Hot launches, hot announcements, and some very hot people // June FFG Newsletter
Hi friends!
It’s June aka Pride month so this is the edition where we here at FFG (a bunch of queers) talk about our games and how immensely proud of them we are. You may ask, how is that different to every other monthly newsletter? Well… it isn’t, okay?! But we get to do a lot more of this:
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🏎️ Hot Wheels in Space?! ☄️
You may have noticed the exoplanetary rally game Exo Rally Championship (from the dev of indie hit Exo One) sneakily launched in PC Gaming Show at the beginning of this month, and we didn’t even spill the beans!
Exo Rally Championship is the galaxy’s most dangerous off-road racing event: remote, unexplored, extreme exoplanetary rally. Master a brutally realistic racing simulation and fight for every second gained on your quest to become a champion 🥇 Vroom vroom!
Future Friends Round Up
🌄 Sunset Summit is our newly announced game from 2 of the DEVOUR devs, brothers Joe and Andrew Fender! Play this co-op climbing game with 1-8 friends where you are all old people who eat a lot of beans and use pogo sticks and other climbing essentials. It was announced in the PC Gaming Show (huge!!!) where over 60k people saw FFG say nonsense in the trailer… Anyway! The demo is out now so you should probably gather your mates and get on it!
🏖️ On-Together devs dropped their Summer DLC earlier this month alongside a summery update to the main game! The DLC includes 3 new water-loving pets, new outfits, floaties so you can work from the water, a beachy playlist and more! They also had a lovely shoutout from Teen Vogue (!!!) in this article: Focus Gaming Apps That Help Combat ADHD-Like Behavior Challenge Us to Be Kinder to Ourselves. ADHD fam unite❤️
🐟 Tiny Aquarium are feeling nostalgic and bringing back some in-game events! Jump into THE MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION EVENT, where you can release endangered species to gain special currency, hatch special blue fish variants, and make your tank stand out with new decorations! Live now until July 1st. Keep your eyes peeled for even more on the way soon 👀
🕷️ A Webbing Journey have released their third level ‘The Living Room’ to the mobile version of the game! This includes 10 brand-new quests to complete and many more secrets to be uncovered. They also just celebrated reaching over 5 million downloads on mobile so yippee for portable digital spider friends! 🕸️
Team Lore
🫠 The whole team (along with the rest of Europe) endured the HORRIFIC heatwave. Whatever we said and/or did during those high temperatures is none of our or HR’s business. Anyway… We did lose our minds a bit so if everyone could stop asking ChatGPT for advice on how to get your dog to love you that would be great!
🐕 Speaking of the unmatched love of a dog, Laura has adopted the most beautiful lil baby from Ukraine! Her name is Wren and she is very small, very fast and very terrified of everything :) Have you ever wondered what the baby of a bicycle seat and a fruit bat would look like? Well this is it!
👋 We said goodbye to our very own and dear Future Friend Emma 💔 They do start a new adventure doing something SO exciting and secret for now!!! As they eloquently said, if the video game industry was a real life neighbourhood then they would “only be moving a few streets over and we’d still bump into each other at the coffee shop”. We can’t wait to for future coffee with our Forever Friend <3
🪴Speaking of Pottering, our very own FFG game, you should totally go wishlist it on Steam and check out the socials where we share our very serious non-piss related work. Development is clearly going well. Thoughts and prayers for our sweet dev Adam that has to put up with our silliness.
Friends of Future Friends
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEW LAUNCHES
🍺 Ready to do some talking in a Tavern in this newly launched game Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker? The developers behind D&D inspired visual novel indie hit Tavern Talk have launched their new game, available on PC & Mac via Steam and Nintendo Switch. Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker is a standalone game set within the Tavern Talk universe.
🪖 Strap on those helmets and get ready for the visceral co-op tank horror game CARCASS CLAD! This super cool announcement comes from Wrong Organ aka the creators of MOUTHWASHING. That’s right! CARCASS CLAD is a 2-3 person co-op tank horror where players choose from three distinct roles and work as a team to manoeuvre a tank through a war-torn city. Master highly tactile mechanics, survive tense combat encounters, and learn to communicate under intense pressure… or lose yourself to something far worse than the enemy…
🍎 In Apple Crumble it’s your grandma’s 84th birthday party and nobody is trying to murder her… Unless? Happy Broccoli Games, the team behind the much beloved Duck Detective series, have announced their next project! Apple Crumble is a fully-voiced interactive mystery thriller inspired by the likes of MOUTHWASHING and Knives Out. It’s a new creepy-cozy mystery thriller where you should stop suspecting your family members, and don’t worry about the strange man in your bedroom. How about some pudding?
VERY WHOLESOME GAMES
💧 Debut game from solo dev Lenja Kaufmann aka Findling Games: Waterful! Recently announced in the Wholesome Direct showcase, Waterful is a peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through tiny desert valleys. Complete quests and unlock new contraptions to transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis! We all need a little peace in our lives so go check out the trailer to learn more!
☄️ Time to travel the asteroid belt and restore connections in In the Drift! That’s right! The next game from Daniel Fineberg, co-creator of indie hit Sable was announced in the Wholesome Games Showcase. In the Drift is an upcoming dreamy narrative platformer about fixing the internet in space! You can check out the announcement trailer here!
👗 Grab your sewing needles, it’s almost Dressmaker time! Coming to Steam this September is a tactile tailoring game inspired by real dressmaking! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk with your creations. The news was announced in the Wholesome Games Showcase with a brand new trailer which you can find here!
Well it looks like that’s all for now folks! Thanks so much for coming back every month, we love shouting about these fabulous indie games and we love you for reading!
Stay tuned as the summer of games continues, hopefully with a nice cool breeze and lots of ice cream 🍦
Smooches!
Future Friends Games
