Hey everybody, how was your 2021? For me, 2021 has given me alternatives to play extra video games than in earlier years, as getting access to PlayStation 5 has not solely eliminated a lot of the wait time to get into the video games I wish to play, but in addition their loading instances because of the console’s blazingly quick SSD.
All year long, now we have seen plenty of wonderful, charming, lovely and completely partaking indie video games on PS4, PS VR and PS5. Listed here are 12 of my private favourites.
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Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights
This lovely but oppressive Japanese explorative platformer has an attention-grabbing strategy to fight: uncover downed knights and cleanse their souls to have them struggle for you, whereas defeating sure enemies lets you undertake their talents on your personal use.
Chicory: A Colourful Story
At first look Chicory could look like an interactive coloring guide, but at its coronary heart lies an interesting journey. The story’s themes – self-doubt, redemption – are universally relatable.
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Of all of the video games I’ve performed this 12 months, this one left the largest mark. It’s additionally the one recreation I can’t reveal a lot about with out spoiling a number of the large twists and turns that await you. I’ll say this solely: don’t be deceived by its courting sim-like look.
Puzzling Locations
This photogrammetry-powered puzzler challenges you to recreate varied real-world locations by selecting up – and placing collectively – their fragmented elements like a jigsaw puzzle in VR.
F.I.S.T.: Solid In Shadow Torch
A recreation that includes a heroic rabbit with an enormous mechanical fist connected on his again wants to supply satisfying melee fight, and this delivers. (And the dieselpunk Shanghai-inspired aesthetic is gorgeous.)
Hades
Every little thing about Supergiant Video games’s roguelike is classy: razor-sharp fight, excellent gameplay mechanics, charming characters, wonderful voice-acting… you can’t cease taking part in. It’s an ideal recreation.
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
A 3rd individual action-adventure recreation with lovely character animation and interesting fight. You acquire “Rot” – cute little creatures – to help you in fight and puzzle fixing.
Music within the Smoke
A PS VR recreation set in a prehistoric period during which staying alive hinges in your capacity to craft, hunt, and struggle. Encounter fearsome creatures and soak within the sights of this atmospheric survival sim.
Jett: The Far Shore
The primary half-hour of this recreation is essentially the most cinematic opening of any recreation launched this 12 months and completely units up your position as your civilisation’s chosen one who’s tasked to outlive in a brand new colony.
Demise’s Door
This isometric motion journey mixes diversified fight eventualities with gentle puzzles for an interesting story set within the afterlife.
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Glide throughout clouds and grind on rails in a fantastical sc-fi world. Between combating foes and defeating leviathan-sized bosses, exploration will yield collectables and deepen the story of this world’s previous.
Amongst Us
One of the vital enjoyable multiplayer experiences I’ve had this 12 months. Attempt to work out who in your spaceship crew helps prep for launch, and who’re imposters intent on killing you all.