Not-E3 2020 Part 8: Monstervine Hot Games Summer Showcase

Table of Contents

Indie Live Expo 2020
The Escapist Indie Showcase
PlayStation 5 Showcase
Guerrilla Collective
PC Gaming
Future Games Show
EA
New Game+ Expo
MonsterVine Hot Games Summer Showcase
Limited Run Games
Devolver Direct
Ubisoft
Nintendo
Microsoft

MonsterVine Hot Games Summer Showcase

Next up in our Not-E3 coverage is MonsterVine’s Hot Games Summer Showcase, which I’m actually involved with since I’m a freelance writer/reviewer for MonsterVine! I couldn’t find new trailers to embed for some of the games I’ll be highlighting here, so be sure to check out the full showcase!

We started out with a look at Ary and the Secret of Seasons, which looks like it could be a pretty good game. I’ll be keeping my eye on that one for sure.

After that came trailers for 30XX and Aeolis Tournament, which we’ve seen in other Not-E3 showcases this year, followed by a rogelite RPG shooter called Bite the Bullet.

A cute adventure game called Button City was next, the first of several cute animal-themed games in the showcase.

Next up were new trailers for Liberated, Freakpocalypse, Cyber Hook, and Danger Scavenger. The next game shown after that was the visual novel Dear Devere, which I reviewed for MonsterVine as part of this showcase.

We got to see another trailer for Paradise Lost, which is looking pretty interesting, as well as a montage from the Dread X Collection, 10 short horror games that were each created in just 7 days. Some of them look pretty cool, so I might need to check that out (maybe around October).

After a look at Dreamscaper, they showed Embr, a game about “uber firefighters” currently in Early Access. Next up was a multiplayer game called First Class Trouble and then a montage of games from Physicality Games. One of the games getting a physical release from them is Whispering Willows, which we discussed last year.

The next game was Gamedec, the cyberpunk detective RPG shown in at least one previous showcase, and it looks pretty cool.

Trailers for Hotshot Racing and the new MapleStory update were followed by an interview about The Walking Dead: Onslaught, then a look at the side-scrolling platformer Metal Unit and the visual novel Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star.

Neversong looks pretty cool, and then after Rift Breaker, there was a short interlude section before the showcase resumed with Rock of Ages III. The next game was a sword-fighting VR game called Until You Fall, which looks kinda cool except that I’m not a VR player.

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a cool-looking roguelite platformer, Spaceline Crew looks like a cute party game, and The Falconeer continues to look pretty interesting. Next was another cute game, a puzzle platformer called Terrorarium.

New trailers for The Way of Wrath and This is the Zodiac Speaking were followed by Thunder Rally and Hypercharge: Unboxed (which I wrote some stuff about for a completely unrelated freelance job), and then it was time for my interview with Bloober Team about The Medium! It was really exciting to do this interview, and The Medium sounds like it’s going to be fantastic.

An action-adventure roguelike called UnderMine was shown, followed by a zombie survival game called Undying. We got another look at Volta-X and When the Past Was Around, and then Wintermoor Tactics Club, which I also reviewed as part of the showcase.

The showcase ended with another tiny teaser for Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest.

We all did a wrap-up for the outro (which includes me and my Master Xehanort plush for my segment). And that was that! What did you think of the MonsterVine Hot Games Summer Showcase?

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