Are you ready for some new and exciting indie games to add to your collection in 2023? In this article, we will highlight three of the most highly-anticipated indie games set to be released next year.
Season: A Letter to the Future
In “Season: A Letter to the Future,” players embark on a reflective journey of biking through a constantly changing world, where the focus is on experiencing the beauty of travel, solitude, meeting new people, taking photographs, and writing. This game is a meditative and patient experience centered around collecting memories of the people and nature encountered along the way. It offers players an immersive, familiar, yet slightly different world, inviting them to take a break and contemplate.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
The highly anticipated sequel to the popular indie game “Hollow Knight,” “Silksong” features an array of new characters, locations, and an updated aesthetic. With its hand-drawn and painterly style, the game transports players to a captivating, gothic fairy tale world filled with bugs. Expect to find magical elements like shamanistic slugs and radiant, beehive-like fortresses, the game’s trademark platforming action, with plenty of hidden places to discover, towns to uncover, and friendly insect-inspired characters to assist on the journey.
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Night School Studio, a Californian game developer now part of Netflix, specializes in creating realistic dialogue systems in their games. The company aims to bring the interactive medium closer to television by developing a dialogue system in which characters speak, converse, and even interrupt one another. This may have contributed to Netflix’s interest in the company. “Oxenfree,” their original game, had a mysterious and slightly ominous tone, akin to “Goonies” and “Stranger Things.” The sequel promises to deliver more mysteries to uncover through the use of radio frequency.
