The indie gaming scene looks extra fun in 2024 | Kaser Focus

Sometimes it’s hard to be in the games industry and maintain your sense of joy and discovery. A lot of what’s coming out are iterative franchise entries and triple-A titles. That’s great — who doesn’t love chocolate ice cream? But sometimes it’s nice to have the joy of tasty butter pecan for the first time. I felt joy like that this week when Xbox held its ID@Xbox Showcase this week, which showed off some of the fun indie games coming to Xbox and Game Pass in 2024 (and beyond). Between that show and the Nintendo Indie World showcase earlier in April, I’m feeling very excited for the weird indie games that are coming out this year.

The games shown at the ID@Xbox show include bizarre horror-adventure game Centum, silly co-op shape-based puzzler All You Need is Help, “snack ‘n’ slash” RPG (the dev’s words, not mine) Hangry and the turn-based rhythm PRG Keylocker. Say what you will about those games — there’s something in there for almost anyone, and you’d never mistake any of those games for the other. One particular indie game — Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — is one of my favorite new games I’ve played so far this year, so I look forward to what else the indie scene is giving us this year.