PlayStation Indies: All the Announcements From Today’s Updates
Sony has held another PlayStation Indies day over on the PlayStation Blog, revealing seven new updates for a variety of indie games headed to PS4 and PS5 over the next few months. Curious as to what smaller games are ones to watch out for? Here’s all seven of today’s reveals, all in one place.
First up, retro-inspired RPG Sea of Stars has been confirmed for release on PS4 and PS5. Alongside that confirmation, developer Sabotage Studio also offered a closer look at Sea of Stars’ turn-based battle system. Despite its obvious JRPG inspirations, Sea of Stars does not have random encounter battles, and is a ‘pure’ turn-based system, with no time bars. MP regens though fights to allow for regular magic casting, and enemy special abilities can be weakened or even eliminated entirely by breaking ‘locks’ with specific damage types. Party members can also attack together for combos, and characters can be hot swapped in and out of battle to rearrange your team for maximum efficiency.
Developer Extra Nice has announced that its recently-revealed game about a traveling shadow, Schim, will be released on PS4 and PS5. Playing as the shadow creature Schim, you’ll need to explore different Dutch-inspired locations as part of a hunt to find the human whose shadow you live in. Each location is a puzzle, as Schim can only move to other shadows, and so must carefully move from dark spot to dark spot across a map.
Cult of the Lamb, a roguelike about anthropomorphic animals who engage in religious zealotry, will be released on PS4 and PS5 on August 11. The game is as cute and as wacky as the title suggests, and the PS Blog post written by developer Massive Monster is dedicated to… poop. Apparently poop management is a key part of the game, as
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