The summer gaming season launches with the Nintendo Switch 2 and a series of announcements from Summer Game Fest. However, attention is increasingly drawn to indie and AA games, which offer unique experiences. Games like The Alters, where players manage alternate versions of themselves in a survival scenario, and BloodRush: Undying Wish, featuring frenetic combat in a roguelike style, showcase innovative gameplay. Wheel World tasks players with saving the world via biking in an open world, further emphasizing the appeal of diverse creative concepts within smaller projects.
In The Alters, Dolski is the sole survivor of a scientific expedition in search of a new element. He, alongside alternate versions of himself, has to find a solution for survival while contending with how varied his life could have turned out.
BloodRush: Undying Wish is a hack-'n'-slash roguelike where your character is constantly bleeding out during combat. The gameplay is fast and frenetic; you're constantly dashing around the battlefield like you need adrenaline to survive.
In Wheel World, you play as a cyclist with the simplest of simple tasks: save the world. With a customizable bike and an open world to explore, your goal is to pedal and race around to achieve this mission.
The most exciting games of the summer aren't all Switch 2 ports or massive studio tentpoles; it's the smaller games - the indies and the AA gems - that have captured most of Polygon's attention.
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