tinyBuild Reveals Details Of Four, Count 'em New Titles

It’s been a big day for tinyBuild as they’ve given details on four new games all in one go. This news was meant to go out much earlier, but poor time management and a headache, and… well, no excuses.

Let’s cut to the chase.

Pigeon Simulator

The game we never knew we needed, Pigeon Simulator is an open world title where you do as you please as a pigeon. Emphasis on ‘do’ as you can crap on people.

Rats with wings, these pigeons can take people’s food and steal tanks in a game where you can unlock your bird’s abilities through levelling up.

From HakJak, Pigeon Simulator features both hand-crafted elements and procedurally generated ones, but the core thing to take away is the term ‘open development project’.

The developers intend to build the game from the feedback from players, using a flexible set of systems that include:

A procedural city generator, including interiors and ‘dungeons.’ 

• An ambitious, physics-based destruction engine capable of detailed, full city destruction. 
• A unique and flexible skill tree and ability structure we call ‘the DNA system’ and ‘Stomach Alchemy’. 
• An advanced ‘AI Storyteller’, NPC relationship simulator, and Story Module system for emergent gameplay. 
• A unique content production pipeline to help us bring crazy ideas to life as fast as we can with a 5 person team
• And tons of physics-based, pigeon popping mayhem! 

Announcement trailer below:

Expedition Zero

A survival horror game set in Siberia, Enigmatic Machines title is set for the PC, where you learn to hone your engineering skills to confront flesh-eating monsters. Yum!

Following the crash of a meteorite, the Siberian taiga forest in a new exclusion zone, and for a good reason: these creatures are devastating the remaining villages.

Sending out an advanced Soviet scientific team, you’re part of the Expedition Zero crew sent in to clean things up with your state of the art technology and mechanised protective suits. Only years past and the lone survivor is trying to make their way home.

Key features in Expedition Zero:

• Soviet engineer against monsters, confront dreadful creatures with brains and brawn, use your ingenuity and technical skills instead of weapons.
• Survive in the freezing Siberian taiga forest full of mysteries, unknown threats and endless horror.
• Upgrade your mechanised suit, craft Soviet gadgets and discover new technologies.
• Uncover the truth of Expedition Zero.

Here’s the trailer:

No firm date yet, but it’ll be coming to PC this year.

Potion Craft

This one is a game from Niceplay Games and heading to Steam this year, Potion Craft. You play as an aspiring alchemist wandering the land until you find a seemingly abandoned home, formerly the residence of a wizard.

Setting up shop – literally as you open a potions shop, you follow the life of ‘The Alchemist’s Path’, learning the secrets of potion making and becoming the go-to alchemist in town.

Features on Potion Craft include:

• Manage a medieval potion shop – Meet your fellow townsfolk, understand their needs from the stories they are telling you, and sell them the right potions to keep your business running. Buy and sell ingredients, grow your own in Enchanted garden, and do whatever it takes to stay in business.

• Unique visuals inspired by medieval manuscripts and medical texts – Dive into an authentic medieval atmosphere created by carefully crafted characters, interiors, and a relaxing soundtrack.

• Hyper satisfying physical interactions with ingredients and equipment – Harvest herbs, mushrooms, & crystals from the Enchanted Garden. Grind them carefully with your mortar and pestle to release their effects and add them to your cauldron.

• Sandbox style Alchemy map system – Mix up a nice healing infusion with mana restoration, or add a frost effect to your regular poison for some extra spice. Fire, frost, healing, poison, explosion, magical vision, invisibility… your potions potential is limitless!

How about some moving images?

Coming to a Steam platform near you… (2021).

Despot’s Game

From Konfa Games, Despot’s Game is a rogue-like where you build a team, with the sole purpose of sacrificing them to get through the next wave of enemies.

Naked and with no memories, your army of expendables are your tools, equipped with weapons, collecting your loot and what-not.

Despot’s Game features include:

• Get your pretzels ready – Your puny squad is capable of much more. Choose your loot and transform the squishy humans into wizards, cultists, ninjas and dozens of other heroes, including the mythical stale pretzel throwers. With perks and class combos, there are thousands of ways to build your army. The man-eating cabbage will appreciate the variety in its diet!

• Crush your rivals – If you can survive the labyrinth, you’ll meet THE UNSTOPPABLE END-GAME BUILDS OF OTHER PLAYERS! You’ll beat each other to death and only one will be spared by d’Spot. No offense, but in his own game he writes the rules!

• Indirect combat – Prepare your warriors and let them fight it out on their own! Indirect combat allows you to focus heavily on tactical considerations rather than reflexes. Strengthen your front line with fridge-movers, aim your food-throwers and look after your Forbidden Summoners!

• Endless exploration – The dungeons are generated from scratch every time, and there is no chance puny humans will ever find the way out! And even if they strike lucky — don’t worry, there are endless ways to die in Despot’s Game!

This looks familiar…

Despot’s Game is due for release on Steam in 2021, with a demo available during the Steam Game Festival from tomorrow (3rd February).