Everything Announced During The April 2023 Nintendo Indie World Showcase

Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase today featured more than twenty minutes of indie game footage, giving a fresh look at the 21 Switch-exclusive games. You can still catch up if it was missed or you forgot the game name (or release date) you were excited about. 

The April 2023 Nintendo Indie World showcase has been announced. 

Mineko’s Night Market

Mineko’s Night Market is a Japanese-inspired old village located in the heart of Mt. Miko was a catlike deity who once visited Fugu. Miko, a cat-like god, visits this village every year in order to bring good luck and prosperity to its farmers. Some farmers are impatient, and they drive Miko from the village. Miko is banished and this village has to work hard in order to achieve its success. As time passes, less and less people still believe the legend of Miko. 

Some characters still believe this, so we will learn what it means to them as our story unfolds.  

You’ll make friends with the locals and craft items to sell at the night market. This quiet village will become a bustling centre of commerce with cat races, stage performances, parades and more. When you are exploring the island you can bring back anything that you have found and sell it on the market. 

Mineko’s Night Market is coming to Switch and PC September 26, 2023. 

My Time at Sandrock

My Time at Sandrock is a new town sim set in the same world as 2019’s My Time at Portia but gone are the luscious greens and countryside setting of that game. A new desert-like community is now in its place, hoping to return to its previous glory. There will be dozens of different characters and side quests that you can complete to keep yourself busy in Sandrock.

Bring together resources, put machines in place, and turn a derelict shop into a well-oiled machine. While you are not crafting or decorating your home, you can play minigames. You could be exploring ancient ruins in search of relics, or fighting monsters with melee weapons. 

My Time at Sandrock was first released in Steam Early Access back in May last year and will be available on Switch this summer. If you purchase the main game, a separate online multiplayer version of the game will be available after launch so you and your friends can play together in Sandrock. 

The Plate-Up!

It’s Plate Up. This is a roguelite restaurant management game where the goal is to design, decorate and manage a new restaurant. In order to satisfy your customers, you will need to run both the back and front end of the restaurant. After each shift you are randomly assigned, you have the option to upgrade and buy new appliances. 

You can also play online or locally with three other friends. The Switch version of Plate Up! arrives on Switch this October. 

Quilts & Cats in Calico

Calico has been adapted into a popular video game called Quilts & Cats. You’ll be placing tiles onto a game board and sewing patterns to gain points in a similar fashion to the traditional boardgame. You can change the look of your cat’s fur and add cosmetics in this version. 

Quilts and Cats of Calico comes to Switch this fall. 

Rift of the Necrodancer

Rift of the NecroDancer is a spinoff of Crypt of the Necrodancer with an all-new storyline that takes the world of Crypt and applies it to a musical lane-based combat system. In order to beat your opponents, you will need to match up the visual prompts that are hurling down the lanes. The movement patterns of each monster are different, and some require multiple hits. 

The songs will also be challenged by boss battles. If you want to do something different, Rift of the Necrodancer has a minigame for each of the characters in the storyline. 

Rift of the Necrodancer hits Switch (and PC) this year. 

A Little to the Left: Cupboards & Drawers

The Cupboards & Drawers DLC for A Little to the Left launches on Switch this June, and it brings 25 new puzzles to tidy up as you explore a world of small spaces, secret compartments, and more. 

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon DLC

This Spring, Shovel Knight Pocket Dna will launch the free Puzzler’s Pack. The free Puzzler’s Pack DLC for Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon launches this Spring. It adds new playable characters as well as new Quandary Challenges in the castle halls. Mr. Hat sells over 20 different hats for in-game runs. Chester’s Shop has some interesting relics. 

Cult of the Lamb, Relics of the Old Faith

Relics of the Old Faith, the next expansion to Cult of the Lamb’s Cult of the Lamb game, will feature a slew of items, enemies, and relics. This DLC also includes new versions of four guardian Bishops, as well as new buildings and followers. Once you’ve completed the game, there are two new modes to keep your faith alive: a permadeath-gauntlet run and a “boss rush”. 

Launch of Cult of the Lamb Relics of the Old Faith on April 24, 2023. 

Animal Well

Animal Well is the latest game from Shared Memory, a developer and publisher. Animal Well will have you exploring an atmospheric labyrinth in search of hidden treasures. The items that you collect can be put to use in many ways. For example, you could make a quick escape or have an animal friend help you. Animal Well is a game that requires you to be creative with your items. 

Crime O’Clock

The game features more than 40 puzzles to solve in different time periods and spaces. You can visit many different eras, including the Lost Age and a futuristic cybernetic world. Different crime scenes are also developed across multiple timelines. You can change the timeline by solving a crime in one. 

Crime O’Clock will be launched on 30 June 2023. 

Teslagrad 2,

Teslagrad 2 will require you to use electromagnetic power to solve puzzles based on physics as you navigate a Scandinavian-inspired environment. You’ll have to learn Telemancy if you want to survive. 

Teslagrad 2 is available today alongside Tesldagrad Remastered, a modernized re-release of the first game that features enhanced visuals and 10 new extra challenge levels. Both games are available in a Teslagrad Power Pack Edition, or each can be purchased separately. 

Shadows Over Loathing

Shadows of Loathing, a new comedy slapstick game in the West of Loathing universe. It features plenty of stick figures, flappers, fishmen, goblins, government conspiracy, and more in a unique 1920s setting. In this world of black and white, you’ll find talking frogs as well as sentient mathematics, eldritch terrors, and more. Shadows of Loathing is available digitally today. However, if you prefer the physical edition, it will be released in this fall. 

Blasphemous I

Blasphemous 2 follows The Penitent through a nightmarish, mysterious land. This sequel to Blasphemous is faithful to its original skill-based platforming and combat, while offering improved graphics and new abilities that will help you to survive. This game features custom builds and an extended player move set. 

Blasphemous 2 launches in the summer. 

Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals

Oxenfree II is set in Camena, five years after Oxenfree was first released. Riley investigates strange electromagnetic waves. Riley and friends don’t know if it’s them or a mysterious cult that opened the portal on Edwards Island four hours before. But they do. In the trailer, it appears that we will be playing around with multiple timelines and ghosts of other sides, as well as more. We’ll do this using a radio. 

The walkie-talkie will be available this time around to allow us to talk with the locals in order for them and ourselves learn about possible events. Oxenfree II : Lost Signals is a great looking game that will be available on PC, Switch and PlayStation 12th, 2023. 

The Sizzle Reel Hits

Nintendo closed out today’s Indie World Showcase with a quick hits sizzle reel showcasing  seven more games coming to Switch: 

• The Security Breach at Five Nights At Freddy’s: Available later today
• Bomb Rush CyberfunLaunching on August 18, 2023
• Paper TrailLaunch August 5, 2023
• Little Kitty, Big CityLaunching in the year 2024
• Chants from SennaarLaunching Sept. 5
• BrotatoLaunching this year 
• Escape Academy Complete EditionLaunching in the Fall

Here’s what Nintendo revealed today at its Indie World Showcase for April 2023. 

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