![]() Rift of the NecroDancer - Brace Yourself Games, Vancouver, B.C. Even in the PAX demo, Mirthwood feels like your character’s fresh start is hanging by a thread, with new dangers and mysteries at every turn. It’s a sort of dark medieval pastiche - the name is intended to be ironic - that takes inspiration from games like The Witcher and Fable. The big difference between Mirthwood and other “cozy” farming games at PAX is largely down to tone. That includes starting your own farm, building a house, and other farming-sim staples. ![]() Mirthwood - Bad Ridge Games, Seattle (Bad Ridge Games screenshot)ĭescribed by its developers, Brian Hecox and Daron Otis, as “cozy but not too cozy,” Mirthwood puts you in the role of a war refugee who’s arrived on a smaller continent to start over. You earn points based on how obnoxious you are and how much destruction you can cause, including a stage where you disrupt a town meeting about how they need to ban leaf blowers like yours. ![]() In Leaf Blower Man, inspired by creative director Jakub Kasztalski’s experience with obnoxious neighbors, you get to rampage across formerly peaceful neighborhoods with a gas-powered leaf blower. ![]() The small indie team behind games like Headliner and Rain on Your Parade hit both the PAX Rising showcase and Seattle Indies Expo this year with two separate projects, both of which continue the company’s theme of games about being “adorable jerks.” ![]()
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