April 5, 2019

Unreal Engine developers showcase their games at PAX East 2019

By Jimmy Thang

Over 40 Unreal Engine-powered games were showcased on the busy PAX East 2019 showfloor in Boston, Massachusetts last week.

From highly-anticipated AAA titles like Days Gone to awe-inspiring indie games like Industries of Titan, the floor was packed with Unreal Engine projects. Join us as we celebrate the excellent UE-powered games and their developers at the event!

UNREAL ENGINE GAMES AT PAX EAST 2019

ABZÛ | Giant Squid Studios

From the art director of Journey, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Immerse yourself in a vibrant hidden world bursting with color and life as you descend into the heart of the ocean. But beware as you swim deeper as dangers lurk in the depths.

Aquanox Deep Descent | Digital Arrow

We left the surface of the Earth in ruins, abandoned it and populated the oceans. The sea is now our new home. We call it Aqua. Pilot customized fighter ships and explore a deep sea dystopia torn by the struggle for resources and survival. Enter the unforgiving world of Aquanox Deep Descent.

ARK: Survival Evolved | Studio Wildcard

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Asgard's Wrath | Sanzaru Games

Unleash the wrath of the Gods in a mythical Norse adventure that can only unfold in VR. Forge your destiny as both a mortal hero and living god in an action role-playing game of unworldly depth.

Astroneer | System Era Softworks

Astroneer is set during the 25th century’s Intergalactic Age of Discovery, where Astroneers explore the frontiers of outer space, risking their lives in harsh environments to unearth rare discoveries and unlock the mysteries of the universe. Players can work together to build custom bases and vehicles and use terrain to create anything they can imagine. A player’s creativity and ingenuity are the key to thriving on exciting planetary adventures!

BIOMUTANT | Experiment 101

BIOMUTANT is an open-world, post-apocalyptic Kung-Fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting, and mutant-ability action.

Bless Unleashed | Round 8 Studio, NEOWIZ

Bless Unleashed takes players on an epic multiplayer journey across a seamless, vibrant world, and tasks the brave with battling – and surviving – vicious, lethal monsters that inhabit this untamed landscape.

Borderlands 3 | Gearbox Software

Borderlands is back! Prepare for an all-new mayhem-filled adventure.

Close to the Sun | Storm in a Teacup

Close to the Sun is a horror game that takes place at the end of the 19th century on a mysterious ship complex created by Nikola Tesla for the sake of knowledge.

Concrete Genie | PixelOpus

Concrete Genie is a game about a bullied teenager named Ash, who escapes his troubles by painting spectacular living landscapes and mischievous creatures throughout his abandoned hometown of Denska. As he masters this magical paint, he discovers it can purify Denska’s polluted walls. Can Ash overcome the bullies and paint his hometown back to life?

Dangerous Driving | Three Fields Entertainment

From the creative talent behind the genre-defining Burnout series, Dangerous Driving puts aggression back into the racing genre.

Dauntless | Phoenix Labs

Dauntless is an online, free-to-play co-op action RPG. Battle ferocious Behemoths, craft powerful weapons, and forge your legend in the Shattered Isles.

Days Gone | SIE Bend Studio

Set in the beautiful, volcanic scarred high-desert of the Pacific Northwest, Days Gone is an open-world action-adventure game where you play as Deacon St. John, a drifter and bounty hunter who would rather risk the dangers of the broken road than live in one of the “safe” wilderness encampments.

Dead by Daylight | Behaviour Interactive

Dead by Daylight is a multiplayer (4vs1) horror game where one player takes on the role of the savage Killer, and the other four players play as Survivors, trying to escape the Killer and avoid being caught and killed.

Deliver Us the Moon | KeokeN Interactive

A lone astronaut is sent to the moon on a critical mission to save humanity from extinction. During this adventure, your only companion is a small robot named ASE. Together you will traverse the moon, explore abandoned facilities, gather clues and ultimately uncover the secrets and hidden agendas that are at play.

Fade to Silence | Black Forest Games

Fade to Silence is a single-player and co-op survival adventure set in a post-apocalyptic world that is frozen in an eternal winter. Snow and ice have shaped a merciless landscape. Nature is corrupted. Monstrous creatures out of an Eldritch horror dream roam the frozen wasteland.

Fortnite | Epic Games

Fortnite Battle Royale is the FREE 100-player PvP mode in Fortnite. One giant map. A battle bus. Fortnite building skills and destructible environments combined with intense PvP combat. The last one standing wins.

Golem | Highwire Games

Immerse yourself in a beautiful virtual world as you take control of giant stone golems and explore an ancient abandoned city.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice | Ninja Theory

From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.

Industries of Titan | Brace Yourself Games

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Kaisuo | Lantern

Kaisuo is a VR puzzle game where players use fine motor dexterity to solve enigmatic Chinese puzzle boxes that unlock surreal extraordinary spaces.

KINGDOM HEARTS III | Square Enix

KINGDOM HEARTS III tells the story of the power of friendship as Sora and his friends embark on a perilous adventure. Set in a vast array of Disney and Pixar worlds, KINGDOM HEARTS follows the journey of Sora, a young boy and unknowing heir to a spectacular power. Sora is joined by Donald Duck and Goofy to stop an evil force known as the Heartless from invading and overtaking the universe.

Lemnis Gate | Ratloop Games Canada

LEMNIS GATE presents a revolutionary new way to play a first-person shooter with its unique time travel gameplay mechanics. Relive the past to change the future.

Life is Strange 2 | Dontnod Entertainment

Two brothers, Sean and Daniel Diaz, are forced to run away from home after a tragic incident in Seattle. In fear of the police, Sean and Daniel head to Mexico while attempting to conceal a sudden and mysterious supernatural power.

Monster Jam Steel Titans | Rainbow Studios

Real Trucks. Real Action. Monster Jam! Monster Jam Steel Titans delivers the complete Monster Jam experience for everybody to enjoy!

Mortal Kombat 11 | NetherRealm Studios

Mortal Kombat is back and better than ever in the next evolution of the iconic franchise.

Mowin' & Throwin' | House Pixel Games

Mowin’ & Throwin’ is a competitive lawn-mowing experience where the objective of the game is to have the least amount of grass on your lawn before time runs out. Mow down the competition in 2V2 or 1V1 game modes.

Quantum League | NGD Studios

Quantum League is a time-bending multiplayer first-person shooter developed by NGD Studios. Contenders face off while caught in a time loop that duplicates them each time it resets. Each duplicate replays the same actions, allowing players to build team strategies with themselves and apply tactics that span the entire 4th dimension!

Operencia: The Stolen Sun | Zen Studios

Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.

Project Witchstone | Spearhead Games

Project Witchstone is Spearhead Games' upcoming living world sandbox RPG. The world you explore is alive, meaning that characters that inhabit this world go on with their daily lives and move around following a routine.

Rad | Double Fine Productions

RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

The Dark Pictures – Man of Medan | Supermassive Games

Get ready to embark on a horrific journey in which every decision can mean life or death. All can live, and all can die...can you save them all?

SAMURAI SHODOWN | SNK Corporation

SAMURAI SHODOWN is back with a vengeance! After nearly 10 years out of the spotlight, SNK's beloved fighting game and EVO favorite has returned with new graphics, multiple single and multiplayer modes, and a revolutionary AI system.

Splitgate: Arena Warfare | 1047 Games

Splitgate: Arena Warfare is a multiplayer shooter that uses player-controlled portals to create a new dimension of arena combat. Use portals to outplay, outshoot, and outflank opponents in this new, fast-paced arena shooter.

Starport Delta | Cloudfire Studios

Starport Delta is a space-station builder where players must balance resources, station maintenance, and resident requirements. Juggle the needs of your population against expanding and dealing with whatever space throws your way.

Starship Commander: Arcade | Human Interact

From Mass Effect, Tomb Raider, and Saints Row industry veterans, comes a never-before-seen VR experience. Inject your own style into the story, as you command Sergeant Sarah Pearson, and the XR71—the galaxy's most advanced fighter—on a top-secret mission.

The Forgotten City | Modern Storyteller

The Forgotten City is a time loop murder mystery in a mythological city. Deep underground in an ancient Roman city, 26 trapped explorers lay dead because one of them broke a mysterious law. Reliving the same day over and over again, you'll need to cleverly exploit the time loop, Groundhog Day-style, to avert disaster and re-write history!

The Inner Friend | PLAYMIND

Descend into an eerie world made of scattered memories and unresolved traumas and explore a nightmarish landscape where you will come face to face with childhood fears and nightmares.

The Long Journey Home | Daedalic Studio West

The Long Journey Home combines an open world full of galaxies, planets, and anomalies with quests and mechanics of a rogue-like RPG. One destination. Endless adventures. Where will this journey take you?

The Sojourn | Shifting Tides

The Sojourn is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle game in which you traverse the parallel worlds of light and darkness in search of answers to the nature of reality.

TINY METAL: FULL METAL RUMBLE | Area 35

TINY METAL: FULL METAL RUMBLE is the bigger, badder, and more metal sequel to TINY METAL. Tactical war simulation with an all ages appeal continues with its classic turn-based system that’s easy to understand, but difficult to master.

Trover Saves the Universe | Squanch Games

From the co-creator of Rick and Morty comes Trover Saves the Universe. Your pups are missing. The cosmos is at stake. Only you and Trover can save everything in this bizarre comedy adventure!

Wunderling | Retroid

Take control of the Wunderling, a common video game enemy who has received the power to jump. Unable to stop or change direction at will, you will need to plan ahead and master the Wunderlings abilities to navigate through treacherous levels and chase down the hero!

Yoshi's Crafted World | Good-Feel

Join Yoshi and explore a hand-made world, full of secrets to uncover in Yoshi’s Crafted World.

ZED | Eagre Games

Revelation, regret, and redemption in the twilight dreams of an aging artist. Set against surreal landscapes spanning one man’s life and career, ZED is a desperate quest to reconnect fading memories and create a final work for a very special person.