The Best Of #ScreenshotSaturday: August 2016
Every month, Pop Geeks looks through the extensive entries to #ScreenshotSaturday – screenshots of games that are posted to Facebook and Twitter every Saturday under the #Screenshot Saturday banner – and brings you some of the best indie games that are worthy of your attention, all in a listicle form counting down to our favorite. Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, edition of The Best Of #ScreenshotSaturday! Not see a screenshot from the last month that you thought was interesting? Let us know below!
Abandon Ship
Fireblade Software | PC | 2017
Abandon Ship is a PC game where you take command of a ship and her crew, exploring a diverse, procedurally generated world, taking on quests and dealing with random events. Frequently, you will end up engaging other ships in combat, the player having to employ their best tactics in order to out-manoeuvre and out-gun the enemy. The game focuses on “Age of Sail” ships in a Fantasy setting, framed in an Art Style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings.
Death Trash
Talecrafter | PC, Mac, Linux | 2017
Generations after the Great Galactic War, civilization rises again on Tauris V and the age-old power struggle of factions about resources, influence and beliefs begins anew. But this time the Ancients are freed from their shackles and the Evergrowing Heart pounds for the Flesh Hive. You are the key to solving or escalating this conflict. Use realtime combat, dialogue, item crafting and psi powers to explore and survive this post-apocalyptic mystic world with larger-than-life beings.
Choose one character from a diverse selection and customize him or her through stats and making choices. A friend can join anytime for a session of local co-op.
Winterfall
Fab Mariani | PC
Anor, the Old Kingdom, fell long ago to the strife of Men who, armed with tools of war, broke Covenant as they turned against one another, muddled by the workings of ancient evil. Far from their minds were hallowed notions of the sacredness of life, the sanctity of nature and the power of love, as much blood was shed, much destruction wrought.
In penance for such great damage, a leaving was sentenced: far from the lush plains and rolling hills of the Old Kingdom and high into the harsh, dry mountains, into the ancestral sanctuaries, the survivors would recede. There would be sought truer, stouter ways, leaving the scarred lands below, forbidden thenceforth, to heal.
Hellion
Zero Gravity Games | PC | Late 2016
Hellion is a solar system many lightyears from Earth. Despite its remoteness, it is the destination of the first interstellar colonization mission during the 23rd century. Almost a million colonists, suspended in cryogenic hibernation, leave Sol on a journey that will take many decades.
However, when they wake up, almost a century later, they find themselves trapped inside a nightmare. Instead of living in a manmade paradise they are forced to fight for survival surrounded by deserted stations, incomplete orbital habitats and derelict warships.
- Find a derelict spaceship and restore it for personal use, or salvage it for parts to upgrade or repair your existing ship and outpost.
- Complex resource gathering system, including asteroid and comet mining and gas giant harvesting.
- Detailed crafting system, including: salvaging, research and reverse engineering.
- Unique damage and degradation model for systems and equipment.
- Complex maintenance of ships, stations and equipment.
- Fully modular and customizable ships, stations and equipment.
- Dive into an immersive background story and reveal the truth behind the devastation of Hellion.
Anathema is an action-adventure, platformer for PC that pays homage to the largely absent video game hall-of-famer, Castlevania in its 2D form. Using pre-rendered sprites, the game is presented in beautiful, crisp 1080p at 60 frames per second.
Players will whip through hordes of enemies, and utilize seven different subweapons such as the dagger, sickle, murder of crows and more. Some items have special attacks that can devastate enemies and quickly even the playing field. The game is set to have a number of features, including:
- Every level has multiple bosses.
- Whip across chasms for fast-paced platforming action.
- Variated environments enhance the gameplay experience and keep it fresh.
- Cutscenes after each level to tell the story of Aurora and her quest.
- An original, orchestra/rock hybrid score. Familiar, yet fresh.
- Enemies will suit each stage. Expect new enemies and patterns every level.
During the late 14th century, the angel of death, Azrael – fell out of favor with God and launched a campaign to create an army using the souls he was meant to deliver for judgement. He unleashed a terrible plague that devastated millions, giving him the souls he needed to wage war on humanity.