Last weekend featured the inaugural Glasgow Indie Games Festival in Scotland, featuring demos, talks, and game-themed slam poetry. The event was sold out, but ReadWrite Gaming was lucky enough to get hands-on with some games. Many of the games at GIGF have development teams of just a handful of people, making them all the more impressive.
Here's our roundup of what to keep your eyes open for! Valley Peaks Valley Peaks won Best in Show (as voted by attendees) and the demo stand was in use for the whole day. It's a first-person game filled with frogs with a love of climbing, and it's your job to put a radio at the peak of each of the local mountains. As a game, it's as though A Short Hike and Death Stranding had a child.
A beautiful, wholesome environment and cheerful characters are the set dressing for movement puzzles that rely on using the left bumper for your left hand and the right bumper for your right hand. Climbing is satisfying and fun and reaching the top of a mountain and seeing the gorgeous game world splayed out before you was rewarding. Valley Peaks releases on Steam on July 24, 2024, and will come out on the Nintendo Switch in the future.
Morgan Metal Detective Take on the role of Morgan, a teenage girl whose grandfather has left her a metal detector. Explore the quaint Cornish island of Glasden, help the..
. Ali Rees.
