After showing strong support of the indie scene at both its February reveal and its E3 2013 presentation, Sony took the stage at Gamescom with a staggering list of indie announcements in tow. More than a few familiar names cropped up, but the event yielded a promising list of brand-new indie IPs as well as console releases of the genre’s classics. The full list is below:
· Fez
· Starbound
· Murasaki Baby — An innovative adventure game that allows the player to lead the weak and fragile protagonist by the hand (quite literally—you use the touch screen) through a perverse world of monsters.
· Rogue Legacy — Fight, die, then have your kids fight and die in your place in this rogue-like hit.
· Binding of Isaac: Rebirth — A complete overhaul of the original game with “a game’s worth of content” added in for its PlayStation debut.
· Guns of Icarus — Repair, battle, and collaborate with friends on majestic warships.
· Volume — Though little information was given, Volume comes from the minds behind Thomas Was Alone and looks to be a puzzle-based music title, and one that’s “based on being heard.”
· Rime: A noticeably stylized adventure title that leads the unlikely hero through a vast and gorgeous world.
· Helldivers — From the makers of Magicka comes a new co-op romp—this time its soldiers, guns, and aliens instead of wizards, wands, and goblins.
· Hotline Miami 2 — More gore and more nonsense than the original, but with a greater degree of refinement and even awesome-er music.
· Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture — We saw a brief trailer, but learned little of the game. What we do know is that The Chinese Room, the developers of Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs , is taking the post-apocalyptic trope in a brand new direction.
· Minecraft — The open-world sandbox hit has been confirmed to be coming to PS4.
· N++ — Get in and get addicted with the next release of the N franchise.
· Wasteland — Also shrouded in mystery, with little more than the label “rogue-like-like” to go on. Sounds promising to me.
If Sony does want to truly be at the front of an indie gaming revolution , then it is going about it the right way with this massive list of indie games that will appear on the PS4, Vita, or both.