The Media Indie Exchange held its The MIX 10th Anniversary Showcase on March 22, featuring a wide variety of indie games over nearly 2.5 hours. Dozens of games were shown during the event, including strategy titles, shooters, action games, and adventure games, and we narrowed down some of our favorite trailers and demonstrations. Here are some of our favorite games from the MIX 10th Anniversary Showcase.
Cassette Beasts
Sporting a mix of 2D pixel art characters and 3D environments similar to Octopath Traveler, Bytten Studio’s Cassette Beasts puts a unique spin on turn-based RPGs. Using a special fusion system, you can combine two monsters in order to make your own. It’s coming to Xbox, including Game Pass, as well as PC and Switch.
Have A Nice Death
Think it would be easy to be the Grim Reaper
Pekoe
Cats are great. The only thing that could make them better is if they didn’t poop in your shoes… and if they could help you make amazing tea. Just make sure it’s up to par, as the Pekoe kitties are very particular about their brews.
Card Shark
Card games can often involve a lot of luck if you want to win. With Card Shark, done in a gorgeous Victorian-esque cartoon style, luck has nothing to do with it. Coming up with creative ways to cheat is how you guarantee victory. Just don’t get caught.
Definitely Not Fried Chicken
Ever want to become Gus Fring from Breaking Bad
Spiderheck
Give a spider a lightsaber and very violent things will happen. You just better hope that, as is the case in Spiderheck, the spider has another spider to occupy its attention. This ridiculous dueling came has both eight-legged creatures swinging around an arena, desperately trying to score that killing blow.
Lords of Ravage
Why try to crawl through a dungeon to defeat a boss when you can be the boss
Kaiju Wars
Take Advance Wars and mix it with Godzilla or Pacific Rim, and you have Kaiju Wars. Taking place on small grid-based maps, the battles see you throwing everything humanity has at these giant monsters, which are quite destructive but equally predictable.
Project Warlock 2
A breakneck first-person shooter combining the smoothness of modern gaming with a retro aesthetic, Project Warlock 2 looks like what you think Doom looked like if you haven’t played it in years. There’s even a Super Shotgun, but also melee weapons and magical abilities to help you really bring the hurt to waves of demons.
Silt
An exploration game with a definite Inside and Limbo vibe, Silt allows you to possess other creatures to help you survive, which will be a challenge considering how many of them want to kill you. The minimalist presentation and atmospheric soundtrack set it up to be mysterious in the best way possible.
Source: Gamespot
