Indie Games Radar: To the Moon, Owlboy, EDGE

Indie Games Radar is a pre­view of new and upcom­ing inde­pen­dent games that I’m really excited about.

Some really inter­est­ing picks this week:   To the Moon is a seri­ous JRPG-style game that explores death and regret; ver­ti­cal plat­former Owl­boy is a soar­ing adven­ture with gor­geous 2D graph­ics, and the award-winning iOS game EDGE finally gets a Steam release.

To the Moon

Devel­oper: Free­bird Games
Plat­form: PC
Release Date: Fall 2011

To the Moon is an RPG/adventure game about two doc­tors tra­vers­ing through the mem­o­ries of a dying man to ful­fill his last wish.  There exists a tech­nol­ogy that allows doc­tors to weave arti­fi­cial mem­o­ries, such that a patient can request attempts to alter their mind and wake up with mem­o­ries of things that didn’t actu­ally hap­pen.  This par­tic­u­lar story fol­lows Dr. Ros­a­lene and Dr. Watts’ attempt to ful­fill the dream of an elderly man, Johnny, whose dying wish is to go the moon.  With each step back in time, a new frag­ment of Johnny’s curi­ous past is revealed.  And as the two doc­tors piece together the puz­zled events that spanned a life­time, they seek to find out just why the frail old man chose his dying wish to be what it is.

Owlboy

Devel­oper: D-Pad Stu­dio
Plat­form: PC, XBLA (& Steam?)
Release Date: Demo Avail­able August 12, 2011

Owl­boy is a ver­ti­cal platform-adventure game.  You play as Otus, a young Owl, who sets out on an adven­ture when his vil­lage is attacked by sky pirates.  Fea­ture a deep sto­ry­line, emotion-based dia­logue, open envi­ron­ments, mas­sive dungeons…oh yeah, and gold­fish with tophats!

EDGE

Devel­oper: Mobigame
Plat­form: iOS, Steam
Release Date: August 11, 2011 (Steam)

EDGE , the award-winning, retro-styled plat­form game pre­vi­ously only avail­able on iOS is now com­ing to Steam !

More stuff and things!