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It’s June and IGN’s Summer of Gaming Extravagance continues. We hosted a live stream of the Freedom Games Showcase and saw a ton of exciting indie games coming up in 2022 and beyond.
If you missed the Freedom Games Showcase 2022, we’ve got you covered with all the highlights from the show. You can check out all the games below for trailers, release dates, and more.
Highlights from the Freedom Games Showcase
As with any game showcase, we saw game reveals, release date announcements, trailers, developer interviews, and updates on upcoming games from the publisher. If you want a quick rundown of all the games shown at the June 10 presentation, check out the list below:
Good heavens
Good heavens! is a cozy survival crafting RPG set on a collection of floating lands in the afterlife. Build and upgrade bases and characters through multiple skill paths and level up as a farmer, warrior, cook or trader – the perfect game to play with friends.
9 years shadow
release date: Q4 2022
developer: Halberd Studios
Fight to bring color back to a beautiful, handcrafted dark world, and follow the story of Europa, a young warrior, and her ghostly childhood companion, Apino.
HumanitZ
release date: Soon
developer: Yodubzz Studios
HumanitZ is a top-down, open-world zombie survival shooter set a few years after the outbreak. Survive, explore, loot, build, craft, hunt, farm, fish and more. Do all this alone or with other survivors. You can’t change the past… Live for today!
A lonely outpost
release date: Q3 2022
developer: Auroran Studios
Build a new life in a farming sim on a desolate alien planet. Found a colony and develop it into a lively community. Choose from traditional animals and natural products, or opt for robo-cows and genetically spliced plants. Take a break from farming by mining, socializing, finding love, exploring alien ruins and many more interstellar activities.
Retreat to Enen
release date: PC release August 5, 2022
developer: Go west
After narrowly escaping extinction in AD 3600, mankind turned away from war and strife and finally chose life and peace. Journey to the legendary Enen and undertake the rite of passage. Explore, search, hunt, build and meditate to overcome the challenges ahead and find your place in the new world.
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
release date: June 10, 2022
developer: Dancing dragon games
Enter Tahnra, a war-torn land. As a recent academy graduate with humble beginnings, you grow up to lead a vast army against a corrupt enemy. Gather heroes, form bonds and lead your army in turn-based tactical battles. Use strategy, terrain, morale and more to bring peace to the land!
broken places
release date: Q3 2022
developer: Elseware experience
Broken Pieces is a classic fixed-angle French third-person survival horror set in a run-down coastal village that’s somehow stuck outside the flow of time. Solve broken puzzles and put the pieces of the story back together. Discover the mysterious source behind this mystical place and try to return to normal life.
neon rot
release date: July 11, 2022
developer: Bleeding ligaments
Fight your way through this brightly colored shopkeeper manager roguelite set in a dystopian megacity. Collect hundreds of firearms, start an exotic black market gun shop, supply other cyberpunk runners and work towards the biggest payday and ultimate weapon.
blessing of the tyrant
release date: Summer 2022
developer: Mercury Game Studio
Tyberia has been transformed by the tyrant into a paradise free from war, suffering and free will – for almost everyone has been turned into the undead. Take control of the last warriors alive in tactical turn-based combat and drive the army of the dead into the sea!
monster tribe
release date: August 15, 2022
developer: Limitless games
Make your way across the army of Akama, capturing and training an army of spiritual creatures called the Ateyan. Capable of incredible and wondrous acts of magic, these beings await a harmonious soul kind enough to uncover long-forgotten mysteries and restore balance between them and humanity.
Against all odds
release date: Q4 2022
developer: Microwave games
water is cut. Rent is due. Jobs are rare. time to get rich. Join the Slaughter League, engage in a dizzying array of deadly multiplayer races, push aside the competition and survive long enough to become the world’s greatest competitor. There can only be one, so say goodbye to those friendships!
Monorail Stories
release date: Q3 2022
developer: Stelex software
Monorail Stories is a minimalist storytelling game that focuses on an everyday commute to experience a special story of humanity, friendships and intertwined destinies. Expand the scope of the story with a friend taking on the role of two different passengers with interlocking choices in asynchronous multiplayer.
The Monorail Stories Kickstarter campaign is currently ongoing for anyone who would like to support.
Sand from Aura
release date: EA Now Available – Recently Released New Content Update
developer: Cheshu entertainment
Sands of Aura is a soul-like open-world adventure set in a seedy realm buried under a sea of sand. Sail across the vast sandy seas on the Grainwake and discover how you can bring life back to this dying world through unrelenting combat and compelling storytelling.
terracotta
release date: Q4 2022
developer: Appnormals team
Travel to the Qin Dynasty and enter the tomb of China’s first emperor. As one of his loyal Terracotta Warriors, tame your Tao, unleash world-changing abilities, and solve puzzles and afterlife challenges to save the cursed spirits of your fellow warriors.
Voltaire the vegan vampire
release date: Early Access 2023
developer: digital games
An action-farming roguelite full of whimsical flora and mischievous creatures who really want to ruin your dark and mysterious plans of…going vegan! (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ) 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙.
death ride
release date: Soon
developer: Shotx
Death Drive is an open-world deck-building survival RPG set in a zombie apocalypse. Combine deep turn-based combat of card battles and deck building, open world exploration, skills and character abilities, loot, trade, craft, manage your caravan and survive all together!
Mars base
release date: Q4 2022
developer: Khuong Le
Welcome to Mars Base, humanity’s base on the Red Planet! Join the expedition as an interstellar botanist and make history: turn barren soil into fertile farmland, grow food for the colonists’ tables and unravel the mysteries of Mars! Are you ready to make the “harvest” of science out of everything?
blood and zombies
release date: EA available now
developer: Wild Monkey
Humanity is waging an all-out war against a horrific zombie apocalypse. Lead one of humanity’s four deadliest survivors against the Horde in this first-person wave-defense shooter. Load up your weapons, set up turrets, hone your skills, and maybe you’ll make it through the night.