The Devolver Digital Showcase Got Me More Excited For Games Than 2 Hours Of Summer Game Fest

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My reaction to today’s Summer Game Fest presentation is fairly mixed. I enjoyed seeing new trailers and gameplay for some of my most anticipated games, like The Callisto Protocol, Darktide, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and Nightingale, and while I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of sci-fi horror shooters in the mix, I was still impressed by what we saw from Fort Solis, Routine, and Aliens: Dark Descent. Overall the show was…fine. Nothing really blew my socks off, but I’m looking forward to a good handful of the games featured.

I know the sentiment towards the showcase online can broadly be summarized as “What, is that it?” but I honestly don’t know what people expected. Keighley himself told us to temper our expectations in a Twitter Spaces earlier this week (“This is not The Game Awards”). The entire industry is still reckoning with the impact of the pandemic, as evidenced by the cavalcade of non-stop delays getting announced every week this year. It was unwise to expect more than what we got from Summer Games Fest. I came away from it intrigued, but not necessarily impressed.

And yet, I had the exact opposite reaction to the Devolver Digital Showcase, which streamed just a couple of hours after the Summer Game Fest show ended. Every single game shown during this short presentation is now at the top of my most anticipated list. Devolver has developed a strong reputation for publishing interesting and inventive games over the past several years, and its upcoming batch is by far the most exciting thing I’ve seen all year. If you were uninspired by Summer Game Fest, you need to see the games Devolver showed off today.

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