Nintendo Indie World Showcase April 2024: Everything Announced

17.04.2024 - 14:49 / ign.com / Nintendo

Nintendo is hosting its first Indie World Showcase of 2024. As the name implies, this digital event focused entirely on indie games that were headed to Nintendo's hybrid gaming system, the Nintendo Switch. IGN has you covered with everything announced during the first Indie World Showcase of 2024, which you can read below.

Thunderful announced today that Steamworld Heist II is in development and will be released on August 8th, 2024.

The new gameplay trailer revealed at the showcase showed that SteamWorld Heist II would keep the same turn-based ricochet strategy gameplay while being set in a lush tropical environment called Carribea.

Thunderful spoke with IGN before the announcement, and producer Peter Magnusson explained that this upcoming release is a “milestone of size and scope” for the Steamworld franchise. Story and crew customization will be given greater emphasis than in previous releases.

If you are looking for another game in which you play as a cute little cat, Little Kitty, Big City is just the game for you. Players explore a colorful yet quirky neighborhood as they venture across the setting on their way home, while also helping other animals they encounter and tripping humans if they wish to cause chaos.

Little Kitty, Big City is out on May 9 for Nintendo Switch.

Yars Rising is a new side-scrolling run and gun platformer from Atari. The gameplay looks similiar to games like Metroid and Mega Man based on first glances. With some stealth components as we see snippets of the protagonist Yar evading robotic enemies.

Yars Rising arrives later this year.

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game is an exploration-based adventure game with heavy themes of self-discovery. Players control an android created by a now-deceased doctor. Throughout their adventure, players will learn more about the characters they control based on their choices and decisions, providing ample replayability to see how the story unfolds.

Refined Self: The Personality Test Game arrives this summer as a timed exclusive for the Nintendo Switch.

Originally released last year on PC, this cozy, vibrant game has players running a small business where they create and sell stickers. Players can pack orders and hear customers share testimonials about their experience purchasing products.

Sticky Business and all the DLC released will arrive on Nintendo Switch today as a timed console exclusive.

Announced at the 2023 Guerrilla Collective Showcase last summer, Antonblast is headed to PC and Nintendo Switch this November. Antonblast is a chaotic action platformer where players will bhave ample opportunities to destroy enemies and worlds.

Valley Peaks is an adventure game in which players climb mountains. Each mountain is a unique puzzle that