All 20 game announcements from Day Of The Devs: The Game Awards Edition

06.12.2023 - 17:41 / rockpapershotgun.com / Jonathan Blow

The Day Of The Devs showcases are always some of the brightest spots in the biannual trailer'thon gauntlets, and this year's inaugural edition for The Game Awards is no exception. There were 20 fresh-faced indie games highlighted in tonight's 90-odd-minute stream, and cor, there are some right old gems in here, too, with brand-new game announcements from the devs behind Genesis Noir, Kind Words and Tangle Tower to name just a few. We also got more in-depth looks at some of this year's most intriguing indie games that previously only had an enigmatic teaser snippets attached to them. So come and join us below, where you'll find a digest of all 20 announcements from this evening's showcase, as well as the stream in full if you'd prefer to watch it all as it happened.

You can watch the whole Day Of The Devs stream above (as well as the Wholesome Snack show that follows on straight afterwards). Alternatively, we've got all the details on the announcements below, so read on for more!

Surreal immersive sim Militsioner first caught our eye two years ago when developers TallBoys released a tiny two-minute gameplay trailer about a man trying to escape from an enormous policeman sitting in the centre of a town. It was an intriguing, strange and oddly alluring concept at the time, and now that we've seen an even larger chunk of the game in action, I'm more excited than ever to play it myself. The premise is exactly the same - you're an "ordinary no one" who hasn't done anything noteworthy, let alone committed a crime, but you nevertheless get arrested one morning (or rather plucked and hoisted unceremoniously up into the sky to be peered at and examined by the giant bobbie's scary bulging eyes). Now, under his ever-watchful gaze, you must escape.

There are many routes you can take, but this new trailer reveals you can talk to the giant at any time, and maybe even become his friend if you give him a good enough reason. Some areas will only be off-limits if the policeman's in a bad mood, too - and the devs say that every character has a "Tamagotchi-like mood system" you'll be able to manipulate as they follow their individual daily schedules. "It's basically like a dating sim," they add - only, err, that you might also end up jail if it all goes terribly wrong. Militsioner still doesn't have a release date yet, but the devs say they're "deep into development". For now, you can find out more on Steam.

Good news, Genesis Noir likers. Feral Cat Den are back with another musical odyssey in the form of Nirvana Noir. Set in a cosmic city where "alleyways dissolve into celestial voids" (isn't that always the way?), you play a watchmaker living a double life, all set to the raucous jazz tunes of returning composers