Indie Insights Vol. 5 – Cute Creatures and Colony Capers

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Spring is in the air, and it’s that time again. That’s right; it’s time for another Indie Insights, my fortnightly (say it with me, “not that one!”) column about indie games and demos I have played.

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As always, it’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of video games. First, horror film-producing powerhouse/farm Blumhouse Pictures recently announced its intentions to add a video game studio to its operations.

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In smaller studio news, Yogscast games, which both publish and develop games, held a direct event on Twitch announcing a few of their upcoming games.

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HARMONY’S ODYSSEY From developers Mythic Owl, Harmony’s Odyssey is a genuinely delightful and adorable puzzle game. Harmony is a wee witch living in a world that is a mashup of myth and modern day. The city is filled with eccentric mythical creatures.

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As for gameplay, you basically solve a variety of different puzzles which stand to advance the story. There are tile-swapping games where you put rooms and entire city sections back in order, spot the difference games, logic puzzles, and much more.

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Aesthetically this game is one of the cutest-looking games I have played. It’s colorful, and the character in the world are all adorable. The bats are little blob bats. Dragonmice are big-eared little beasts with the tails of dragons.

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TIME TO MORP From Team HalfBeard and Yogscast Games publishing comes colony sim Time to Morp. As well as the ever-enticing lure of building a colony and making things work, there are also WEIRD LITTLE GUYS.

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There are various resources to find and feed to the Morps, and in turn, they will produce different resources. Discovering different plants, ores, and other interesting materials will help you advance your research and learn to create new and useful machines such as stoves, pumps, and extractors.

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