Best Of #ScreenshotSaturday: November
Every month, Pop Geeks looks through the extensive entries to #ScreenshotSaturday – screenshots of games that are posted to Facebook and Twitter every Saturday under the #Screenshot Saturday banner – and brings you some of the best indie games that are worthy of your attention, all in a listicle form counting down to our favorite. Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, edition of The Best Of #ScreenshotSaturday! Not see a screenshot from the last month that you thought was interesting? Let us know below!
Dead Cells
You aren’t a valiant hero in Dead Cells; you’re a sentient blob of meat that possesses corpses to find and destroy its creator. Across a metroidvania-style map, your undead warrior wields powerful weapons and items, pulling off fierce combos to slice through monsters and traps. Blending the meticulous level design of a metroidvania with the procedural generation and permadeath of a roguelike, Dead Cells pits your skill against a brooding castle filled with cunning enemies and cutthroat bosses.
Albatross
In Albatross play the role of Stewart, a cowardly software developer who is unwittingly led into an underground research facility, Albatross, that is dedicated to the study of spacetime. Once inside you discover a device that allows you to travel between the present, 1984, and the distant future (where things are decidedly worse than in 1984) with the press of a button. You’ll have to solve a series of puzzles that rely on time travel and a firm grasp of causality if you want to escape.
Transmission
Lost and alone on a mysterious planet, Transmission challenges you to discover the secrets of this alien world and find a way home. Armed with a plasma blade and energy shield, your survival depends on both tense combat, puzzle solving, and exploration through sprawling isometric landscapes. Transmission is a hand painted action-adventure game that blends tactical combat, vast exploration, and intricate puzzle solving, along with a rich narrative in the realm of great science fiction cinema. You find yourself deserted on an unknown planet, with little indication of how you arrived. Armed with your trusty plasma cutter and your ship’s sentient artificial intelligence computer, you must search for a way home. During your journey you will uncover secrets and challenges beyond your imagination, along with a hidden past that this strange planet holds. As you discover this hidden past, you will ultimately have to confront your own.
Nemesis
Moons, stations, planets hide all manner of enemies and secrets in Nemesis. In this isometric RPG, your armor-clad hero must clear dangerous sci-fi dungeons through tactical battles and powerful firepower. The player has full freedom of actions. He will explore a huge galaxy, full of secrets and mysteries inhabited by different races. Someone decides to help you, but someone wants to kill you. Travel between the stars at own spaceship, landing to a planets, moons and orbital stations. Try to survive in this unfriendly world. And if you’re lucky, you can establish your own order in this galaxy.
Unknown Destiny
First individual journey Unknown Destiny takes the participant via a surreal panorama, providing each puzzles to unravel and mysteries to get to the bottom of. Set off on an amazing journey through Unknown Fate. Passing seamlessly from the real world into a surreal universe you’ll come across strange characters and unfamiliar artifacts. Engulfed in mystery, you’ll take cautious steps deep into the unknown, only to have your mind swept away by yet more questions, nibbling at your grasp of what you think is real and true – your certainties will start to crumble. With no way back and a strong urge for answers beating in your temples, you push on, striving to get grip on the odd difficulties surrounding you, eagerly awaiting the moment your mind will be untangled when the thread of your journey finally unravels all the way. But there is some way yet to go.
Did we miss any of your favorites from #ScreenshotSaturday this month? Let us know what your favorites were this month!