Jun 9, 2022Indie Highlight
During Devolver Digital’s showcase for The Summer Game Fest 2022, one game stood out as colourful and wholesome. The adorable adventure game features some 2D moments inside a storybook, then transitions to a 3D “real-world” realm.
The Plucky Squire follows the magical adventures of Jot and his friends. The goal is to stop the villain of the book from rewriting the happy ending. You’ll come across many challenges such as: solving puzzles, boxing badgers, and flying with a jetpack!
The Plucky Squire is developed by All Possible Futures and published by Devolver Digital (Fall Guys). The game will be releasing in 2023 on the Nintendo Switch, PC (Steam), PS5, and the Xbox Series X.
Dec 28, 2019Quick Bits
If you have a subscription to Amazon Prime, you get Twitch Prime for free by linking your accounts. With Twitch Prime you get free PC games that you can keep forever and select free in-game loot, such as weapons and skins, on a monthly basis. Don’t forget you can also sign-up for 12 months of Nintendo Switch Online for free with details here which is a perfect time to do so if you’ve received Pokemon Sword and Shield for Christmas.
For December 2019 there are 10 free games you can claim right now, with a couple that have been on my ‘wholesome radar’, so check them out below!
If you’re looking for more free games right now until January 1st, 2020, you’re in luck! Epic Games has been giving away PC games for free every day for a total of 12 games!
Aug 30, 2019News
Heave Ho, developed by Le Cartel Studio, is a silly multiplayer adventure about swinging and dangling with your friends to reach the other side of the level without falling! The game is available now on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Steam here. Furthermore, there’s even a special promotion on Steam for 10% off today until September 6th, 2019! You can also try it out right now if you’re at PAX West this weekend.
We love when characters from other indie games cross-over into another, like in Riverbond, so we’ve listed all of the tweets the developers have posted below on other games by publisher Devolver Digital. These hilarious representations of some of our favorite characters come from the following games: My Friend Pedro, Enter the Gungeon, Gris, The Messenger, Katana ZERO, Gato Roboto, Absolver, Hotline Miami, and Pikuniku.
Besides these unique characters, you can customize your own with a large variety of stylish accessories! Moreover, you can change the following features of your little weird blobs with arms: costume, skin color, hair, glasses, face, arms, and voice. For other party games you can play with your friends, check out our article here: Deliciously Sweet Party Games and Astro Bears Review – A Party Game with Bears in Space.
Aug 10, 2019Mobile Game
Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS, announced yesterday that you can now pre-order the game for iPhones and iPads via the App Store. GRIS, a beautiful work-of-art come to life, will be releasing on August 22nd, 2019 right here. If you haven’t heard of this game before, it’s developed by Nomada Studio based in Spain, and it released in 2018 on Steam (PC, Mac) and the Nintendo Switch eShop. See below to learn more about this narrative puzzle platformer.
Play as Gris, a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.
GRIS is a serene and evocative experience, free of danger, frustration or death. Players will explore a meticulously designed world brought to life with delicate art, detailed animation, and an elegant original score. Through the game light puzzles, platforming sequences, and optional skill-based challenges will reveal themselves as more of Gris’s world becomes accessible.
If you love the beautiful art style of this game, then you’ll definitely want to swing by their store. It offers various paintings from several artists! Although everything you see is in Euro, they do ship internationally! Not to mention all the lovely artwork is done on high-quality Old Mill paper.
Other games with colorful art styles you might want to check out are the following: Concrete Genie to Release on October 8th! and Mr. Tic Toc & the Endless City – Time-Travel Through Watercolored Backgrounds.
Jun 30, 2019News
Heave Ho is a cooperative multiplayer adventure game created by indie developers Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital. You won’t have to wait long to play this silly game as it will release on Steam and the Nintendo Switch eShop this summer! Moreover, you’ll need to hold on for dear life and help each other to reach hard-to-get-to places. All you need to do is swing without falling or getting impaled by spikes and attempt to do it in record time if you so choose!
Heave Ho tasks up to four players with a simple goal – don’t fall to your death! Players will use their own two hands and the outstretched grip of their friends to grapple across each level on their way to victory. Grab one another’s hands, climb across dangling bodies, and swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs. Customize your character with all manner of stylish accessories and zany accouterment in a vain attempt to remember who you are and which of your hands is the only thing between you and the plummet of doom.
Heave Ho is a physics-based game where you’ll have to use the left joystick to move your arms and use the triggers to clench fists and grab the platforms! There’s nothing too complicated about the concept but the execution might be another story.
For another multiplayer game published by Devolver Digital, check out our article on Fall Guys for a hilariously fun competition! If you like the idea of working together with friends and needing great communication skills, see Fling to the Finish. Fling to the Finish has just successfully completed its Kickstarter campaign along with some stretch goals!
Jun 14, 2019Feature
Now that E3 2019 is over, we here at myPotatoGames wanted to look back at everything we’ve learned and list our articles in case…there’s anything you missed! We covered most of the press conferences and gave you the scoop on all wholesome games!
We scoured live-streams for Nintendo Treehouse coverage, and E3’s Twitch channels and Twitter feeds. However, we left out Animal Crossing: New Horizons from the list because it would take up too much room (and if you follow MPG regularly, you’ll see we’ve got it pretty well covered), but you can join our new Facebook Page for all related news and fun.
Finally, below is a list of the games we are most excited about and can’t wait to play from each member of myPotatoGames. Since we are all a family here, we’d really love to hear from you guys as well down below in the comments section for your top picks!
Joelle: Luigi’s Mansion 3, Breath of the Wild 2, Planet Zoo, Fall Guys, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Max: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Mario Maker 2, Fall Guys, Rune Factory 4 Special
River: All Smash Bros. DLC, Fall Guys, Super Mario Maker 2, Breath of the Wild 2, and Roller Champions
Hopefully this article has helped you navigate some E3 2019 news and stay up-to-date with all of these amazing announcements! What a great year for gaming with quite an awesome line-up upcoming! We’ll continue to give you the latest on the greatest ‘potatoey’ games!
Jun 9, 2019News
If you haven’t watched Devolver Digital’s live-stream on June 9th, 2019 at 10 p.m. ET, don’t worry! We here at myPotatoGames have a fun and colorful game to show you right here! Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, developed by Mediatonic, is a mass-multiplayer online game coming to PlayStation 4 and PC in 2020. Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout flings hordes of about 100 contestants together in a mad dash through rounds of escalating chaos until one victor remains. Leave your dignity at the door and prepare for hilarious failure in your quest for the crown!
In case you didn’t know, Devolver Digital has also published indie games such as Observation, Pikuniku, and Katana ZERO. They even published an upcoming game called My Friend Pedro coming June 20th, 2019. Today they announced The Messenger: Picnic Panic free DLC, Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead, Carrion, and Devolver Bootleg (contains eight original rip-offs of Devolver Digital games). It’s real. However, one particular game caught our eye so see below for details.
We still have a couple more days of E3 2019 so stay tuned with us for up-to-date announcements on cute, casual, and wholesome games! Check out our article on Microsoft’s Press Conference here. The Gears Pop! game mentioned in the Xbox Briefing was also created by the same developer, Mediatonic.