For video game lovers, today is the most sceptical day of the year. Literally everything I’ve read on twitter today I’ve taken with a grain of salt, not sure if it’s a real announcement or an April Fools gag.

Therefore, I decided to sum up some of my favourite gags from indie devs and games this year! Hope you enjoy!

FDG Entertainment

First up is one I noticed early this morning and comes from FDG Entertainment, the publishers of Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom and Oceanhorn: Monsters of Uncharted Seas.

DEEP DISCOUNT Day! Press ZL and ZR Buttons at the same time while surfing the eShop to apply for 99% OFF on Monster Boy, setting the price to just 39.99 cents. 2D games shouldn’t cost more anyway 😬 pic.twitter.com/1AGwsO3V3t — FDG Entertainment (@FDG_Games) April 1, 2019

I like this April Fools because it’s believable and that FDG Ent are making fun of both themselves and their critics, whom argue that Monster Boy might be too expensive.

Rainbite

The second fake tweet I saw this morning comes from Rainbite, the developers of Reverie: Sweet As Edition.

We're proud to announce a new game mode for #Reverie!



🚨 PET ROCK BATTLE ROYALE 🚨



Stephen has gotten boulder and taken over Toromi Island. Smash into other pebble pals and avoid hitting rock bottom.#AprilFools #StephenIsBoulder pic.twitter.com/TYRYBv3j7g — Rainbite (@rainbite) April 1, 2019

As you can see, Rainbite are seemingly jumping on the Battle Royale bandwagon by claiming their best item in the game “Stephan the Rock” is getting his own Battle Royale. What I think puts the cherry on the top for this joke, is all the amazing rock-based puns in the tweet!

Cornfox & Bros

Cornfox & Bros were up next with a nostalgic joke, showing a player playing their beloved Oceanhorn on a Super Nintendo.

Whats awesome is that the devs seem to have recreated a small part of Oceanhorn in a 16-bit art style, which I think is going above and beyond for an April’s Fool joke!

Thunderful Publishing

Thunderful Publishing jumped on the “make a new console/ service’ craze by introducing the ThunderBox, the most ‘environmentally friendly console on the planet’.

Introducing #ThunderBox – The most environmentally friendly gaming console on the planet.



Read more: https://t.co/LpckQHd5wo pic.twitter.com/Q5NHV0DVnC — Thunderful Publishing (@Thunderfulgames) April 1, 2019

With ‘the latest crank technology’ and 18- teraflops of next-gen performance, the Thunderbox is a must for any indie game enthusiast- only problem is, it costs $15.000!

A funny idea from Thunderful and top points for originality!

Rain World

Rainworld is renown for being a hard game. What I love about about this joke is that you have to understand how hard the game is to understand the joke. That’s because the main character has no attacks, it basically can only hide.

new rain world DLC coming along well pic.twitter.com/ObyhUA0Ve8 — Rain World (@RainWorldGame) April 1, 2019

So this hilarious gif of the Slugcat firing a gun is a perfect April Fools for people and fans in the know!

WayForward

Yesterday Warforward teased ‘guess who were teaming up with next’ with this image

Then today the punch line was delivered with this tweet.

Heroes unite! This April, WayForward joins forces with some of the most remarkable characters in video game history! pic.twitter.com/syomy6Edp0 — WayForward (@WayForward) April 1, 2019

I think this joke has been the best planned out so far of April Fools, I expected something was up from the tease last night, but not this! It’s extremely trolly but also very funny!

Which indie dev April Fool has been your favourite so far? I plan to update this post over the next day as more joke come out from the US. So if you have any suggestions let me know!

Hit me up on Twitter or Discord with your suggestions!

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