Not-E3 2025 Part 5: Future Games Show
State of Play
Summer Game Fest
Ball x Pit: The Kenny Sun Story
IO Interactive Showcase
Wholesome Direct
Future Games Show
Xbox Games Showcase
PC Gaming Show
Our next showcase was the Future Games Show this evening. Once again, I’ll be covering the games that stood out as highlights to me, so check out the full showcase if you’re interested in seeing more.
They started with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, and while I don’t know anything at all about The Expanse, this game looks interesting enough that I’ll keep an eye on it in the future. Right after that was the action-adventure game Echoes of the End, which I’ll also want to keep an eye on.
But the first game to really catch my eye was Whispers in the Fog. It looks like it has the potential to be a very atmospheric horror game.
Another game shown later on, Sleep Awake, also looks like it has a lot of potential. You know, it seems to me that at a lot of these smaller showcases, it ends up being horror games that stand out to me the most. I’m not quite sure why. Of all my favorite game genres, is horror the one with the widest appeal and more likely to show up at these events?
While not a horror game, the next game to catch my attention did so because it looked like it had cosmic horror themes. Not only that, but it reminded me strangely of Call of the Sea. Not so strangely, as it turns out, because Call of the Elder Gods is a sequel to Call of the Sea!
(I never played Call of the Sea, but I watched someone play it, and it stuck with me.)
SacriFire got a new trailer, and it looks just as cool as it did before. There was also a new, creepy trailer for Directive 8020.
That’s right, I’m back to talking about horror games already, and speaking of horror, Ground Zero looks like a delightful throwback to classic survival horror games, so I’m really curious about that one.
The psychological horror game Luto also looks like it has potential. See what I mean about my highlights from this showcase being mostly horror?
But for something that isn’t horror, Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile looks interesting. It seems to be an adaptation of the story with new characters and other changed elements. The same developers did a Murder on the Orient Express game, so I’d like to check that out sometime.
Okay, back to horror. The horror game Crisol: Theater of Idols looks pretty promising, and I’m also intrigued by the final game that closed out the showcase, another horror game called Ritual Tides.
These were the highlights for me from the Future Games Show, so be sure to let me know what games you enjoyed seeing! Tomorrow we’ve still got a couple showcases left, so stay tuned!
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