the developer of Pathologic and Pathologic 2. His mundane routine is shattered when his school crush visits the town, leading to a reunion among childhood friends that is ruined by “something beyond their control.” You’ll play as Misha, who lives in a quiet provincial Russian town in which one can still feel the traces and echoes of the Soviet era.
Know by heart is an approximately five-hour game about accepting loss - especially the loss of time, the kind we all face as we grow up and change. It is “coming soon” to PlayStation 5 and PC. While it’s likely to come out later this year, it is the only game on this list without a confirmation. Season is being developed by Scavengers Studio. You’re simply an observer, able to capture those fleeting moments but not intervene to bear witness, “make recordings and attempt to understand what is being lost before it’s gone.” It’s set to be a touching story across a beautiful fantasy world that you’ll get to navigate on your bicycle, meeting various kinds of people and learning about different societies along the way. Still, it feels wrong to start it with anything other than Season, a gorgeous game in which you “experience the final moments of different cultures before they disappear” due to a mysterious cataclysm. This list is not ranked by order of excitement. But, for now, here’s a list of 20 wonderful-looking indie games that you should anticipate playing in 2021. It’s hard to tell which games on this list will ultimately come out this year, as we’re still dealing with the ever-worsening COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a perpetually growing and exciting space that is a joy to follow.
Games that have dominated Game Of The Year lists like last year’s Hades, the League of Legends spin-off RPG in this list, titles made by one person like Lucas Pope’s Return of the Obra Dinn - these all constitute indie games. It’s getting increasingly difficult to precisely define indie games and our expectations of them. If there’s something that helped me get through all the hardships of 2020, it’s the many video games I loved - over half of which were indie games. New year, new me writing a list of indie games I am excited to see more of and play.
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