Indie devs launching in GTA 6's month say they aren't scared
Game*Spark asked the makers of 46 games launching in November how they feel about GTA 6, and some are surprisingly relaxed about the clash.
11th Nov 2026 19:45
Image via TECOPARK / SEGA
Indie devs launching in GTA 6's month say they aren't scared
Game*Spark asked the makers of 46 games launching in November how they feel about GTA 6, and some are surprisingly relaxed about the clash.
11th Nov 2026 19:45
Image via TECOPARK / SEGA
GTA 6 has scared plenty of games out of November, but a whole bunch of smaller studios are launching this month anyway, and quite a few of them are surprisingly relaxed about going up against Rockstar.
Japanese site Game*Spark asked the developers and publishers of 46 games releasing in November how they feel about launching near GTA 6, which arrives on November 19, and published their answers in a three-part feature this week. VGC picked out some of the best replies on November 11.
The boldest came from Dream Dock, the studio behind first-person fishing survival horror game Dreadmoor, which came out on Tuesday. Asked if it was scared of GTA 6, its spokesperson replied "Shouldn't they be the ones who are afraid of us?" in VGC's machine translation, before admitting the team is excited for GTA 6 too, and that while Rockstar has cleared out the November schedule, "we see it as an opportunity."
Bigger kids in the playground
Auroch Digital's Will Flanagan, whose Warhammer Survivors also launched on Tuesday, told Game*Spark that more than 500,000 people had wishlisted the game, and pitched it as "the perfect game to play while GTA 6 is installing" (which, at up to 212GB, could be a while).
Sonic Pico Park, a co-op puzzle platformer that teams PICO PARK up with Sonic, launches on Thursday, November 12, and producer Shintaro Shimazu says GTA 6 is "not scary at all", although he's a big fan of the series and admitted that the fact he "might not be able to stop playing it is not so much scary as it is just plain terrifying." He also joked that he'd been quietly hoping GTA 6 would get delayed again, and said Sonic Pico Park was timed to land before Black Friday after chats with SEGA President Utsumi.
Crossbridge Game Studios, which releases point-and-click adventure Moomin: Midsummer Madness on Thursday as well, told Game*Spark it even considered launching on the same day as GTA 6, on the basis that the day everyone else avoids might actually be the best one, before picking the date it felt suited the game best.
Not everyone ignored Rockstar, mind. North Fox Games told Game*Spark that GTA 6 was the very first date it put in the schedule for its 3D drawing party game Super Gahaku, which ended up launching on November 4 to stay well clear, while Lavapotion boss Magnus Alm compared launching Wielders of the Essence to sending your child off to school for the first time, knowing there are some much bigger kids in the playground.
If you're planning on playing GTA 6 the moment it unlocks, our GTA 6 pre-load guide has the timings you need.
Well, with that download to get through, a few of these might end up being the perfect way to pass the time.
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