Day 1 Guerrilla Collective 2 Spotlight
Grouping together with Indie developers, the Guerrilla Collective 2 has put together an impressive number of indie video games that range from recent releases to titles still in development. It started last year as a digital games festival for indie developers worldwide, including trailers and more. Building on the success of last year, Justin Woodward and Alex Wilmer were back hosting the second event. Expect that most titles will be available later this year, while others will have playable alphas and betas currently looking for more participants. The Load Screen covers their favorites from Day 1’s group, according to the Guerrilla Collective website.
When going through the line-up, several titles stood out from the rest. Those games presented a unique art style, exciting gameplay mechanics, or a different spin on a genre. With the Guerrilla Collective choices from day one, there are several that check multiple boxes. It was hard to pick through the entire list since almost every developer has chosen a different presentation loaded with animations not seen in other games.
(Image credit: Farm 51)
One of those titles that checked all the boxes is Chernobylite by Farm 51, slated for a July release. The developers twist a psychological horror survival game with impressive next-gen graphics built from 3D scans of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Check out the Chernobylite website for more details, or look for it in early access on the Chernobylite Steam page.
The Eternal Cylinder by Good Shepherd Entertainment also had impressive graphics, but its gameplay is the most unique seen on the first day. Although the title does not have a firm release date, it does show an impressive amount of interactivity between player-controlled Trebhum, which are the unusual creatures that dominate the vibrant alien world. Then a giant unforgiving molten cylinder rolls along periodically, and its real-time destruction promised by the developers will put this tribe survival game and the player to the test, find out more on The Eternal Cylinder website.
(Image credit: Herobeats Studio)
Two of the games featured on day one not only piqued The Load Screen team’s attention but featured the same fury woodland creature. The fox is the starring mammal, but one title takes a heart-wrenching look at habitat destruction while the other is a classic Zelda-style two-stick shooter. In Endling: Extinction is Forever by Herobeats Studio, play as the last fox as she protects her three pups through human devastation, as listed on the Herobeats Studio website. The less dramatic title TriFox by Glowfish Interactive will have players mixing three different fox attacks in this 3D isometric adventurer. One fox smashes with his giant hammer, another fires magic bullets of sorts, and the last one unleashes defensive automatons, all of which can combine in custom ways, according to the TriFox Game website.
(Image credit: ObscureTales)
The multiplayer gameplay of Tinkertown and the vaporwave graphics of Anno: Mutationen is worth mentioning from the line-up. The Headup Games Tinkerton website and the Lightning Games Anno-m website contain more information. The Guerrilla Collective 2 had several horror genre games with an individual style that will titillate fans of pixel-art gore. The title Lamentum by ObscureTales screams the original Splatterhouse throughout the gameplay as presented on the ObscureTales website. While the game Moroi from developer Violet Saint takes metal music to a gruesome pixelated hack and slash hell, as shown on the Moroi Facebook page. Finally, Carry Castle’s Source of Madness will have players running from hand-drawn Cthulhu madness, as seen on the Source of Madness website.
The Guerrilla Collective 2021 offered so much content on Day 1 that it would require multiple articles to cover every game in depth. The complete list of games featured is available on the Guerrilla Collective 2 – Day 1 website. There is also a Guerrilla Collective Steam Store sale page with even more information on featured indie titles.
