As the sport trade prepares for Geoff Keighley’s annual smorgasbord of reports from The Sport Awards, Devolver Digital has determined it isn’t going to attend till subsequent month. In the present day, the writer launched Devolver Delayed 2024, a tongue-in-cheek awards present recognizing three video games which were pushed to 2025: Child Steps, Stick It To The Stickman, and Skate Story.
Every recreation’s delay was introduced as a particular “award” given to the sport in opposition to different fictional nominees. Particularly, the awards had been named as follows:
- Finest Inadvertent Tripping Simulator – Child Steps
- Finest Late Stage Capitalism Roguelite – Stick It To The Stickman
- Finest Glass Demon In A Main Function – Skate Story
The “awards ceremony” then proceeded to a fourth award, Finest Shade Model Of A Monochromatic Basic. The winner was the beforehand unknown Volvy’s Journey DX, with a quick gameplay teaser displaying an 8-bit side-scrolling platformer starring Devolver’s rat-like mascot.
The presentation by no means truly confirms the sport’s existence, and Inscryption creator Daniel Mullins particularly says he “does not even suppose it is an actual recreation” when he seems to obtain the award for some unexplained motive, so whether or not or not Volvy’s Journey DX truly exists stays to be seen.
All three of the confirmed video games within the presentation–Child Steps, Stick It To The Stickman, and Skate Story–will now be launching in 2025 after being beforehand introduced for a 2024 launch window. Child Steps was first unveiled on the Devolver Digital Showcase in June 2023, whereas each Skate Story and Stick It To The Stickman debuted the earlier yr.