The customized controller house returns to EGX subsequent week, providing quite a lot of unusual, fantastic and one-of-a-kind methods of enjoying video games – together with cranks, wheels, a firelighter, a morse code tapper, and dozens of huge, glowing buttons. Many of those video games and controllers are solely obtainable to play on the present, so seize your ticket for EGX now.
If you want extra convincing, hop under for a listing of the controllers and video games we’re that includes this 12 months.
Playdate
The Playdate is a tiny handheld gaming gadget that has introduced alt controller video games to the plenty over the previous 12 months, because of the crank on its aspect and its accessible developer instruments. We’ll have one playable on the sales space with six enjoyable video games, together with a preview model of Mars After Midnight, a brand new sport from Papers, Please and Return Of The Obra Dinn developer Lucas Pope.
Karting Khaos
A topdown racing sport for 2-4 gamers that is performed on a board with 24 buttons. Player inputs are randomised in the beginning of every spherical, which suggests each participant is battling over the buttons to work out how you can speed up, brake and steer.
GNISTA
Scorch the gods in a horizontal shmup by rubbing your palms round a firelighter to steer and shoot. If that is somewhat laborious to visualise, you can see it in motion right here.
Morse
Morse was one of the vital placing video games ultimately 12 months’s EGX: an motion sport about sinking battleships performed utilizing an actual morse code tapper. It returns in a brand new, minimalist format at EGX 2023, however the tapper stays.
Rexy Wheels
Rexy Wheels are controllers based mostly upon the geared heads which can be used within the movie trade to function cameras. They have been developed as a coaching support for operators, however they’re additionally a extremely enjoyable and fascinating method of gaming.
Dead Meat
Interrogating a homicide suspect is already one in every of my favorite issues in videogames, however Dead Meat is solely voice-controlled which suggests you get the additional enjoyable of asking your questions and shouting your accusations out loud. Follow its developer on Twitter and Instagram.
Home Turf
Home Turf returns! Is this an “alt controller”? Not actually, however nobody who noticed this pool desk with one curved nook, created by Ed Saperia, might resist having a go at EGX 2022. Are you the kind of one who performs across the raised pocket, or the kind of one who tries, time and again, to sink a ball into it? Come discover out.
Tenya Wanya Teens
Another returning favorite, however who can resist a one-of-a-kind, two-player aggressive button-masher co-created by Katamari Damacy director Keita Takahashi? Not me. Wee, bathe, and rock out.
EGX runs from Thursday, October twelfth till Sunday, October fifteenth on the ExCel in London. You’ll discover extra info of what is on the present over on the EGX web site.
