A dark fantasy twist on folklore from across Southeast Asia, Kabaret is a visual novel littered with mini-games and other treats, all with an incredibly striking hand-drawn art style and vibrant gameplay. represented by the soundtrack. The developer’s Persona Theory (Fires at Midnight) is based in Malaysia, but collaborates with developers and musicians across the region to bring Kabaret’s captivating mythology to life.
The story follows Jebat, a recently dead ex-human, who must adjust to his new horned and serpentine form in a monster-filled afterlife. Harimau Jadian War Tiger, Pontianak He keeps his nerves as he rubs shoulders with vampires and other Malaysian mythical creatures. Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.
The game features epic full-screen painted backgrounds, cartoon panels, and dialogue trees that use abstract images instead of text to lead tea parties, flick Guri’s marbles, and command A musical theater performance that unfolds through a combination of visual novel text boxes set against mini-games that require. There is also an interactive glossary of Malay vocabulary. Based on legend, but not bound by reality, Kabaret is shaped to be a truly special experience. Available March 2023 on Xbox, Steam, and the Epic Games Store.
fairy afterlight
This fun and thoughtful puzzle-platformer with Metroidvania elements is bold enough to ask the question: What if you didn’t have to kill every enemy creature you encounter? Yes, Indonesian Clay. You can do that in Game Studio’s Faerie Afterlight, but there’s also the option to keep them alive and have them possessed by fellow fairies Wispy to take advantage of their abilities. For example, some enemies are immune to spikes, so riding on their backs allows them to safely navigate through spikes in his pits, while other flying creatures are unable to reach high platforms or cross large chasms. helps.
Wispy’s skills evolve over the course of the demo, allowing him to unlock various mysterious doors, shortcuts and respawn points, as well as control and rearrange platforms to progress through increasingly non-linear stages .
All of this is rendered in a gorgeous art style and accompanied by a dreamy soundtrack, Ori series’ surreal and warm visuals. The game is set to release on PC later this year or early 2023, and a demo is available on Steam now.
Katana Rama
With a focus on making players feel badass, Katana Rama is a sophisticated third-person action game from Malaysian developer Ghost Machine in which you play as a hacker program fighting your way out of a digital security system. Cue ninja action and wall-running parkour, lock onto enemies for one-hit kills with your katana to gain power level points, break stronger enemy shields or unlock the next kill room. You can
Katana Rama uses a slick, fast, and amazingly intuitive dash system. With great visual feedback using bright colors and numbers, you’ll always know how many Power Level points you have and how many more you need to advance in battle. .
It’s a short game with only three bosses, but it’s replayable: each room full of enemies is hand-designed, but they’re procedurally linked, so each run is like the last. is different and concludes with a creative and challenging game. Boss battle. Katana Rama’s demo is currently available at Steam Next Fest, and the game’s release date is his February 2023.
never ending beyond
Petting animals has been proven to be good for mental health, but in Never Ending Beyond it’s a survival technique. In this roguelite by One More Dream Studios (Ageless) in Malaysia, the player controls his android called CareTakerUnit. CareTakerUnit has unique skills to pet animals to unlock new abilities. You must explore manually procedurally linked islands on a shattered planet called Beyond to find and rescue animals. Along the way, increase your arsenal of offensive and passive skills.
Each animal you find on your journey will follow you until it finds a warp, from which it will send you back to your base. Every time you die too, it will come back. Pets and other resources are available for your next craft. Run. And of course every execution is different depending on how you mix and match your weapons and skills.
Tickle your tummy now that Level Up KL has launched a Steam page for Never Ending Beyond.
Instantly familiar to fans of ‘Overcooked’ and ‘Moving Out’, At Your Service is a housekeeping action game for up to 4 players from Thailand’s FairPlay Studios. Players are tasked with cleaning up a messy house, starting with simple tasks like emptying the trash and sweeping the floor. The action becomes more chaotic as the tasks become more complex, such as washing the laundry, drying it, and putting it back in the closet. Make sure you’re working hard and even more furious if you miss a spot.
The game launches on all platforms next year in three different world themes, each with their own gameplay gimmicks: a 1980s suburban house, a futuristic sci-fi setting, and a magical realm of castles and wizards. increase. Launched on Couchcorp, with online added in the future.Fun and frenetic, At Your Service is becoming a welcome addition to the family party gaming space.
troublemaker
One of Level Up KL’s wildest games was Troublemaker, an anarchic demo that went viral after racking up over 5 million views on Let’s Play. A young developer from the Indonesian Gamecom team is heavily influenced by the Like a Dragon/Yakuza series, with new transfer student Budi confronting a student council bully and bringing violent combat and bizarre mini-games to the school playground. You’re throwing a hodgepodge of games. The ladder of high school society.
This “action-adventure beat ’em up” demo is full of local slang and gutter humor, plus plenty of violence. Its surprisingly deep combat system allows players to unlock new abilities and moves like unleashing heavier combos. Punch, wield a scythe, throw a sandal in the opponent’s face.
The mini-games are haphazard, but they certainly have a strange charm to them as they capitalize on everyday life in a run-down school. Hilariously slowly ‘race’ in your wheelchair, find your classmates lying down, and engage in a first-person survival horror game, train your ‘stupid bird’ to fly, and hard as a rock You can even do multiple-choice school tests. Troublemaker He is set to release on Steam and the Epic Games Store in 2023, with a demo available on Steam until October 23rd.
rendezvous
Pendopo Multi Creation’s Rendezvous is a locally flavored cyberpunk noir adventure game set in a futuristic version of Bay City and Surabaya, Indonesia. Its glorious 2.5D pixel art design and fluid character animations have more than the feel of classic 1990s Flashback, but its cityscapes are more easily explored and expected from a cyberpunk noir game. Full of intrigue and paranoia.
In a world where ruling megacorps make everyone’s lives boring, the main character, reformed criminal agent Secho, searches for his sister who finds out he’s working with a notorious cyberrunner gang. In this adventure, you’ll take on Setyo’s mundane night jobs as a security guard, chatting to NPCs, hacking robots, finding clues, and solving puzzles. The drama escalates into all-out action as you unravel it.
Rendezvous is set to release in the next year or so, and a playable prologue titled Rendezvous: Shadows of the Past is now available on Steam.
honorable mention
A bonus batch of popular games from Level Up KL. The Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly demo is now live on Steam and is expected to be another deep and inspiring offering of late-night Java therapy. Gloom and Doom is his gag-filled 1990s slacker comedy film dressed as a horror game with a supernatural twist. Rhythm Doctor’s simple one-button mechanics is different from very hardcore music games based on complex rhythm theory and tricky timing. Let’s Build a Zoo is a sweet-natured management sim with DNA splicing added to create up to 300,000 animals to wow your visitors. Cuisineer is a roguelite dungeon crawler RPG packed full of deliciousness.
