Tag: Devolver Digital
News The Plucky Squire's Heavy-Handed Tutorials Reduced in New Streamlined Mode
Coming soon to consoles
Devolver Digital has announced a new mode for its charming action adventure, The Plucky Squire. Dubbed Streamlined Mode, this new way to play essentially strips out some of the tutorials, hand-holding, and less necessary dialogue, taking control away from players less often. The game is clearly geared towards a family...
News The Talos Principle 1 Returns in a PS5 Remaster with New Content
Pitched as the Definitive Edition
Croteam has announced it's bringing back The Talos Principle with a PS5 definitive edition that remasters the original game and bundles in new content, all rebuilt with Unreal Engine 5. It's called The Talos Principle: Reawakened, and it's expected to arrive in early 2025. Check out the reveal trailer above. The...
News The Wacky But Promising Baby Steps Now Slated for 2025
Few more strides to take
Devolver Digital has announced Baby Steps won't be releasing on PS5 until 2025, as part of its comical Delayed Awards livestream. The game, which is inspired by the recent trend of titles that are purposefully hard to control (think Chained Together and Getting Over It), sees you play as a man baby taking hi
News Devolver's Delayed Awards May or May Not Go Ahead Later Today
Devolver Digital reserves the right to delay the show until the very last moment
Chaotic video game publisher Devolver Digital is allegedly holding its 15th Annual Devolver Delayed Awards 2024 today, 27th November. If the show does go ahead, viewers can look forward to "the only awards show recognizing those heroic developers with the courage and...
News Heavy Metal GOATs Gather for Unholy Cult of the Lamb Tribute Album
Engage the Killswitch
The unholy triumvirate of Massive Monster, Devolver Digital and Laced Records have joined forces, looping in some demons of the heavy metal scene for a six-track Cult of the Lamb tribute album. It's called Cult of the Lamb: Hymns of the Unholy and features the smooth, musical stylings of members, past and present, of the likes...
Mini Review Neva (PS5) - A Stunning Masterwork of Art and Animation
Time to stock up on tissues
GRIS made waves in 2018 for its stunning, painting-like visual style and story, and when it came to PS4 a year later, we thought it was great. Now Nomada Studio is back with Neva, a game that builds upon the strong parts of GRIS and vastly improves the other areas to create a gorgeous, emotional, and captivating tale of...
News Illicit Copies of Hotline Miami 2 Pulled From Aussie PS5s as PlayStation Finally Catches On
Good times never last
In shockingly un-Australian fashion, it appears someone has been talking to the authorities. After initially being refused classification at launch in 2015, Aussie players in the know have been able to enjoy the illicit Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number for the past year or so. Apparently, some genius simply forgot to apply that...
Review The Plucky Squire (PS5) - Joyful, Inventive Adventure on Every Page of PS Plus Gem
Jot what the doctor ordered
The Plucky Squire leapt out at us from the very first moment we saw its debut trailer, teasing the dimension-hopping capabilities of its central storybook hero. We're pleased to say the full game delivers on this core premise handsomely; Jot's journey across the pages of his book and beyond is full of unique moments and...
News Gorgeous Narrative Adventure Neva Releases on PS5 in October
Neva gonna give you up
Devolver Digital has announced a release date for its picturesque action adventure, Neva. Coming from Nomada Studio, the makers of GRIS, the game is set to launch on PS5 on 15th October, 2024. As a refresher, Neva is a side-scrolling narrative game in which player character Alba forms a strong emotional bond with a wolf cub...
News The Plucky Squire Getting Physical PS5 Edition, But Won't Be Ready in Time for Launch
That unbeatable, tactile feel
The Plucky Squire is a promising upcoming action adventure game, a dimension-defying storybook quest with a whole lot of heart. Developer All Possible Futures has revealed that the colourful indie will get a physical release on PS5, which is good news for all you collectors; however, this version won't be ready in time...
News The Plucky Squire Launches on PS5 This September, Day One on PS Plus Extra
Release date confirmed
Publisher Devolver Digital and developer All Possible Futures have finally announced a release date for their upcoming 2D/3D hybrid action platformer, The Plucky Squire. Revealed back in 2022 with a delightful debut trailer, the game is launching at last on 17th September, 2024. What's more, it's also been confirmed that The...
Mini Review Pepper Grinder (PS5) - Sprightly Platformer Is Well-Drilled
Drilling into the detail
What would you do if a load of pirates stole your hard-earned booty and the only tool you could find to get your stuff back was an oversized drill? Well, Pepper Grinder proffers an answer: you'd turn that drill into a sort of weapon-cum-vehicle and chase them down. Over the course of a short runtime, across four worlds that...
News Cult of the Lamb Entices New Converts with Interactive Odyssey The Pilgrim's Pack
We want to believe
Cult of the Lamb is getting a big, free update next week in the form of Unholy Alliance, which, among other things, adds couch co-op to the game. But if you're the sort of deviant who craves even more of the dark arts, then perhaps The Pilgrim's Pack's enticing brand of comic book-style interactive fiction is for you. This p
News Cult of the Lamb's Unholy Alliance Update Adds Local Co-Op, New Follower Traits, Much More
More details provided on huge update
Devolver Digital and developer Massive Monster recently unveiled the next major update to their hit indie title, Cult of the Lamb. Named Unholy Alliance, its headline feature is local co-op, allowing you to play the whole game with a buddy. That would be plenty for a free update, but the team isn't stopping...
News Indie Gem Pepper Grinder Confirmed for PS5 and PS4, Out in August
Grind our gears
Devolver Digital has announced it'll be porting the recently released and well-received Pepper Grinder to PS5 and PS4 in August. An experience all about gaining momentum by drilling through surfaces and then propelling yourself through 2D levels, it comes to Sony consoles after a Nintendo Switch launch in March. Having earned a...
News Cult of the Lamb Summons Goat for Local Co-op in Free Unholy Alliance Expansion
Baaaad to the bone
Excellent Aussie indie Cult of the Lamb has revealed the next blasphemous update intended for the game. It's called Unholy Alliance and adds local co-op into the mix, which has been fully incorporated into the main campaign. We won't have to wait for eternity, either, as the update arrives on 12th August, and it is entirely free...
News The Talos Principle 2 DLC Seemingly Ready for Imminent Reveal
Either at SGF or Devolver's show
The Talos Principle 2 team Croteam appears to be building up to the announcement of new content for the PS5 puzzler, with multiple teases posted to Twitter. They started at the beginning of May with the studio quote tweeting its own post with the classic eyes emoji, and now a new upload teases there's "big news on...
News Publisher Devolver Digital Schedules Another Bonkers Not-E3 Showcase
Three hours after main SGF show
Indie heavyweight Devolver Digital has announced it will be putting on its usual digital showcase for the Summer Game Fest season, once again bringing together its unique brand of comedy and gaming announcements. The show will take place three hours after the main SGF showcase hosted by Geoff Keighley on 7th June 2024...
News Here's Your Best Look Yet at The Plucky Squire's Dimension-Hopping Gameplay
Page turner
The Plucky Squire captured our attention the moment we laid eyes on its debut trailer, and we can't wait to see what it has in store for us when it launches later this year on PS5. The action adventure game presents itself as a gorgeous storybook quest, but the real hook is that the main character, Jot, can hop into the third dimension...
News Cult of the Lamb's Sins of the Flesh Update Is Its Biggest Yet, Launches 16th January
Birds and bees
Devolver Digital has just put out a new trailer for Cult of the Lamb: Sins of the Flesh, the game's largest post-launch DLC update so far. Amid a brief preview of gameplay, we get a release date, and it's not far off, arriving on 16th January, 2024. The game made waves on social media at the end of last year when it began teasing...
News Devolver Digital's Holiday Special Provides an Unhinged Look at Its Future Games
Tis the season
Devolver Digital marches to the beat of its own drum, and we're here for it. The indie label has just published a holiday special video, as it's done the last couple of years, and while it's patently ridiculous, it does at least offer a new glimpse at some upcoming PlayStation games. Once you get past the musical number, if you can...
News Cult of the Lamb Looks Like It'll Embrace Animal Instincts in Sins of the Flesh Update
Coming soon
Cult of the Lamb is a cracking mix of roguelike and life sim/management that walks a dangerously thin tonal tightrope. The art style makes it look like a Saturday morning cartoon, with adorable animal characters and cute, colourful environments. However, it has a more mature edge — sacrifice, death, the dark arts, and more are happily...
Mini Review KarmaZoo (PS5) - Co-Op Is Key in This Novel Multiplayer Platformer
Going loopy
KarmaZoo from Pastagames says that online co-op with strangers needn't be the painful exercise it usually is. A co-op platformer you play online with random players (or friends if you like), groups of up to 10 must work together to get through a short series of levels, and it works a treat. The design is pretty ingenious. After grouping...
Review The Talos Principle 2 (PS5) - An Excellent Philosophical Puzzler
What is a human?
Ever wondered what it's like to be human? Ever wondered what makes us human and a toaster a machine? Ever wondered what makes us more than just biological goop wearing clothes? Neither have we, but The Talos Principle 2 is making us think about some of these philosophical questions with its excellent writing and complex conundrums,...
News Portal's GLaDOS Rips into The Talos Principle 2 in Genius Promo Video
"This reminds me of something..."
The Talos Principle probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Portal series. Valve's first-person puzzlers have been massively influential on the genre and Devolver Digital isn't shying away from that fact. Actually, the publisher is leaning into it with this brilliant promotional video for the just-released The...
News Hotline Miami Collection Brings Both Games to PS5, Available Now
Are you chicken?
Surprise! Hotline Miami Collection has just dropped onto the PS Store, making both titles natively available on PS5. It launches a week before Halloween, letting you don the mask of a mass murderer in a sort-of reverse horror experience. If you're unaware, Hotline Miami and its sequel, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, are intensely...
Mini Review Wizard with a Gun (PS5) - This Co-Op Survival Adventure Is Worth a Shot
Machine gun Merlin
Wizard with a Gun is a one-or-two-player, twin-stick shooter, survival game from Galvanic Games and Devolver Digital. You play as a time-travelling wizard who's been tasked with preventing the Collapse, a cataclysmic event that split the world into pieces scattered throughout time. By exploring various procedurally generated...
News Take Advantage of Magical Co-Opportunities in Wizard with a Gun on PS5
Bullets, my only weakness, how did you know?
Wizard with a Gun is a game about practitioners of the arcane arts who also acknowledge the usefulness of firearms, and it's coming to PS5 fairly imminently. We got a gameplay trailer that highlights some of the magical co-opportunities players can look forward to on 17th October. Developed by Galvanic...
News Hold the Phone, Hotline Miami's Getting a PS5 Version
Hotline Miami 2, too
All-timer indie Hotline Miami is getting a PS5 version, it seems. Trophies for the currently unannounced port have surfaced on trinket-tracking sites like Exophase, meaning that they're live on PlayStation servers. And it's the same with the somewhat divisive sequel, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. When Trophy sets appear online...
News KarmaZoo, a Co-Op Platformer with 50 Playable Characters, Hops to PS5 in November
All about building good karma
Now here's a tricky game to explain. From publisher Devolver Digital and developer Pastagames, KarmaZoo is a co-op multiplayer platformer that's all about helping your fellow teammates, no matter what. It contains more than 50 playable characters, each with a unique ability that can help the team in some way, and you...
News Brain-Bending Puzzler The Talos Principle 2 Will Test Your Mind This November on PS5
What's past is prologue
It's almost time to get all philosophical — or maybe just solve some laser puzzles — as a release date for The Talos Principle 2 has just been announced. Devolver Digital and Croteam have released the above new trailer for the upcoming sequel, revealing a launch date of 2nd November, 2023. Following on from the events of...
News Indie Firm Devolver Digital Rejected PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass Deals Over 'Undervalued' Games
Multiple deals turned down
New fiscal results belonging to indie publisher Devolver Digital have revealed the company is beginning to reject deals from Sony and Microsoft to put titles on Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus. Building on
News Baby Steps Is the Exact Median Between Uncharted and QWOP on PS5
Grapple points!
Publisher Devolver Digital is bringing us the unabashedly strange Baby Steps on PS5, and we're here for it. Announced back in June, this game comes from the mind behind QWOP and viral hit Getting Over It, this time delivering the purposely clumsy gameplay with a narrative. You play as a 30-something slacker called Nate who finds...
News Don't Starve During Cult of the Lamb's PS5, PS4 Crossover Event
Delicious
In a fantastic pairing of two excellent quality, tonally-similar properties, a free crossover event between Massive Monster's Cult of the Lamb and Klei's Don't Starve Together is now live on PlayStation platforms. Players of Cult of the Lamb can look forward to a new, awesome-sounding game mode called Penitence, which forces your cult...
News Broforce Forever Final Update Adds New Bros, More Freedoms, Fresh Patriotic Fervor on PS4
Freedom never dies
Broforce is an incredible 2D pixel shooter which released back in 2015. It was hilarious, wild as hell, and a love letter to classic action movies. It took the concept of Team America: World Police and made it into one of the most outrageous cooperative experiences before or since, tasking players with spreading democracy to the...
News Promising Platformer The Plucky Squire Delayed to 2024
Pops up a little later than planned
Devolver Digital has a lot of games in the works, it turns out, and now, a few of them are being delayed into next year. While most of the titles affected aren't listed for release on PS5 or PS4, one of them is — The Plucky Squire. This inventive, 2D/3D action platformer is now scheduled for 2024. "It turns out...
News Cult of the Lamb PS5, PS4 Content Expansion Delayed, But Only Briefly
Are we still doing the sheep puns?
The next content expansion for indie darling and 2022 contender for Push Square Game of the Year, Cult of the Lamb, has been delayed, going from "Mid 2023" to "Late 2023???". The expansion purports to focus on Cult depth and additional story elements. Developed by Massive Monser, an independent Australian...
News Human Fall Flat 2 Continues the Clumsy Chaos in 'Bigger, Better' Sequel
Published by Devolver Digital
Human: Fall Flat is one of those games that is secretly very popular. Its brand of slapstick, physics-driven action is a fun time for all ages, and it's proven successful enough to spawn a sequel. Yes, Human Fall Flat 2 is coming, and it'll be published by Devolver Digital. All we have to go on so far is the above...
News Baby Steps Is the Weirdest PS5 Game You'll See Today
Devolver strikes again
Remember the age of Flash games that were purposely difficult to control? That's what Baby Steps reminds us of — only this one is in 3D and appears to have some sort of bizarre narrative. Devolver Digital sure knows how to pick 'em. You play as Nate, a 30-something slacker living in his parents' basement, who is one day...
News Stylish Sandbox Survival Game Wizard with a Gun Blasts onto PS5 in 2023
Check out the trailer
Devolver Digital has unveiled a new gameplay overview trailer for the promising-looking co-op survival game, Wizard with a Gun. Due for release sometime in 2023, this is a top-down survival sandbox in which you (and a friend, if you like) are a wizard, and you have a gun. The gameplay seems to be a mix of exploration, resource...
News Expect Utter Carnage As Devolver Digital Schedules Livestream
Volvy's back, gamers
Devolver Digital, easily the industry's most colourful and eccentric publisher, is the fine purveyor of all things indie. A new showcase has been announced, taking place on 8th June at 3 pm PT / 11 pm BST, as part of Geoff Keighley's annual Summer Game Fest. Things will no doubt get weird, uncomfortable even, as Devolver Digital...
News From the Maker of GRIS comes Neva, a Gorgeous, Solemn Adventure Game on PS5
Neva gonna give you up
Nomada Studio, the developer behind the beautiful puzzle platformer GRIS, has just unveiling its next game. Named Neva, the game is similarly gorgeous — if this trailer is anything to go by, anyway. With a lovely, painterly art style, the trailer suggests the game will deal with death and grief, similar to the developer's...
News The Plucky Squire Looks Absolutely Wonderful in New PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Pop-up book
The debut trailer for The Plucky Squire left us extremely excited to play this new game from Devolver Digital, and the follow-up is just as charming. The colourful action adventure's core concept of popping in and out of a child's storybook continues to win us over in this new gameplay. It looks to feature lots of varied gameplay styles...
News PS Plus Premium Gets Another Full Game Trial on PS5, PS4
Get off your horse and drink your milk
In case you missed the memo, Weird West recently received a PS5 port. This game, published by Devolver Digital and developed by Dishonored alumni, is an isometric immersive sim that we'd recommend you hop into. However, if you're on the fence, PS Plus Premium members can now
News Devolver Digital Is Planning Another Deeply Unhinged Gaming Showcase This Summer
Devolver Direct confirmed
While it still stings a little that E3 2023 has been cancelled, the event has been struggling to maintain relevance for several years. Having said that, a fairly modern highlight during that time has been the presence of Devolver Digital. This indie publishing label has been delivering satirical press conferences since...
News Well-Liked Immersive Sim Weird West Gets 4K, 60fps Version for PS5
Glow up time
Weird West is getting a native PS5 version in the not-too-distant future. Details are scarce, with about the only features confirmed being 4K resolution and that all-important 60fps, with more news coming next week. We enjoyed Weird West, praising its great story and fantastic combat, and the title has seen numerous updates and...
News PS Plus Premium Embraces Evil with Cult of the Lamb Trial
Just in time for the new update
Another playable game trial has been added to PS Plus Premium subscriptions. If you're paying for Sony's most expensive tier, you can now try indie darling Cult of the Lamb for up to one hour. The sudden arrival of this trial coincides with the game's latest update, which brings a wide range of improvements and...
News Cult of the Lamb's Relics of the Old Faith Update Offers Communion on 24th April
For the low, low price of your immortal soul
Cult of the Lamb returns to bring fire, faith, and steel to the anthropomorphic unbelievers in the Relics of the Old Faith update, which drops delightfully soon, on 24th April. Relics of the Old Faith is a free update which comes with a variety of improvements across the board, which actually look like...
News Wacky Gladiator Game GORN Enters the PSVR2 Coliseum
GORN but not forgotten
Originally intended as a PSVR2 launch title, bonkers gladiator game Gorn has finally fought its way to the PS Store. “Broforce developer Free Lives’ frighteningly realistic depiction of gladiatorial combat arrives on PSVR2 off the back of universal acclaim and massive success with over 1.5 million units sold so far,” the...
Mini Review Tentacular (PSVR2) - Physics Puzzler May (Ten)tickle Your Fancy
Release the Kraken
Tentacular is a physics-based puzzler where you take control of a tentacled monster who's raised by the townsfolk of La Kalma, a small village in the middle of the ocean. You're on a journey of self-discovery, trying to find out how you came to be and where you belong. Using your long sucker-laden limbs to manipulate objects, you...
