Guerrilla Collective Showcase 2023: Games to Watch

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Happy Summer of Gaming, everyone! A busy week of announcements was kicked off today with the Guerrilla Collective Showcase, an annual celebration of upcoming indie games that was bursting with new trailers and gameplay. Look, there were a lot of games shown off during that show today, and we encourage you to go watch the entire show when you get the chance. But for now, we picked out a handful of our absolute favorites to highlight - check these out, check them all out:

I think I felt my stress levels drop at least 40% watching the release date trailer for Super Space Club. It's a colorful arcade space shooter where you control a tiny triangle of a space ship zipping around the screen, pew pewing meteors and other foes. But my absolute favorite part of this is the lo-fi soundtrack by Fat Bard that gives the whole thing a real ethereal, chill, and spacy feeling. It's pure vibes, coming to PC and Xbox on August 4 of this year.

I freely admit I've had my eye on Antonblast for a while, largely because of its clear inspiration drawn from one of my favorite GBA classics, Wario Land 4. And everything from the visuals to the sounds to the crushing feel of Anton's attacks takes me right back to my childhood playing that game. It's clearly a loving throwback, right down to the feel of collecting coins and smashing through blocks, but adds a twist with a 2.5D element that sees Anton jumping back and forth between different layers of the background. Antonblast is coming to PC and Switch and while we don't have a release date yet, there's a new demo available on the game's official website.

What I'm learning from this showcase is that I'm a sap for good music, and SacriFire had me at the name "Motoi Sakuraba." The famed composer from