What To Expect From Indie Games In 2022

Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t have an open world like Dark Souls or Elden Ring , but instead has segmented chapters. Each chapter has its own theme and enemy types, be it traversing spooky villages filled with bug people or battling the heat of the desert and rat warriors. This keeps the encounters and environments fresh because as soon as you might get bored with one area and its inhabitants, it will shift to something completely new and original. The areas themselves are immense. While you can critical path through the main story, there are numerous branching paths you can go down, unraveling side quests and unlocking abilities and side-bosses.


Now that the biggest names in games like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are setting aside dedicated sections in their own presentations for indies, the growing importance of these types of games is clear. Initiatives like PlayStation Indies, ID@Xbox, and Nintendo Indie World show how the bigger studios are supporting and championing independent efforts and allowing them to reach even bigger audien

The story is one of the more compelling parts, meeting characters that you may be familiar with in the lore, but how it’s told isn’t always particularly well done. While we’ll get to the amazing aesthetics and presentation later, most of the chapters generally start in a rather confusing manner. Our little monkey friend will end up in these new lands by methods unknown to the viewer. Whether it’s sneaking in a chest, waking up with a hundred arrows in you, or just teleporting through an ancient warrior statue, there’s never a good linear path for the storytelling, with what seems like portions of it left out.


One of the best things about indie games is that they allow studios to bring all of their whacky and weird ideas to the table, and develop games that might otherwise have caused a lot of raised eyebrows or confused expressions when the concepts are seen on paper. For example, the notion of playing as a stray cat that explores a city populated by robots sounds bizarre, but the glimpses players have been shown of Stray so far paint a compelling and beautifully realized picture . Similarly, the ability to play a game where a bear runs a B&B in the woods in Bear and Breakfast or to control anthropomorphic dinosaur characters who are about to graduate in Goodbye Volcano High may seem like fever dreams, but there's undeniable genius in these concepts if studios can pull them


Elden Ring will likely rack up significant numbers this year too, with both Elden Ring Nightreign and the Tarnished Edition launching in 2025. The latter will probably have an especially huge impact on the game's lifetime sales, as many Elden Ring owners may want to own their favorite game on the Switch 2 as w


It seems like the breadth of independent development power in the industry right now is more impressive than it's ever been, with a plethora of studios plugging away at sequels to successful games or set to release exciting new titles. It could be said that this is the pinnacle of an indie game boom, with smaller teams able to more than pull their weight against larger behemoth studios with millions of dollars in backing. Developers like WayForward, Drinkbox Studios, and The Fullbright Company have firmly established themselves as names to know when it comes to indie games, but there is plenty of new talent on the rise as w


Wukong is a master shapeshifter with many useful forms. He can transmute into a minuscule Cicada to avoid enemies, a giant ape to clear a large group of enemies, and much more. He can also take the forms of certain boss enemies to use their weapons and powers. Wukong's main weapon is a highly versatile magical staff, which can not only be used to dole out blunt force trauma on enemies but also for evasive maneuvers, like planting the extendable staff into the ground to escape ground-level hazards. The combat system looks very robust with many spells and magic abilities like creating multiple clones, freezing enemies momentarily, and so

It does feel slightly underwhelming in the display department. Much of its competition, including other iterations of the G16, offers a 2K resolution display for similar pricing and in the same form factor, something that most gamers would not mind given its underlying hardware, but something that can make a difference when it comes to day to day use of the laptop.


The trailers tease many intriguing and ambitious scenarios like Wukong fighting an army on clouds, approaching titanic deities emerging from the horizon, and many more. The scope of the game is tremendous and with a successful release, it could give the biggest fantasy/mythology action games a run for their mo


Going by their imperious command to the player and the eerie-looking temple they inhabit, odds are good this mysterious antagonist/boss is the "Yellow Brows Great King" mentioned above, a spirit-turned-demon presiding over their own twisted version of the Buddhist faith. They may even be same narrator who recites the " Thou Shalt Kill " monologue earlier in the Black Myth Wukong patch notes Myth: Wukong trailer, cementing themselves as an actual ideological enemy of Buddhism in-game, rather than just another of Wukong's demonic souls who wants to become immortal by devouring the flesh of a holy m