We’re fast approaching September. Soon temperatures will cool, leaves will change color and a great harvest of indie games will fill our PS Store basket. September has some big themes – The Last of Us Part I, anyone? –But there’s also a bumper season with great indie titles you’ll want to look out for. From killer game shows to character-driven adventures to exciting classic gunfights, here’s what you can expect on PS4 and PS5 this month.
Temtem
Looking for a new twist on the live and authentic creature collection genre? Temtem is exactly what you’re looking for! This game from Spanish developer Crema takes the concept of finding, taming, and fighting creatures to a new grand scale in a persistent online multiplayer world. Colorful creatures known as Temtem live on the beautiful paradise island of the Parachute Islands, and you’ll capture, train, and battle them in tried-and-true turn-based combat. But you’re not alone on your journey to the top ranks of Temtem coaches. Team up with friends or strangers online to explore islands, battle Clan Belsoto minions, and battle and trade the Temtem you collect. With tons of Temtem to find, rich customization options, and weekly special quests, your Temtem adventure will likely keep you busy for hundreds of hours.
Release date: September 6 | Publishing company: Bundle of Humility | PS5
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition
The stylish, Soviet-era, developer-inspired hit classic is back on PS4 and PS5. The Void is a desolate, inhospitable land that covers the entire planet. It’s where human souls are trapped, the unintended result of an experiment that went horribly wrong. But the remnants of humanity have found a way to explore the Void and rescue the remaining organic life forms through the use of “projected clones”. Using these clones, you will explore lands that have risen from the Void in search of survivors and materials. But beware – Izbergs, giant monsters composed of suffering and negativity, roam the Void with a hunger that can never be resolved.
The Tomorrow Children offers a unique mix of exploration, resource gathering, and town building gameplay. While The Tomorrow Children’s original release was a free-to-play title, Phoenix Edition adds an offline single-player mode, new islands, more exploration tools (including a new grappling hook) , landscape-transforming monoliths and other surprises are unique to this purchasable version.
Release date: September 6 | Publishing company: Q-Game | PS5, PS4
Wayward Strand
A hospital on an ornate floating ship? It’s definitely something believable. You’ll be able to visit this new frontier in medicine in Wayward Strand, an engaging dialogue-driven adventure from Ghost Pattern launching on PS4 and PS5. Casey is a teenager with budding journalistic experience who starts covering the medical center in the air. As she explores the spaceship and meets the hospital’s patients, she becomes more and more attached to their lives, memories, and mysteries.
The events of this fully voiced slice-of-life adventure unfold in real time, with the characters’ lives connecting, diverging, and interweaving as the minutes, the hours, and the days pass. You can follow them, spend time with them, learn their stories, and form special relationships. Chasing one story means you might miss another, but Wayward Strand is a game made to be played over and over again, with you being able to discover new content based on your choices each time. you start over. Take a moment to explore and listen, and let Wayward Strand create gaming memories you’ll cherish for years to come.
Release date: September 15 | Publishing company: Ghost Model | PS5, PS4
Ao Dai
The stunning, critically acclaimed action-adventure masterpiece Tunic is now available on PS4 and PS5. This passion project from indie developer Andrew Shouldice follows a young fox dressed in iconic fantasy clothes as he goes on a brave adventure through beautifully rendered geometric environments. Explore a vast, beautiful world from an isobaric perspective, solve puzzles, and find new items and abilities to open new paths. Decipher a unique language in the game to find clues to the secrets and mysteries lurking around many corners. But be careful; This world is also filled with scary beasts, and you will need all your wits, courage and tools to best fight them. Use your arsenal of combat maneuvers to conquer threats that stand in your way to go further and explore more magical locations. What kind of wonder will you discover on your journey, brave?
Release date: September 27 | Publishing company: Kinja | PS5, PS4
Post Void
First-person shooters have changed a lot since they first appeared in the early 90s. As with modern shooters these days, sometimes you might want to go back to something. older in its design. Perhaps something like being ripped from the pages of that weird copy-paste someone left on the “free” shelf of your local comic book store. Something that wants you to move and kill as quickly as possible because you will die a miserable death from life seeping out of your skull if you don’t. And for that particularly odd craving, YCJY Games’ Post Void is coming to PS4 and PS5 later this month.
Catch your eye in a bloody, bullet-ridden neon nightmarish world where the two rules are: A. move fast through the winding maze-like corridors and B. kill all you can . Experience pure nostalgic FPS gameplay that dares to ask “What if you could understand and play a noisy album? ” (Please note: this game is not suitable for people who are sensitive to flashing lights.)
Release date: September 29 | Publishing company: Super Rare Game | PS5, PS4
