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12 MAY, 2023 – The fluffy-tailed, laid-back gardening sim Bunhouse will launch on Nintendo Switch later this month, publisher Digerati is happy to announce. Switch players will be able to start having fun with their buns from 18th May. It’ll be priced $19.99 and be available with a 20% launch discount. Bunhouse is also coming to PlayStation and Xbox later this year (exact date TBC).

Created by developer Reky Studios and originally released on Steam, where it currently has a 93% positive user rating, Bunhouse offers stress-free gardening fun for a chilled and rewarding experience. Can be enjoyed solo or in couch co-op for up to four players.

About the game

Bunhouse is a cute, simple, bunny-filled game focused on growing plants and managing a greenhouse with fellow buns. Take care of your leafy plant buddies by balancing the amount of water and light they get. Play with friends and upgrade your greenhouse for wholesome, relaxing fun.

Sometimes life is hectic. Sometimes we just need to take a breather and relax in a happy little world filled with bunnies. This is the core vision of Bunhouse – a game you can play solo or with up to four friends to relax and be happy. There is nothing to kill, no one to be better than, no quests or debt to pay off, just some plants that need watering and a greenhouse full of possibility.

Key Features

• Grow and sell plants
• Take care of your plants
• Order new decorations for your garden and greenhouse
• Upgrade your greenhouse
• Couch co-op with up to four friends

Source: PR Email

08 MARCH, 2023 – If you have a slightly warped sense of humour and are partial to some puzzle-platforming fun that isn’t too demanding, then you’ll be delighted to hear Overloop is making its way to consoles later this month.

The clone-based puzzle-platformer will launch 24th March on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S priced $14.99. It’ll be available with a 20% launch discount for a limited time.

Created by Charge Games – a development duo of George Kobyakov (programmer, game design, artist) and Charles Bardin (narrative design, sound design), Overloop made its debut on PC last year. It currently has a ‘Very Positive’ rating on Steam, with 92% positive user reviews.

Overloop is a light-hearted adventure set in a dark-hearted future where scientists create a cloning gun – the Quantum Matter Replication Device – and their profit-hungry paymasters sell it to the masses, with disastrous consequences. It’s up to you – the handsomely mustachoied protagonist – to navigate a crumbling dystopia and attempt to save humanity by bravely sacrificing clones of yourself in all manner of icky ways.

The Overloop soundtrack, composed by Charles Bardin (A Musical Story), is available here: https://charlesbardin.bandcamp.com/album/overloop-soundtrack

About the game

Overloop is a puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world. Step into an ethically compromised future where cloning technology has wreaked havoc on humanity – and it’s sort of all YOUR fault! As an employee of nefarious megacorp, Infinity Inc., and the inventor of its Quantic Matter Replication Device (aka the QMRD, aka the cause of the world going to hell in a handbasket), it’s up to you to sort out the mess you helped create.

Grab your cloning gun and hot-foot it through a world descending into clone-induced chaos. Create clones of yourself and use them to solve puzzles and save humanity. Get to it genius!

Key Features

• Create clones! Make endless copies of yourself with the cloning gun and use your perfectly formed doppelgangers – up to four at once – to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles
• Sacrifice clones! Dystopias are very dangerous places, and many clones will suffer hilariously gruesome deaths along the way. Fried! Crushed! Mangled! Minced! RIP clones 🙁
• Explore a world of weirdness! From suspiciously friendly AI and cultish crackpots, to modified corn and cloned panda bears. This freaky future has (almost) everything!
• Think about ethics! Is it better that a clone should die, rather than the real you? Consider the morality of human cloning as you condemn countless versions of yourself to death
• Have a mustache! Play as a hero with sweet facial hair. Purely cosmetic. Totally badass

Source: PR Email

10 FEBRUARY, 2023 – Digerati is delighted to share the news that it has released a new games bundle for Nintendo Switch. Digerati Indie Darling Bundle Vol.5 includes Super Blood Hockey, The Procession To Calvary, Snakeybus, and Glass Masquerade 2. The bundle is priced €/$47.99 and is available to download now from the Nintendo eShop with a 20% launch discount for a limited time.

About the games

Super Blood Hockey (developed by Loren Lemcke): Arcade sports gaming gets a shot of adrenaline in Super Blood Hockey, a violent homage to classic 8- and 16-bit ice hockey games. Customize your line-up and take to the ice, using fast-paced skills and bone-crunching brutality to dominate.

Prove your hockey prowess in a deadly global tournament or against friends in 4-player local multiplayer. Build and manage your own squad in Franchise Mode – with the right diet your team can be season champions!

The Procession To Calvary (developed by Joe Richardson): Huzzah! The holy war is over! Your oppressors have been vanquished, the churches of the Old God lay in ruin and thousands of innocent people have been murdered! But it’s not all good news; the tyrant Heavenly Peter has escaped your clutches, and you have been tasked with finding him…

The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque adventure game in which you journey through a richly detailed landscape built from hundreds of Renaissance paintings.

Snakeybus (developed by Stovetop Studios): An absurd arcade-driving game and frantic score-chasing experience where the biggest danger is yourself! Wind through city streets, pick up as many passengers as you can and deliver them to their destination to increase your score AND the length of your bus!

Boost, jump, and steer around an obstacle course of your own making! Test your serpentine skills with various maps, modes, and bus types! All aboard the Snakeybus!

Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions (developed by Onyx Lute): A dreamlike collection of artistic jigsaw puzzles to piece together at your own relaxed pace. Dive into the rabbit hole of the abstract and the fantastical, putting together stained-glass fragments to solve dreams and riddles. Enjoy baroque depictions of 20th century imagination, in puzzles more intricate and complex than the original.

Source: PR Email

11 JANUARY, 2023 – An update for Severed Steel, the intense movement shooter developed by Greylock Studios, has now been rolled out for all console versions – Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series.

The ‘Rogue Steel’ update, which first launched for the PC version in October last year, brings various new features, including a new game mode, new levels, and new weapons. In addition, the Switch, PS4, and PS5 versions have also been updated to support gyro controls.

The full list of new features included with the Rogue Steel update:

• New game mode, Rogue Steel
• Gyro controls (Switch, PS4, PS5)
• 23 new Firefight mutators unlocked through Rogue Steel
• 6 new weapons
• 5 new modified enemy types
• 8 new exclusive Rogue Steel levels
• New Cannon Mode: Cutting Beam
• 10 Character skins to unlock in Rogue Mode
• 15 Cannon skins to unlock in Rogue Mode

The new Rogue Steel mode features rogue-lite elements and challenges players to complete a run across a number of randomly chosen levels. At the end of each level, players choose a card, which applies an upgrade or effect for the rest of their run. While most cards provide a buff, some increase the score multiplier but at the expense of a negative status effect.

About the game

Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It’s you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives, flips, and slides to take every last enemy down

Key features

• A unique fighter: Play as Steel, a nimble, one-armed sharpshooter on a mission. There is no reloading – pick your shots well and be ready to pry a loaded weapon from your enemies’ cold dead hands
• Stylish combat: Dodge bullets, leap off walls, slide kick, throw weapons – do whatever it takes to come out on top in intense and frenzied firefights
• Fully destructible environment: Pepper through plaster with sharp 4.7 mm rounds, punch through thick concrete with .50 cal slugs, or make big holes in things with your arm cannon
• Dynamic AI: No two battles are the same thanks to dynamic, unscripted, squad-based AI
• Firefight Mode: Chase high scores and fast times for leaderboard acclaim in this arcade-styled mode. Features 42 levels, each with their own sub-challenges, and over 20 unlockable, game modifying ‘Mutators’
• Campaign Mode: Blast through six compact story chapters as you battle against the forces of nefarious mega-corporation, EdenSys. Finish the campaign and want more? Try New Game + mode which mixes up the campaign for a fresh playthrough
• Rogue Mode: Severed Steel with Rogue-lite elements. Click the Rogue Steel button on the main menu to start a short, randomly generated, 10 level campaign. Features unlockable perks, skins, and more.
• Accessibility: A range of adjustable settings for features such as difficulty, visuals, audio, controls, navigation, and more
• Level Editor (with Steam Workshop support): Build levels and share them with the community

Source: PR Email

29 NOVEMBER, 2022 – Monstrous city smash ’em up Terror of Hemasaurus will launch on PlayStation and Xbox early next month, and Nintendo Switch in January, publisher Digerati is happy to announce.

The skyscraper toppling, people-eating action arrives 7th December on PlayStation, 9th December on Xbox, and 12th January for Nintendo Switch. It’ll be priced $14.99 and be available with a 20% discount for a limited time.

Released last month on PC, Terror of Hemasaurus is already making a smash, racking up a 95% positive user rating on Steam, and with a current 85 Metacritic rating. The game’s developer, Loren Lemcke, is already hard at work on additional content, with a new kaiju – a scaly-skinned pangolin called Paingolin – a new mode, and some expanded gameplay mechanics planned for 2023.

About the game

Play as a giant monster and wreak havoc on humanity in this retro city smash ‘em up! Punch buildings, slap helicopters, eat humans, kick cars – enjoy multiple ways to cause carnage! Satisfying arcade action and mindless destruction for up to 4-players!

Key Features

• MONSTERS! Hemasaurus! Clocksloth! Salamandrah! Autonomous Hemasaurus! Four terrifying (but also kind of adorable) beasts, each with their own killer moves!
• DESTRUCTION! Explosive pixel devastation and mayhem on a monstrous scale! Reduce buildings to dust. Topple skyscrapers. Destroy everything!
• DEATH! Hurl humans into helicopter blades! Butt slam into crowds of terrified citizens! Eat people for nourishment! Smoosh them all to save the planet!
• STAGES! Do what the game tells you across a variety of levels! Kick cars into buildings! Rescue the cats and dogs! Total a tower in record time!
• FRIENDS! Got buddies? Good for you! Put them to use by getting them to join you for some local co-op carnage! Up to four friends can cause terror together!

Source: PR Email

23 NOVEMBER, 2022 – Publisher Digerati and indie developer Conradical Games are happy to confirm the launch dates for the PlayStation and Nintendo Switch digital versions of The Outbound Ghost.

The phantom-based paper RPG will be available to download from 30th November on PS4 and PS5, and 1st December for Nintendo Switch. It’ll be priced $24.99 and be available with a 20% discount for a limited time. Xbox versions will follow shortly after (exact date TBC).

In addition to the digital versions, The Outbound Ghost PS4/PS5 and Nintendo Switch physical editions from Merge Games are available to pre-order now and scheduled to launch 2nd December.

Making its debut earlier this year on PC, The Outbound Ghost is a story-driven adventure that combines exploration, turn-based combat, and crafting. Set in the titular Outbound, a small town with a mysterious and tragic past, players must help the ghostly residents resolve their earthly burdens so they can find peace and ascend to the afterlife.

A series of free updates are going to be rolled out for The Outbound Ghost over the coming weeks and months that will bring additional content and enhancements. The updates will arrive on PC first, before also being released for console. The current schedule for the updates on PC is as follows:

November, 2022

• French, Spanish, and German language options
• New NPCs and sidequests
• Remastered soundtrack (OST will also be made available on Steam, Spotify, YouTube and other services to coincide with the update being released)

December, 2022

• New Game +
• Status presentation rework

2023

• Aspect UI rework
• More post-game bosses
• Map/quick-travel rework
• Objective/Party Chat addition

About the game

The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. The town of Outbound is, quite literally, a ghost town – a home to troubled spooks with unresolved earthly issues, condemning them to an eternity haunting their old *ahem* haunts.

Battle the past, gain new abilities, solve puzzles, and uncover the mysteries of Outbound to help its unliving residents find peace, freeing them from the shackles of their ghostly limbo.

Key Features

• Colourful characters: Meet a lovable cast of spooks along the way, each with their own story to unravel
• Combat encounters: Unlock figments of your past personality, such as Regret, Comradery, and Jealousy and use them as party members in turn-based battles
• Badge system: Craft materials earned by winning combat encounters into badges, which can be equipped for various effects and stat boosts
• A world in 2.5D: Adorable, paper-style characters inhabit a world with depth and detail to create a distinctly eye-catching visual style

Source: PR Email

25 OCTOBER, 2022 – Be a zoomy raccoony in Tanuki Sunset, the chill longboarding game with a breezy, retro vibe coming soon to consoles courtesy of publisher Digerati. Tanuki Sunset will launch 2nd November on PlayStation, and 4th November for Xbox.

A Nintendo Switch version is being self-published by developer Rewind Games and will be released at a later date (still TBC).

The debut title from Vancouver based studio, Rewind Games, Tanuki Sunset reflects the two man team’s shared love of listening to music while cruising on their longboards. It started to take shape as a game concept when they noticed a gap in the market, as co-creators Adir Fakiro and Jose Maria Leon explain:

“After stumbling upon videos of downhill longboard sessions, we came to realize there aren’t many games based on the sport. We instantly started imagining a raccoon grinding his paws on tarmac trying to drift down a windy road at high speeds. Who doesn’t love raccoons? They’re little daredevils and trouble makers.”

Tanuki Sunset is already available on PC and currently has a ‘Very Positive’ user rating on Steam, with 94% positive reviews.

About the game

Tanuki Sunset is a fun, arcade-style longboarding game starring a radical, thrill-seeking raccoon! Get into a flow state and master the art of drifting as you speed downhill – dodging traffic, catching air, and nailing tricks – in a bid to become the first raccoon to complete Sunset Island’s legendary longboard trail!

Key Features

• Race the trail, with stages set across Sunset Peaks, Midnight City, and Sunrise Beach
• Friendly control scheme makes it easy to pick up, play, and get in the zone
• Try multiple modes, including story mode, endless mode, score, and time trials
• Collect Tanuki Bits as you race, and spend them on new gear at Bob’s Skate Shop
• Enjoy a colorful, retro art style and a laid-back sun-kissed soundtrack

Source: PR Email

06 OCTOBER, 2022 – Get ready to rampage with monster-sized arcade action –  Terror of Hemasaurus is coming soon to PC and consoles, publisher Digerati is thrilled to announce. The city smashing, human squishing, apocalyptic fun kicks off 17th October on PC (Steam, Epic, GOG, and other storefronts), priced $12.99 and with a 20% discount for a limited time.

Console versions will follow in December, arriving 5th Dec for PlayStation, 6th Dec for Nintendo Switch, and 7th Dec for Xbox.

Combining awesome pixel devastation and stupidly big explosions, Terror of Hemasaurus is the next game from Super Blood Hockey developer, Loren Lemcke.

Players take the role of one of four carnage-causing kaiju as they embark on a devastating, and darkly funny, trail of destruction that takes them across the USA as part of a dubious last ditch plan by The Church of the Holy Lizard to save humanity from its own reckless disregard of the planet. Your mission: destroy everything!

About the game

Play as a giant monster and wreak havoc on humanity in this retro city smash ‘em up! Punch buildings, slap helicopters, eat humans, kick cars – enjoy multiple ways to cause carnage! Satisfying arcade action and mindless destruction for up to 4-players!

Key Features

• MONSTERS! Hemasaurus! Clocksloth! Salamandrah! Autonomous Hemasaurus! Four terrifying (but also kind of adorable) beasts, each with their own killer moves!
• DESTRUCTION! Explosive pixel devastation and mayhem on a monstrous scale! Reduce buildings to dust. Topple skyscrapers. Destroy everything!
• DEATH! Hurl humans into helicopter blades! Butt slam into crowds of terrified citizens! Eat people for nourishment! Smoosh them all to save the planet!
• STAGES! Do what the game tells you across a variety of levels! Kick cars into buildings! Rescue the cats and dogs! Total a tower in record time!
• FRIENDS! Got buddies? Good for you! Put them to use by getting them to join you for some local co-op carnage! Up to four friends can cause terror together!

Source: PR Email

20 SEPTEMBER, 2022 – Indie publisher Digerati is pumped to share the news of a brand new signing for its 2023 roster – Super Buff HD will launch next year (exact date TBC) for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. Digerati’s partnership with the game’s developer, Buffcorp, was announced with a debut trailer during the highly prestigious Realms Deep showcase over the weekend. The trailer is available to watch below.

A skate-surf-FPS designed with high-mobility and low-expectation in mind, Super Buff HD is the creation of Egypt-based developer, Buffcorp, aka Omar Samir. Lead programmer and self-proclaimed supreme leader on the project, Super Buff HD is Samir’s first ‘mostly solo’ game, having worked previously as a contract dev on what he describes as “dirty deeds done dirt cheap.”

Helping Samir on Super Buff HD are two associates he currently regards as “good friends” – Cayden, who handles all the sounds in the game and occassionally helps out with “some art and level stuff,” and Christian, who Samir describes as “a programming prodigy” and “basically the next John Carmack.”

Asked to provide a few words for this press release about why he wants to make Super Buff HD, the inspirations behind it and so on, Samir promised “I’ll come up with something after a few rounds of Halo.” But he never did.

About the game

Super Buff HD is a fast-paced skate-surf-FPS.

The year is 202020. It’s wild. All the buff dudes have turned on society. STOP THEM.

Dash, bounce, grind, blast, shred, shoot, and soar through a fever dream world of unhinged weirdness. Defeat all the buff dudes. Get a high score. Be a winner. Home for dinner.

Key Features

• MOBILITY TO MAKE YOU FEEL SUPER POWERED: Levels are playgrounds you can jump, shred, and bounce all over. Grind between rails. Body-surf on enemies. Use water jets, trampolines, poop fountains and pretty much anything to launch yourself heavenwards for huge air.
• MIGHTY WEAPONS TO KEEP THE BUFF AT BAY: Choose from a modest armory of killy toys, each with dual firing modes and unique functionality. From a trusty hammer that always makes its way back to you no matter how far you throw it, to a revolving potato cannon with backup basketball bombs.
• A WORLD OF POOP AND PURE IMAGINATION: Your battle against the buff takes place across 20+ levels of strangeness. Levels are variously and hilariously themed, such as mushroom, street, dinosaur-cowboy, sci-fi, mall, and sewage (don’t fall in the brown stuff).
• HIGH SCORES FOR SELF-GRATIFICATION: Measure the success of your buff-battering performances by racking up ker-azy high scores. Build and keep your multiplier going for even higher scores. Pull on your big boy pants and put some thunder in your number.
• TOTALLY NUTS, OVER BUFFED BOSSES: Face off against a freakshow of good and pumped boss dudes. Topple a tower block with bulging biceps. Smack down a sword-wielding trashcan titan. Make mincemeat out of a belly-flopping mushroom king.

Source: PR Email

24 MARCH, 2022 – Indie publisher Digerati is delighted to confirm the news that it’s bringing The Outbound Ghost, a hauntingly adorable RPG, to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S later this year (Q4 2022).

In development since 2020 at Swiss studio Conradical Games (aka solo dev Conrad Grindheim),The Outbound Ghost combines quests, exploration, turn-based combat, and crafting. A story-driven adventure, players take control of an amnesiac spook with no memory of who they are or how they died.

Arriving in Outbound, a small village with its own mysterious and tragic past, the spectral protagonist finds it haunted by former residents unable to pass over to the other side. The player must help the ghostly inhabitants resolve their unfinished earthly business and find peace, allowing the restless souls to ascend to the afterlife.

The Outbound Ghost is the third game developed by Conradical Games, following the previously released Lootbox Lyfe and Girabox. Collaborating on the game with programmer, designer, and project lead Conrad Grindheim are composer Kimmo Savilampi (Aria Disconnect) and character artist Clayton Chowaniec (Rog & Roll).

Publishing partner Digerati is also working with Conradical Games to help the developer bring its vision for the game to fruition, as Grindheim explains:

“Due to budget restraints, early iterations of The Outbound Ghost lacked combat and important gameplay features. However, with Digerati supporting development, the game is now shaping up to become more aligned with what I’ve always wanted it to be.”

“The aim is to create a compelling story that seamlessly integrates with original gameplay. That’s something I’ve prioritized since day one. We still have work to do, but I’m already very happy with the narrative design. I don’t want to elaborate and give too much away, but there are multiple ‘paradigm shifts’ in the game that I hope will make for unforgettable story beats.”

About the game

The Outbound Ghost is an adventure RPG about helping ghosts ascend to the afterlife. The town of Outbound is, quite literally, a ghost town – a home to troubled spooks with unresolved earthly issues, condemning them to an eternity haunting their old *ahem* haunts.

Battle the past, gain new abilities, solve puzzles, and uncover the mysteries of Outbound to help its unliving residents find peace, freeing them from the shackles of their ghostly limbo.

Key Features

• Colourful characters: Meet a lovable cast of spooks along the way, each with their own story to unravel
• Combat encounters: Unlock figments of your past personality, such as Regret, Benevolence, and Jealousy and use them as party members in turn-based battles
• Badge system: Craft materials earned by winning combat encounters into badges, which can be equipped for various effects and stat boosts
• A world in 2.5D: Adorable, paper-style characters inhabit a world with depth and detail to create a distinctly eye-catching visual style