DEVOLVER DIGITAL 2024 GAMES

Devolver Digital is a purveyor of premium and unique indie experiences. With Pepper Grinder releasing and opening the floodgates by being the first Devolver Digital title of 2024, it only makes sense to look at the remaining eight titles slated for 2024 and rank them in order of anticipation.

8. Skate story

You are a demon made of glass using a skateboard to destroy evil demons and save tortured souls as you move through the underworld.  You have been given an offer you can’t refuse, by the devil. Skate to the moon and swallow it and you’ll be free. On your journey, you can sell your soul for new boards, wheels and trucks to stay fresh. At this point, it’s unknown if it’s just an aesthetic change or if it impacts gameplay, which hopefully it does. It ranks at the bottom mostly because outside of skate or die, I have never been a huge skateboard game fan. I didn’t get sucked into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater like everyone else, but Skate Story could offer a unique approach.

7. Stick it to the stickman

Free lives will appear a little later on this list as well as a studio that produces more games that it seemingly has any right to. Stickman is a 2D roguelike where you try to climb the corporate ladder in this physics based brawler. There is a demo that is loaded with satirical tone about the corporate world. Gameplay is a little shallow as it only features minimal buttons. The demo was fun, but will it be enough for a whole game. The demo is still available on steam if you’re interested.

6. Human Fall Flat 2

The silly, physics based platformer returns, except this time with Devolver Dogital in tow. Not much is known about the sequel except that it returns with solo or co op with up to 8 players. The game page says that it will use a brand new physics engine along with refined controls, visuals and music. Human Fall Flat is the type of rare exception where just bigger and better is all that’s needed for a good sequel similar to a game like Overcooked.

5. Children of the Sun

Children of the Sun is basically an auteur version of Sniper Elite. You play as a woman who is trying to escape from a cult with a sniper rifle. The catch here is that there is a very unique art style, but more importantly you only have one bullet per level. That is unless you are able to kill a cult member and then you get you control the bullet again. Children of the Sun is part puzzle game and part sniper game. Children of the Sun is supposed to release in April and if you’re interested, the demo is still up on Steam.

4. Anger Foot

Free Lives are the ultimate developer chameleons. Their mission statement must be to never make a similar game ever. Broforce, Genital Jousting and last year’s Terra Nil should give you an idea about this studio.  Anger Foot feels like 3D Hotline Miami, but with an angry foot being the main weapon and upon death, the crocodile gang will twerk on your dead body. Expect the unexpected with Free Lives. Anger Foot runs great on the Steam Deck, but with the amount of fast twitch gameplay, this might be more suited for mouse. The demo is still Steam if you’re interested.

3. Neva

Neva is a platformer from the creator of Gris as you fight some type of dark force in a rapidly dying world that is almost guaranteed to get your eyes misty multiple times during your playthrough. There isn’t much to say as there has only been one trailer and it only features a few snippets of gameplay. The trailer gives vibes of Another world, Hyper Light Drifter and playdead, but with a bright aesthetic and as a bonus, it’s coming to all platforms.

2. Baby Steps

From the creators of Ape Out and Getting Over It comes a very unique game about an adult burnout who is transported to another world and needs to learn to walk again or to take his first baby steps. Crossing the difficult terrain in the trailer looks reminiscent of Death Stranding, but with a much less serious tone. The trailers also display how hilarious the game will be thanks to the emergent gameplay, but also there appears to be some very dry and witty writing. Baby Steps is definitely going to take the walking simulator conversation to another level.

1. Plucky Squire

There have been a few times in recent years when you saw a trailer at a press conference and knew it would be special. Games like Cuphead and Ori immediately come to mind. Plucky Squire absolutely popped off the screen in the same way. You play as Jot, the titular character of a children’s fairy tale where the words on the pages comes to life as you play in this 2D adventure game, but you can also escape the pages and explore the real world in 3D.

Plucky Squire is the debut game from All Possible Futures, the studio founded by James Turner who was formerly the Pokémon Art Director before leaving to start his own studio. Plucky Squire is easily our most anticipated Devolver title of 2024, and very high on our list of all games coming in 2024.