PAX East 2018 came and went, and we saw some phenomenal games again this year. When it came time to select our favorites, ee racked our brains, head-butted a few times, and even recorded a podcast about it. But we did it. We selected our favorites. And here they are!
Rumu
We won the @Sidequesting Team Choice Award for PAX East! Thanks for the duck pic.twitter.com/zyzMBIahcZ
— Rumu (@rumutweets) April 7, 2018
It’s a game about a carpet cleaning robot that becomes sentient and lonely. It’s sad and intriguing, and gave us feels.
A Church in the Darkness
Much appreciation to @Sidequesting for gracing us with their Team Choice Award for #PAXEast2018. Come find us at booth 16085 in the @IndieMEGABOOTH to see how the zebra duck enjoys our jungle cult. pic.twitter.com/p3di7Juafb
— The Church in the Darkness (@churchdarkness) April 7, 2018
Cults are all the rage. Heck, they’ve been the rage since at least the 70s, when the game takes place. Your goal is to infiltrate a religious cult and rescue your niece.
The Gardens Between
https://twitter.com/MrMattyBoom/status/982641441028571136
Friendship and youth go hand-in-hand, so when The Gardens Between represents this, it does so through larger than life memories and puzzles that harken back to a simpler age.
Pixel Ripped
It’s school, in VR. Pixel Ripped shows us how narratives can unfold from a completely different perspective.
Solo
Solo is an introspective game about love, relationships, and how the player views these things in their own lives. It may leave you emotional.
Earthfall
Thanks @Sidequesting for the award ❤️ #PAXEast pic.twitter.com/eJ2AstQE9T
— Earthfall (@EarthFallGame) April 7, 2018
Earthfall’s likeness to Left 4 Dead provides the industry with much-missed co-op gameplay.
Above
Above follows Mary as she searches for her brother, building and flying planes along the way.
Black Future ’88
Big thanks to the nice people at @Sidequesting who had so much fun getting their blood exploded out of their weak bodies they gave us this dope af duck award! pic.twitter.com/f9rB8l51wM
— Don Bellenger : Oakland Forever (@superscarysnake) April 7, 2018
We have 18 minutes to complete the game before our heart explodes and we die. Black Future has us looking to prolong that by traversing up a procedurally generated tower in which everything is trying to kill us.
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