Saturday’s Healthful Direct showcased dozens of (sure, healthful) video games, together with 4 that shock launched alongside the occasion. 4 entire video games! These video games are Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge, POOOOL, The Palace on the Hill, and Tracks of Thought. All can be found on Home windows PC Steam, however you’ll additionally discover Kamaeru on itch.io and Nintendo Swap; The Palace on the Hill on Android, Apple iOS, Xbox One, and Xbox Collection X; and Tracks of Thought on Home windows PC by way of the Epic Video games Retailer.
Kamaera is mainly a frog farming simulator, the place you’re basically establishing a habitat on your frogs to thrive, whereas POOOOL is a physics puzzle sport that feels like a twisted Suika Recreation. In the meantime, The Palace on the Hill is a slice-of-life sport about life in rural India within the ’90s and Tracks of Thought is a card-based thriller fixing experience. All of them couldn’t be extra completely different, however every seems to be delightfully healthful all the identical.
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Past the 4 shock launched video games, the Healthful Direct was not brief on video games to get excited for. Some that I’m trying ahead to incorporate Squeakross: House Squeak House, which is mouse Picross; Été, a watercolor portray simulator; Sopa: Story of the Stolen Potato, an journey sport about getting a potato on your grandma’s soup; Whereas Ready, a foolish sport that makes you wait round; Tiny Bookshop, which has a brand new demo obtainable; and Wax Heads, the place you run a file retailer.
There have been too many unbelievable trying video games proven throughout the Healthful Direct to checklist right here, so should you missed the present, I’d advocate watching it for your self. There’s rather a lot to look ahead to within the subsequent couple of years.