Ah, PAX East. Where games are talked about, showcased, and perhaps most importantly, played! And boy does this year ever look exciting – even if you just focus on the Indie MEGABOOTH lineup. Just kidding: PAX East 2017’s Indie MEGABOOTH is going to be amazing! I mean, how could it not, with close to 80 games partaking?
Personal favourites from the lineup include the sequel to a great mix of choose-your-own-adventure and third-person action, Hand of Fate 2, and of course stabby-stabby sequel, Nidhogg 2. Although those are just from the digital lot, and true to tradition, the Indie MEGABOOTH will also play host to tabletop fun, including ‘looks more basic than it is’, Breaker Blocks.
Oh, in case you’re actually more interested in the entire lineup than my picks (what?!), the complete list can be found below (including the MINIBOOTH, as we mustn’t forget about that one!). Now, keep in mind that even if you won’t be attending, at some point, in a faraway universe, every last one of these will be available for purchase… somewhere. Maybe. Hopefully? Let’s go with that. Next stop, PAX East!
(Source: Indie MEGABOOTH PAX East 2017 Line-Up!)
MEGABOOTH
- A Normal Lost Phone – Accidental Queens
- ARENA GODS – Supertype
- Asura – Ogre Head Studio
- AWAY – Aurelien Regard
- Blasters of the Universe – Secret Location
- BUCK – Wave Interactive
- CRANGA – HandMade Game
- Crossing Souls – Fourattic
- Date or Die – Dev or Die
- Dead Cells – Motion Twin
- Death Squared – SMG Studio
- Decay of Logos – Amplify Creations
- Detention – Red Candle
- EARTHLOCK: Festival of Magic – Snowcastle Games
- Enlightenment – LizardKing
- Elsinore – Golden Glitch Studios
- For The King – IronOak Games
- Galaxy of Pen & Paper – Behold Studios
- GNOG – KO_OP
- Graceful Explosion Machine – Vertex Pop
- Hand of Fate 2 – Defiant Development
- Home Behind – TPP Studio
- I Expect You To Die – Schell Games
- Iconoclasts – Joakim Sandberg
- Interfectorem – Girls Make Games
- INVERSUS – Hypersect
- Kismet – Psyop
- Ladykiller in a Bind – Love Conquers All Games
- Lobotomy Corporation – Project Moon
- Madness – Vilavi Studio
- MARE – Visiontrick Media
- Masquerada: Songs and Shadows – Witching Hour Studios
- MOTHERGUNSHIP – Terrible Posture Games and Grip Digital
- Nidhogg 2 – Messhof
- Night in the Woods – Infinite Fall
- Northgard – Shiro Games
- Obduction – Cyan
- Open Sorcery – Abigail Corfman
- Overland – Finji
- Pathologic – Ice-Pick Lodge
- Project Highrise – SomaSim
- Redout – 34BigThings
- Refactor – NextGen Pants
- She Remembered Caterpillars – Jumpsuit Entertainment
- SHIO – Coconut Island
- Songbringer – Wizard Fu
- Spirit Parade – Lettuce Waltz
- Split Bullet – Indigo Blue Game Studio
- Sundered – Thunder Lotus Games
- Super Rude Bear Resurrection – Alex Rose
- Super Cloudbuilt – Coilworks
- The American Dream – Samurai Punk
- The Frostrune – Grimnir Media
- The Gardens Between – The Voxel Agents
- The Metronomicon – Puuba
- Thumper – Drool
- Tooth and Tail – Pocketwatch Games
- Ultimate Chicken Horse – Clever Endeavour Games
- We Know the Devil – Pillow Fight/Worst Girls
- West of Loathing – Asymmetric Publications
- Wulverblade – Darkwind Media and Fully Illustrated
- YamaYama – Lumenox Games
MINIBOOTH
- Abi – Grant & Bert Studios
- Badass Hero – Awesome Games Studio
- Bear with Me – Episode One – Exordium Games
- Bleed 2 – Ian Campbell
- Catacomb Kids – FourbitFriday
- Dimension Drive – 2Awesome Studio
- Emily Is Away Too – Kyle Seeley
- Hexarden – Flippfly
- Keen – Cat Nigiri
- Let Them Come – Tuatara Games
- Semblance – Nyamakop
- Semispheres – Vivid Helix
- Legends of Aria – Citadel Studios
- SHNIPERS – Brenden Cameron Games
- Stone Story RPG – Martian Rex
- Sumer – Studio Wumpus
TABLETOP
- Apochalyptica – Psychotronic Studios
- Breaker Blocks – Spriteborne
- Complicated Board Game the Card Game – offcut games
- DRAGOON – Lay Waste Games
- H.E.A.D. Hunters – Gut Shot Games
- Pass the Buck – Carol Mertz
- Someone Has Died – Gather Round Games
- The Metagame – Local No. 12
- True Messiah – Sinister Design
- Zero Sum – Bad Captain Games