5 Great Games From Tokyo Game Show 2024
Here we go again. It’s that time of year where we watch every bonkers hour of gaming insanity, game shows, influencer avatar presenters, shows hosted by hand puppets, and other bonkers events from the Tokyo Game Show 2024, all in the name of providing you with the best news, announcements, and new trailers. We wade through it all, so you don’t have to. As ever we will be picking titles that are generally not the AAA releases that have enough of their own marketing. Instead, it’ll be more of the indies, small publishers, or niche games that we include in this article.
And while we are extremely picky about the games we’re going to talk about, we aren’t picky about the show they came from. Be it official programs straight from the event floor, indie showcases in the same week like Convergence, IGN’s loosely affiliated trailers, or even indies completely on the periphery labeling a trailer released this week as a Tokyo Game Show 2024 trailer, it’s all good. There’s no right or wrong way for a great game to get itself in front of your eyeballs, or on your wishlist.
Tanuki: Pon’s Summer
Just take a look at that cuddly raccoon, and you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a cozy little game about delivering the mail. And it is. But it’s also a sick BMX game where you can drop tricks and ride the rails between deliveries. What starts off looking like a Ghibli film wannabee, suddenly drops into gameplay with a roof flip more like Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX, Tanuki is a lovable rogue, clearly torn between rebellion and duty! Not what we expected in the middle of Xbox’s showcase.
Threads of Time
A jaw-droppingly beautiful retro HD2D JRPG announced on the Xbox stream, Threads of Time is very clearly a big fan of Chrono Trigger. There’s too much time-travelling through different eras and squat-fighting-robot characters for it not to be. As a child who grew up on early Squaresoft and Tri Ace and Tales JRPGs, this is a powerful trailer that just sent actual tingles all over. And just so well put together, jumping from animation to pixel art beautifully.
Mercury Abbey
Dark cults meeting in otherwise perfectly normal furry-inhabited manors? Yep, that’s Mercury Abbey. Looks like the best of horror from 30 years ago, mixed with modern anthro characters and beautiful pixel art visuals. Count us in. Mercury Abbey’s trailer in the Gamirror Games showcase revealed a release date of 22nd November 2024.
Hirogami
There have been few paper games over the years, Tearaway and Paper Mario come to mind, but not one I can think of that created their entire world out of folded Origami. That’s the conceit of Hirogami, a beautiful Tunic-like top-down adventure title that rounded out the Convergence showcase in style. It’s got a wonderful stop-motion feel to the animations and coupled with all the wonderful transformations into origami frogs and such that you might have made once as a kid, its bursting with style.
Sliding Hero
Though this not quite the first we’ve ever seen of Sliding Heroes, it is the best look so far. Sliding Hero is an entire metroidvania-type adventure but constructed only from sliding puzzles – the kind you usually find for a few puzzles in an old RPG. Ice pillars blocking the way in Alundra for example. It’s not quite the Sokoban style of traps and passing blocks, but rather the hero themselves, but I’ll bet its full of them anyway.
Hopefully these five are of interest to you too, and this list helps them not be lost in the great Tokyo Game Show sea of trailers and content. Give them a wishlist on Steam and keep an eye on future news here at Finger Guns.
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