Day of the Devs: Everything Announced and Shown, Including Choo-Choo Charles and Planet of Lana

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Day of the Devs just wrapped up, leaving us with a heck of a lineup of fascinating indie games slated for the coming months and years. We saw a total of 16 games over the last hour, some of them from known indie studios such as the folks behind Monument Valley, and others the debut games from new studios.

We’ve got a roundup below of everything we just saw, so if you’re looking for the next indie darling to fall in love with, this is the place to check:

The newly-announced Time Flies explores the limited time we all have here on earth, from the perspective of a fly. The time the fly has to live is dependent on where you are in the world, converting years to seconds – so if life expectancy in the United States is about 77 years, players in the US will have 77 seconds to live. During that time, you can try to complete items on a bucket list (similar to Untitled Goose Game’s To Do list) such as “Learn an Instrument,” “Go on Tour,” or “Get Rich.” Time Flies is made by Michael Frei and Raphaël Munoz, and is coming to PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, and PC/Mac sometime this year.

We’ve seen Planet of Lana before, but today we got a new, detailed trailer and breakdown of what’s going on in this puzzle adventure. Planet of Lana features the gameplay of something like Inside, but with much brighter and less disturbing vibes. It follows Lana, a young woman whose sister has been captured by an invading robot army, and she must try to rescue her alongside her loyal friend and pet. Planet of Lana is coming to Xbox and PC later this year, and is being developed by Wishfully Studios and published by Thunderful.

Inspired by Stephen King’s 2016 children’s book Charlie the Choo-Choo (which is itself extracted from King’s Dark Tower series),