The European video game fair Gamescom 2024 welcomed news of upcoming releases with a wide catalogue of indie titles such as GreedFall 2, Croak, Beyond Galaxyland, Faaast Penguin and Dwarven Realms. Future Game Show, the event focused on upcoming releases, hosted news of 50 titles for European Gamescom 2024, ranging from games from indie studios to AAA productions. The event hosted previews of Retrieval, a horror, action and survival video game developed by Spanish studio 333Studios, in which the player will put themselves in the shoes of Hana Loshe, a captain searching for her lost crew on Ryhalian, a planet billions of miles away from Earth. Coming soon to PlayStation. For its part, Nacon showed gameplay of two of its titles: the narrative RPG from Spiders Studio GreedFall 2: The Dying World (September 24); And Ravenswatch, a co-op action roguelike that revisits tales and myths from around the world. Independent studio Crater Studios has confirmed that Dwarven Realms will finally arrive on September 27. This action RPG title has been available for PC in early access since December 2022 and lets players face off against hordes of monsters. Beyond Galaxyland, from United Label, offers a retro-futuristic RPG adventure starring a high school student and his armed guinea pig on a mission to save the Earth. It arrives on September 24. Also coming to Bloomtown on the same day: A Different Story, a narrative RPG inspired by 1960s America that features turn-based combat with monsters and social mechanics. Bionic Bay will arrive on PC in 2025, with a proposed platformer and puzzle game set in an ancient world. Mars Attractions, a video game based on the Tim Burton film of the same name, will also be released next year. Previously, on August 29, Akimbot, a platformer starring two robots, developed by Evil Raptor, will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Woodrunner Games has Croak, a platformer starring a frog with a crown and a head who turns out to be the prince of a cursed kingdom, while Borealys Games has the sequel to Mages of Mystralia, Echoes of Mystralia. It stars Mazarim, the guardian of the Circle of Memories, who must face the shadows of the past to fight the oblivion that haunts the inhabitants of this world. Another new game is Faaast Penguin (September 2024), from Historia Inc., a kart-based racing game that puts up to 40 penguins on the track. Maui the Shapeshifter, from Play on Worlds, puts the player in the shoes of the demigod Maui, who must save his world from darkness, and Pocket Games has announced the thief game Monaco 2. Antistatic has revealed Phantom Line, a psychological horror and first-person shooter set in post-nuclear Europe. It supports cooperative play with up to four participants. Bippinbits has drawn attention with the name of a longer and more complex video game: PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant, starring a defensive cannon operator in a war against alien invaders. Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, Black Myth: Wukong, Exoborne, Haunted Paws, Stormforge, The Stone of Madness, Will: Follow the Light, among many others, have also passed through this event.
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