{"id":824841,"date":"2025-12-10T01:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/embracing-the-bizarre-temptation-of-indika-new-gameplay-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T01:45:41","slug":"embracing-the-bizarre-temptation-of-indika-new-gameplay-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/embracing-the-bizarre-temptation-of-indika-new-gameplay-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing The Bizarre Temptation Of Indika | New Gameplay Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/embracing-the-bizarre-temptation-of-indika-new-gameplay-today.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Indika preview\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indika is very strange. The third-person adventure stars the titular character, a nun who hears voices from the devil himself. His demonic influence manifests into world-distorting gameplay sequences as Indika explores the rural wilds of early 20th-century Russia. Tack on bizarre pixel art flourishes and other overt video game elements, and we can&#8217;t tell if Indika is taking itself seriously or not. But we do know that we want to keep playing it.<\/p>\n<p>Join editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they explore an early section of this attention-grabbing adventure available now on PC (and PS5 and Xbox SeriesX\/S later this month).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameBorder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yQk2AGx3URI\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Head over to&nbsp;<em>Game Informer&#8217;s&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/gameinformer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of&nbsp;<em>New Gameplay Today<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/ngt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/ngt\/2024\/05\/02\/embracing-the-bizarre-temptation-of-indika-new-gameplay-today\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indika is very strange. The third-person adventure stars the titular character, a nun who hears voices from the devil himself. His demonic influence manifests into world-distorting gameplay sequences as Indika explores the rural wilds of early 20th-century Russia. Tack on bizarre pixel art flourishes and other overt video game elements, and we can&#8217;t tell if Indika is taking itself seriously or not. But we do know that we want to keep playing it. Join editors Marcus Stewart and Kyle Hilliard as they explore an early section of this attention-grabbing adventure available now on PC (and PS5 and Xbox SeriesX\/S later this month).&nbsp; Head over to&nbsp;Game Informer&#8217;s&nbsp;YouTube channel&nbsp;for more previews, reviews, and discussions of new and upcoming games. Watch other episodes of&nbsp;New Gameplay Today&nbsp;right here. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Embracing The Bizarre Temptation Of Indika | New Gameplay Today | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Indika is very strange. The third-person adventure stars the titular character, a nun who hears voices from the devil himself. 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