pax south 2017

Phoenix Labs is home to many fans of Monster Hunter, and that showed in our preview of its upcoming multiplayer action game, Dauntless.

The PAX Rising (up-and-coming indie games) and PAX Australia (indie games from down under) booths were conveniently situated right next to each other, so every time I passed through, I was able to get some hands-on time with more weird, colorful, strange games. Here are a few of my favorites.

On paper, Gorogoa is a pretty basic puzzle game. In execution, it’s something else entirely.

We met with tinyBuild at PAX South to learn more and experience the fast-paced action of the upcoming Mr. Shifty from Team Shifty and we came away with an adrenaline rush like few others on the floor.

Hello Neighbor is a game of stealth-horror, puzzle-solving and more than a little unnerving facetime with your local creep.

Death Squared is deceptively simple with an astronomically high ceiling for complexity and difficulty.

We went hands-on with What Remains of Edith Finch at PAX South, and what we saw was a great narrative with a variety of gameplay elements to make it both intriguing and engaging.

Tower 57 is 11 Bit Studios and Pixwerk’s upcoming offering to the twin-stick shooter genre, and it did more than bring the goods when we tried it at PAX South.

This pixelated point-and-click adventure from Pixel Crow and 11-bit Studios had us diving into the gritty city as a police officer and making tough calls to solve (or even survive) a twisted conspiracy.

Minit is a very cute mini-adventure we're eager to keep exploring for its unusual progression, various nuances and charming retro personality.