#GAMESCOM2014 – ID@Xbox Games Line-up Announced

The Xbox One had their Gamescom 2014 briefing today in Cologne. As Chris Charla walked on stage I knew we were in for an upcoming indie treat.
He announced a huge batch of indie games coming first to console on Xbox, before introducing a montage trailer of ID@Xbox games; you can watch the trailer below.

ID@Xbox games featured in this trailer are:

• Blues and Bullets – Developer: A Crowd of Monsters – They also have Funk of Titans coming to Xbox One and previously developed Sugar Kid for iOS.
• Cuphead – Developer: StudioMDHR – Previously shown off at E3 2014, Cuphead is a single and co-op classic run and gun action game taking inspiration from Gunstar Heroes and Contra. Will hopefully become the Kool-Aid Man of Video Games.
• Dungeon of the Endless – Developer: Amplitude Studios – Already available on Steam Early Access.
• Fruit Ninja Kinect 2 – Developer: Halfbrick / Hibernum Creations – Sequel to the Xbox 360 Kinect game which I hope most of you got to play as a freebie to my favourite Kinect game The Gunstringer.
• Funk of Titans – Developer: A Crowd of Monsters.
• Ghost of a Tale – Developer: Seith CG – Ghost of a Tale is the adventure of Tilo, a tiny minstrel mouse, exploring a mysterious and dangerous world. Mostly developed by one guy and expected first Quarter 2015.
• Goat Simulator – Developer: Coffee Stain Studios/Double 11 – Already available on Steam.
• Gunscape – Developer: Blowfish Studios – Gunscape provides a toolbox full of iconic weapons, monsters and level elements as the foundation for players to build co-op, and single-player, FPS levels or MP Arenas in the most intuitive way possible.
• Massive Chalice – Developer: Doublefine – Massive Chalice is Doublefine’s 2nd Kickstarter game which is a Tactical Turn-Based Strategy game, with project leader Brad Muir (Iron Brigade) release date: September 28th 2014.
• Inside – Developer: Playdead – First shown at E3 2014, at first glance you can tell this from the makers of Limbo and we can’t wait to see what they have in store for us next.
• Knight Squad – Developer: Chainawesome Games – Knight Squad is 8 players top down competitive game already available on Steam Early Access.
• Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Developer: Asteroid Base – Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a frantic 1- or 2-player couch co-op action game in development for Xbox One and Steam.
• #IDARB – Developer: Other Ocean – Chaotic 8-player eSport jumping jetpack future arena ball game that is as inspired by Bomberman and Smash Bros. as it is by cans of soda, paint-by-number books, and driving five miles faster than the speed limit.
• No Time To Explain – Developer: tinyBuild – Already available on Steam.
• Plague Inc: Evolved – Developer: Ndemic Creations – Already Available on Steam Early Access.
• Rivals of Aether – Developer: Dan Fornace – upcoming fighting game. Discover the world of Aether and uncover the mysteries behind its endless conflict. Rivals come from one of four elements: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Each rival can manipulate the battlefield in unique ways.
• Smite – Developer: Hi-Rez Studios – Free-to-play 3rd Person Action MOBA where you play as mythical gods already available on PC.
• SlashDash – Developer: Nevernaut Games – A cooperative Capture the Flag game for four players. Two teams of ninjas slash and teleport their way to flags and glory in this local multiplayer showdown.  Combat is fast-paced, strategic and deceptively simple.
• Space Engineers – Developer: Keen Software House – Sandbox game about engineering, construction and maintenance of space works. Players build space ships and space stations of various sizes and utilization (civil and military), pilot ships and perform asteroid mining. Already Available on Steam Early Access.
• Spectra – Developer: Gateway Interactive – From new studio GATEWAY INTERACTIVE and CHIPZEL (The artist behind the Super Hexagon music) comes Spectra, a fast paced retro style racing game destined to get your heart pumping and test your skill like no other! Already available on Windows 8 and Windows mobile.
• Pneuma: Breath of Life – Developer: Deco Digital / Devel Studios – First Person Puzzler through the eyes of a god, developed with Unreal Engine. Expected to release January 2015.
• Threes! – Developer: Sirvo / Hidden Variable – Already available on mobile and will be the first game with snap support, we can’t wait to play some Threes! while using our entertainment apps on Xbox One.
• The Escapists – Developer: Team 17 – The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping.

Releasing Q3 2014.

• Volgarr the Viking – Developer: Crazy Viking Studios – Hardcore Action Platformer, already released on Steam.
• SpeedRunners – Developer: tinyBuild / DoubleDutch Games – 4 player competitive platformer which has recently introduced a level editor.

Already available on Steam Early Access.

• Superhot – Developer: Superhot – An FPS where time moves only when you move. Playable prototype via Unity Player.

As you can tell most of these have already released or will also be releasing on PC like most indie games. Most likely some will only end up only being timed exclusive to Xbox when some indie developers get their hands on development kits if they haven’t already to port to Playstation platforms (PS4/PS3/Vita).

After the montage trailer Chris picked out some favourites with separate trailers.

Space Engineers:

 

SuperHot:

 

The Escapist:

 

Smite:

 

and lastly Chris’ most looked forward to, Below:

 

If you are excited as we are to see more indie games coming to Xbox One, we shall keep you updated on any upcoming ID@Xbox news, especially regarding release dates as we can’t wait to get our hands on some of these ourselves.