We know about Poland’s biggest games but the tide there is rising for everyone, and the indie scene has been gathering steam for a while. Devolver’s Carrion is a case in point: I saw this last year at a conference in Poland and now loads of people are talking about it after seeing it at E3. It looks great. With that in mind, I returned to Polish conference Digital Dragons this year, determined to share with you the indie games I saw there.
Someday You’ll Return is a game about a father searching the woods for his missing, grown-up, daughter, but it doesn’t take long to realise something is amiss. The woods are darker than they seemed and there’s something wrong about the relationship between father and daughter – there’s something wrong with the man.
What unravels is an intriguing psychological horror, but what really excites me is where the game comes from. It’s the epitome of indie: the work of two people from the Czech Republic, working away for four years – time and space that has allowed elaborate systems to be implemented, which would get the axe, for the sake of development brevity and maybe sanity, elsewhere.
Source: Eurogamer Five Polish indie games (and one from the Czech Republic) to keep an eye on