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Indie Game Releases of the Week: 6th to 12th April 2020

This week in indie games, we have comedy in The Procession to Calvary, strategy in Radio General, card battler Ancient Enemy, and more.

After a thunderous couple weeks, we have a quieter week in April. There’s no original releases for consoles this time around, but you’ll find some ports of excellent indie games like Galaxy of Pen & Paper, as well as Convoy. The originals are all on computers this week, with every one of our featured games showing up on PC. Be sure to check out the honourable mentions below!

Ufflegrim

6th April on PC, Linux

Ufflegrim is a card-based roguelike game in which you can collect your enemies and then summon them later. There’s 100 floors to clear, and over 100 enemies to build your deck with. You can either summon them in combat directly, or use them to buff other creatures. You can also build a base, and battle bosses, and the game offers you a choice between permadeath and softcore gameplay.

Mask of Mists

9th April on PC

Mask of Mists is a first-person action-adventure game set in a fantasy world full of magic and ancient ruins. You get to explore this fantastical world while battling magical creatures and collecting items with which to solve puzzles.

Ancient Enemy

9th April on PC

Ancient Evil is a card-battler RPG set in a world in which evil has already won. Nevertheless, you must journey to vanquish evil once and for all. Along the way, you’ll engage in turn-based combat based on how you play your cards. It claims inspiration from such titles as Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire, but bears a resolutely unique, Solitaire-style combat system.

The Procession to Calvary

9th April on PC, Mac, Linux

The Procession to Calvary is a Pythonesque point-and-click adventure made entirely out of Renaissance-era art. If that sounds familiar to you, it’s because this game comes from the developer of the similarly-produced Four Last Things. This time around, you’ll be chasing down the tyrant Heavenly Peter and engage in all kinds of comical adventuring. You even get to poke a man’s face.

Radio General

10th April on PC, Mac, Linux

Radio General is a strategy game played by way of speech recognition. You’re a Canadian general sitting in a tent, and your war is not just with the Nazis, but also incomplete reports and confused troops. You’ll have to make important decisions in wartime, with such factors as ammunition, stamina, camouflage, morale, and more.

Honourable Indie Mentions

• Pattern (7th April on PC, Mac)
  • Procedurally-generated exploration game
• OctaFight (7th April on PC)
  • Local multiplayer action game
• Race Maniacs (9th April on PC)
  • Racing game where all the turns in the track are at right angles
• Wanderlust: Transsiberian (9th April on PC, Mac, Linux)
  • Text-based adventure game
• Hooplord (10th April on PC VR)
  • Basketball-style action game

Other Indie Releases

6th April

• ReThink | Evolved 4 (PC)
  • First-person puzzle game
• Choco Pixel 4 (PC)
  • Arcade puzzle game

7th April

• Grimvalor (Switch)
  • Hack-and-slash action platformer
• Rush Rover (PS4, PS Vita)
  • Top-down shooter
• Null Drifter (PS4)
  • Lo-fi bullet hell shooter
• Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Edition (PS4)
  • RPG
• Below (PS4)
  • Dungeon crawler
• Form (PS VR)
  • Puzzle adventure
• Sophie’s Cubes (PC, Mac, Linux)
  • Magic cube puzzle game

8th April

• Galaxy of Pen & Paper +1 Edition (Xbox One, Switch)
  • RPG
• Convoy: A Tactical Roguelike (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
  • It’s a tactical roguelike.
• Towertale (Switch)
  • Story-driven boss rush action game (with 4 player co-op)
• Null Drifter (Xbox One)
  • Lo-fi bullet hell shooter
• Rush Rover (Xbox One)
  • Top-down shooter
• Glaive: Brick Breaker (Xbox One)
  • Arkanoid-style arcade game
• Biped (PS4)
  • Co-op action adventure game
• A Room Where Art Conceals (PS VR)
  • Exploration adventure
• Sharknado VR: Eye of the Storm (PS VR)
  • First-person shooter
• Endless Savagery (PC)
  • Top-down shooter

9th April

• Bridge! 3 (Switch)
  • Bridge building simulator
• Gunbrick: Reloaded (Switch)
  • Action and puzzle platformer
• Monster Viator (Switch)
  • Japanese-style RPG
• Beholder 2 (Xbox One)
  • Totalitarianism simulation adventure
• Once Upon an Electric Dream (PC, Mac)
  • Sci-fi visual novel
• Gado Fight (PC)
  • Fighting game
• Ironlights (PC VR)
  • Melee duelling game
• Warp Factor (PC, Mac)
  • Arcade action game
• Plebby Quest: The Crusades (PC)
  • Historical turn-based strategy game
• Blind Spot (PC)
  • Story-driven puzzle adventure
• Holedown (PC)
  • Puzzle game
• Troubleshooter (PS4)
  • Top-down arcade shooter
  • Note: This does not appear to be the turn-based RPG of the same name, which is in development

10th April

• RMX Real Motocross (Switch)
  • Motocross bike racing game
• Rush Rover (Switch)
  • Top-down shooter
• BQM – BlockQuest Maker (Xbox One)
  • Dungeon RPG creation system
• Braveland Trilogy (PS4, Xbox One)
  • Turn-based strategy game
• Retro Tanks (Xbox One)
  • Tank shooter (with multiplayer)
• Obduction (Xbox One)
  • Exploration-heavy puzzle adventure
• Alder’s Blood (PC)
  • Tactical stealth RPG
• Shadow Gangs (PC)
  • Arcade-style ation game

11th April

• Tharsis (Switch)
  • Space survival turn-based strategy game
• Madness Fantasy (PC)
  • Adventure RPG