Devolver Digital

Tenjutsu looked cool.

I just noted that it's a Devolver published game.

Could be an interesting one.

Pedal Runner.

First one we're going to talk about is called Virtue and a Sledgehammer.

which is published by Devolver Digital and developed by someone called Destruct Team, ironically enough.

Now, this is a game I went into knowing a very small amount about, really, but it's one that piqued my interest.

I kind of saw a bit of a trade and went, yep, okay, I'm in on that.

Yeah, it's it's always going to be a conversation that is going to have to happen.

But like we've kind of gotten to a place where like indie almost feels more like vibe based in terms of like how we how we define it within this industry, because like we've also seen AAA publishers create indie labels and we already thought it was a paradox enough to have indie publishers like places like Devolver, where it's like, Okay, yeah, it does.

How does that work with like being indie, if you have a publisher that is explicitly funding and playtesting and acting as a sounding board for your game, I just did a I mean, just I did this about a year and a half ago of kind of an anniversary piece on Devolver.

And like they are so heavily involved with like not only the curation process and like the scouting process, but the funding and the actually being there when like everything's on fire in the development of a game.

Like they call Devolver and Devolver will actually send people to help out with development if need be.

So it's like.

That's challenging enough.

Speaking of games from the mid-2000s, guess who else is back? Okay, look, you probably won't guess unless you're one of the 40-year-olds out there who was playing PC games back before PC games were cool.

But Serious Sam is back for the third encounter, and like a proper third sequel in the mainline series, that's right, Croteam and their parent company, Devolver Digital, this week announced that they're done making beautiful, philosophical, mind-bending first-person puzzle games, and they're going back to shooting a shit ton of monsters with guns at least once the Talos Principle 3 comes out next year.

If you're like, wait a second, wasn't there already a Serious Sam 3 and 4? No dummy.

Those were both prequels and lore is actually very important to this series.

sickness for this one, by the way, so just FYI on that.

Thankfully, it's a much better story for Micropunk, the mission-based looter shooter that we kept calling Borderlands without the jokes .

This game comes from Pigeons at Play and Devolver Digital, and it released into version 1.0 last week.

Things were already very positive in Early Access, but the 300 reviews that have been posted since 1.0 have been 85% thumbs up.

I think this will be a good one.

And it's published by Devolver Digital as well.

And they typically put out pretty good stuff.

Next up, we have a traditional RPG with some time travel plot elements.

Yeah, that's the one that we watched.

Is that Devolver? I forget which indie stream, or maybe it was Day of the Devs.

I think that was

a Day of the Devs one, yeah.

They created Broforce and Gentle Jousting.

They're like Devolver people, right? Oh, yeah.

I know those games.

Um, but, uh, clearly they have like a team that just kind of pitches ideas and then they do stuff and they, they decide to do this dressmaking game, which is about running a dress shop.