The game features 50,000 words (about four hours to play through) with multiple endings to encourage replay value. What fortuitous timing! Knives Out: Glass Onion gets released, and blows us all away with how intelligent, humourous, and fun it is, as a take on the “death at a dinner party” style murder mystery, and here comes Detective Rosie Morgan to offer its own take on the genre, only in visual novel form.ĭetective Rosie Morgan is a yuri dating sim as well (yay), with Rosie looking for romance even as she investigates the mysterious death of a famous human rights lawyer.
An eclectic mix indeed! Detective Rosie Morgan: Death At A Dinner Party
This month’s Indiepocalypse includes a Game Boy adventure game (Sleep at Night), a visual novel about “the horror of having a body”, a hard-hitting game about the “attack on the labour rights of Ukrainians and the draft of the new anti-labour law” (because they weren’t going through enough already), a story about the “ritual of the everyday” for school teachers, and a game called “Businessmen”, which has been commissioned by Indiepocalypse specifically for this month’s release, and seems to be rather vocally anti-capitalist.
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In addition, you get a Zine, which features interviews, comics and more, as well as the Zine creator software that was used to make it. For those of you that haven’t come across it before, Indiepocalypse brings together ten games from indie developers that you simply would not have heard about otherwise – the most indie and experimental of all – and bundles them together into a package that could only be called “eclectic”. Indiepocalypse remains the highlight of itch.io, and the perfect representation of everything that this platform stands for. These aren’t so much an endorsement (or piece of criticism) as they are a head’s up. Where I find the time to do actual reviews or other coverage, I will compose separate articles on the game in question. I highlight them as interesting based on the itch.io description and concept. In many cases these games will be unfinished or “in development,” but I’m highlighting them because they promise something special and are well worth keeping on the radar. With that in mind, I thought what might be helpful to readers would be if I did a brief write-up of interesting games that I’ve come across on itch.io each week. Discovery is a real issue when great ideas are buried among high school projects and nasty little efforts to scam a quick buck from players. What makes itch.io a little difficult at times is finding things that are interesting to play. It’s a true “art gallery” for game ideas and creative developers, and it should be celebrated for that. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive, subversive, and downright dangerous. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk.
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