Aim for the heart

When I last wrote aboutSTARWHAL, it still had the subtitle “Just the Tip.” That’s since been jettisoned. The floppy local multiplayer game about narwhals in space has made it on toSteamproper, and it’s hitting up PS3 and PS4 on June 05, 2025. There’s pay-once-for-both pricing ($11.99), but the PS3 version only runs at 30 frames per second (PS4 runs at 60).

For the PlayStation Network release, “[c]razy new modes, intense new arenas, sweet new visual effects, a massive, extended, thumping soundtrack, and over 9,000 costume combinations” await, according to designer Mike Keogh. Think I saw one resembling the Spiny Shell fromMario Kart.

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Love the weird stuff that makes it out of game jams.

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Indie game collage of Blue Prince, KARMA, and The Midnight Walk

Close up shot of Jackie in the Box

Silhouette of a man getting shot as Mick Carter stands behind cover