Octopath Traveler was considered one of the main exclusives of this year for the Nintendo Switch. As soon as its creators d: they drew parallels with Final Fantasy VI, and released two demos, and insisted that this was a Japanese game from Japanese developers, not trying to fall in love with a Western audience. The project was to return players to the «golden age» of RPG, to become a modern classic in the spirit of Chrono Trigger.

Life is Feudal Forest Village — is a realistic city-building simulator set in the Middle Ages. You will need to lead a detachment of people who arrived by boat to explore new lands. The charges have everything to start survival: tools, food and materials. From the very beginning, you can start to equip the territory, or explore the world around you to find the best area. Ensure the maximum prosperity of your town by keeping every resident busy. Send people to get wood, stone, hunt, or plant beds or build buildings.

Bus Simulator 18 is a city bus simulator. The release of this project took place in June 2018. The game was created by the studio of professional developers of computer games and entertainment Stillalive Studios. According to the plot, we begin the age as a novice driver of a large-sized public transport — bus. We need to transport people from point A to point B, not to get into accidents and not to create emergency situations on the road. We must also closely monitor the time allotted for the fulfillment of our assignment, otherwise it will be failed and we will simply not be paid wages.

Bus Mechanic Simulator — game puts you in the position of a reliable bus garage mechanic. In a realistic garage, you can use one test bench and three pits to service and repair three different bus models. Carefully inspect service buses, articulated buses and double-decker buses at their respective stands. From visual changes in the interior to mechanical repair of the engine and axles or heating and electrical systems all aspects of buses are modeled to the smallest detail and realism. At your disposal are countless tools for repairing and replacing up to 3,400 interactive parts. You can also open a separate room with a test bench, which allows you to check the performance of the brakes.

The visual anime novel genre, in my opinion, can evoke two strong feelings in you, but they will be interchangeable. Thus, you either madly love such games and none of them will leave you indifferent, or you will hate this genre and consider it, in principle, superfluous on the planet in general, and in the gaming industry in particular. Grisaia Phantom Trigger — this is just a visual anime novels, suitable for everything wrote above. You can even say that in front of you is a kind of interactive film, because more often you will have a ive role, or the role of a reading character, but everything will be accompanied by colorful pictures of the scenes taking place.

Project Elliot, is a colorful 2D platformer inspired by sixteen-bit retro games. Despite the cartoonishness and cute design of the locations with this adventure you may have a lot of problems, as the developers have given everything that happens a very hardcore level of complexity. You are free to run and jump across locations that are spread over six dozen exciting and challenging levels. Take on the role of a little blue balloon named Elliot and unravel the mystery surrounding his race, the Momba. And to help you on this difficult journey you will be the protagonist’s faithful companion, whose name is Manuel. Together, these two heroes lead a carefree life in their little world, but one day strange things begin to happen, as a result of which they need to figure out what the hell is going on.

Astra Exodus is a single-player turn-based strategy game in a sci-fi setting. Take the chance to bring humanity home, revealing the secrets of the Exodus in the storyline campaign. Or test yourself in sandbox mode, bringing any of the various alien factions to several possible victory conditions. Space 4X strategy with real-time battles, which tells about how the earthlings had to leave their planet forever due to an alien threat, and after a thousand years they are trying to find their home. For several months, Astra Exodus was in the closed test phase, and the developer thanks all its participants for the large number of reviews that helped to fix serious problems and improve the game.

P.A.M.E.L.A. — is an adventure PC game about survival horror. The action takes place in the near future on the island, which is almost completely occupied by a modern shopping and entertainment center called Eden. In this place we will find magnificent supermarkets and night clubs, but there are no sane people left. It turns out that we are the only survivor of all the inhabitants of the island infected with a mysterious disease. The virus robbed them of their humanity and turned their bodies into monstrous forms. An artificial intelligence that controls the infrastructure of Eden.

Krystopia Novas Journey — is a direct sequel to last year’s Krystopia A Puzzle Journey from Antler Interactive. The game will not only offer a new set of puzzles, but will transform both visually and in gameplay. If in the first part you were solving problems with a top view, then A Puzzle Journey will be more like a point and click quest with a third-person view. The game will have other characters with whom you can communicate. The plot revolves around the theme of the planet’s running out resources. You have to save her by making difficult decisions. The authors promise jokes in dialogues and a full ending.

Banner of the Maid — a role-playing game combined with tactical strategy, dubbed Banner of the Maid. The plot is based on a real event the French Revolution, which has been actively developing since 1790, but all these actions take place in an alternative version. The starring girl is Pauline Bonaparte, who decided to visit her brother and now got into the thick of things. Now she has become a direct participant in the revolution and can affect the outcome of all events. In Banner of the Maid, released on the PC, PS4, and Switch platforms, the action is shown in isometric view.