Indiecalypse
Three stories, three outcasts, three nerds… and a single destiny: to make the best video game ever.
Indiecalypse depicts the crude reality of indie game developers and their struggles to get their shit together when it comes to releasing a video game.
Three misfits team up to design and produce their own indie game, finding themselves in a path of chaos, self-destruction and resentment. But there’s also space for crude humor, pop culture references, gratuitous and non-gratuitous violence… and fear. Fear of the dozens of lawsuits for copyright infringement, obscenity and profanity we’ll have to face if the game is finally published.
Not everything is what it seems in Indiecalypse, and we know for sure that no one will be left indifferent after playing it.
Features:
– The definitive Indie Developer Experience
– More than 20 mini-games, most of them inspired by well-know indie games
– Different playable characters: Jack, Ethan & Violet
– Dark Humor
Game Discussion
Steam User 7
First right off the bat, the game is quite funny. Whether it be the off the cuff banter between yourself and the other NPCs in the game (many pop culture of fictional icons make appearances that are always a blast to see) , or the action from the various cutscenes that take place, I laughed out loud more than a few times. Its witty and fresh yet incredibly nostalgic given the source material much of it comes from.
The majority of the game is played in a 2D "exploration" mode per se wherer you can freely wander and check out the various items in the environment to get a bit of flavor text. The levels themselves are all quite small so there unfortunately isnt much exploring you can actually do. It doesn't take away from the overall experience as there is always something going on, but the game could have used some more open-ness to it for sure.
Progression is done in each level usually after watching a cutscene (sometimes with a QTE that happens you have to play along with, some of these had me laughing and a huge smile, very well done) and then followed up with anywhere between 1-3 mini game bits that are "inspired" by real world popular indies or retro titles along with some go-grab-this-item-and-bring-it-back simplistic gameplay.
Some of the mini games work quite well and add to the laughs, others are not executed to the same degree and feel cheap/frustrating. There are about 25+ mini games within the whole game based of some great titles like Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, and Bit Trip Runner back to some classic staples like Dunk Hunt and Tapper.
All in the all the game is unfortunately very short, you will beat it in about 3hrs. At no time was I ever disinterested in the material or feeling like I didn't want to finish it. This game isnt going to win any awards for sure but I still had a lot of fun with it and did not feel any $ was wasted.
Steam User 1
I enjoyed it, solid 9/10
Steam User 0
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