Ten years ago, I helped co-found Day of the Devs with my good friends at Double Fine and iam8bit. The aim was to create a festival of games that put developers at the forefront, highlighting the most artistic, creative and indie games we could find globally. It’s a celebration of what games can be and the creators behind them.
Since then, we’ve helped promote over 500 titles through both our hit free public event in San Francisco as well as our digital shows, including popular films. pops up from last year like Death’s Door, Toem and Axiom Verge 2. Today we’re back with our latest series of games for Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition. It’s another line of incredible games of all shapes and sizes. Here are some highlights coming to PlayStation.
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Time flies
This whimsical game is part open world and part flight simulator – and you play it like flying! You are given a team list that you can complete before you die. But the life of a fly is short – and the list is long! Go ahead and learn an instrument, get rich, read a book, go sightseeing, discover yourself, get drunk, make someone laugh or enter the world of art! And if you don’t feel like pursuing your life goals, just hang up, clean your wings and watch TV. Make the most of the time you have! Because we will all die.
– Michael Frei & Raphael Munoz, Playable
Release date: 2023 | Developers: Toys | PS4, PS5
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Naiad
Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalistic and colorful exploration adventure. Flow with Naiad through a mysterious river and interact with its flora and fauna to uncover little secrets. Enjoy a healthy experience with original and dreamy visual styles. Learn to swim like a duck, dive like a fish, dash like a frog and meet other adorable friends like butterflies, rabbits, turtles, snakes and crocodiles!. Help them find their way and avoid obstacles. The 16-episode journey will take you through beautiful and strange places like deep forests, dark caves, playful creeks, calm lakes, and more… until you reach the sea.
A very personal and unique game created with love by a solo developer.
– Elwin, HiWarp
Release date: October 1, 2022 | Developers: HiWarp | PS4, PS5
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Animal well
It’s hard to talk about a game filled with secrets to uncover without spoiling some surprises. On the surface, Animal Well is a puzzle platformer exploration game, but that description reveals deeper mysteries lying within. Some puzzles will be very simple. Others are a little harder to find. And others might not even look like the puzzle at first glance — or might need a community of players to solve.
– Billy Basso, Solo Developer, Shared Memory
Release date: Late 2022 or early 2023 | Publishing company: Shared Memory | PS5
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Escape Academy
Congratulations! You have been accepted into Escape Academy, an educational institution dedicated to the art of Escape. As a promising new student at the Academy, you will train under our passionate faculty to become the best Escapist. Start your lesson in single player or bring a friend! Escape Academy is fully playable through cooperative play between two players, in split-screen locally or online. Between lessons, don’t forget to explore the grounds of Escape Academy and meet the colorful cast of characters, each of whom are experts in the art of Escape and some with undiscovered secrets… You have what it takes. needed to complete a series of feverishly designed challenges that are surprising, exciting, and quite often deadly? There’s only one way to find out! Play over a dozen handcrafted escape rooms created by real life escape room designers at Coin Crew Games as Semester kicks off July 14 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
– Wyatt Bushnell, Co-Founder, Coin Crew Games
Release date: July 14, 2022 | Publishing company: iam8bit | PS4, PS5
