The start of the school year promises to be prolific in video games like few times, but not necessarily rich in familiar titles or easier to approach. Summer isn’t over and even the holidays aren’t over and you may want to relax (or cool down to avoid the expected heat wave) by playing a little.
The last few weeks have seen the arrival of many more discreet titles, but not without interest. technology and company has selected for you games that are worth a detour to play alone or with the family, to think or laugh, on consoles or PC. And some are even available on Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation Plus.
Oxenfree II: Missed Signals
Acquired by the platform in 2021, Night School has officially become a Netflix studio. With Oxenfree II: Missed Signals, offers the video streaming service, which now wants to offer mobile gaming, its first original game. But that doesn’t make it a Netflix exclusive.
Oxenfree II se takes place five years after the supernatural events of Oxenfree. This time you play as Riley, an environmental researcher in her hometown of Camena. She must investigate mysterious radio signals that are disturbing the peaceful city and its electronic devices. Accompanied by Jacob, she will try to understand a mystery that strikes the scene and makes her relive the events. In this narrative game, each choice influences the story, the encounters too. The walkie-talkie is also there for you to interact with your contacts in order to find essential information for your investigation. The city’s radio frequencies will also be rich with information.
Available on PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC, and via the Netflix app on smartphones and tablets (free).
move 2
For family fun, nothing better than an absurd game like move 2. In this new job, you must be the king of moving and stack everything your clients ask you to transport in the truck. With loss and accident sometimes. The important thing is above all to fulfill its mission, whatever the form. And for that, it is possible to count on other players to save time and move heavy furniture. You can play alone, but two locally or even more online, the game will always be more fun.
We found the fun and crazy spirit of the game created by Team 17 three years ago, but also a bit of madness by Overcooked, broad inspiration with boxes instead of pans. The environments are diverse and the activities varied.
Available PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X⎜S, Nintendo Switch and PC
Model
Released a few years ago exclusively on PS4 and PS5, the game is now available on Xbox consoles as well. Driven by a captivating soundtrack and well-written narration, the game follows the story of a couple from their meeting and their evolution. But far from being a narrative game, it is more of a thinking game, based on riddles and enigmas in situations to be solved, all on various scales. You are at the heart (on a human scale) of the model in front of you. Moving an element in this or in your scale will affect the other dimension.
Available on all consoles and PC
The Brotherhood of the Cosmic Wheel
Fortuna is a witch exiled on an asteroid. She makes a pact with a strange mystical creature, Abrámar, that allows her to create her own tarot cards using magic and thus choose the fate of the characters she will meet later.
In this narrative pixel game, freedom is the key word. The story unfolds over several decades and questions everyone’s search for identity, individual responsibilities, but also their place in the community. Can you save your clan or run to ruin? To discover for its unique mix, its passionate music and its narration where the elections decide the future of history.
Available on Nintendo Switch and PC
Venba
A gentle immersion in the heart of a family of Indian immigrants who wonder about their origins, their place in a Canadian society that is not theirs, but in which they want to integrate while being faithful to their customs. And that goes through culinary transmission.
Venba is a young woman who will try to recreate the traditional family recipes that she inherited through her mother’s cookbook. Because the game of the same name is a cooking game in which you have to manage to reconstitute partly forgotten recipes. A pixelated title that talks about family, love, loss and reconstruction that can be enjoyed in a few hours.
Available on PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X⎜S, Nintendo Switch and PC
disney island of illusion
Mickey and all his friends Donald, Minnie and Goofy sign their return to video games in this 2D platform game that smells good of the old days, both in the hand-drawn design and in its gameplay. Playable from 1 to 4 players, disney island of illusion is a deceptively easy game to access (although several levels of difficulty are offered) in which you must recover the three magical tomes that protect the island. To do this, you will have to go through a very large map, multiple areas and acquire different powers (jump, float in the air, bounce, swim…). These are mostly platform reflexes to acquire to get through this game of about 8 hours.
The game should seduce the youngest with its famous heroes, the ease of handling the game and the absence of enemies that come to attack you (the bosses are eliminated by being agile above all and having good reflexes to avoid obstacles). The older ones will especially enjoy discovering the artifacts that reference parts of Disney culture, heroes of yesteryear. A game that smells of nostalgia or discovery.
Available exclusively on Nintendo Switch
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Those without a PS5 can now catch up with some PlayStation exclusives coming to PC as well. Such is the case with Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, the latest episode in the adventures of the lombax adjustable wrench and his robot sidekick. But this time, they will be thrown into a time rift and separated. In this parallel world, they discover the existence of Rivet, Rachet’s female double, who leads the resistance against Emperor Nefarious (a multidimensional double of Ratchet’s regular antagonist, Dr. Nefarious). She is accompanied by Kit, Clank’s robotic counterpart.
Each duo will try to reconstitute and find themselves in order to hunt down Nefarious and undermine his plans, whatever dimension or galaxy they are in.
Available on PS5 and PC
gilt
Exclusive to Google Stadia Fire, gilt It almost disappeared with the old cloud gaming service and that would have been a shame. The Tequila Works studio, then bought by Google, regained its freedom and regained its ownership now available on consoles and PC.
Therefore, you will play Sally, a young woman who goes in search of her missing cousin Emily, who has fallen into a parallel world populated by nightmare creatures. Because under her childish gaze, gilt It’s a survival horror game (but more instilled and implied fear than horrifying in the image). Infiltration will be the key to the success of the little girl who will have to seek support among the few humans present to find her cousin, but not without some disappointments along the way.
Available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X⎜S and PC
Source: BFM TV
