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Lil' Guardsman remixes Papers, Please in a cute deduction adventurePlus more ID@Xbox highlights coming this year!
Plus more ID@Xbox highlights coming this year!
Last night ID@Xbox held their latest showcase to spotlight all sorts of indies. One of the highlights was the cute deduction gameLil’ Guardsman, a riff onPapers, Pleasewhere you work on a guard post, choosing to accept or refuse entry for fantasy folk wanting to get into the city. Or you can just jail them. It looks like lighthearted fun, and it’ll be hitting PC and consoles later this year.
Lil' Guardsman Official Announce TrailerWatch on YouTube
Lil' Guardsman Official Announce Trailer
You play as the lil’ Lil as she wakes up one morning to have “the talk” with her dad. Thankfully, it’s not the awkward chat - instead she’s thrust into a life of childhood labour and needs to cover her dad’s shift at the guard post. In true Papers, Please fashion, odd travellers will pass the post and attempt to gain entry, although refusing this colourful batch of characters probably won’t make you as overbearingly sad as it did in Papers, Please.
When you’re not working, the game will shift to an old-school adventure game perspective, giving you a taste of the outside world. You’ll be at the centre of royal weddings, grand conspiracies, and a potential siege if you play your cards right/wrong. Developer Hilltop Studios also compares the game’s comedic sensibilities to Monkey Island and other classic LucasArts adventures, if you’re a fan of that style.
You can currently wishlist the Lil’ Guardsmanon Steamin anticipation of a later 2023 release.
Other ID@Xbox highlights included the absolutely gorgeous fairytale FPSThe Explorator, and a solemn slice-of-life simCloser The Distance. That’s on top of trailers for games we already knew about, such asThe Last Case Of Benedict Fox, moreDLC for Vampire Survivors, andCoffee Talk Episode 2. Head toXbox Wire’s blog postto read about every indie in the showcase.
