This year’s Devolver Direct was marked by the announcement of new games, like Owner(s) from the independent studio Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter) And Tenjutsu from the solo developer Deepnight Games, the designer of Dead Cells Sébastien Benard. But the event was also an opportunity for your favorite publisher’s favorite publisher to reveal release dates for Anger Football (Free Lives) and The Crush House (Nerial), as well as new DLC for Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster) and The Talos Principle 2 (Croteam). Without forgetting the first gameplay trailer of the very poetic Never will presented during the Summer Game Fest.
- Owner(s) – Announced on PC & Consoles – 2025
Owner(s) is a rhythmic side-scrolling action game whose combat is inspired by platform fighters. Narrated by eminently dangerous characters, its story propels you into a complex interconnected world where exploration is king.
Play as Luca, the host, and Rehm, his uncooperative counterpart, as they explore a quarantined city, devastated and flooded by an interdimensional catastrophe. Their only way to survive is to learn to coexist.
Check out the official trailer for Owner(s)
- Tenjutsu – Announced on PC & Consoles
Tenjutsu puts you in the shoes of a renegade yakuza determined to stand up to her former partners in crime. His goal ? Free the town of Secret Garden City from their grip.
Four powerful crime syndicates control the city with an iron fist. To defeat them, you will have to master the brutal combat system but also develop your possibilities in terms of weapons, improvements and martial arts techniques: only an immense surge of perfectly controlled violence will free the city from the actions of this treacherous spawn.
As your fists put an end, in the order that suits you, to the sinister actions of these various criminal organizations, the city is gradually reborn.
The decaying streets will gradually regain their original life and colors, inviting you to spend your preciously accumulated resources in their shops and restaurants. Essential to prepare well before a new trip to the city’s underbelly.
Shape locations to suit your playstyle by unlocking new weapons, techniques and areas to explore. Don’t take too much time: the longer you prepare, the more powerful your enemies will be.
Check out the official trailer for Tenjutsu
- Neva – Announced on PC & Consoles – 2024
Never will deals with the powerful bond between a young woman and a magnificent wolf, in a world in complete decay. Following a traumatic encounter with the forces of darkness, Alba finds herself linked to a mischievous and curious wolf cub. Together, they will experience an adventure full of dangers, encounters and challenges. Over time, the animal will grow and become more mature. As they explore this damned, almost extinct universe, their relationship will also evolve.
Check out the official trailer for Never will
- Anger Football – July 11, 2024 – PC
Developed by the nickel-plated feet of Free Lives (Broforce, Gorn, Terra Nile) and edited by the bare-footed folks at Devolver Digital, Anger Football is a quick release like lightning where you put your foot where you want, and it’s often in doors and mouths. Discover this unbridled playful chaos when it releases on PC on July 11.
Relentless first-person kicker coupled with an incredible release of steam in the middle of a caffeine rush, Anger Football takes you into the dark world of Shit City where a bunch of monstrous gangsters are just waiting for one thing: to get a good kick in the ass.
Send the deadliest feet in the galaxy into the face of a wide variety of colorful anthropomorphic enemies to clear out the slums, sewers and skyscrapers full of weapons to collect, new sneakers to unlock and powers to improve in a perfectly absurd, therefore marvelous, way.
Thanks to your excessive use of brute force, you will only leave a gigantic jumble of smashed doors, broken bones and crushed energy drinks behind you. Reaching the exit alive is at this price.
Shit City is a disease, and your panard is the cure. Find the right fit among the most gleaming sneakers at your disposal to clean up all the unsanitary neighborhoods of this troubled city. More of an apostle of style, speed or power? Uncover a whole host of secrets and bonuses that encourage replayability: learn how to approach space destruction in creative, ridiculous and devastating ways.
Take stock with your toes and be quick with your trigger: you will have to surpass yourself to overcome and unravel all of the mysteries ofAnger Football.
Check out the official trailer forAnger Football
- The Crush House – August 9, 2024 – PC
The Crush House will make its debut on PC on August 9. For those who can’t wait to create the reality TV show of the future: a playable demo is available now on Steam!
Created by the British studio Nerial (Reigns), The Crush House is THE reality TV program that everyone is talking about in 1999. And its new producer is you! Carry your camera to every corner of the show’s iconic mansion and have viewers glued to their seats as you capture all the drama, romance and tension that emanates from every interaction. Fail to entertain the masses and the ultimate ax will quickly fall: worse than death, it’s the outright cancellation of the show that hangs in your face!
Choose from twelve eccentric personalities and find the four gems that will create the material for each season of your show. Mix these conflicting or complementary personalities and don’t miss a bit of the tensions and sparks that punctuate the daily life of the manor. Focus your camera on the hottest events so your audience figures soar!
Every normally constituted being equipped with a television watches The Crush House. With dozens of colorful personas to entertain, you will need to implement a precise strategy to leave no one behind. You can’t please everyone, all the time, but you owe it to yourself to try!
But The Crush House also hides a sinister mystery that you will have to solve. At night, when the cameras are no longer rolling, Jae can explore the mansion and chat with the participants to understand what is really going on in this cursed place.
Check out the official trailer for The Crush House
- Cult of the Lamb: Unholy Alliance – August 12, 2024 – PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series S|X and Switch
The new free Unholy Alliance update for the esoteric hit Cult of the Lamb introduces a brand new playable character: the Goat! Summoned by blood and born in corruption, this strange traveling companion can join the Lamb in local co-op. It will therefore be possible to roam the dungeons, beat the heretics and build your cult together from August 12!
The entire campaign Cult of the Lamb will be playable in local co-op. Enjoy special 2-player versions of existing mini-games, like Fishing and Knucklebones, and choose from a selection of weapons, tarot cards, curses, and corrupted relics as your cooperative crusades progress.
The Lamb and Goat can swap weapons, deal extra damage when fighting back to back, and even deliver a critical hit when their attacks are in sync. For those who prefer to stay alone in their corner, it will be possible to benefit from various new powers.
In addition to the possibility of two-player cooperative play, the Unholy Alliance expansion adds several tarot cards, relics, buildings, fleeces, character traits and quests, in addition to new secrets to discover!
Check out the official trailer for Cult of the Lamb: Unholy Alliance
- The Talos Principle 2: Road to Elysium – June 14, 2024 – PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
The remarkable (and noted!) story of the existentialist puzzle game from Croteam and Devolver Digital, The Talos Principle 2is far from over.
In addition to allowing you to find your favorite characters from the original adventure, this triptych will further test your gray cells through a series of exciting new stories.
Road to Elysium follows the events of The Talos Principle 2 by offering you new perspectives on the significant moments of the epic of 1K, which will have to face new puzzles using already known systems, but also new mechanics as ingenious as they are demanding.
This expansion is made up of three chapters, each of which offers its own visual and atmosphere.
Orpheus Ascending
Explore the philosophy of love, death and resurrection as you follow the story of Hypatia and Sarabhai. Play as 1K and navigate Sarabhai’s mind to find fragments of her personality. In this sumptuous environment inspired by ancient Egypt, this chapter asks you to solve, in an unconventional way, a series of complex puzzles with lasers.
Isle of the Blessed
Hang out with Yaqut and Miranda as they join Cornelius and Athena on a breathtaking Caribbean island. Face many new challenges using familiar tools, while your final objective is the Hexahedron, a large set of continuous puzzles located in a mysterious tower.
Into the Abyss
Relive one of the most intense moments of The Talos Principle 2 and find out what happened to Byron when he got stuck in the Megastructure. On a series of floating islands, this chapter takes you on a hallucinatory trip through an ethereal world full of puzzles, each more difficult than the last. A chapter that will undoubtedly turn the heads of the most experienced players.
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