Canadian Video Game Releases - October 17 to 23: Echo Generation, Inscryption, Schmutznik
/ Stephen CraneHere are the Canadian video game releases for this week, including the platforms! Check them out below:
Echo Generation
Platforms: Xbox, PC (also available on Gamepass)
Developer: Cococucumber
Echo Generation is a turn-based adventure game with a supernatural twist. Strange things are afoot in Maple Town: A mysterious crash leads you on a spooky adventure through your hometown. Battle monsters, complete quests and unearth secrets to reveal a conspiracy that transcends time.
Just in time for spooky season! ~ 👻
— #EchoGeneration OUT NOW 🎉 Xbox & PC (@cococucumberco) October 21, 2021
Echo Generation is ⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ on Xbox, PC and Xbox Game Pass!
Battle aliens, monsters and mechs in a supernatural turn-based adventure
🔥 https://t.co/nJ8jaVURc4
RT #EchoGeneration @Xbox @XboxGamePass @ID_Xbox pic.twitter.com/NHckPIr0LA
Inscryption
Developer: Daniel Mullins Games
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Schmutznik
Developer: Avram Dumitrescu
Schmuztnik is a platform game where all the art is made from play-doh. Spelunk into the caverns with your robot, reaching up to higher areas with your extendable neck, clean up the ever-growing green slime, avoid enemies, and ultimately reach the exit for each cave.
David B joins us from the west coast best coast to talk about the upcoming Quiver Games Incubator!
Bizdev extraordinaire Eric Beer joins us to give his Hades II impressions and chat v-bucks subsidized game preservation.
We break down Baldur Gate 3's unprecedented success & the knock-on effects it'll have on the industry and how we make games moving forward. We also speak to Ontario-based indie game devs Twinolli about their upcoming action-puzzler Highlighters which just got a (Dad Deck-verified) Steam demo!
We speak to Québécois game dev Dragon Slumber, creator of Tech Support, Aethernaut and many more!
We reveal the winners of our ‘23 Community Awards poll and discuss Drinkbox’s latest teaser for their next project- and more!
This week thousands more game developers join Stephan in the "terminated by evil, stupid people" camp as layoffs hit tons of studios all over Canada and the world. We discuss Sonic as well. Sonic supports Unionizing your Workplace!
Stephan got terminated but that’s okay he just has more time to cover Canadian games now.
Solo indie dev expert and longtime friend-of-the-site Devon Wiersma joins us to talk their latest release Centauri Dark, working across AAA, mid-sized and solo indie dev and how to fix this goshdarn industry.