Spotlight Sunday - Week 32 - 2015


Spotlight Sunday is a way for Choicest Games to feature PC games that are scheduled for release on the following week - games that we consider worthwhile checking out.

For those who regularly tune in to this post on Sunday, you may have noticed that we've the last two; this was because we were running the Choicest Games Top 100 feature during that time. This week (3rd August to the 9th August 2015), there are four games I think are worth a look at:

Adam's Venture Chronicles

  • Release Date: 03/08/2015
  • Availability: Steam - Not available for pre-order
Who wouldn't want to play an adventure game that looks like it's inspired by Indiana Jones (although it's set a bit earlier than the adult Indy's adventures)? The developer, Vertigo Games has also had a pretty good track record with World of Diving and The Perils of Man both being received well by the Steam community.




Submerged

  • Release Date: 04/08/2015
  • Availability: Steam - Not available for pre-order
This game's made in Australia so of course I'm going to feature it on Choicest Games :)! The game is apparently one where you can take it at your own pace and explore a city (possibly submerged thanks to climate change?) as a young girl trying to gather supplies to help her critically ill brother. Like Vertigo Games, the developer of Submerged, called Uppercut Games, has a good track record and the last game they released on Steam called Epoch, was well received. The developers also have experience working on AAA titles such as Fallout: Tactics, Freedom Force, Tribes: Vengance, Bioshock and Bioshock 2. The game also has award-winning composer Jeff van Dyck scoring the music.



Unfinished - An Artist's Lament

  • Release Date: 04/08/2015
  • Availability: Steam - Not available for pre-order
This game has an interesting concept: you play the role of an unfinished drawing called Sketch which is having an existential crisis. He doesn't know what he was meant to be and it's up to you to follow the artist's pencil as it draws in the distance. Apparently the game is very short (and can be finished in 30 minutes if you wanted to rush it) but if the price is right, it might be worth a look!



ADventure Lib

  • Release Date: 04/08/2015
  • Availability: Steam - Not available for pre-order
I remember that the old encyclopaedia, Microsoft Encarta (yes kids, encyclopaedias used to come on CDs and before that, books!) had a trivia game called MindMaze which was kind of fun. As a reward for completing the game, you would be able to insert some random words that would then be substituted in a passage of text. Depending on which words you used, the passage could end up being quite reasonably or hilariously preposterous. It seems that ADventure Lib is trying to channel the latter and I only today found out that this kind of word substitution game is known as Mad Libs (hence the game's name) and has been around since the 1950s!



So are you interested or excited about any PC games being released next week? Which games are you looking forward to?

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