Panic’s first developer showcase had flies, football, and very messy food

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Today, Panic put on its very first game publisher showcase. The showcase was short but very sweet, featuring some of the most interesting and innovative indie games coming to PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Switch. Here are all the highlights, including a surprise announcement from the makers of Untitled Goose Game.

Arco comes from an international team of developers, artists, and storytellers. It’s a tactical action game that pits regular people against an all-powerful corporate gang. In the reveal trailer, the diverse landscapes exude so much ecological detail rendered in pixel graphics, and the combat seems like a real-time action game. Arco is due on Steam in 2024.

Thank Goodness You’re Here, or TGYH for short, is a new game from Coal Supper that’ll be out on PC sometime in 2024. Billed as a comedic “slapformer,” which, I imagine, is an attempt to combine slap-stick with platformer, TGYH looks likeGravity Falls: The Video Game, which is in line with the whole “slapformer” thing. TGYH was revealed during last week’s Opening Night Live showcase and is about a traveling salesman exploring the very weird British town ofBarnsworth ahead of a very important meeting with the town’s mayor. As the salesman meets Barnsworth’s inhabitants, they’re keen on making him do weirder and weirder tasks as the town changes around him with each odd job completed. If the game’s anything like its trailer (I’m more than positive it features a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sex joke), it’ll be patently