Tons of new indie games just announced on PlayStation.Blog! Nidhogg (PS4), Spelunky (PS4), Drifter (PS4/Vita), Axiom Verge (PS4/Vita), Jamestown Plus (PS4), Starwhal and lots more.
The game mechanics and controls in Starwhal are not complex — navigate your narwhal to tag your opponent’s heart and protect your own. Of course, the narwhals themselves wiggle all over the place in spastic fits of salty marine protest, but therein lies at least half the fun.
Before players can hope to be effective, they have the added challenge of taming their own avatar. Points will be scored, but it’s all a very haphazard process during those first moments when players seem to endlessly ask “What the heck am I playing?!” Soon enough, though, the controls do give way an understanding of the narwhals’ range of precision as they soar through exotic locales in the deepest reaches of outer space.
