After winning big time at the Africa Games Week back in December, this “dice-based, deck-building, roguelike adventure” by Pretoria studio Design Imps has qualified as our local contender for the NGDC Season V event.
The Endless Wyrd features a gorgeous comic book aesthetic and music by Cape Town folk-punk band SkreeAlleen, and is expected to launch into Steam Early Access “soon”, according to the game’s info page. A limited “sneak peek” demo is available to download now.
Debuted in 2016, the Nordic Game Discovery Contest is an unconventional games show that has “contestants compete live onstage in an entertaining round-based battle for points”. Viewers can tune in to watch each video presentation, and then vote for their winners on the NG20+ Discord channel. In 2020, Cape Town studio Unsigned Double’s Freja and the False Prophecy was nominated for Game of the Year in the NGDC Season IV finale, but missed out on the prize. Ag tog.