You might know Super Rare Games as the fine folks who issue limited quantity, physical print Nintendo Switch titles, but today, they’re announcing a huge expansion with the launch of a new publishing label, Super Rare Originals.
Super Rare Originals is an indie-first digital publishing label designed to put top quality indie games in front of more gamers than ever. All Originals games will be making their way to PC and consoles, though launch dates and specific platforms for the five games announced so far are still to be revealed. More will be revealed closer to the release windows for each game, though Super Rare promise details on one of these upcoming games “very, very soon”.
Here are the five games that have been announced so far:
- Grapple Dog –Â “Grapple Dog is an exhilarating 2D pixel-art platformer from pixel art veteran Joseph Gribbin. Use your awesome grappling hook to clear tricky challenges as Pablo, the Grapple Dog! Sail across 6 colourful worlds with a crew of fearless adventurers to stop the robotic overlord Nul from destroying the world!”
- POST VOID –Â “POST VOID is a challenging arcade style first-person shooter with one objective: be fast. Move forward and keep your idol filled with liquid by getting kills. Each run will be a little bit different with procedurally generated levels.” [Already available on Steam, but Super Rare will be helping with the console release.]
- The Gecko Gods –Â “Explore a mysterious island as a tiny lizard. Complete ancient puzzles, effortlessly climb cliffs and eat bugs as you make your way across an island civilization lost to time. Climb anything, solve ancient contraptions and clamber through the crumbling ruins of a collapsed society – all as a little lizard on a mission to save their friend.”
- Lone Ruin – “From the creator of Hell is Other Demons comes Lone Ruin, a spell-based roguelike twin-stick shooter with tons of replayability. Play as an explorer who seeks a mysterious ancient power in an old ruin, built atop a source of magical goop used by olden mages to power and transform themselves. Dive deeper and deeper, battling your way through twisted creatures, utilising your very own magic abilities to ultimately reach the bottom of the Lone Ruin.”
- Completely Stretchy –Â “Completely Stretchy is a short, first-person surreal and cartoony experience. Explore the vibrant Grombi Isles using your new found floppy abilities such as your stretchy arm, sticky fingers, and more! Talk to the eccentric inhabitants and participate in their playful activities. You may even piece together the story of The Grombi Isles.”
In a press release regarding this announcement, Super Rare go into more detail about the launch of Originals, surmising it as the natural evolution of wanting to support indie developers of all sizes. They describe themselves as taking an indie-first approach, because “we believe publishers should feel honoured to work with developers, rather than the power dynamic being the other way around, as is often the case”.
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