Games Like Anew: The Distant Light for PS4

Salt and Sanctuary offers an Action Role-playing, and Platformer gameplay created and published by Ska Studios. The game has an exciting story, revolving around the protagonist who travels around the world in a ship that is also loaded with a princess from an unnamed territory who is to be married to the king of opposing country to prevent war. A team of marauders attacks the ship, slaughtering the crew. After killing the group of murderers, the protagonist escapes to the deck with the princess where they discover the giant sea monster known as Cthulhu. After the ship wrecked, the protagonist reaches to a mysterious Island where he must face deadly creatures, fight against them and complete a set of missions to earn points to progress. As the game advances, other levels will be unlocked to play. The game introduces more than 600 weapons, armor pieces and lots of items to use during the gameplay. With the realistic environment, superb mechanics, Role-playing elements, and smooth controls, Salt and Sanctuary is the exciting game to play.

Dead Cells is an exciting Rogue-like, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game created and published by Motion Twin. The game can be described as a Roguevania, the mixture of Action-Exploration Metroidvania and Randomly-generated rogue-like games. In the game, the player controls the mass of cells that control the body of the prisoner at the start of the game. As the player explores the variety of dungeons and battle against deadly creatures within, the player gathers armour, unique-power-ups, and weapons to boost his power. Some enemies will offer cells when taken down, which the player can use to obtain power-ups like extra health potions, new items, and more. The player can spend these collected cells at the dungeon section’s end. If the player dies before completing the dungeons, he loses all the collected cells. Dead Cells includes core features such as Interconnected World, Replayability, Permadeath, Non-linear Gameplay, Exploration, Hidden Passages, Secret Rooms, and more. The game is played from a side-scroll viewpoint.

Axiom Verge is a fun Indie Action-Adventure and 2D Platform video game by Thomas Hepp Games. The game offers a Side-Scrolling view and allows the players to enjoy a delightful Metroidvania feel. With a brilliant backstory, Axiom Verge allows the players to control the character of Trace, a Scientist who after getting injured and a black out gets up in an unfamiliar High-tech Ancient World. Axiom Verge focuses on Hardcore Metroidvania Action and Exploration and tasks the players to traverse through an entirely new world where many fears are lurking in the dark shadows. The game lets you have weapons that you can use to overcome the enemies and enjoy upgrading your gear and stuff with all the available power-ups (over 60 different items). With an absorbing and addictive gameplay, beautiful 2D graphics, great mechanics and an overall feel of an amazing adventure, Axiom Verge offer elements borrowed from the biggest Metroidvania games such as Blaster Master, Contra, Bionic Commando and Metroid. For an excellent Action-Adventure and Platform gaming experience, do try it out.

Dex is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Dreadlocks Ltd for Multiple Platforms. The game is set in an open world environment, and it mixes the side-scroll gameplay with Action and Role-playing elements, taking place in the cyberpunk-themed world. The main focus of the game is on exploration and non-linear gameplay like other Role-playing games. In the game, the player controls the main character named Dex, an eponymous character who receives a set of challenging quests from Non-player Characters. Each quest in the game has several possible solutions and it up to the player which one of them to select. The story centres on the protagonist, a young woman, who is living in Harbor Prime, a city ruled by corporations that are associated with a secret authority called the Complex. The player becomes a target of the Complex that summons and sends it assassins to her in order to save, but she is rescued by a hacker called Raycas who assists her to safety. There are several challenging levels, and each has a set of objectives that the player needs to complete.

Sunless Skies is an RPG, Adventure, Exploration, and Single-player video game for multiple platforms developed by Failbetter Games. During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of a captain of a locomotive where the player has to travel through the galaxy. The player will come to face ships of differing factions and beasts where each has different attacks and agendas to take down the rivals.

Manage a perfect strategy and maintain the equipment required to survive through space. The player must keep oxygen and fuel in balance to explore a vast universe and uncover hidden mysteries. The game has multiple officers that a player can recruit to populate his ship, such as a driver, a princess, a repentant devil, etc.

Experience star life and bring universal facts to light as the stars are alive. The game offers four regions, such as the Blue Kingdom, pagan midnight expanse, industrial empire, and celestial wilderness.