Everything announced at Day Of The Devs: SGF Edition 2023

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Day Of The Devs and its indie game festivities returned for this year's Summer Game Fest, once again proving that indie games are good and cool. Quite frankly, it was an hour or so of straight bangers ranging from mind-bending puzzlers to Pokémon-likes to emotionally charged shepherders.

While there's some familiar names in the pack like Hyper Light Drifter and Coccoon, there's a whole host of surprises in there. And that's thanks to the folks over at Double Fine Productions, iam8bit, and PlayStation's indie champion Greg Rice who put all of this together for us to enjoy each year. Below, I've rounded up all the announcements so you can absorb them through your eyeballs and let them rattle around your head until launch.

Wishes Unlimited, the folks behind Chicory: A Colorful Tale, are developing Beastieball, a turn-based volleyball RPG where you coach a team of adorable beasts. You're able to explore a "huge open world", recruit cute Beasties to your team, then challenge rival teams to a game of volleyball that's… not quite volleyball. Form a solid team and apparently your Beasties will become mates with each other, unlocking cool combo moves unique to their pairings. I like the look of the big racoon, personally, so they'll be straight on my roster. With Tem Tem, Cassette Beasts, and now Beastieball, the Pokémon-likes are really having a moment. This one comes out sometime in 2024.

Land & Sea, a new studio from the UK whose devs are best known for previously making Alto's Odyssey, are taking a step in a pretty different direction. Summerhill sees you play as a caped shepherd who rounds up sheep with their collie in tow. There's not much to go on right now, aside from the fact it looks bloomin' gorgeous and will