3 Video Games You May Have Missed in April

The video game industry spent much of April talking about Blue Prince, a manor mystery that will be in game-of-the-year conversations because of its layers of interlocking puzzles.

Also released was South of Midnight, an action-adventure game set among the haints and rougarous of American folklore; our critic called it “a sorrowful adventure embellished by magical realism and strands of hope.”

Here are three other games you may have missed this month:

Promise Mascot Agency

Reviewed on the PC. Also available on PlayStation 5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S.

Promise Mascot Agency is a peculiar little gem. It’s about a disgraced former yakuza who takes over an agency that handles mascots.

Yes, mascots, those large furry creatures that hype up crowds at American sporting events and promote small businesses in Japan. Instead of running gambling dens or shaking down store owners for protection money, your character, Michi, must take the straight-and-narrow path, ingratiating himself with these same store owners so they will hire his stable of people-size puppets.