I went from “I hope this is good” to “this might be GOTY” within 5 minutes of picking up the Steam Next Fest demo for this ridiculous stealth game

Blendo Games is one of those “if you know, you know” types of indie developers – one whose name is legendary with those who’ve followed the independent development scene for decades, thanks to wonderfully creative cult classics like Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy. That’s why I had high expectations for Blendo’s next game, Skin Deep, and within about five minutes with its Steam Next Fest demo those expectations had been completely shattered. Folks, this one is something special.

Skin Deep has been described by journalists in the past as “Die Hard in space,” and you might equally call it a slapstick comedy Dishonored or a Hitman game with even more delectable, in-depth gameplay systems to mess with. In the most basic terms, it’s a first-person stealth game where you play as the delightfully named Nina Pasadena, an insurance inspector how pops out of cryofreeze to “handle the situation” whenever a ship is taken over by space pirates.