Keep an eye on these.
PAX Australia hit Melbourne like a cyclone full of boxing gloves over the weekend, bringing with it Mandalorian cosplayers, cultists of The Lamb, and New Blood Interactive’s incredible merch. Sadly, someone committed the frankly un-Australian act of complaining about New Blood’s „Sick Cunt“ T-shirt and they had to remove it from display, but they’ll always be the sickest of cunts in our heart.
The return of PAX Australia also means the return of PAX Rising, the indie games area where the nation’s finest upcoming games are demonstrated. (And a few already released—shout-out to Samurai Punk, showing the arena shooter Killbug, which is like Devil Daggers with evil ladybugs and can be bought on Steam right now.) Some of the highlights were games we’ve already covered, like Broken Roads, The Drifter, and The Dungeon Experience. Here are a few more, some with demos you can try for yourself right now.Solium Infernum
I used to play Warlords 2 Deluxe, a strategy game with a map pack full of wild scenarios including Dante’s Inferno. You could play as factions like the Virtuous Pagans, the Fraudulent, or the Lustful, each vying for control of a faithful rendition of Dante’s netherworld. Solium Infernum is a modern version of that, or to put it in language more people will appreciate, it’s like Civilization in Hell, with Lilith instead of Queen Elizabeth.
Though it’s inspired by an online multiplayer game of the same name, this incarnation of the simultaneous-turns-strat-em-up can be played against AI archfiends.
