[E321 Bonus] Our Favourite Indie Games You May Have Missed

We round up 25+ indies from E3 2021 that you may have missed.

Previews Mentioned:

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of The Leviathan

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Hosts:
Dylan Blight: https://twitter.com/vivaladil
Ashley Hobley: https://twitter.com/ashleyhobley
Ciaran Marchant: https://twitter.com/YaboyRingo

Game Trailers:

A Little To The Left
Little To The Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into precise arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 40+ satisfying messes to tidy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyYVAwDXbfI

A Musical Story
‘A Musical Story’ is a rhythm game set against a 70s backdrop. Explore the memories of Gabriel, a young man trying to come to terms with his situation through the connections to his musical memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_CWjfHy7co

A Walk With Yiayia
A Walk with Yiayia is a light adventure game/visual novel about taking your Greek grandmother on a walk after she's lost her confidence from having a scary fall. Connect through engaging conversations, explore a relaxing environment, and complete microquests in this thoughtful, bite-sized adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsHlTJtLhQ4

Battlecakes
Indulge in a delicious adventure as you choose to battle or befriend your enemies to save the day your way! Personalize your cupcake hero and meet charming friends along the way. Leave the world better off than you found it in this turn-based RPG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GixEQOxZtk8

Bear & Breakfast
Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3OWseygAl4

Behind the Frame
Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece amid her brusque neighbor’s gaze and his pesky cat. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43E59MFCkBM

Bird Problems
A sitcom narrative game about an awkward and anxious canary trying to make friends and drink cold drinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPvNxZplKjs

Dodgeball Academia
Dodgeball Academia is a sports RPG game featuring rookie dodgeball student, Otto. Join Otto and an eclectic cast of characters as they train to dominate on and off the courts of the academia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9h1g-nvTnY

Endling
As the last mother fox, keep your cubs alive and reach the only place on Earth where humans cannot harm them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rCLc-WXOFo

Garden Story
Unify a broken community as the newly-appointed Guardian of The Grove. Traverse a vibrant island to combat invasive Rot, inspire its inhabitants, and rebuild your home. You won't have to do this alone: fruity friends await, ready to lend a hand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1vq-SjBWE

Hoa
Hoa is a beautiful puzzle-platforming game that features breathtaking hand-painted art, lovely music, and a peaceful, relaxing atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w3OiK_Ux4E

Lake
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfmACVTGFv0

Lakeburg Legacies
Lakeburg Legacies is a social-based village management sim focused on pairing up your townsfolk to make the best, most effective families in order for your kingdom to grow and thrive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSrutk9LBA

Letters
Letters is a fun word puzzle game about friendship, growing up and finding your place in life. Follow Sarah, a shy girl from Switzerland, by moving through her pen pal letters and chat messages. Use the power of words to solve riddles, interact with her friends and decide who she will grow up to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy8ZbDYwTQA

Next Space Rebels
SPACE IS FOR EVERYONE. In Next Space Rebels, you will develop from a naive rocket hobbyist into an experienced space activist by designing, building, and launching rockets of increasing complexity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU7wOA2iMs4

Recoilt
Recolit is a pixel art mystery adventure game where you explore a strange town by following the trails of "light". Help out the mysterious residents of the town by using items illuminated by the "light" to progress through the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjYw75rEuF8

Serial Cleaners
Serial Cleaners is a single-player stealth action crime story in which you alternate between playing four eccentric mob cleaners taking on the bloodiest jobs the carefree 1990s had to offer. If you remember the nineties differently, their dirty work is the reason why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZDokDkbbMw

Shashingo
Shashingo is an edutainment game that teaches you Japanese through virtual photography. With your trusty camera, take photographs of the fictional streets of Japan to capture new words and images as fully translated flash cards!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKp63g_5oOk

Soup Pot
Cook freely with Soup Pot! Make food with a wide range of locally sourced or supermarket ingredients in traditional kitchens. Discover and learn about more than 100 recipes while streaming your cooking on Cookbook, the in-game social media platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKaFnqVEjc

Tails of Iron
Tails of Iron is an epic RPG Adventure with punishingly brutal combat. As Redgi, heir to the Rat Throne, you must embark on a perilous quest to reclaim your Kingdom. Explore a deceivingly charming world. Assemble a band of brave companions. Banish the merciless Frog clan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJT_EwJJz6g

The Wandering Village
In a world where mysterious toxic spores are contaminating the planet, a group of people seeks shelter on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Become their leader, build their settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the creature to survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q9DBW9YK7k

Unpacking
Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BG98e_w6d0

Vokabulantis
Vokabulantis is a puzzle platformer, you can play as co-op or single player and it’s targeted multiple platforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPTxHxpaD38

Harold Halibut
Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship, and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiN4n5a1xiE

We Are OFK
From indie pop band OFK: We Are OFK is the story of how four friends came together to release their debut music without throwing their phones at walls in frustration. A making-of-the-band series & Interactive EP about dreaming, dating, and paying rent in Los Angeles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77z6J6Jq-io

Yokai Inn
You are forced to take shelter in an abandoned inn, and the place springs to life with otherworldly patrons as soon as the sun sets! Yokai Inn is a slice-of-life sim game, inspired by titles such as Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, that is currently in the early stages of development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSfUIzTAlA

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Music by: Dylan Blight
Art by: Cherie Henriques

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