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Jun 06, 20254 min read

Watching the main Summer Game Fest show:

  • Mortal Shell II They had fun syncing the shots up with the music, but it doesn’t appear to be a rhythm game
  • Death Star Sabotage Another Star Wars game
  • Death Stranding 2 I still have the first game in my to-play backlog. The trailer showed a cinematic moment between two characters; no gameplay.
  • Chronicles Medieval Midieval-themed action game. Seems inspired by or similar to Warband?
  • Sonic Racing CrossWorlds Lots of character crossovers from a bunch of different IPs, including Minecraft. They also threw shade on Nintendo’s Mario Kart for not having online matchmaking, which their game has.
  • CodeVein II Fantasy anime action game
  • End of Abyss Sci-fi twin stick shooter, reminds me of Inside, actually. I would probably enjoy this.
  • Mouse PI Rubber hose animation style era game, but in first person.
  • Game of Thrones: War for Westeros
  • Atomic Heart II retrofuturistic sci fi shooter by Mundfish, spiritual successor to the first game, with more of a focus on rpg elements
  • The Cube Another sci fi shooter game by Mundfish. It’s an MMO FPS shooter! I wonder if they can pull that off, many MMO FPS’s I know of have failed pretty quickly.
  • Side-scrolling pixel art beat-em up fighting game
  • Onimusha: Way of the Sword Swordfighting action game
  • Felt That Boxing Muppet-style art about fighting, i think boxing?
  • Killer In Murder Mystery social deduction game, with guns and shops and leveling up.
  • Arc Raiders Live service extraction shooter game
  • Dune Awakening An MMO set in the Dune universe.
  • Chrono Odyssey Fantasy fighting adventure game about going to the past?
  • Wuthering Waves Anime fighting game
  • Mio: Memories in Orbit Metroidvania platforming game
  • Out of Words Handcrafted stop motion platforming game
  • Mafia game
  • Voyagers Co-op Lego game with building mechanics, it looks great. It’s got a spaceship rocket too??? I love that.
  • Nicktoons & the Dice of Destiny Spongebob fighting game
  • Lies of P: Overture DLC for Lies of P, souls-like
  • Fractured Blooms Anime horror game, with photorealistic art, supposedly based on a true story
  • Blade & Soul Anime fighting game
  • Crystal of Atlan crossover with one-punch man?
  • The Seven Deadly Sins Origin Anime RPG
  • Ad for State of Unreal in Orlando
  • Jurassic World theme park game
  • Mina the Hollower 2d pixel art retro game
  • Deadpool VR VR Deadpool game, It had a late-stage capitalism joke in it, but it’s also literally a game from Meta.
  • Dying Light: The Beast FPS Zombie game
  • Mixtape RPG coming of age game, low-fps animations
  • Towa and the Guardians of the Secret Tree Anime fantasy isometric fighting game
  • Acts of Blood Revenge martial arts fighting game. Has a scene inspired by famous hallway scene from Old Boy in it. Geoff claimed that it’s a solo dev game.
  • Scott Pilgrim EX Scott Pilgrim side-scrolling brawling game, takes place in Toronto
  • Resident Evil: Village Zombie shooting game. They also advertised a Capcom sale
  • The First Descendant: Breakthrough Sci-fi game with fan service jiggle physics
  • Scum Parodied 2001: A Space Odyssey at the beginning
  • MindsEye Third person shooting game
  • IOI games then showed off a Hitman and James Bond IP crossover and had Mads on stage
  • Lego Party This is just MarioParty, but with Lego
  • WildGate FPS sci-fi game?
  • Blighted Isometric fighting game. Kind of looks like Hades.
  • Ill Another Mundfish game? They’re getting a lot of screentime. Shooter horror game
  • MechaBreak sci-fi mecha game, no gameplay footage unfortunately
  • Infinitesimals sci-fi shooting game where you play as a small humanoid
  • Street Fighter 6 They filmed an interesting skit for this one
  • Last Flag 3D Capture the Flag game, has a lot of the same vibes as TF2
  • Wuchang Fallen Fighters Swordfighting game by 505 Games. Looks like a Souls-like.
  • Wu Tang Clan game
  • Guild War 2 Update, player housing was added too
  • Mongil Star Dive
  • Into the Unwell Another rubberhose animation style game. I like the style in this one a lot more than the other rubberhose animation style game.
  • Splitgate 2 This guy is wearing a black hat that says “Make FPS Great Again”.
  • Stranger than Heaven Noir detective game that takes place in 1943 Tokyo. I really liked the dialog they showed, I want to check this out.
  • Resident Evil 9: Requiem Will be playable in August at GamesCon

I’m most interested in Voyagers, Felt That Boxing, Out of Words, and Stranger than Heaven.

For the most part, I didn’t really find the main show that interesting. It seems like Summer Game Fest was mostly for the mainstream gaming audience and as such had an over-representation of games where you shoot guns and enact violence in photorealistic settings.

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