Russian nun simulator Indika, my most anticipated recreation this 12 months, breaks out the dancing PVC fetish males to announce its Might launch date

Name me solipsistic, however I am nonetheless not satisfied Indika is not a recreation somebody made particularly for me. The story of an Orthodox nun on a journey to the centre of the spirit by way of an alternate Nineteenth-century Russia, it pulls on all the pieces from Mikhail Bulgakov to 8-bit arcade video games to create one thing that felt fully singular once I tried its demo earlier this 12 months. Now we all know when the total factor is due, courtesy of the Future Video games Present Spring Showcase.

Indika is ready to launch on Might 8 this 12 months on Steam, GOG, and Epic, and actually I can not wait. The sport rapidly grew to become my most-anticipated launch of 2024 after I attempted out the demo, and obtained me sufficiently excited to make a TikTok. Are you aware how right into a factor I’ve to be to go TikTok about it? I did not even suppose it was doable.

Anyway, to mark the announcement of its launch date, Odd Meter’s concocted one other fully baffling trailer to whet your liturgical whistle. This one kicks off with Indika and her companion/captor Ilya (who appears to be like suspiciously much like Alexander Kaidonovsky’s character in Stalker) taking a chunk of an apple off a barely rotund tree of data. Then the chiptunes kick in and the fellas in PVC fetish fits—at the very least that is what they remind me of—begin dancing. Fairly regular stuff. I feel they did that for one of many Gears of Conflict video games.

There may be some comparatively sober trailer materials in there, too, thoughts you, presumably on the insistence of Indika’s writer, and the sport positive does look fairly. Its unusual fantasy Motherland appears to be like nice, crammed with winding, infinite landscapes that appear without delay familiarly Russian and distinctly alien.

So contemplate me first-in-line to examine Indika out when it lastly hits. No matter you concentrate on the sport, you’ll be able to’t deny it is going for it. There are quite a lot of artistic dangers taking place, and so they would possibly all fail to come back collectively when Odd Meter places out the total factor in Might, however goddammit, I’ve to see for myself when it comes out.