The Best Games Announced This Week That I Just Made Up
It’s that time of the year again! E3!
Well, not E3. E3 is dead. We’ve replaced that creaky old guard of businesses showing misleading video game trailers with a creaky new guard of businesses showing misleading video game trailers. It’s a whole new ball game, folks! And that ball game is probably coming Fall 2023 pending future delays.
Of course, there were some extremely exciting announcements at Summer Games Fest such as Neon White, Metal: Hellsinger, and the news that Bloober is not making a Silent Hill game. Layers of Fears sounds great, folks. Finally, the third game in a series that pivots on a graphic designer’s drinking problem. And before you yell at me, I’ve bought Layers of Fear games more than once on more than one platform - including VR. I’ve put in enough money into this series to have an opinion. I’m also an idiot.
Related: Everything Revealed At The Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase (this one's real! Not made up!)
But while fans and the press focused on the big announcements - the most exciting of which was apparently The Last of Us Part 1 looking nominally better - a lot of great games were overlooked. Not because they aren’t ‘major franchises’ or ‘popular genres’. Rather, these games have been entirely ignored because I made them up despite the fact that they all sound like actual things you’d see a trailer for this month.
Following in the steps of hits like Boyfriend Dungeon and My Mother The Car, Gun Dad: The Dad Who’s A Gun is about a young hero trying to come to grips with their dad, who’s a gun. Improve your relationship with your dad by using him to shoot at enemies while walking through a dungeon designed to look like a regular dungeon. This is all tied together with roguelike Soulsborne-style
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